Two quick observations on the Rumsfeld exit
Observation number one:
When the president holds a press conference to tell the whole world that you're doing a great (or heckuva) job, your inner voice should hear something that sounds a whole lot like:
Observation number 2:
I spend a lot of nights on the road in hotels, and frequently find the TVs in public areas tuned to Fox News. As such, I spend a lot of time watching Sean Hannity in full blown, spittle-flecked rage, asking the "liberal" guest:
Up until now, I have never seen anyone rise to the bait. A lot of Bush's lies are plausibly deniable, simply because he's either out of the loop, or showing rare, Bush-like ignorance. A lot of the lies are denials telling us that Bush wasn't aware of seemingly inescapable facts, and they're a lot easier to deny when most of us feel that what the President doesn't know could just about fill the Grand Canyon. (Yeah, I stole it from Chasing Amy.) A lot of the lies are delivered by surrogates.
(Don't believe me? Tell me you didn't feel a little sorry for Tony Snow when they trotted him out to tell us that the administration had never pushed "Staying the Course?")
So here we go. On November 1st, Rumsfeld was going to stay for the duration of the term. One day after the election, we all watched Bush put the rollers under him. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed watching Rummy's steely gaze as he was dejobbed, imagining himself in his next career as a scapegoat (Thanks to Tina Fey for that one.)
The president not only lied, but he admitted he did, and he admitted lying for reasons of politics.
So Fox pundits unite. The next time you get to share a studio with Hannity, trot this one out. Sure, it'll get your mike cut, but it's worth it.
And to sweeten the pot, I'm going to go one better than my Reverse Swear Jar.
$100 goes to the war chest of the first candidate to have this dialogue on Fox or the candidate most closely linked to the person who does.
Unless it's Lieberman. Gotta have standards.
When the president holds a press conference to tell the whole world that you're doing a great (or heckuva) job, your inner voice should hear something that sounds a whole lot like:
Say Don, why don't you drop by my office and stand on this Big Red X?
Observation number 2:
I spend a lot of nights on the road in hotels, and frequently find the TVs in public areas tuned to Fox News. As such, I spend a lot of time watching Sean Hannity in full blown, spittle-flecked rage, asking the "liberal" guest:
Are you calling the President a liar?
Up until now, I have never seen anyone rise to the bait. A lot of Bush's lies are plausibly deniable, simply because he's either out of the loop, or showing rare, Bush-like ignorance. A lot of the lies are denials telling us that Bush wasn't aware of seemingly inescapable facts, and they're a lot easier to deny when most of us feel that what the President doesn't know could just about fill the Grand Canyon. (Yeah, I stole it from Chasing Amy.) A lot of the lies are delivered by surrogates.
(Don't believe me? Tell me you didn't feel a little sorry for Tony Snow when they trotted him out to tell us that the administration had never pushed "Staying the Course?")
So here we go. On November 1st, Rumsfeld was going to stay for the duration of the term. One day after the election, we all watched Bush put the rollers under him. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed watching Rummy's steely gaze as he was dejobbed, imagining himself in his next career as a scapegoat (Thanks to Tina Fey for that one.)
The president not only lied, but he admitted he did, and he admitted lying for reasons of politics.
So Fox pundits unite. The next time you get to share a studio with Hannity, trot this one out. Sure, it'll get your mike cut, but it's worth it.
And to sweeten the pot, I'm going to go one better than my Reverse Swear Jar.
$100 goes to the war chest of the first candidate to have this dialogue on Fox or the candidate most closely linked to the person who does.
Unless it's Lieberman. Gotta have standards.
Posted by WindyCityLefty at 8:22 PM |
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