Please don’t remind me of that ‘two girls one cup’ video. *shiver*

Does anyone else have serious doubts that Mitt Romney is actually a real human being? Every time I see him speak he seems more and more like the Austin Powers “Fembots”, just without the deadly “jubblies”. Mitt is the male fembot, I swear….

Because it’s all about having the perks of power, to the detriment of the rest of the country with what they stand for.

I had a co-worker/friend tell me that ‘they’(meaning the Beltway) thinks the middle class doesn’t start until about 100K, and folks like Lois and the ‘reporter’ on the Obama ‘story’ lend credence to that claim.

I happen to be reading an excellent biography of Houdini–”The Secret Life of Houdini” by William Kalush and Larry Sloman. They described how Houdini got people’s attention back in 1907.

“Houdini’s water can escape was so stunning that it refreshed the debate over his methods. There were even some Spiritualists maintaining that Houdini succeeded through some psychic power. [Houdini] seemed willing to blur the line. If an interviewer didn’t broach the subject, Houdini would often gratuitiously inject the word ‘supernatural’ for him. Of course he would also invariably deny such powers, but it’s possible that he was using the work to plant the suggestion that this was indeed a possibility. Being the master showman that he was, he understood that if you mention something and then deny it, the denial is often overlooked or forgotten. When one is asked to forget something specific, it’s this very thing that stands out in the mind and therefore the most difficult to forget.”

Of course Houdini was a very smart man, but surely we’ve all come to understand this is true over the last one hundred years. Except for Lois Romano.

I’m taking a journalism class right now at a fairly esteemed university, we’ve had some high-profile speakers from major organizations. They ARE that dumb. They are clueless, they don’t care. They are like helpless easily confused children with no loyalty to the truth and no desire to think for themselves. Whenever they express unhappiness with news coverage they act like they are utterly powerless to change it, even though they are major figures. And that’s when they identify problems, which is rare.

And the students are mostly similar. It’s no secret that journalism students aren’t exactly the best and brightest. We’ve had minor authority figures come in for fake press conferences and it’s one softball after another. The guy says “trust me” and everyone does – that’s how they report.

I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that yes, they are that dumb, and the next generation of journalists will be even dumber.

a) “Lois” is the name of Superman’s girlfriend. Also Lois Griffin.
b) Romano is a type of cheese.
c) “Lois Romano” is an anagram of “Sailor Moon”.

Again, this is only speculation, but it would be irresponsible not to speculate — “Lois” now has the chance to deny it.

Rather than whether they also print his denial?

My God, the one possibility more terrifying than that they are simply sellouts is that they’re this dumb? I think we can’t underestimate this option. Maybe the people who print the Post are too stupid to understand that printing denials of a rumor requires printing an unsubstantiated rumor.

Wait. So does this mean Romano is actually Loitus of Borg?