Bad Choices and Mistakes

We're pretty sure you've seen Dateline or 48 Hours, so you know the scene where the killer is convicted and he gives an interview from Prison.  He gets interviewed by someone like Josh Mankiewicz.  They set up all the lights and the microphones.  The Convicted Killer is sitting laid back in his chair.  His arms are just hanging at his sides like he's all relaxed.  But it's really because he's a psychopath and doesn't really care about anything.  Including the dead victim.

J.M.  "At sentencing you showed no remorse and still said I'm innocent.  Do you still say that now?"

C. K. is short for convicted killer.  C.K.  "Yes.  I'm innocent.  They've convicted the wrong guy.  This has been a miscarriage of justice."

J.M.  "But they found your DNA all over the crime scene."

C.K.  "Well she was my girlfriend.  I just about lived there so of course my DNA would be there."

J.M.  "But they found your bloody finger prints on the kitchen knife that was the murder weapon."

C.K.  "I was set up."

J.M.  "But you have a history of violence, two convictions for assault and one was with a deadly weapon.  You did three years for that."

C.K.  "I made bad choices.  But I've taken responsibility.  I own it."

J.M.  "Your girlfriend, the victim here, had an order for protection against you."

C.K.  "I made bad choices."

J.M.  "You didn't testify and you don't have to but if you didn't do it, wouldn't you like to have told your side of the story?"

C.K.  "Yes.  I should have.  That was a mistake."

This type of interview came to mind because Jake Tapper pictured above has just written a book about the mental decline of Old Brains Biden.  Jake Tapper is also a Talking Head and one of The Cognoscenti Of The Known World over there at CNN.  If anyone had mentioned that Old Brains was losing it while he was President, Jake Tapper would insist that Old Brains was just fine.  And, Jake Tapper like a good Pit Bull would go on the attack calling Old Brains' detractors a lot of bad things, including "conspiracy theorists".

Then Old Brains was forced out because well a whole lot of people realized he was non compos mentis.  Then Jake Tapper decided to write his book about it.  Forgetting of course, how he had said Old Brains was just fine and he attacked anyone who said otherwise.  Now of course, he's making the rounds to sell his book.  And he's got to answer questions about it.

Interviewer or I.  "You've written a book about the mental decline of Joe Biden but while he was in office you said he was fine.  You even attacked people who pointed out his mental decline.  I think you referred to them as "conspiracy theorists."

J.T.  "That was a mistake.  I was wrong and they were right.  I've even called Lara Trump and apologized to her  I've taken responsibility for that."

I.  "But don't you think you should have noticed the mental decline of President Biden?"

J.T.  "I made mistakes."

I.  "But you attacked anyone who dared to say President Biden was losing it."

J.T.  "I made bad choices."

I.  "But why should anyone believe you?"

J.T.  "Well everyone makes mistakes.  And I take responsibility for mine.  I own them.  I should have paid more attention.  I should have listened.  I made bad choices.  I should have seen President Biden's mental decline.  That was a mistake."

Now we don't like comparing Jake Tapper, Talking Head and one of The Cognoscenti Of The Known World, to a convicted killer  but it's eerie how their answers are just, so similar.

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