On a completely and somewhat irrelevant slant, the Kelly twins involved in the generals' sex scandals are coming off as unhinged, delusional, and a little slutty. Normally I wouldn't be taking about this at all, but there are deeper concerns here and I will discuss them tomorrow along with updates on the Israel/Gaza war that may cause the entire region to erupt.
In all my years watching the news and reporting on it, I have never, NEVER seen a week as unbelievable as this. One story might have been enough but there were a dozen stories this week that made my head spin and my lunch attempt an escape. Let's start with one of the more horrific stories this week: Elmo.
I love Elmo. Kids love him. I think he is hysterical when he shows up on shows like "The Chew," or "Jimmy Fallon," so this story really hurts. Elmo's puppeteer, Kevin Clash, was accused of underage sex with a 16 year old boy, which may or may not be true but are equally disturbing either way. If Clash had sex with an underage boy (which shouldn't be a crime as age of legal consent should be 16 across the board), he is guilty of being a pedophile. If he is isn't, some douche with money signs in his eyes is blackmailing Sesame Street. Early evidence suggest the latter. Evidence has already surfaced that the email the accuser is using as "proof" is a fake. This may be nothing more than a money scam, done twice to Michael Jackson for the same reason.
I am probably one of the only people on Earth who still doubt Michael Jackson's pedo claims due to the questionable nature of the first claim and the outright bullshit of the second. The first case was hushed up with money so the case was never heard in court and that stink followed Jackson until he died. However, the father in that case, Ethan Chandler, has been caught on tape saying the whole thing was a scam to extort money, just like the second attempt by a former Jackson maid which was exposed as a hoax. Chandler later sued Jackson to pull a gag order so he could release an album with songs about the whole incident. He also helped write the worst Mel Brooks ever, "Men In Tights." Chandler died in a suicide in 2009. Ask yourself this, if Jackson was a pedo, how come there were never any more victims? The two accusers have been discredited and not one other person has come forward even after his death. Look at Jerry Sandsusky or Jimmy Savile who had dozens come out of the woodwork once exposed. With Jackson we have crickets, with the other two we have a flood. Do the math.
As if that wasn't enough, we now have Days of Our Lives: the Military Version. If you pitched this idea to any major studio about a general, his mistress, another general, another mistress and a shirtless FBI agent, you'd either get the heave ho or a seven episode pick up depending on the mood of the guy who heard you. First we have the head of the CIA and decorated war veteran David Petraeus get caught up in a scandal with biographer Paula Broadwell. The reason we know about this is because, in a moment that would be more fitting during second period in high school, Broadwell started sending threatening anonymous e-mails to Jill Kelly who may or may not have been flirting with Petraeus.
Meanwhile, Kelly, a Real Housewife-type from Tampa, is conducting War and Peace sized emails with another general John Allen, perhaps as many as 30,000 which comes out to 40-75 pages a day of emails in the time period mentioned. Wow. As if that wasn't enough, when Jill Kelly, in the most asinine move ever, went to to the FBI to report the threatening emails, she caught the eye of an unnamed FBI agent who began sending her shirtless photos of himself. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Are we as a race perpetually twelve now? Have we not evolved at all?
The emails between Kelly and Allen have not revealed an affair sources say but the sheer volume of the text suggests something else. I am not reading the Warren report every day from some hot chick, with a reputation for flirting, without there being something else behind it all. I am not that naive. All of this because two girls went all Mean Girl on each other. Classic. By the way, the CIA has now had seven leaders in the past eight years. Rough job.
Israel has become the latest country for Syria to attack for no good reason. After a second mortar attack hit the Golan Heights, Israel responded by obliterating the mortar team. They are also dealing with constant rocket attacks from Gaza which they have acted really responsible in dealing with. If rockets were flying across the Mexican border, you can be damned sure that the panicky public would be calling for war until their eyes bleed. The Syrian civil war is crossing all borders now and could lead to a wider regional conflict. This is a place that needs close watching but as our generals are getting caught in round after round of naked twister, I feel they may have other things on their mind.
The one group not paying any attention is Fox News and the Republicans party still reeling from the drubbing the got last week. As I predicted, there is a schism appearing in the party. People like Boehner and Bill Kristol have waved the white flag and are willing to talk about everything. Others, like Limbaugh and McConnell, have singled no willingness to back down. Sigh.
Last night I caught The Five on Fox which is basically a show where four retards debate policy with a sleepy democrat. However, last night Juan Williams was subbing for the ineffective Bob Becker when the subject turned to tax hikes. As expected the four mouthbreathers spouted wrong stats and empty platitudes about why jobs will be killed if we raise taxes on millionaires. Juan went the other way and slammed them on facts, such as six in ten Americans, a majority position, want higher taxes on rich people. He also wanted to know where all these great jobs are when companies are sitting on record profits and giving them more isn't likely to fix anything. The middle class needs a raise and that is the only way we are going to fix anything and it was refreshing to see some Republicans start to come to the table with new ideas.
The problem is is there are still too many within the party that feel that the GOP isn't conservative enough. Yeah, that's the problem. Romney and Karl Rove are being held as the scapegoats for their loss for not being even more conservative, as if that would have won them the election. Some actually think the country is filled with anti-abortion, homophobes who think black people should be out in the fields still picking cotton. The truth is this is a small yet loud minority which really needs to go away. Voters have provably not agreed with you on any of this in almost every state out there, especially anti-abortion measures that can't even pass in places like Alabama. They are already changing math in their heads again as if that will help. Get your heads out of your ass and realize it's not going to happen. If you keep fighting it's only going to hurt more.
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