Oh, no! It’s the twin brother defense!
Okay, by now you’ve all heard about Claude Allen’s twin brother. Apparently, he’s a bit of a troublemaker, and the righties are floating the possibility that not Claude, but Floyd, is responsible for the shoplifting Claude is accused of.
Hmm.
Malkin is upset by the left’s response. Here’s an example of the mean, nasty lefties piling on this story:
Somewhere in the cosmos, round about 2000, one of the gods accidentally kicked over a big bucket of WEIRD and soaked the planet in it.
Here’s what Malkin said when this possibility first reared itself:
Stranger and stranger.
Now, the only substantive difference between those two statements is that one is hilariously creative, and one is not. They both express exactly the same sentiment; but Malkin takes the lefty to task. Then she writes a nice little hagiography:
I don’t see why this is funny.
No, you wouldn’t. You really, really wouldn’t.
If it turns out that Claude Allen, a father of three who reportedly has bailed out his troubled twin brother before, tried to protect Floyd Allen and ruined his career out of familial love, that is an extraordinary thing.
Tell me again why this is funny.
Well, this thread is a pretty good example.
Unless the twin brother is living in Maryland (in the same house since that’s where the stolen merchandise is, I presume), shopping at the same store, carrying his brother’s ID, has the same credit card(s), driving the same car (which was seen on the parking lot security video), wearing the same clothes on the same day, and has the same fingerprints (not all twins have the same fingerprints), then it’s a non-story story. It’s better than the twinkie defense, though. This is going to be fun to watch.
Comment by thelma — March 15, 2006 @ 3:16 pm
great stuff here
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002436.html
Comment by beverins — March 15, 2006 @ 5:01 pm
Yeah, I’m going to go out on a limb and say there’s NO FUCKING WAY the guy was just covering for his brother. Assholes who work for the Bush administration don’t give up everything they’ve “worked for” out of pure altruism.
Comment by Dadahead — March 15, 2006 @ 5:03 pm
Whether it was the evil twin or not… I got first dibs on the movie rights (from “Sister! Sister!” to “Claude! Floyd!”)! I figure in two years, I’ll be leaving Hollywood with 2 or 3 Oscars for this one.
Comment by plez... — March 16, 2006 @ 3:06 pm
Michelle expressing “familial love” as an extraordinary thing is hilarious. Kind of like Hitler saying that Jews are wonderful people.
Comment by WTF — March 16, 2006 @ 11:23 pm
This isn’t funny if your evil twin (let’s just say her name is “Lynx”) had framed you for shoplifting during the White Power Sale.
Comment by leh t4m3 — March 17, 2006 @ 3:43 am