Don’t You Wish You Could Make Excuses Like This?

Imagine yourself in the position of Martha Coakley.

You’re walking down the street.  A pesky reporter asks you an inconvenient question, so your Obama-provided companion shoves him to the ground.  You stand there and watch.  Then, when the reporter screams about it and the video of it is all over the blogosphere, you…

1. Say you weren’t privy to the facts.  Like that one about how to spell Massachusetts.
   
2. Call it a dirty trick by the reporter.  He was trying to be shoved to the ground, you see.
3. Then, issue a spin apology when all else fails, and it hopefully goes away.

Well, that’s what Martha Coakley did, along with Michael Meehan, the guy who did the shoving.  You can read more about it at Hot Air.  In the meantime, what if you could make excuses like this, and know the press would back you up on them?  Consider the possibilities…

1. “No, officer, I wasn’t speeding.  I was just aggressively using the length of road before me so I could get more MPH per foot of road out of my tax money.  You want me to get the most out of my taxes, don’t you?  The speed limit is just a dirty trick, after all.”
2. “No, boss.  That URL just hopped up there on my computer.  I am not privy to the facts about how it got there, even though I was looking at it the whole time.  Yes, I know she’s naked.  I’m sure she only lost all of her clothes when she slipped and fell in some way that I didn’t cause.”
3. “No, honey, I didn’t just go out and buy a new sports car we can’t afford.  It was stalking me.”

This won’t fly with you?  Then why tolerate it from a Democrat thug?  Think twice before you vote this time around, Massachusetts.

Filed under: Commentary and Opinion on January 13th, 2010 No Comments