Barney "Flim Flam Film Critic" Frank vies for Gene Shalit's old job

I have been subscribing to new RSS feeds each week. Once I became overcome with Star Wars and SCIFI/Geek of the week RSS feeds I had a premonition of what it would look like if I died suddenly and someone that was responsible for going through my things would think if they took a look at my laptop. So after cleaning out my history and deleting my special bookmark folder I set out to find intellectual RSS feeds. I got about as far as Fox News and Foreign Policy before I gave up due to the gang bang my inbox took with new messages. I guess there is a lot of news out there beyond Zimmerman, Martin, Anthony, Knox, and shark attacks.

So back on subject. I was giddy with finally acting like an adult when no one was looking and one of the first items in my RSS feed was about former Congressman Barney and his hard hitting analysis of the Netflix original "House of Cards". Full disclosure I own a few shares of Netflix stock, I also have been a customer since early 2000 and I have always disliked Barney Frank.

The Barnster apparently "Hated 'House of Cards'" I don't mind people having their opinion and the former Congressman is certainly entitled to his. However what I found interesting from the article  was his admission that he had only seen a few episodes...uhh excuse me, I correct myself here....he watched "Three Episodes" of the 13. That is roughly 32.5 percent of the show. So about half what he expects most working Americans to pay in Federal Income Tax.  NOTE: I am exaggerating - but only slightly, I can not find a source quickly enough to keep my rambling rant going on, but I have found plenty of sources where he has voted against eliminating the estate tax and where he is a proponent of unbalanced taxing of the more wealthy half of Americans.

Once again back to the rant at hand. Barnalicious decided after viewing just under less than a third of the show - which I point out here, was available all at once on Netflix Streaming so other than lack of time to sit and watch and having a device that will play Netflix streaming there is no real obstacle to watching the entire series.

He has issue with the realness of the politics depicted on the show Frank says, "My proble is that it might mislead people into thinking that this is the way our political system actually works." Wait...WTF? Really Barney Boy? I am not saying that the real life Congress is like what we see on House of Cards (HOC) actually that it might be worse! At least in HOC we see government in action (no matter how corrupt and disingenuous). With our current government, the Senate has not passed a budget in how many years??? Answer: 2009. And the house has managed to do the impossible and pass a budget this year but is still blamed for sequestration and past years budget woes while impressively taking 239 days off in 2013. To be fair this includes vacations, travel days, holidays, spa days, fundraising junkets, and weekends. But in comparison to the 104 weekend days, average of 6 paid holidays, and 10-30 days of vacation most working Americans get a year. (I'll do the math- 120 to 140 days a year). Must be nice to be in Congress...

The Barnanator goes on to say that he prefers the "West Wing"version of politics being show to us masses on TV. Of course he does, the West Wing demonstrated an overly fictionalized God Like Democrat in the hot seat that could rarely do wrong, and when he did trip up he had a chorus of angel like staffers to carry him along. Don't get me wrong, I have not entered entirely into curmudgeon status and do like the feel good vibe of the WW but COMEON man, that show was faker than rubber dog poop. Looked real if you sprinkle a little water on it and maybe place it in a shadowy corner. But get up close poke it with your finger, take a whiff and you know it is not real. Of course there is no denying I'd rather step in the fake stuff than the real crap (pun intended) but Barney who spent 32 years on the governments dime sitting in his ivory tower, paying for male prostitutes, has a long way to go before he can honesty critic a TV show or movie especially one that hits too close to home. My guess is that Netflix hit it on the head and woke the ol bastard up a little.

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