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Imagine that. Drawing a comparison between a political event in Washington DC and the Jerry Springer show. While Larry Summers does not get to play Jerry, he represents the Springer guest who gets mobbed by the freaks in the audience.

CNN, CBS and some of the other usual suspects recently did their part to prop up the Obama administration offering glowing polls they sponsored. Clearly this member of Obama’s millionaire club is not viewed favorably by the freakizoids as he submitted an economic appraisal that will not impress the rest of us either.

It had the trappings of a Jerry Springer show. First you had the moderator asking the guest a question. Then you had an opposing party rush the stage screaming. Then you had security people separate the two.

It’s just that you wouldn’t have expected this at a luncheon meeting of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., with Lawrence Summers, President Obama’s director of the National Economic Council.

Could this have been the unsupported argument Summers offered to irritate the freakizoids? “we can be reasonably confident that that is going to end within the next few months and we will no longer have that sense of a free-fall.”

Or was this quote where Summers lost the crowd? “I think there are seven cameras there, which means there are seven too many for me to provide a number at which it might be likely to peak,” he joked. (speaking about unemployment numbers) Joking like Obama did on 60 Minutes a while back when discussing the economy should have been removed from millionaire Summers’ repertoire. But isn’t that what people sometimes do in panic situations? Make jokes to suppress the fear. If you have a six or seven figure cash flow and/or net worth it may be easier to laugh about others’ financial troubles. But it is not the thing to do and reflects badly on the source perhaps illuminating their flaws.

President Obama, Larry Summers, economic turmoil, all jokes, no details, Washington DC and a Jerry Springer reference may be the new economic indicators. But not as the liberals intended.

One note from the Dow Jones Newswire…

His appearance was disrupted briefly by a pair of protesters who came on stage carrying a large pink sign that read: “We want our money back.”

And one more from Politico…

Two protesters from the activist group Code Pink jumped on stage during a speech by White House National Economic Council Director Larry Summers on Thursday, calling Summers a “toxic mess” and demanding his resignation.

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