The Way Is Hsut

This has nothing to do with futurism, but I could not resist joining the contest being held at Beltway Blogroll - a frenzy in creating puns applicable to fraudster Norman Hsu.

I recall a scene in Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King, where Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli go into the Paths of the Dead, and meet the King of the Dead, who, as the Army of the Dead surrounds the heroes, chants, "The Way is Shut".

The same applies for the accomplices and beneficiaries of the previously elusive scam artist Norman Hsu.  Regarding those who were accustomed to receiving these ill-gotten funds, The Way is Hsut, and it can't be a positive development for Hillary Clinton's campaign.  Hsu himself skipped his court date to flee, but managed to stay on the lam for just two days, after which his fugitive path to freedom was hsut as well.  He forfeited the $2 million he posted as bail, which is the minimum that he deserves.

I am tempted to expand on something along the lines of "Blue Suede Hsus" or "Hsu Hsu Sudeo", but I'll leave that to the more skilled comics.

Update : However, I can't let the "My...preHsuous" opportunity go by. 

Comments

[Saul Wall]

Clinton supporters will just ignore this and chant "Halliburton" over and over again. If Clintonians were the kind to be put of by a little corruption the gruesome twosome would have dropped of the map years ago. And besides, the main issue here is not that some contributions were illegal it is that they seem to put these Democrats in the pocket of the Chinese communists which in their political base is not such a bad thing. It might even make the Marxists forgive them for Bill's free trade deals.

[Saul Wall]

This post was just an excuse to use that cool picture of Harry Reid wasn't it.

[GK]

Saul,

Hmm.. perhaps Gollum as Dennis Kucinnich, saying "My....prehsuious" could add another angle.

[jeffolie]

Hillary Clinton returns 850,000 dollars collected by fugitive
(AFP)

11 September 2007

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is to return 850,000 dollars in campaign funds collected by a Hong Kong businessman detained on fraud charges, her office said Tuesday.

Norman Hsu surrendered to police on August 31 having been on the run from Californian authorities since 1992, after he failed to show up at a hearing into fraud charges against him.

Hsu, a naturalized US citizen who originates from Hong Kong, had helped to collect thousands of dollars at state and federal level for Clinton’s campaign coffers since 2003.

His name recently appeared on the list of the Democratic Party’s 20 top donors and several Democratic party politicians, including Clinton and her nearest rival for the 2008 nomination, Barack Obama, have said they would either return the money he collected or give it to charity.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/September/theworld_September297.xml&section=theworld&col=

[Tushar D]

Dennis Kucinich? No way! Gollum and James Carville are the same thing.
http://darwen.us/southcon/2006/04/james-gollum-carville.html

[Val]

You sure had your way with anagrams there. :-) Good post.