Steve Bridges dared to lampoon Obama, and suddenly died...
...at age 48, of "a severe allergic reaction".
It's nice to have access to everyone's medical records, know their allergies and pre-existing conditions...
Posted on 09/10/2013 7:31:11 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
With just over 500,000 followers, the comedian and actor Albert Brooks is a popular presence on Twitter. Most of his tweets are mild, 140-character jokes about events in the news. (Examples: "Neiman Marcus to be Sold for 6 billion. That is, of course, retail," and "Diana Nyad's going to be so pissed when she finds out there was a flight," and "Happy New Year to my Jewish friends, or as I like to call them, my friends.")
But Brooks, judging by Twitter at least, has taken the crisis in Syria seriously. Between jokes about Miley Cyrus and Johnny Manziel, on Aug. 29, as leaks detailed U.S. options for attacking Syria, Brooks tweeted, "I don't know the right decision on Syria, but basically telling them Saturday between 3 and 4 seems stupid." Two days later, when President Obama announced he would seek congressional authorization for an attack on Syria, Brooks tweeted, "I like POTUS asking Congress, but I think they should be called back now, not when they casually return from vacation."
Those were perhaps a little too serious for a Twitter account not devoted to foreign policy. So on Friday night (early Saturday in the East), Brooks sent out a Syria joke. "Russia and the U.S. could unite for one week," he tweeted, "go into Syria, remove the chemicals, and let them continue fighting."
It was kind of grimly funny. Except it didn't turn out to be a joke. Forty-eight hours later, leaders in the U.S., Russia, and Syria were embracing the Brooks Plan, although no one called it that. At first it seemed the idea originated in a gaffe by Secretary of State John Kerry. Then Obama told interviewers that he and Russian leader Vladimir Putin discussed it at their recent meeting. Whatever the case, several key players in the Syrian crisis, plus a number of lawmakers on Capitol Hill, welcomed a plan that was immediately characterized as a way to avoid U.S. intervention in Syria. For Obama especially, the idea seemed to be a lifeline out of the terrible trap he had constructed for himself.
Brooks got no credit, although his 114-character tweet predicted precisely the essence of the new proposal. As the story began to dominate the news Monday, Brooks, who had heretofore not been recognized as a major player in the Syria crisis, tweeted simply, "I believe I tweeted this idea last Friday."
Too late. The proposal is already known as the Russian Plan, not the Brooks Plan. But now, after the initial flush of excitement over a possible way out of the Syrian dilemma, the plan's many flaws — it could be fundamentally unworkable — will likely come to dominate the news. It might not be long before Brooks is joking about his own joke that somehow became the latest development in the long Syrian tragedy.
It's the Albert Brooks plan!!!
PING!
Americans should unite behind the Albert Brooks Plan and stay out of Syria
If a comedian proposes Syrian solution, does that make it a joke?
No, that only happens when our President or Secretary of State proposes a Syrian Solution.
And that ain’t no joke.
And give us our money back! I get chills!
Credit for the Albert Brooks plan now being featured on Drudge!!!!
No, but it might make them dead...
Plausible.
More people read this tweet than saw the YouTube video that lead to Benghazi...
“”Obama told interviewers that he and Russian leader Vladimir Putin discussed it at their recent meeting””
I didn’t catch just who it was that ANNOUNCED on Monday that Russia was willing to step in. If it was someone other than obozo, why isn’t he taking a drubbing now about the above? I did hear him say yesterday - strictly by accident, I assure you - that he had suggested this a year ago. I guess that’s why we’re just hearing about it now.
Putin has already called him a liar once and I hope is prepared to do that again if his statement is untrue.
It does appear to be a solution - somewhat - but I will detest the idea that Putin helped get him off the hook if it works. People have been covering up for him all his life. He’s an adult who learned as a little kid that he would never have to accept responsibility for his actions.
Steve Bridges dared to lampoon Obama, and suddenly died...
...at age 48, of "a severe allergic reaction".
It's nice to have access to everyone's medical records, know their allergies and pre-existing conditions...
Did Jerry Lewis propose the details of the Korean Armistice.
But as he matured he got into wilder projects like: Finding Humor in the Muslim World.
Himself. How did that happen???
All of you please don’t be had again.
This was plan from the start.
Lest you forget Obama is a red diaper baby, mixed in
a USSR test tube. Oh my sweet LORD, do we have to keep learning this lesson. Everything THEY say and do is lies. Everything is planned well in advance to happen or it does not happen. Please wake up. Albert Brooks! Really? Seriously?
Heh heh heh.
When I think Albert Brooks I always think of that scene in “Broadcast News” when flop sweat poured out of his body as he delivered the news. Hilarious scene.
When I think Albert Brooks I always think of that scene in “Broadcast News” when flop sweat poured out of his body as he delivered the news. Hilarious scene.
Shouldn’t it be Albert Brooks that addresses the nation on TV tonight? OK, I am wishing for this just to see that flop sweat again.
Perhaps Mr. Brooks could educate Mr. Obama on the nest egg principle.
He finally found some comedy in the Muslim World.
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