I read the news today oh boy, and I can report it’s a long and winding road downhill for Republicans like John Boehner, who has now demanded that former Beatle Paul McCartney apologize for remarks he made at the White House. Here’s what McCartney said:
It’s a fantastic honor (for) the Gershwin family to give me this incredible award and for me to be awarded it by the Library of Congress. And, in fact, after the last eight years, it’s great to have a president who knows what a library is.
To which the idiot Boehner replied:
I hope he’ll apologize to the American people for his conduct, which demeaned him, the White House, and President Obama.
McCartney was at the White House to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Boehner, did you catch that? “Popular song.” Popular as in, the people like McCartney.
If you will pardon a serious note in a minor key, how is it the Republicans so often celebrate ignorance (Sarah Palin, for instance), and treat intelligence as a kind of political disqualifier, and then get mad when someone jokes about their lack of intelligence, which by their own lights they don’t want because it is, in their eyes, disqualifying?
Willful ignorance is the the motto of the GOP. It loves stupid sheep who will go where the dogs tell them to go, who will be afraid of every wolf-tale the GOP tells. To keep the sheep stupid, the right ridicules intelligence.
Boehner versus McCartney. Who do you think will win that match?
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I read the news today oh boy, and I can report it’s a long and winding road downhill for Republicans like John Boehner, who has now demanded that former Beatle Paul McCartney apologize for remarks he made at the White House. Here’s what McCartney said:
You know… McCartney's remarks are, in fact, a little outside the boundary, but please. No one does drama queen like Boehner.
But I have to say, pricking much of the right on this issue — their insistence on willful ignorance and simultaneous defensiveness about such ignorance — is comic, and valuable.
I want John Boehner to apologize for his entire political career. First things first.
Laughing out loud. But agreeing with you all the while. Thanks, Sonny.