tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post2935779034342807661..comments2024-03-29T06:44:19.414-04:00Comments on the daily howler: The press corps’ relentless search for Eureka!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-26206672752392783942012-08-29T00:43:34.630-04:002012-08-29T00:43:34.630-04:00Whenever I see Frank Bruni's adorable little f...Whenever I see Frank Bruni's adorable little face smiling back at me from his Op Ed perch, alongside the ragged let-them-eat-cake grin of Gail Collins, the smug I-made-it-as-a-corporate-tool smirk of David Brooks, the women-parts-are-so-icky grimace of Ross Douthat, the insane-asylum-fantasy-of-liberation-circa-1969 half-giggle of Maureen Dowd, and all the other entitled, privileged sickeningly mean miens and mugs on the New York Times's editorial page, save that of Professor Paul Krugman, who always looks like the rest of this insufferable rag-tag gang is about to make him run screaming from the room, I think, there is a God, and She's a very, very, very cruel one.Fuggedabouditnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-80287736795463403832012-08-28T15:35:28.832-04:002012-08-28T15:35:28.832-04:00What's really astonishing is that Bruni wrote ...What's really astonishing is that Bruni wrote that. Between that and his take on the debate as described in the book, it seems to me he's outright admitting he was in the bag for Bush in 2000. Has anyone ever questioned him on this?<br /><br />That entire Gore/Bush debate was a thing. Its the best example of just how dedicated the press corps was to defeating Gore. They were prepared to deny the sky was blue, if need be.Matt in the Crownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02083162679471045642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-73266763378908864782012-08-28T15:25:33.683-04:002012-08-28T15:25:33.683-04:00Here's one of the paragraphs:
Remarkably, thi...Here's one of the paragraphs:<br /><br />Remarkably, this peculiar performance by Bush was followed on September 19 by an “astonishing” bit of behavior–or so it was described, years later, by the New York Times’ Frank Bruni. According to Bruni, Bush mugged and clowned for at least twenty minutes during a solemn memorial service for seven murder victims in Waco, Texas. (A deranged gunman had shot the victims, then himself, during a church service.) “It would be hard to imagine an event more somber,” Bruni wrote, describing the large outdoor memorial gathering at Texas Christian University. But according to Bruni, Bush repeatedly turned around to make faces at the press corps during the solemn service. “As preachers preached and singers sang and a city prayed, Bush turned around from time to time to shoot us little smiles,” he wrote. “He scrunched up his forehead, as if to ask us silently what we were up to back there. He wiggled his eyebrows, a wacky and wordless hello...At one point, when someone near our seat dropped a case of plastic water bottles and caused a clatter, Bush glanced back at us with a teasing, are-you-guys-behaving-yourselves expression, and he kept his amused face pivoted in our direction for an awfully long time.” Bruni said he was “taken aback” by this repeated behavior, which lasted throughout the service. “It was astonishing that he wasn’t more concerned that one of the television or still camera might catch him,” Bruni wrote.<br /><br /><br />* * * * <br /><br />Do you believe this characterization of Bush's behavior? Does a videotape exist?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com