WTF?

Posted on 04/15/2009 at 8:04 am by Bob Cesca

Mark Halperin was wrong about everything having to do with the election. There was also that thing about recommending to McCain that he paint President Obama as a terrorist Manchurian candidate. If that wasn’t enough reason to question his credibility on the subject, he famously underscored that Drudge rules his world.

So HBO has decided to embrace his hackish wrongness on everything by turning his forthcoming book about the election into a movie.

HBO originally planned to option the election story from A Useless Pile of Rotting Cheese Curd, but they clearly ended up settling for the next best thing.

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  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    Being constantly wrong is the new credability.

  • http://www.blogthereligions.com John Hummel

    Shit floats to the top.How did George W. Bush fail at being an Air Force pilot, fail at being an oil man – yet somehow become President who’s whole administration was stuffed with fail?How do people like Newt Gingrich or William Kristol be proven wrong over, and over, and over, and over again – yet are still considered very, very serious political forces that we should listen to?I think I have an answer.The Office.I finally watched the original 12 episode version of the show “The Office” from Britain. At the end of the 2nd season, the Boss, who spent 12 episodes proven himself completely inept, disrespectful of authority, rude, sexist, racist, and generally obtuse – was fired. He begged for his job, and he was fired for being incompetent.In the American version, the show has been going on for what – 5 seasons now? 6? And the character Michael Scott finally left the company when he quit, when he should have been fired ages ago, but his parent company seemed to think it was harmless to leave him there, and maybe things would get worse if they actually replaced him.Maybe American politics are the same way – the failures are kept in place because hey, they’re pointless, and they say the right things. So what if they’re incompetent, or consistently wrong – just think how much worse it might be if we actually *change* and fire the politicians or the very serious pundits who are always wrong! Change is scary!

  • Silver Owl

    HBO is not all that smart with investment but then I’m guessing this has more to do with an HBO higher up having an emotional episode and wasting time, money and resources just because he/she can.I laughed when Halperin hired Perino. A company of losers and liars.

  • J

    @ John Hummell: Or maybe even more so, Office Space. The best way to leap from office drone to management? Show a total lack of interest or intellectual curiously, a disdain for those around you, and a willingness to do absolutely nothing worthwhile.

  • http://www.blogthereligions.com John Hummel

    @J: You have seen my bet, raised me, and I gladly fold. Your analogy is even better.Huzzah to you!