Meathead in the News...

Rob Reiner, "All in the Family's" legendary lefty "Meathead," aka Mike Stivic, is a vintage re-run image for today's younger video freaks. But he's also morphed into exactly what his character was back in the 1970s, a freeloading leftie who lives off others' money while spouting socialist platitudes and promoting his own alleged brilliance.

Reiner, of course, has gone on since the TV series to become a multimillionaire as an actor, director, and producer. And, like all lefty multimillionaires in Hollywood, he wants to use YOUR money to fund his socialist fantasies. He pushed through a 50 cent per pack tobacco tax via initiative in California to fund his pet pre-school project. But he's also contemplating a run for public office. Wouldn't you know it? A lot of the money the tax has funded has been going to TV ads, PR types, you name it, to brag about the virtues of the pre-school program lately. Couldn't be a free, taxpayer funded image buildup for Meathead's next star turn in politics, could it?

The Los Angeles Times, of all places, has been raking a little of Reiner's muck, and has run up the most recent tally of taxpayer supported self-glorification, the total of which, remember, is NOT being spent on kids. Reiner's people have:

• Spent $23 million for the "Preschool for All" ads, which ran from November to mid-January, making it one of the largest state-funded advertising campaigns ever in California. In January, Reiner's new initiative, also called "Preschool for All," qualified for the June ballot as Proposition 82.

• Given $230 million in advertising and public relations contracts — including the preschool ad blitz — to firms that helped Reiner create the First 5 commission. As companies competed for the business, Reiner wrote a letter recommending one firm, which won.

• Paid $206,000 of the tax money to three political consultants, though they had no contract. One of them — Benjamin Austin, a former Los Angeles deputy mayor — said they helped coordinate the government activities of Reiner, the First 5 commission and the media consultants. Austin and the others subsequently joined the Proposition 82 effort, with Austin as campaign manager.

Read the rest at the link above. Rob Reiner, George Soros, Barbra Streisand, Ted Turner...have you ever met a POOR celebrity Democrat? They keep their own money for themselves and spread our tax dollars around like manna from heaven. What a concept.