Tuesday Open Thread

Welcome to your Tuesday open thread. How about this weather? Don’t you love it? I’m sleeping in this morning because my workplace doesn’t open until 10 a.m. Yay for extra sleep!

Some far right bloggers have indulged in conspiracy theories about Obama’s Tucson speech. First it was about the t-shirts passed out by the university (the “shirthers”). Now they’ve convinced themselves that the closed captioning of the service was actually Obama telling the crowd to applaud.

We can add another clown to the mix- Ed Morrisey:

Obviously, most Hot Air readers disagree with my assessment (and Allahpundit’s) of Barack Obama’s speech last Wednesday evening at the University of Arizona. They also blame Obama more for the odd tone of the event, with its whooping and whistling and t-shirts, than the university that organized it. Fair enough. But one thing on which we can all agree is that that the White House wrote the speech, and apparently added “applause” indicators into Obama’s speech that the university put on the Jumbotron in their captioning for the audience.

he then updates to state they “may not have been responsible for the applause indicators.”

IT WAS CLOSED CAPTIONING, YOU CLOWN. Watch your own damned video- do you think Obama broke space and time to have the crowd applaud BEFORE the [applause] appeared on the Jumbotron?

Is this part of the new era of cooperation? I’m having a lot of trouble telling the difference.

I have the world’s smallest violin playin a tune for Arnold Schwartzenegger. He sacrificed so much to be a terrible governor.

Poor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Fresh off the end of his last term as governor of California, he told an Austrian newspaper that his time in office cost him at least $200 million in expenses and lost income that he could have otherwise made from acting.

But don’t pity the former governor just yet. “It was more than worth it,” he said.

And Schwarzenegger is already looking at movie scripts, the Guardian reports.

Now Schwartzenegger will have plenty of time to be a terrible actor. I’m sure the world is thrilled to get another washed-up over-the-hill former action star back.