Sure Hope He is Wearing His Simian Feces Repellent Trench Coat . . . .

Apparently Charlie Pierce is actually in Washington DC attending the Monkey-Poo Flingathon, er - The Gadfly means - the conservative's CPAC convention.

And you just know he would have something to say about the zombie-eyed Granny starver from Wisconsin Paul Ryan and his oafish attempt today to demonize school lunches for America's poor kids.  The Gadfly feels it is worth publishing Pierce's observation of Ryan's smarmy snake-oil peddling in it's entirety right here on the pages of his own shitty little blog.

Enjoy:

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from Wisconsin, and First Runner-up in our most recent Vice Presidential Pageant, has left a trail of cheap tricks behind him here. In his speech yesterday, Ryan told a charming story, which he said he'd heard from an aide to Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin. It was about a little boy who turned down a free school lunch because he wanted one in a paper bag because that, according to Paul Ryan and his brimming big baby blues, would mean that someone cared for him.

"She once met a young boy from a very poor family, and every day at school, he would get a free lunch from a government program," Ryan said. "He told Eloise he didn't want a free lunch. He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown-paper bag just like the other kids," he continued. "He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown-paper bag had someone who cared for him. This is what the left does not understand."

There was not a lick of truth in anything Ryan said.

The author of "An Invisible Thread," Laurie Schroff, spoke with the Huffington Post about Ryan's CPAC remarks and the origins of Anderson's anecdote. She asserted that her book was not "political" and disagreed with Ryan's "full stomach and an empty soul" comment. "I want people to think about what they can do to make the world a kinder world," Schroff said. "I don't care about Republicans and Democrats. But we are talking about children that need to be fed. Cutting school lunch programs doesn't accomplish that."

Biggest. Fake. Alive.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-brown-bag-cpac-story-030714

"Biggest.  Fake.  Alive."

Which is precisely what attracted Mitt Romney to him to begin with.  Because charlatans, like birds of a feather, do flock together.

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----TFG