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 OMG CNN!
7/30/07 06:18:40
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One wonders whether CNN’s White House Correspondent, who goes by the name "Ed Henry", is actually a rather silly teenage girl. Behold the following headline appearing over a byline reading "Ed Henry":
Henry: Did Bush make Brown his BFF?
Not convinced? Then take a look at the following giggly exchange between the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Great Britain and a "New York Times reporter", perhaps more suited to a pajama party than an actual press conference:
"Amazing country, Gordon," Bush said at the two leaders’ first joint press conference at Camp David, Maryland. "A guy that’s under 40 years old asking me and you questions. It’s a beautiful sight."
"Six of my cabinet are under 40," Brown retorted about the youth movement at 10 Downing Street.
"Are they?" Bush said, adding with a smile: "You must be feeling damn old."
"Absolutely," said Brown, 56.
Rutenberg, meanwhile, tried in vain to convince everyone he’s even younger: "Forty’s the new 20."
Amazing indeed. Amazing when there are serious questions that need to be asked by serious people by serious news organizations of two leaders of first world nations. Amazing.
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What can you say?
7/29/07 06:30:15
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Seriously now. What can you say? What is the proper response to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s testimony last week before the Senate?
Both shameful and hilarious, Gonzales’s dustup with the members of the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body was, on the one hand, a case of a group of people who richly deserve each other getting together and finding out that, well, they don’t much care for each other. The hearing had a little something for everyone. Leading questions - check. Evasiveness on the part of the witness - check. Indignation - check. About faces - check. Blah blah blah.
But what made this particular hearing such a spectacular piece of political theater was the sight of people like Arlen Specter, Mr. Single Bullet Theory himself, staying behind to bring on one more smidgen of pain to the forgetful Attorney General, who seems to have started wondering why his rags-to-riches biography has passed its sell-by date.
More to come on this subject. Maybe. We’ve seen this indignation before. The question is whether our elected representatives have the stomach to find a way to make the attorney general remember where he’s been, who he’s spoken to and what he’s been saying for the past several years.
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