Randi Rhodes: Don't Let the Door Hit Ya

It’s Friday, ya bastids!

We’re saying so long to Senator Joe Lieberman, who announced he won’t be running for reelection. Joe Lieberman isn’t easy to categorize. He isn’t easy to label. But most of all, he isn’t easy to stomach. A deeply pious man, Joe believes in a generous God. Unfortunately, that goes hand in hand with a belief that he is God’s greatest gift. There is nobody in America more unjustifiably proud of having done essentially nothing… outside of the Kardashians. At least Kim Kardashian didn’t screw up healthcare reform.

This week Michael Steele described being ousted as RNC Chairman by saying “I know exactly how Caesar felt.” Hmmm, I don’t think Caesar felt anything after his ouster. But then Steele is the guy who thought the quote “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” came from War and Peace. I assume he thinks Julius Caesar was a character in Romeo and Juliet… by Ernest Hemingway.

Fox’s Megan Kelly claims that there is no Nazi imagery on the Fox Network. The only surprising thing is that she didn’t use any Nazi imagery to make her point. Come on. There are so many references to the Nazis on Fox News that is should be called Fuchs News. And leading the goosestep parade is Fox’s Glenn Beck. Beck invokes the name of Adolph Hitler so often that his show is in danger of turning into a séance.

The FBI this week announced the biggest mob bust of all time. I’m not a mob historian, but I believe the biggest mob bust of all time was the montage in the last part of “Goodfellas.” Or was it “Casino”? Some of the crimes people were arrested for go back 30 years, including a double murder that started out as a barroom quarrel. They didn’t need the FBI to investigate that. I could have told them it was Joe Pesci. The FBI arrested 127 reputed Mafia members. The footage of them being hauled in looked like a casting call for “The Godfather 4.” Some of the actual nicknames of those arrested include Lumpy, Johnny Pizza, The Bull, Baby Fat, and Meatball. Is this a mob bust, or are they announcing a new cast for “The Jersey Shore”? And to think, at least one of these guys would have gotten away, if that stupid babysitter hadn’t forgotten her lucky hat.

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