{"id":6406,"date":"2011-10-18T06:05:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T10:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2011-10-18T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T14:51:30","slug":"oh-how-the-mighty-have-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2011\/10\/18\/oh-how-the-mighty-have-fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story isn’t that Herman Cain is the frontrunner in the Republican reality show, but how extraordinarily terrible Rick Perry is. I mean, here’s a guy who seemed tailor-made for putting the “white” back into the White House. Texan? Check. Executioner in Chief? Check. White? Whiter than Wonder Bread or a Pepsodent smile. Christian? Shit – he’s so damn Christ-like, he’s even being persecuted (I think he’s even got a touch of the stigmata). But then a funny thing happened. He opened his yap. Hard to figure you could out-stupid and out-cray the likes of Michele Bachmann, but damned if Ricky didn’t manage it. Now he’s fallen so low, he’s polling lower than Rick Santorum in Florida<\/a> – a mere 2.9%, which, even using Texas math, is pretty piss poor. <\/p>\n

Speaking of Herman, we know Cain is Able, but is Cain also Liable? Liable to be charged with some campaign finance shenanigans<\/a>, that is. Seems it isn’t technically illegal in and of itself, but the Cain Campaign has paid the for-profit “Herman Cain T.H.E. New Voice” (which is a pretty crappy name for a company, if you ask me) $100,000. Apparently his company promotes his books and “philosophy.” No word on how much the Cain Campaign has spent on Godfather’s Pizza.<\/p>\n

West Side Story (the movie) was released 50 years ago today. In case you don’t know, it tells the tale of two of NYC’s gayest gangs – a conflict between the Jets (white people in pale makeup), and the Sharks (mostly white people in dark makeup) dancing their way through the streets, snapping their fingers in a threatening manner, and saying things like “daddy-o” as NYC “toughs” were wont to do back then. <\/p>\n

This movie is when I fell in love with Puerto Rican women, developing a life-long crush on well-known hispanic chick Natalie “Maria” Wood. Though I always thought the movie – and musicals in general – was pretty stupid.<\/p>\n

Big birthday day today, as Chuck Berry hits 85, Keith Jackson goes rumblin’, stumblin’, bubmblin’ to his 83rd, and everybody’s favorite castaway – Dawn Wells – is 73. And still cute as a button.<\/p>\n