Meanwhile, On the "Jesus people, get your ass out of your mouth front"

This CNN report about movies "mocking" the events of 9/11 includes some real howlers, including a Hollywood hack critic type saying, "It will never be okay to mock the troops in Iraq."  Even the most cursory glance at this "story" reveals the fact that its smoke and mirrors.  They wax horrified over an "objectionable" scene in Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay that is an obvious snipe at racism and has nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11, and similarly jump on a Tracy Ullman skit that occurs not in a film but on her TV show.  Turns out what there really talking about is not "movies" but a movie ("Postal") that may or may not really be about the 9/11 tragedy and is almost certainly is not "mocking" 9/11 but rather offending the tender sensibilities of hardcore patriot types who wouldn't be caught dead at the movie in the first place.  Keep your eyes on this story: it could be bigger than Watergate.

Meanwhile, also on CNN, Hillary Clinton "choked up" during an interview with "Howlin' Wolf" Blitzer.  Call us cynical, but we doubt Hillary Clinton has had an uncalculated emotion since she caught her first intoxicating whiff of the public trough.  This goes for politicians in general, including Barack Obama, who's willing to stand before the old rugged cross if that's what Kentuckians want.  But Hillary is a master, and anybody who believes her getting teary with pride over her daughter isn't a ploy to get votes wouldn't know a turd from a hot dog. Let's face facts.  Hillary'd push poor Chelsea down a flight of stairs if it would win her the Oregon Primary. 

Comments

[Ben]

Yep. We're about to descend into the I'll REALLY do anything for a vote phase of the election process.

The thing about Obama that I can't get past, is I know Hillary could whoop his ass in just about any kind of man-to-man contest. And that's important to me as a voter.

[UF MIke]

I see where you're coming from there. She may have "stooped" to that shot and beer, but you know she could drink his ass under the table. My ass too, most likely. Obama has that semi-frail "Mom wouldn't let him leave the house lest he get bonked and blinded by a baseball" look. And no decent American wants a juvenile shut-in as Prez. Why, you have to go back to Jimmy Carter to find a President who looked like he didn't know how to throw a football.

[Ben]

...that semi-frail "Mom wouldn't let him leave the house lest he get bonked and blinded by a baseball" look...

That's exactly it. I'm also disappointed we haven't seen Hillary or Barack jogging for the cameras yet. That universal "Hey, I'm fit" statement in action while they take oxygen later in the back of the limo. Christ, even Bill Clinton got his flabby white legs out there and put on a sweaty show. Come to think of it, we haven't had a non-jogging campaigning president since Gerald Ford! This country is going down the tubes.