The Russian spy named Murphy practiced Murphy's law

Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 10:25 PM

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"He clearly was a Russian named Murphy. It was very odd"

So spoke a neighbor of Richard Murphy, the spy who was 'deep undercover' in Montclair New Jersey with his wife Cynthia Murphy.

Except the neighbor immediately recognized a Russian accent when the Irishman Murphy spoke.

Some undercover operative.

This was not From Russia with Love, more like From Russia with Laughs, starring Peter Sellers rather than Sean Connery.

The Montclair 'Irish' couple were as Irish as vodka, as convincing as the Bolshoi doing Riverdance.

We'll probably find out they celebrated St. Patrick's Day with a Cossack dance on the lawn.

Something was odd, so odd that even neighbors noticed right away.

First Cynthia said she was from Canada, then Scandinavia then -- well never mind.

They appeared to gather no more information that Misha back in Moscow could not have gathered from a casual trawl of the Internet.

Richard went back to Moscow in February grabbing a fake Irish passport on the way in Vienna to cover his tracks.

He was unsuccessful in that as well as the FBI had him in their sights all the way.

Inspector Clouseau could probably have kept tabs on them, so poorly were they covering their tracks.

The bumbling spies were straight out of a Pink Panther script.

As Clouseau once remarked "There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them. "

We learnt Richard Murphy rarely left the house, complained bitterly to his bosses about how tough the assignment was, while his wife just go on with it.

She seemed to have a successful career, but a low level money manager in Manhattan is not exactly a job at the center of the Russian/U.S. axis of influence

The real tragedy here is their two little daughters.

Who now will look after them? They have no relatives in America and don't even know who their parent really are.

Amid the farce there is real tragedy for them.

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KathyCallahan | Jul 01, 2010, 01:31 PM EDT

McN We can work to prevent the next one. Carville is doing more than ranting he is calling attention to what's happening, bringing attention to the region and staying on the situation. Freedom of speech, public protest has been known to do a lot of good. You don't always see results right away. Carville must talk, rant and I say let it rip. And I never ever said declaring the war is over is Presidential. I have been hearing and reading comments from Bill Clinton supporter's and his most fervent critics, destractors such as Dick Morris Sean Hannity and O'Reilly said it over and over again because he can't help it: Bill Clinton would have handled the oil rig disaster much differently and better...And they all hope he gets more involved down there. And I don't prefer Cheney.

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McNamara31 | Jul 01, 2010, 12:04 PM EDT

KC… I thought this was an article about a Russian spy named Murphy, but since your comment went back to Obama: Did you prefer the previous blowhard from Texas who did “stunts” like landing on the deck of aircraft carriers declaring “the war is over" while Americans continued to die in Iraq? And all the while the real threat was always on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border? And did you like when he placed the cost of those wars on credit cards increasing the national debt by 73%. Was that more presidential? Or did you prefer Cheney who worked so closely with the oil companies to deregulate needed regulation (acoustical switches) on Oil rigs that may have prevented what we are seeing today? The problem is, after 8 years of Bush “duck tape and drama” the American people have difficulty and "very little patience" understanding any attempts at long term corrective action when they see it. And for James Carville, all the wild ranting in the world will not stop this leak, we can only work to prevent the next one instead of so quickly lobbying to stop the "temporary moratorium" and get back into full out production off every American coast like the Oil lobby desires.I respect your past posts but had to disagree on this one.

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citizen69 | Jul 01, 2010, 11:35 AM EDT

He probably had a better Irish accent than most Hollywood actors!

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KathyCallahan | Jul 01, 2010, 09:33 AM EDT

speaking of farces, Murphy's law, bumbling and bruising community organizer who is president but not so presidential. And it's no laughing matter watching the people of the region being scoffed off and ignored for all intents and purposes by president obama who is doing a 'a real clouseau' of a job down there. I watch James Carville religiously every night standing alongside Billy Nungesser with Anderson Cooper. Obama ran for president on his so called brilliant community organizer creds! More like a trauma. Bill Clinton came out swinging yesterday afternoon about the oil catastrophe! I'm looking forward to seeing him down in Louissianna as soon as possible. Becase Clinton is the president who (can and) WILL get things done with the power of the word, presence, 'I feel your pain', as he summons up the hard driving, uncompromizing leadership ethic and ebullient personality that he is known for: and we need him now. and yes I know I know Obama is wearing President of the USA label at the moment. But for the sake of the entire region, people, sea life, animals and his dearest friend James Carville we need Presidential Leadership down there 5 minutes ago, yesterday, 73 days ago and many tomorrow's to come. Clinton fits the bill. There comes a time (and if there was ever one this is it!) when you must check your labels at the door and get to work with alacrity, tenacity. Get the job going and done.

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