Rep. Paul Ryan finds “House of Cards” character Frank Underwood reprehensible.
In an interview with Parade magazine, the Wisconsin Republican said he couldn’t watch more than a few episodes of the Netflix political drama series because he was repulsed by Underwood — a calculating, murderous politician portrayed by Kevin Spacey — cheating on his wife.
The magazine published this exchange:
Do you watch political shows like House of Cards?
I watched the first couple of episodes until he cheated on his wife with that reporter. It turned my stomach so much that I just couldn’t watch it anymore. His behavior was so reprehensible, and it hit too close to home because he was a House member, that it just bothered me too much. And what I thought is, it makes us all look like we’re like that.
Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, was the GOP’s vice presidential nominee in 2012 and is weighing a run for president in 2016.
I think Paul Ryan may be suffering from a culture of intellectual laziness.
I eagerly await Ryan going to war with Murphy Brown.
What a pathetic schmuck Ryan is. A true Dan Quayle moment there Mr. Ryan.
Wow! This means Mr. Ryan probably also despises Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde, Franklin D Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Wilbur Mills, Bob Livingston, David Vitter, Ike Eisenhower, pre-Gov. Ronald Reagan, David Petraeus, and so on. Would that he might comment on these guys, too.
Oh, if only he’d watched that episode in season 2 that had the threesome between the Underwoods and the Secret Service guy.
Should we tell Ayn Ryan that “House of Cards” is fiction?
He seems to have missed that part.