School is back and I have to be up with the youngest so that means I’m up and turned it on Morning Joe.
And I couldn’t believe my eyes:
First of all my irony meter is going off the scale.
They started with teasing Mika about this headline:
Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been privately talking with friends about a possible comeback, and is considering a run for statewide office next year, several sources told The Post.
Less than 18 months after he left Albany in a prostitution scandal, Spitzer has held informal discussions in recent weeks about the possibility of making a bid for state comptroller or the US Senate seat currently held by Kirsten Gillibrand, sources said.
They were teasing Mika about the “second coming” headline pretty bad. Then they were outraged over Chris Brown first didn’t remember his assault of his girl, then Did remember after the bad press from the interview.
Barnicle commented how people were outraged by Michael Vick over his dogs while this guy didn’t serve a day for beating a woman.
These are all valid points but I have one question for these people:
WEREN’T YOU THE SAME GUYS WHO JUST SPENT THE LAST WEEK LIONIZING TED KENNEDY? WEREN’T YOU THE SAME PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T COMPLAIN ABOUT HIM NOT SERVING A DAY IN JAIL? Didn’t you not bring up his womanizing in the 80’s and stuff? Not a one of you would have suggested he shouldn’t have been re-elected over this stuff.
Ted Kennedy is the patron saint for celebs who are not punished and for pols who don’t have to resign. Spitzer, Brown and Sanford can trace their legacy directly to the unwillingness of anyone to act on Kennedy and the honor he was given. If Ted didn’t even lose his senate seat and missed the democratic nomination by a hair why should any of these guys go away no matter what they do?
MSNBC, NBC, CBC, CNN, CNBC, ABC et/al have no business being upset about anything. If they want to know why these people feel they can do what they want and get away with it without punishment, watch your tapes from last week then ask who are their enablers.
Update: David Price Jones shows why his is paid to write and why I’m typing in my pajamas:
Normally speaking, ordinary people would never tolerate someone like him as their elected representative. To present himself as a tribune of the people was the only possible protective covering available to him. That he was successful in this respect, and comes to be buried in Arlington with the president speaking at the graveside, is really the only arresting feature of his career. He has enjoyed the sort of lifelong allowance that once would have been made for a corrupt eighteenth-century English duke. It is hard to believe that he was ever sincere in the populist causes he took up, declaiming about righting wrongs only to go home and commit plenty more wrongs of his own without having to account for them. That’s champagne socialism for you, and it seems a taste everybody and anybody can get drunk on.
