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“there is such a hunger for a Chris Christie” 

Not content with his supporting role in foisting the Cult of Jobs upon the masses, Washington Wise Man Walter Isaacson has identified a frightening new need in America.

In a classic of false equivalence even handedness, Isaacson cries out from our present morass of “the Democrats – very much to the left and the Republicans – very much to the right,” grasping the substantial presence of Chris Christie as our democracy’s only sign of hope.

 

Instead, we can focus on how come all the fancy Decision Points® Theatre interactivity doesn’t give us a “choice” on the real question: stopping the Florida recount.

 

 Like a very fancy high school.

 Fashion Statement 

Not resting on his laurels from making the Associated Press a Washington punchline, Ron Fournier seems committed to dragging the National Journal down too. Sensing the change in the seasons, Fournier felt compelled to mark Bush Library Week with a thoughtful wad of pap entitled ‘Go Ahead, Admit It: George W. Bush Is a Good Man’

For proof, look no further than the Dignity of the Office dress code Bush strictly enforced:

“The same sense of dignity compelled Bush to forbid his staff to wear blue jeans in the White House. Male aides were required to wear jackets and ties in the Oval Office.

This is a very tired old lie, exploded moments after former Bush Chief of Staff Andy Card made the claim in 2009 as part of an attack on those lax Obama staffers.  It has had a vigorous half life among idiots, but Fournier seems determined to strike at the National Journal’s reputation too.

He is everything awful about Washington:

“Fournier wants you people to remember that politeness is always measured by the thank you notes that a person sends, not the people that one indiscriminately bombs without provocation.”

He’s an old hand at this, having offered Karl Rove solace and advice in his difficult work faking up the Pat Tillman death narrative.

Wet Spot   

The Obama campaign has gotten a pretty good run on versions of “Mitt Romney is entitled to his own views; he’s not entitled to his own facts.”

Now they’re having their own troubles.

Not yet online, conventioneers enjoyed Democrats’ salute to their saluting veterans, featuring a clip of Obama speaking at the Vietnam Memorial.  Obama famously sneered that he wasn’t interested in re-fighting the Culture Wars, but this time he enlisted in one of its stupidest battles.  He endorsed the myth of the dissed Vietnam Veteran, hatred and disrespect epitomised by Rambo’s airport spitting scene.

 A story based on no facts.

One of the weaker moments in Obama’s apology tour of American right wing myths, based on epic after the fact persecution fantasies.

We can only hope America’s newly minted fact checker armies will look under this particular rock.