Psychotic hypocrisy

Years ago, MeTheSheeple heard Richard Dreyfuss talk. Someone asked him about what it was like working with Bill Murray in "What About Bob?" Dreyfuss said he'd dodged that question for years, then started telling the truth.

"Bill Murray," Dreyfuss said, "is a psychotic bully."

Bill Murray's political counterpart seems to be running for election, and boy, she can't even keep her story straight.

After a whole series of stories and polls showing Kerry Healey's attack ads are backfiring -- more people dislike her -- the Globe runs a final story, "Doubts are voiced on Healey tactics."

Now, rather than admit she was being a psychotic bully -- and a political moron, to boot -- Healey blames the media. No, really:

In an interview with the Associated Press yesterday, Healey defended the ads that focus on the Democratic nominee's advocacy on behalf of convicted rapist Benjamin LaGuer. One, which features a woman walking alone in a parking garage, has drawn national attention for its negativity.

Healey said she never intended that so much attention be paid to the ad.

"The media has spent too much time focusing on this one issue, and therefore we as a campaign have ended up spending more time talking about this one issue than about . . . the many other substantive issues," Healey told the Associated Press.

Yes. You see? It's the media's fault that this was even an issue. It's got nothing to do with her making it an issue. Yeah.

A lot of teen movies feature scenes in which the bully finally gets his; MeTheSheeple loves the scene in "A Christmas Story" in which Ralphie goes simply ape-shit and begins pounding the school bully while cutting loose with a seemingly endless stream of profanities.

The polls show that, on Tuesday, voters will give Healey the bully exactly what she deserves. It's a shame there will be no place to write in comments like "You'll shoot your eye out! You'll shoot your eye out!"