From Friday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On Maxine Waters’s remarks on the ethics charges she is facing:

If you listen to her words, it was rather interesting how she parsed it. She said: “We did not influence anyone and we did not gain any benefit.” Well, the criterion for corruption is not if you succeed in your influence, or if you succeed in gain — it’s the attempt.
If you try to bribe a judge, and in the end the judge declines, maybe you didn’t offer enough, that doesn’t get you off the hook — you’ve committed a crime

On jetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater’s grand exit:

It is about the chute, the image, the big billowing yellow chute.
You and I want to resign, we go to the boss and hand in our parking pass or send an e-mail, “I resign.” But this guy, he lives the dream. He pulls a lever, blows open the door, blows out the chute — huge, yellow, billowing. He jumps, slides, walks. He’s gone.
I mean, what a great story. Who cares what happened before? He could have been drunk or a jerk. And who cares what happens after, if he gets arrested or has his own reality TV show or he runs on a ticket with Levi Johnston for mayor of Wasilla? He’s got a future.
But it’s the moment. We’re a cinematic age and that was one of the great visual moments of all time. It was the chute. It’s all about the chute.