Posted on 10/20/2019 6:13:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
He is not as stout. He doesn’t wear glasses. He doesn’t work for the Yankees. Those differences aside, there is something about Intel Chairman Schiff that bears a startling resemblance to Seinfeld’s George Costanza. After pondering this matter, it finally dawned on me. They both have perfected the ability to prevaricate. And to do so quite convincingly. They both have the ability to keep a narrative alive, long after most rational people recognize that the air has completely escaped the balloon.
George was such a polished liar that Jerry sought his advice on how to defeat a lie detector test. Remember? After discussing the problem at Monk’s cafe, George closed the conversation by calmly telling his friend, “Jerry, it’s not a lie, if you believe it.” Of course, Jerry ultimately failed the polygraph concerning soap opera characters. Confirming just how rare this quality really is.
This is the same Mr. Schiff who, for two-and-a-half years, looked bug-eyed into virtually any camera he could find and promised that he had the evidence of Russian collusion. CNN and MSNBC had him in studio more than some of their anchors. Most media treated him like an accomplished strip tease artist. They could not get enough of his tantalizing act. But they never forced him to show any real skin. After all, he was then the Ranking Member of the House Intel Committee. He must’ve known what he was talking about. Right? No need for tough follow-up questions, then or now. CARTOONS | Michael Ramirez View Cartoon
More recently, the media quickly granted him absolution for lying straight faced to them. He claimed that he had not communicated with the so-called whistleblower. It now looks like there was more than simple communication with he and his staff. Two of his staffers may have actually worked with the originator of the latest impeachment ruse. It appears that they may have actually helped the snoop draft the complaint and strong-armed the IG into changing the rules concerning first-hand knowledge. Did Mr. Schiff ever admit to the lie? Of course not. He simply said that he “should have been more clear”. His friends in the media nodded in approval and agreed to turn the page.
Remember the Seinfeld episode where George wanted to impress his future in-laws? He invented a story that he had a house in the Hamptons. He laid it on thick, describing the wonderful weekend he had just enjoyed out at his place. When he sensed that the Ross’ weren’t buying his story, he doubled down. He invited them to take a drive with him out to visit his place. To his surprise, they accepted.
As they took the two hour drive through Long Island, he told them more about the house, giving them a virtual tour. He had two solariums. He told them about his horses, Snoopy and Prickly Pete. Mrs. Ross even asked to stop at an antique shop so she could buy a house warming gift. When they finally reached the end of the road, George was forced to come clean.
And so as we approach the end of the Island, we learn what we already knew: there is no house in the Hamptons, or anywhere else. There are no horses or legitimate witnesses. Like the two year Mueller Report concluded, there are no impeachable offenses. The whistleblower now appears to be little more than a partisan shill. He won’t even testify. No solariums, no impeachable offenses. Forget high crimes. There aren’t even any misdemeanors. We are left with a rather innocuous telephone call, a lot of half-baked conjecture and some shameless spying on this President. It’s all been a lot of hype, selective leaks and bald-faced lies.
Like George’s in-laws, we’ve been taken for a ride…again.
But, unlike the red-faced George Costanza, we should not expect an act of contrition. Mr. Schiff will just move on, promising as always, that this time he has the goods. Expect the stenographers in the media to nod approvingly, waiting for their chance to speculate on the next prevarication. They are too heavily invested in the impeachment narrative to be objective.
Life does indeed imitate art.
I have no clue what signfelt is...So story is meaningless to me.
Seinfeld was/is one of the truly great comedy shows. And there are little nuggets in it that apply to almost all situations one may happen to be in.
Check it out.
The “house in the Hamptons” refers to an episode of the Seinfeld sit-com in which nebbish George Costanza lies to get out of a social engagement by claiming he had to work on his house in the Hamptons. The people he lied to found out he had no house, an idea that would be laughable because George did not have money.
So the people he lied to asked to see it. George decided he’d take them on a drive until they got bored and said “forget it”. He drove further and further out to the end of Long Island while trying to convince them to give it up with more and more elaborate stories. When he got way out the very end he confessed, then the people he lied to told him they knew he’d been lying all along.
The connection between this episode and the Democrats going after Trump, not necessarily Schiff specifically, has occurred to me more than once.
Adam Schiff: “I was in the pool!”
Yes, loved Elaine and her “dancing”. Best comedy show ever.
“Shrinkage” I remember that one.
Trump should just begin referring the Schiff as “Costanza”. It’s perfect, and it will ‘stick’.
You’re a victim of an early Sunday morning trolling. Just saying...
“Yo Yo Ma.”
“Boutros Boutros-Ghali.”
You trolling seems to have backfired and simply made you look foolishly uniformed instead of clever.
It was a “show about nothing”, and it truly was worthless.
And “yada....yada...yada.....Trump wins again!
Not trolling. I have never once heard of or seen this tv show, but I see now it was popular.
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