This is a little brain fart that hit me this morning. REmember William
Atherton, the actor in GhostBusters who plays the archtypal self
righteous a**hole, demanding that they shut down the ghost containment
unit, causing the release of hundreds of ghosts, wraiths and other
assorted creatures? Well Pat Toomey, who will be Joe Sestak's GOP
opponent, reminds me of Atherton. Here's a pic of Toomey and Atherton.
The image of Atherton is from the hilarious "Dickless" scene in Ghostbusters. The Toomy image is from MSNBC.
Interestingly, there is not one single creative commons image of Toomey on flickr.com, doing a search for Pat Toomey. There are 79 for Joe Sestak. Sometimes web stats like these can be extraordinarily predictive of campaign results.
So, what do you think? Does Toomey look like the archetypal a**hole... I mean Atherton, who played an archetypal a**hole?
Here's the video of the Ghostbusters "dickless" scene.
Here's another image.
Is it me? Are my visual filters over active when it comes to rectal sphincters? Or does Toomey look a lot like the guy who basically became a character actor who played jerks and a**holes, who IMDb.com describes as:
"Veteran character actor
often cast as sleazy villain or self-absorbed
yuppie. Most remembered for his fantastic role in Ghost Busters (1984) as
Walter Peck. Also had memorable role in Die Hard (1988) as yet
another scumbag-ish character, Thornburg."
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