All-American Bullshit Round-Up

Bromides for the brain-dead, from a beat reporter at The NYT.

But I stayed in the church of capitalism, determined to hear what wisdom headliners Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Dan Rather, Steve Forbes and Terry Bradshaw would dispense.

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“I need a woman with money,” Bradshaw cackled, noting that he was a 62-year-old mama’s boy with three ex-wives. He seemed more like a man who could use some advice rather than one paid for giving it.

“I’ve never really motivated anybody,” he announced cheerfully.

The former Steelers quarterback grumbled that quarterbacks like Peyton Manning and Donovan McNabb get paid millions more than he did to follow plays dictated by coaches.

After noting that “Jesus is my savior,” he shared this life lesson with the would-be entrepreneurs: When your receiver is about to be tackled, “Keep it simple. Chuck it to him anyway.”

Are these suckers who blew $9.95 for the privilege of being pitched more seminars in inspirational horsecrap ("Then came another sales pitch from a guy who said he went from being a homeless drug dealer to the 'world’s No. 1 Internet wealth entrepreneur' with a $2.4 million estate in Texas. He offered a course at an airport Marriott valued at $11,226.90 for a bargain $29.") the small business start-ups that will get America working again, the minute deeper tax cuts are passed & the moneybags start letting their cash trickle down?

Not that the moneybags would let any of it loose, of course ("Mine!!") but seeing bible-thumping patriots applying the clap harder approach to bizniz would provide some comedy relief during the plunge to the abysswind-down of all meaningful economic activity in our future.