On Murray Rembrandt and MSNBC... What's In a Word?
I thought the "Murray Rembrandt" joke -- which I thought was a Mel Brooks-ism -- went:
"And then there's Rembrandt. Great painter. He has a brother, Murray. But Murray... he couldn't paint a house! (Rim shot!)"
As for Caroline, if the worse they can say about you is a lame joke, you're in the catbird seat.What all these idiots fail to get is that there is no campaign for public consumption. She must impress one person and that is Gov. David Paterson. Not the reporters, not the minor fringe players in NY politics, not the TV talking heads.
On another subject: What's in a word?
Apparently, a lot... Especially for MSNBC. The cable news folks have to find any way of linking -- no matter how precarious a limb they must climb out on -- the Prez-elect and Rahm-bo to Rodney "Lend Me Your Comb" Blagojevich.
Today's hook: Breaking News!!!!! Obama will NOT release his report on Rahm and Blago UNTIL tomorrow (disgusted sigh). (Pity that the breathless frustration of David Shuster cannot be accurately conveyed in print.)
Compare to what they could say: Obama will release the report tomorrow.
Shuster went on to ask whether or not the report would "exonerate" Emanuel for contacting the Illinois governor. Just a tiny little question here, MSNBC: How does someone "exonerate" himself when he has not been accused of any wrongdoing? Contessa Brewer and everyone else who's bouncing around the virtual "politics desk" makes the same statement with varying word usage. The incoming Obama administration and transition team have the burden of proving they did not do anything of the things they are not accused of doing. And the fact that they didn't "exonerate" themselves before they were accused of doing what they did not do fast enough to suit the media, makes them guilty as sin. The nerve of raising expections of that they had nothing to hide when in fact they had nothing to hide.
No wonder we complain...
