Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Crazy Crap Haslam Confesses Stealing Crowd-Pleasing Story About Ernie
Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:59 PM
We asked the governor about Ernie after he told the story today for the umpteenth time, kicking off his speech to Nashville's First Tuesday Republican club.
"Is Ernie real?"
"Noooooooooooo," Haslam said, shamelessly, as if it were a stupid question.
"You mean that story just sprang from your fertile imagination?" a shocked Pith asked.
No, Haslam said, he stole the anecdote from somewhere. He said he thinks Bill Clinton used to tell it about Hillary.
"You mean, there's some kind of political joke book that you guys steal from?"
"If there is, I need one because I keep telling the same ones over and over," the governor replied.
The AP's Erik Schelzig whipped out this story about this breaking news.
Here's the Ernie anecdote in its entirety. Notice all the little personal details that Haslam throws in to give it an air of authenticity. When he told it, we laughed really hard right along with the rest of the crowd. We feel so used.
And so we were going somewhere about four or five weeks ago and it was Crissy and me and the state trooper driving, and Crissy said, ‘Hey, if we have time I’d love to stop in and grab a Diet Coke somewhere.’ And so he pulls into a convenience store real quick, and I said, ‘I’m fine.’ I was on the phone, and so Crissy runs in. And through the front window of the convenience store, I could see her. And she gets up to the cashier and they give each other this huge hug. We weren’t at a Pilot, so I’m thinking, ‘What’s going on?’ She comes back in the car and I said, ‘What was that all about?’ And she says, ‘What are you talking about?’ And I said, ‘With the cashier?’ And she said, ‘Oh, that was Ernie.’ And I said, ‘Ernie?’ And she said, ‘Yeah, Ernie, my high school boyfriend.’ And I said, ‘Oh, OK.’ And I turned and kind of looked out the window, and I must have been smiling or something. And she said, ‘What are you smiling about?’ And I said, 'I was thinking, what if you’d married Ernie?’ And she said, ‘Well then, Ernie would be the governor.’
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This was also used in "The West Wing," except "Ernie" was a ditch-digger.
http://communicationsoffice.tripod.com/3-1…
[find in page "ditch" if you care]
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Plus, I think you should change the headline to "stealing" instead of "making up." Could go to "plagarizing" if you were feeling really bitter.
Tormented. mad and in big trouble, and, worse (worser)..... most Tennesseans like Haslam, too.
I think it's pretty funny because there is nothing you readers and Jeff Woods can do about it.
So, the governor is too lacking in ambition or imagination to make up his own silly-ass stories. Can't say I'm all that surprised.
Governor Haslam also showed up in a very odd place. The other night I was watching that story on NPT about the Southern Belle Academy in Columbia-- you know where they teach the little girls to manage the "servants" and that the South was sacred and that they should act like Melanie on Gone With the Wind. (And where they are taught some really unique historic perspective. Anyhow at the final day of Southern Belle School, there was the governor, probably before he was the governor, smiling and beaming. Must have been some one he knew there. LEarning her place in the world, as he knows his, all right.
Not surprised. This guy is the emptiest suit ever to hold the office of Governor.
Min: Get a grip it's only politics and the Governor does have a sense of
humor about some things. At least he doesn't disguise himself with a mop
head covering his locks!
Jeff, you're coming unglued, dude.
So not a story. I can't believe anyone would have ever been so gullible as to believe what is a commonly used and obvious icebreaker joke story. No reasonable person would believe it. Guess that excludes The Bloggist.
Everything out of his mouth is deceitful- Bill Haslam is passing a slew of laws in our state to infringe on Civil Liberties and First Amendment Rights with the Don’t Say Gay bill and making it Illegal to post offensive images to the internet. As an artist, I was compelled to react to Bill’s railroading of the Constitution and ignorance of standards set forth by our Government. You can see my portrait of our Governor which shows another side of his politics at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/07…
