Bernstein: Tom Ricketts Thinks We’re Fools

" (CBS) Tom Ricketts is counting on us being stupid, or us not having access to a computer. Maybe both.

He’s hiding right now, hunkered down behind spokespeople, spinning madly to extricate himself from the political doings of his father and brothers.

After initially repudiating the “Ricketts Plan” to smear Barack Obama with racially-tinged attack ads, his statement Thursday included, “I shall have no further comment on this.”

Interestingly, “further comment” appeared in the Sun Times Saturday. Ricketts decided he probably needed to try to get ahead of the story by finding a sympathetic ear, or someone advising the family decided it for him.

The same day, Laura Ricketts stepped from the background into the limelight, representing ownership at the Kerry Wood retirement festivities. Nothing makes a better human shield in times of PR crisis than the readily-available Obama supporter. In case of emergency, break glass – contains one liberal lesbian.

Here’s what Ricketts is trying to do that is so galling: he’s retroactively refashioning the story of the family’s purchase of the Cubs, in a vain attempt to remove his father, Joe, from history "

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