Wednesday, April 10, 2002
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Carlson: "James coming on to me over here."
Then again:
Carville: "Oh, pretty boy, you are a pretty boy."
Carlson: "Thank you, James. That's like the fifth time."
"The Newshour" it is not.
-Eric Boehlert quoting dialogue from the "New" Crossfire at Salon.com
(Premium)
Once...........twice.............three times a lady.
Mo-Mo Want A Trip Back to Uganda? That tag line is from an ad where a
lab
monkey goes berserk when its trainer suggests it might want to go home and
fits Maureen Dowd's completely loopy column today about men not wanting
successful women. To prove her point she writes that only the bonobo monkeys
are truly happy with aggressive females. We don't know about the monkeys but
this debate is ancient and should get over itself. Men don't want
self-absorbed, neurotic whiners who think only about their careers.
Give it a rest, Maureen
, the eggs are long gone.
Bonobo Woman? The indictment yesterday of blind cleric Sheik Omar
Abdel-Rahman's............ah.......less than stately female lawyer has added
yet another strange and thoroughly dislikable character
to our future news. A
source familiar with the substance of the testimony in the Grand Jury that
indicted Lynn Stewart says her crimes are more serious than anything Taliban
Johnny got up to. Stewart was also Pee Wee Herman's lawyer during his
masturbation trial. When it comes to choosing clients, you gotta hand it to
her.
Nothing Left to Read: Oprah's dismissal of the world of literature
with one
Olympian flick still rankles. Here
Jeannette Walls at MSNBC.com examines the real reason
our Great Improver is dropping her enormously successful Book
Club. Billionaires who live in the world of total "yes" don't like to be
dissed and novelist Jonathan Franzen hurt her feelings by refusing to play
her book games. She might have picked up any one of the One Hundred Great
Books series to keep things going. A shot of Aristotle, Dickens or Faulkner
wouldn't hurt anyone. But, she would have to read them first.
Brock Couldn't Write It Better: Read this description of James Carvil
le and
Paul Begala:
"Mr. Carville is a tall, rangy Marine veteran, sports fanatic and jock; Mr.
Begala is a born-and-bred Texan who grew up with guns and still likes to
hunt." This is Joe Conason describing his idols in his Observer column
today.
This is so embarrassing that we will leave it up to Ldotters to comment
further.
Have at it, gang. Red meat time.
Four Cheers For The WSJ: We may be on the right but we do like change
and
those in the new, colorful Wall Street Journal are terrific. The thrice
weekly
Personal Journal section is absolutely delicious
. Better than anything
the NYTimes is attempting and full of real stuff you can use in real life
right down to a tiny column about the relative uselessness of "computer
glasses." The paper that hasn't changed in decades is now user friendly and
we like it.... a lot.
They Say He Bites: We point you to this item only to illustrate how
blurred
the lines are becoming.
Greta Van Susteren will take heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne as a date to the
May White House Correspondents' Dinner. This is hype, of course, because
both
their spouses will tag along but
it will make for fun pictures
and lot of
deliciously nasty comments here on the site.
-Your Easily Amused LComStaff