OK Kossacks....it is a Sunday afternoon and colder than a door handle at the dry ice factory, so time for a little fun quiz:
You're watchin' your Toobz and you hear a politician saying something about important events in the world.
Let's test your ability to spot whether what you are hearing is real or not....below the orange twizzler of befuddlement:
So here's the first exchange between interviewer and subject:
What's your opinion of this potential $700 billion bailout?
Like every American I'm speaking with, we are ill about this! We're saying, "Hey! Why bail out Fannie and Freddie, and not me?" But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those that are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. To help, um -- it's gotta be about job creation, too. Also, about shoring up our economy, and putting Fannie and Freddie back on the right track. And, so, health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending, 'cause, Barack Obama, you know? You know, we've got to accompany tax reduction, and tax relief for Americans. Also, having a dollar value meal at restaurants -- that's gonna help. But, one in five jobs being created today, under the umbrella of job creation. That, you know.....
OK....now it is your turn....no fair Googlin' here. Quickly jot down who was being interviewed.
Round two - name that speaker:
The greatest thinkers in Western civ were not products of education policy. Socrates trained Plato in on a rock and then Plato trained in Aristotle, roughly speaking, on a rock. So, huge funding is not necessary to achieve the greatest minds and the greatest intellects in history.
And so with that said, we do face huge challenges, in our kids coming out of the high school system right now, if we ask them what a business is, we’d be challenged to get a good answer. We all talk about skills and all this kinds of things. So we have huge challenges; I want to work together on that. Our kids do compete against India and China, etc. right now in a global economy, and we’re not winning. And economics is a win-win; it’s not that India and China should lose, we can all trade together and get rich together and so it’s a win-win thing. […]
We can all do better; I think if we really want to do better, we need to get private sector folks into every single one of our schools, get the CEOs in the schools and move beyond this, this narrow policy debate, and really have a revolution … Our kids do not know what a business is when they graduate from high school. They need to know that. So we can talk skills and this, that, and the other thing, but we’re not going to have any success until we do work together at that much higher level and shoot for true success for our kids.
And for Round three, who said this?:
Well, look, if Hillary Clinton wants to run by telling Americans that the economy is doing great and you can credit President Obama and Hillary Clinton for that, I would encourage her to follow that strategy. Because the simple reality is, that's true for the wealthy. The top 1 percent under President Obama, the millionaires and billionaires that he constantly demagogued, earned a higher share for our income than any year since 1928. Those with power and influence who walk the corridors of power of the Obama administration have gotten fat and happy under big government. But I'll tell you, hardworking men and women across America are hurting. We today have the lowest labor force participation since 1978. Ninety-two million Americans aren't working, and we've seen wages stagnate.
OK....three guesses and now here are the rules for what comes next:
1- Write down your guesses for who delivered quotes 1, 2 and 3. Be honest....we want to know how you did?
2- I am going to put a lot of space in here before I put down the real answers so before you scroll down, create a comment and post your three guesses.
3- THEN come back here and scroll to the bottom to find the correct answers.
Hum the theme to Jeopardy here
Order a pizza.
Complete your 2014 tax return
Ponder what has happened to Michelle Bachmann
or Ann Coulter
Picture George Will with an open collar shirt and madras Bermuda shorts.
Imagine Meet the Press WITHOUT John McCain.
Go read some Charlie Pierce Esquire politics blog columns to feel better about great punditry
Ask why, if we are paying several trillion a year for the world's best intelligence system, nobody seems to have heard about ISIS until last week?
Select your winner for best set decoration for the Oscars.
Scan your local listings to see if The Good Wife will ever return to the CBS lineup.
OK...time's up:
CORRECT ANSWERS TO OUR QUIZ:
QUOTE TWO: David Brat, the Virginia Republican Congressman who recently gained office in a surprise upset over Eric Cantor. David believes our children can get better educated through osmosis than actually spending time with those pesky teachers.
QUOTE THREE: You might be thinking Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, but if so, you would be wrong. It is our good buddy Texas Senator Ted Cruz warming up the spin machine to blame the problems of economic inequality in America on President Obama
QUOTE ONE: I saved this one for last. Yah betcha ya thought it was our sweetie Sarah Palin mixing up a great batch of word salad and you are close, but it is actually Tina Fey doing one of her great Palin impressions.....great not only for capturing the essence of Sarah's speech patterns and mannerisms, but also for capturing the pure essence of true crazy that is Our Lady of the Northwoods.
How did you do?