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For every time that you hear Mitt Romney complain that Barack Obama has taken this country off track, or that we need someone in the White House who knows about the Olympics (or bravely politicizes the violent death of an American diplomat to take pot-shots at the standing President) there is another story about the way in which the United States Government fulfills our noblest and most cherished foundational beliefs. Like this story in which Mad Money host and Arrested Development cameo-haver Jim Cramer used Twitter to get his dad around some pesky voter registration laws that are specifically designed to disenfranchise a lot of people like Mad Money host Jim Cramer’s dad but who don’t have someone like Jim Cramer to help them on Twitter. From Talking Points Memo:
Pennsylvania’s voter ID law will no longer be a problem for the father of CNBC host Jim Cramer. Cramer tweeted that his father, a veteran, lacked the specific form of photo identification that would allow him to voter in November under Pennsylvania’s voter ID law. Cramer now says that Pennsylvania authorities contacted him and assured him they’ll make sure his dad can vote.
Bwanh bwanhhhhhhh! Ding ding ding, COWBELL, McFlyyyyyy! (Get it? Have you ever watched his show? Sound Effect City!) Look, I want Jim Cramer’s dad to be able to vote. I want everyone’s dad at the polls this November. But the voting laws can’t be such that the only people who are allowed to engage in their civic duty are those whose sons host bombastic television shows and have a loud enough public mouthpiece to get attention drawn to their individual case. Voting should be simple and easy for everyone! (Although, on the inverse of that, everyone who votes should do at least a modicum of work to educate themselves and not just pull the lever for whoever they would most like to have a beer with and/or not be black with, or whatever.) Oh, hey! Remember when Jim Cramer got in trouble for openly admitting that he manipulated the financial markets in the middle of the worst economic crisis the world had seen in three generations? LOL! I am upgrading HIM to a DO NOT BUY! (Thanks for the tip, Aaron.)
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“Jin Cramer’s white, right?” -Pennsylvania authorities prior to contacting him and assuring him they’ll make sure his dad can vote
*Jim, not Jin
Jin Cramer sounds like one o them chinee…
…who shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Shit, maybe Pennsylvania authorities made the same typo and that’s what started this whole mess!
I am genuinely surprised every day when i wake up and find out Jim Cramer hasn’t been attacked by an angry mob.
with his yelling and his sleeves rolled up….the dude is ready.
Doesn’t he also often wield a bat? Because that makes more sense than it doesn’t. I’ve clicked through that show a few times and I swear he has a bat or maybe a very large wrench that he would tap menacingly while looking directly into the camera.
He is constantly attacked by angry mobs, but his angry, shouting, bat wielding, etc … allows him to blend in so seemlessly, they never find him.
The upgrade from “sell” to “do not buy” joke just never gets old.
While it is of course super gross that Penndot reached out to some TV hack to help his dad, this is a cool thing Penndot started doing! If you know any disenfranchised voter old people in PA, they can go through Penndot to get a free ID card without needing a birth certificate anymore. They can just use their social security card and proof of residence and sign an affidavit saying they don’t know where the hell they’re birth certificate is or whatever:
http://www.dmv.state.pa.us/voter/voteridlaw.shtml
So our DMV is kind of trying to tell Corbitt to fuck himself right now, which is pretty cool.
/end pointless PSA, as you’re all a bunch of young hepcats with ID’s scanned from your facespace or whatever.
I meant to upvote this but I got confused!! Has anyone seen my sweater? There are a bunch of wolves after me. There sure are a lot of ugly people in this neighborhood… And there are too many states, let’s eliminate three.
badideajeans Yells at cloud.
Based on the tenor of this comment, I’d suggest reaching out to PennDot so that you can get the proper photo ID to be able to vote in November.
i don’t want my dad’s dad at the polls this november because he is a CRAZY RACIST who loves glenn beck.
So I know we’re in the homestretch now, but really, is there any way to make 2012 come sooner? December is just too long to wait.
i’m pretty sure you can get it on DVD at Redbox. just rent it for $1 and don’t return it, because you won’t have to pay for it in a couple of months anyway.
Gadzooks, explainer guy. I think you’ve got it!
I’d like to kick him in the closing bell.
i’d like to think lindsay lohan’s tweet helped pave the way for jim cramer’s tweet. she really laid the groundwork. #youmustconsiderthat