Short Cuts
Friday, March 01, 2002
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"But to the conservative press, intellectual consistency is for, well,
intellectuals. What's more important is to stiffen the resolve of GOP
lawmakers to fight the Manichaean battle against liberalism. If the
mainstream papers want to undermine the will of Democrats with a lot of
high-minded consistency, that's their business. Let 'em get medals for fair
play. We'll get the federal judiciary."
-Paul Glastris, The Washington Monthly
They Won't Dance, Don't Axe Them: Charles Krauthammer brilliantly
skewers
those who took to their fainting couches over W's Axis of Evil concept. His
take on Clinton's missiles-up-a-camel's-butt-policy is
worth having
needle-pointed
.
Monica in Gack and White: The ever resourceful Igor, our staff Mr.
Fix-it,
arranged for us to preview Monica Lewinsky's HBO Sunday night show. It's
worth a longish look for what it says about the "man she loved." The hour
plus of Monica's drama queening, petulance, fighting a losing battle with
her
burka-like blanket of hair and occasional genuine anguish, is a reasonably
believable attempt to explain the affair that shook her world. What it says
about Monica is that she is a very pretty, somewhat stunted
near-teeny-bopper
with a "You want fries with that?" vocabulary. What it says about Clinton
is
that he should have gone to jail for child abuse.
Here's the transcript
of
Larry King's pre-show interview last night which may be more than you need
to
stay informed.
Ari Steps in It: Poor Ari Fleischer had to scramble after a press
briefing at
which
he spoke the truth about the Harlem Globetrotter
(thank you, Bill
Safire.) It seems several Clinton aides objected to what he had to say. It
is
sweet that he not only listens to them but wants to make them happy. And,
while we are on Clinton aides.......who the hell is Julia Payne? Have we
missed some 3000 word puff piece in the Washington Post Style section? Any
other spokeshuman for a former president who issues as many statements as
this woman would have been profiled at every level of the media. Maybe there
is no Julia Payne and that's just the generic for anyone available in
Hillary's office. Just asking.
No More Froot Loops! What a petulant little snarl of killers those
Gitmo
terrorists are turning out to be. First they want to be covered by the
Geneva
conventions, then they want to talk to Ramsey Clarke. Now, after we've tried
so hard to come up with a politically correct menu they won't eat it.
We say,
feh!
When they get hungry enough they will. Next they will want cable and a
trip to the zoo.
Duck, Doris....Incoming: The hammering of Doris Kearns Goodwin
continues with
this threat that they
may throw her off the Pulitzer committee
.
The piling on
seems to be driven by more than her admission that she "inadvertently"
lifted
work not her own. Could it be that she didn't recognize what she had
"borrowed" because she didn't write any of it at all? Oops, sorry. Such a
suggestion could be taken as piling on.
-Your It's-Friday-And-We-Are-Delirious LComStaff
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