Failure to adapt to the rapidly changing methods of media distribution will leave the clueless wallowing behind like mastodons in the muck of a Pleistocene tar pit (about as slow and agonizing of a death as I can imagine).
What Bowles and Simpson are really saying is Congress and the White House should crawl out of the partisan muck of the manufactured crises Obama was complaining about.
The other thing that leaves Republicans foaming is their belief that Mr McCain is a hypocrite, preaching about cleansing the Augean stables but then rolling in the muck himself.
While Hollywood has done its best to muck up the story, the key characters, and everything else we love about the property, Transformers is very much a toy property, giving Hasbro another major source of revenue.