Cry of The Loon …(Pay The Rent Collette)

From personal reference a conversation with Ed Schultz usually goes like this. No, Ed, Steely Dan is not one person. We get fringe benefits, not French benefits. Ed, I am serious it really is not called the Leaning Tower of Pizza. Yes, I am certain that James Dean was an actor and Jimmy Dean makes sausage. Just like the guy in the Fed Ex commercial who is always wrong so is Ed. Sure Ed speaks with strong conviction stemming from a firm belief in his words but so does the character in the Fed Ex commercial. The problem is both are sources of misinformation.

Ed attended the “mother” of misinformation over the weekend. He made an appearance at the Cindy Sheehan led anti-war protest in Washington. In between chants of “haliburton” and “why don’t the Bush daughters go to war” Ed says he was challenging “those righties” with mind numbingly amazing questions like “have you seen Bin Laden yet?” and “do you realize you guys voted against veteran benefits?”. Brilliant!

You see in Ed’s world things need to be very uncomplicated. You either have Bin Laden or you don’t. It does not matter that a former President from his party had a chance to capture him numerous times when he actually knew where he was located. It is much easier to just believe that the war is for oil or for haliburton or the downing street memo. Ed is as gulable as a child. Like I can convincy my daughter of anything when done with a straight face so can be done to Ed. How many times on his show have you heard a caller say something of pure conjecture (Ed that words means something conspiratory in this case) and Ed will ask him “you are just saying that right?…I mean you don’t know that for certain do you?”

Life works best in his obtuse mind by keeping things simple. I can just see Ed singing a song thinking he knows the words but really doesn’t. Come on, close your eyes, you can see Ed singing the same song for years never knowing that the words are not correct. Something like “pay the rent Collette” rather than “little red corvette”. You see life is fine just the way it is for Ed. He hunts, he fishes, he drinks cool ones, and he speaks. Anything as mundane as facts just clutter his mind. He is so much more comfortable with french benefits rather than fringe benefits. I guess as long as he doesn’t mind being an idiot, it shouldn’t bother us.