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Is it because it's Friday?...
Mark Halperin has been printing the list of the "five most important people" who can influence the election, the economy, the orbit of the earth...for weeks at this point. Never mind that we're racking up hundreds of individuals who are supposed to be the most important people ever, today's list is particularly hilarious.
Titled in the usual manner, of course: the five most important people who can....
There are only four items on the list today.
Halperin's take: the five most important people. Oops. Left one out.
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Halperinus cretin est.
December 5, 2008 4:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mitch McConnell? I'd like to get the name of Halperin's dealer cause whatever that shit is, I want in on some.
;)
December 5, 2008 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Klain I can see, but Mitch McConnell?? I'm with Tena, what's Halperin hallucinogen? I plan on avoiding it though. I don't want Mitch invading any of my deep convos with the Universe. ewww. ;)
December 5, 2008 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Halperin is apparently trying to promote the idea that Republicans still matter. So he picks out McConnell, the Senate leader, because he's still nominally got the minority he needs to sustain a filibuster. Once Obama starts pushing legislation, we'll know how important McConnell really is.
December 6, 2008 6:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Auto executives I suppose means at least three - heads of the traditional U.S. automakers - which brings Halperin's total of 5 people to 6. More if you dig down the corporate org chart!
December 6, 2008 6:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Halperin didn't specify the Big Three as the "auto executives." Maybe he meant this company in Tucson instead.
(joking)
December 6, 2008 10:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Halperin got paid to write that.
December 6, 2008 10:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Halperin is like a Stone Age tribesman who's been dropped into the middle of Times Square at night. He's like the Aztecs who had never seen a horse and couldn't conceptualize riding an animal and so thought the Conquistidors and their horses were a single animal. He's lost in a bizarre world full of unfathomable sights and sounds that he simply cannot process. Halperin can no more comprehend a post-Rove, unDrudgified world where all the smart savvy people know that defamation and fearmongering are no longer the Way to Win and politicians are actually want to serve the public interest and Republican talking points aren't magically transformed into reality than some ignorant serf from the Middle Ages could comprehend an iPhone or flush toilets.
December 6, 2008 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Absolutely love the analogies! Very well put!
Halperin declares 5, Names 4, including McConnell.
It seems Halperin gave up on the struggle to arrive at a genuine thought, surely suffering from intellectual constipation.
Explode, or simply go away Mr. Halperin. It doesn't matter. You're simply not credible anymore, and you foul the air.
December 6, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink