Be yourself. Unless you have to be absentee Senator Ron Wyden representing Oregon from his New York toenhouse. Then you should definitely pretend to be someone else.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, has asked the Office of Government Ethics to investigate comments made by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin about the children's movie "The Lego Batman Movie."
That's understandable as Ron Wyden hates children, Batman and budgets. But mostly budgets.
Item C on the #Resistance agenda is to invent as many fake conflict of interest scandals as possible for Trump and his people. But Wyden failed to read subparagraph 8 of C which is don't look really stupid while doing it.
The comments in question came during a live interview with Axios on Friday, when Mnuchin was asked for a movie recommendation, according to a Tuesday report from Reuters. Mnuchin has produced several successful movies, including "Avatar,""Mad Max: Fury Road," and "The Lego Batman Movie."
"I'm not allowed to promote anything that I'm involved in. So I just want to have the legal disclosure, you've asked me the question, and I am not promoting any product. But you should send all your kids to ‘Lego Batman,'" Mnuchin said to laughter from the crowd.
In a letter to Director of the Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub, Wyden wrote, "I am concerned that Sec. Mnuchin’s comments, may be seen to have a predictable effect on the financial interests [of Ratpac-Dune]."
No one seriously thinks that Mnuchin's comments are going to have any measurable effect on anything. No more than if Wyden told people to buy a book at Strand's.