Remember the 1970 movie Airport?  I saw it with my friend Vickie.  It was so good that even “break no rules” Vickie hid out with me in the theater so we could see the next showing.

Of course it was good.  The cast was amazing.  Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Helen Hayes (who got an Oscar for her performance), Jacquelin Bisset, Maureen Stapleton, George Kennedy and Van Heflin as the desperate man with the bomb and a life insurance policy.

Spoiler alert!  The bomb goes off, Van Heflin is sucked out of the airplane through the hole he made.  Stuff from all over the airplane flies out the opening too, because as you know that’s what happens when an airplane’s hull is breached.  Luckily, Jacquelin Bisset (pregnant with Dean Martin’s baby, natch), just barely manages to hold on and not join the bomber outside the aircraft at 30,000 feet.

Seriously cool movie.

I was 13 when it came out.  I still watch the re-runs.  It’s still on TV a lot.

Now why do I mention this?

Because no one on the news has as far as I can tell.  And I do feel obligated to keep you guys informed of important current events.  I’ve been waiting to see this on the news, only nobody’s talking about it.  I have a scoop!  (Well, unless you read Dailykos, that is.)

Huh?

“What are you talking about, Elyse?” you might ask.  Or you might just click that little “X” in the upper right corner.

You see, yesterday I read that Mitt was worried about Ann.   Now don’t worry.  Ann is alright.  I know how you all adore her.

But Ann’s plane was forced to make an unexpected landing on Friday, when there was an electrical fire.  Scary!  Now remember, Ann is just fine.  She will continue to annoy us with her tuna talk all through the election, and then hopefully we will have some peace.

But Mitt was especially worried.  Here’s what he said:

When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound. [Emphasis added.  I think.  It might just be the way Mitt talks.]

Remember Van Heflin who got sucked out of the window.  Remember all the stuff that also went flying out that window.  Remember Jacquelin Bisset’s near miss.

And remember that this whole incident has given Mitt a whole new group of supporters:

Suckers for Mitt

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Now in spite of 12,021 posts on Mitt doing and saying stupid things, I actually don’t think Mitt is stupid.  I read somewhere that one of his Harvard Business School professors famously said of his two most famous students around 2008 or 2009:  “I had two students; one of them was brilliant, the other became President.”  Yup, Mitt and Dubya were classmates.  And you saw how our last CEO president did.

But no, I don’t think Mitt is stupid.  He just does and says stupid things.  A lot.   In public.  On tape.

And you know, I’d really like to be able to write about things other than politics.  But there is waaaaay too much fodder.

Courtesy of Dailykos.com