There may be more bizarre doings in our world right now than Brett Favre testifying before Congress on welfare reform, but the Blob is hard-pressed to think of any. And this is acknowledging the current presidential campaign, with Batman and Robin running around telling us what a craphole America is, and how commies and transgenders and degenerate brown savages are destroying the country.
Forget all that for a moment, if you can. Let's talk about the cognitive dissonance of Brett Favre wringing his hands over the state of the welfare state.
He's scheduled to do so next Tuesday, and it oughta be some show. This is because Favre is the guy who, after doing all that gunslinging for the Green Bay Packers, got himself mixed up in a Mississippi welfare scam in which $77 million in funds for poor families were instead funneled to, surprise, surprise, a bunch of country-club types.
Favre's part in this, allegedly, involved putting the arm on public officials to find money for a new volleyball facility at his alma mater, Southern Mississippi. His daughter, (again, surprise, surprise) was on the team at the time. The university subsequently received $5 million in illicit monies from the welfare fund.
That's how Favre, who's not been criminally charged, wound up being named in a civil lawsuit attempting to recoup the misappropriated funds. Which I suppose does make him an expert witness about welfare fraud, if in a weirdly backassward way.
"Favre Tells Committee Welfare Fraud Is Bad, Really Bad." That's the headline that leaps into my head.
To be followed, because I never met a point I couldn't belabor, by several similar examples:
"Capone Calls Tax Evasion 'A Serious Problem'."
"Bonnie, Clyde Say Cars, Firearms Have Become 'Far Too Easy To Steal' For Criminals."
"Arnold Rothstein Claims Gambling On Sports Has Gotten Completely Out Of Hand; 'Why, A Guy Could Fix The World Series If He Wanted To.'"
And of course:
"Fox Bemoans Lax Henhouse Security."
Yeesh. What a world, what a world.
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