Frank Sinatra, still hitting the road in his seventies, was asked why he was continuing to perform, when he was both richer than sin and too old to engage in it. Didn’t he have all the money he would ever need? “Money don’t applaud,” said Frankie.
Well, that was then. Now, money do applaud, or does applaud, as these Bloomberg Morning, or Bloomberg TV, or Bloomberg Whatever, folks demonstrate as they chat, almost in awe, about the profundities of “Mike” (he lets them call him “Mike”!) regarding the Obama Administration’s proposed agreement with Iran. Mike says he has all sorts of reservations, which he doesn’t name, because if he did he’d expose himself as either a fool or a liar. Instead, he accuses Obama of being mean to the people who disagree with him, stooping so low as to “smear” them by pointing out the flaws in their arguments. How low can you go, dude? And the three talking heads here, whom I’m afraid I can’t identify, nod their noggins like so many marionettes at the pearls cast before them by the man they call “Mike” (and also “boss”).
