First -- because neither bull-crap plans nor juiced fences can keep these Nosferatus out -- it's time for "Countdown's" nominees for today's top three "Worst Persons in the World."
The bronze to Tom Leppert, would-be nominee for Senate from Texas. He has launched his first political campaign centered on opposition to Occupy Wall Street. First one in the country.
"The Occupy Wall Street crowd represents the same flawed values that got our country into this economic mess," reads his website. There's a petition, naturally. "We will be sending the petition to President Obama, calling on him to denounce the angry Occupy mob."
Turns out Mr. Leppert was the chairman of the audit committee at Washington Mutual Bank. just before it blowed up, and lost $63 billion in investors' money, and got sold to Chase for a pittance, and then we had to go and bail out Chase to the tune of $25 billion.
So, if anybody knows about "the same flawed values that got our country into this economic mess," it's Tom Leppert, 'cause it looks like he invented most of them.
The runner-up? Anita Perry, wife of one-time presidential candidate Rick Perry. And, now we know why she married him. He's actually smarter than she is.
Their son Griffin graduated from college five years ago, went to work at Deutsche Bank as an investment banker. Then the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled that you couldn't be an investment banker and have a significant role in a political campaign. How does this rather straightforward, common-sense plan seem -- through the misty fog of stupidity -- to Mrs. Perry? "My son lost his job because of this administration." Apparently, the Perry family belongs to the "I'm Mad Because I Don't Get Everything I Want" Party.
But the winner? "Lonesome Rhodes" Beck. Having lost 90 percent of his TV audience when he switched to subscriptions, he's now reduced largely to a website. It's called The Blaze and it's hilarious.
It has an exclusive today. "Blaze exclusive: Texas high school students made to recite Mexican national anthem, pledge of allegiance." Duh, duh-duh-duh. "Students in a Texas public high school were made to stand up and recite the Mexican national anthem and Mexican pledge of allegiance as part of a Spanish class assignment, but the school district maintains there was nothing wrong with the lesson."
It was in a sophomore language class. It was in Spanish class. Where they tend to recite stuff -- and sing easy-to-remember songs -- in, you know, Spanish. But of course, if you're an ethnic and racial bigot like Glenn Beck and the helots who work for him, this becomes a plot to undermine the country and make it possible for, I don't know -- Mexico to re-take the Alamo, or drive down the price of gold or something.
You know what they're standing and singing in French class, don't you, Glenn? The Marseillaise, the French national anthem. And you know where the Marseillaise started? In the French Revolution, Glenn. And you know what they had in the French Revolution, don't you, Glenn? Guillotines! Guillotines! We are this close to guillotines in public school French class! This close! It always ends that way!
"Lonesome Rhodes" Beck, conspiracy theorist and goober -- today's "Worst Person in the World."
