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People say daytime TV is an intellectual wasteland, a slough of ignorance which perfectly illustrates the old adage that ‘empty barrels make the most noise.’ I must admit I have feared the loss of precious IQ points from watching “The View,” something that I can’t guarantee hasn’t happened, but I did learn something yesterday on daytime TV, something that could save lives, on the “Oprah” show. It involves keeping guns out of the hands of mental defectives, something that gun grabbing Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and the NRA agree on.

No less an authority than He Who Walks on Water himself thinks that’s a good idea.

After the Virginia Tech shootings, Barack Hussein Obama said “If we know that he got mental health services, then there should be some way of preventing somebody like that from buying any kind of weapon.” I think that by “he” Barack the Hack was referring to the Virginia Tech murderer, Mr. Cho, and as usual, when he’s spewing his trademark rhetorical vomit, he hasn’t bothered to think through the implications of what he’s saying. This is a guy who opposes violating the so-called privacy rights of foreign terrorists by listening to their phone calls or allowing the FBI to discover that they’re checking out the Anarchist’s Cookbook from the local library. He’s so adamant about preserving the “right of privacy” that guarantees “a woman’s right to choose” that while he was in the Illinois Senate, he voted “present” on a law that mandated medical treatment for an infant lucky enough to survive a botched abortion. Now he wants the government to put everyone who got treatment for mental illness on some sort of watch list? This is the sort of idea that will send his buds at the ACLU to their computers to send out hysterical press releases promising a slide down a slippery slope ending with involuntary lobotomies for anyone who does anything the least disturbing like or skulking around the neighborhood without saying hello to the neighbors, or watching “Dancing with the Stars.”

The other problem with Dazzling Deception’s test is that there’s a huge and potentially very dangerous loophole here. He wants to stop the nutcases who got treatment from getting guns. What about the ones who don’t but who obviously desperately need it? Consider the following profile: a hopelessly narcissistic, lying charmer with delusions of grandeur. He leads a double life, one in which he was sometimes a happily married family man with a beautiful wife and a two-year old daughter and another in which he engaged in anonymous gay sex at rest stops. This secretive sociopath creep is eventually exposed when he is sued for sexual harassment and is forced to come clean, or as closed to clean as possible for a sleaze ball like this character. He holds a nauseating press conference to confess and reinvent himself as a victim/”gay American,” with his stunned wife standing beside him, a sickly smile pasted on her face.

She claims that she was shocked find out that what she thought was a storybook life was a lie, even though in retrospect there were more red flags than May Day in Havana. She never went to his parent’s home, even though they lived only 5 miles away, and he forbade her having any contact with his daughter from his first marriage. By now, you probably recognize that I’m talking about Jim McGreevey, the former governor of New Jersey. Congresswoman McCarthy, you really need to make sure that this guy doesn’t get his hands on a gun, don’t you think? No, he’s not a mental patient—yet. Trust me, if his loved ones have the sense that God gave geese, they’ll see that he gets some help STAT.
Speaking of McGreevey, is it my imagination, or do more of these sociopath goofballs have a “D” after their names? Whether it’s Rest Stop Jimmy, Gavin Newsome, Mel “did I win the lottery? Reynolds, or the man who pardoned Mel Reynolds, the Sociopath-in-Chief, Bill Clinton, so many times we learn that democrat “rising stars” are not what they seem. MMM …a rising star who is not what he seems …who does that sound like?

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