Donald Trump's toxicity, splattered all over Fox and Friend's:
They give you a certificate of live birth which anybody can get. Just walk into the hospital. This guy either has a birth certificate or he doesn't. I didn't think it was such a big deal, but I will tell you, it is turning out to be a very big deal. People are calling me from all over saying please don't give up on this issue. If you weren't born in this country, you cannot be President. You have no doctors that remember, you have no nurses -- this is the President of the United States -- that remember. Why can't he produce a birth certificate? I brought it up just routinely, and all of a sudden, a lot of facts are emerging and I'm starting to wonder myself whether he was born in this country?
That gibberish elicited this pointed response from Politico's Ben Smith: "There's really no excuse for this."
But of course there is. Though diseased, Trump is a symptom -- a symptom of a mass media culture that can keep even a Sarah Palin afloat; a culture that conflates celebrity with wisdom, notoriety with insight, name-recognition with gravitas. In a way, Trump would be a fool to deny his toxic inner-self.
Yet he is also, to my mind, a walking billboard for a 100 percent -- or damn close to it -- inheritance tax. Like George W., without pop's money this clown would have been managing a McDonald's franchise somewhere.
God save us from America's ever-narrowing "aristocracy" of so little merit and no conscience.
::"There's really no excuse for this."::
Of course there's not. These pimps just keep on lying ad nauseum and the media report it as fact.
One of the other lies that the media love to repeat is that Social Security is a "costly" program that is a major contributor to the deficit. Lying pimp.
Posted by: Billy B | March 28, 2011 at 02:04 PM
Rudy Guliani was reported by Politico to have said a couple weeks ago that the members of the GOP who have been playing the birther card need to knock it off because there are more important issues the party needs to address, but I notice that the kids have decided to ignore him and carry on with the game.
Posted by: majii | March 28, 2011 at 02:16 PM
Seriously, that is an insult to managers at McDonald's.
Seriously.
I have watched them manage those operations. It's difficult and requires talent, skill and effort.
No I am not going PC on everyone. I just want to take your point to the next level. Those two trust fund babies could NOT run a McDonald's. Yet, look at what they were given.
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | March 28, 2011 at 03:21 PM
Actually - this post from Ben is hilarious. How ironic is this?
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Trump fails to produce birth certificate
Donald Trump made headlines earlier today when he provided what he said was a copy of his birth certificate -- but a quick check reveals it's actually not an official document
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0311/Trump_fails_to_produce_birth_certificate.html?showall
Posted by: Val | March 28, 2011 at 07:42 PM
Robert, you're right. A cheap and clicheish shot on my part. I apologize.
--PM
Posted by: pm | March 29, 2011 at 06:38 AM