driver
February 19, 2006, 1:38pm
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<p>If I couldn’t have my own brain, I would want Mark Steyn’s.
So anyway David Gregory’s going bananas and yelling “I will yell!” and “Don’t be a jerk!” at the White House press secretary, and there’s more smoke coming out of his ears than from Ronald McDonald in Lahore, and I’m thinking, you know, maybe Karl’s latest range of Rovebots that he planted in American media corporations are just a wee bit too parodically self-absorbed to be plausible. And then this lady pipes up and asks, “Would this be much more serious if the man had died?”</p>
<p>Well, maybe. And maybe it would be even ever so much more serious still if, after peppering him with birdshot, Cheney had dragged him into a safe house in the Sunni Triangle and decapitated him with a rusty scimitar while shouting “Allahu Ahkbar!” and then sold the video to al-Jazeera.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the Washington Post had that wise old bird David Ignatius to put it in the proper historical context: “This incident,” he mused, “reminds me a bit of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s delay in informing Massachusetts authorities about his role in the fatal automobile accident at Chappaquiddick in 1969.”</p>
<p>Hmm. Let’s see. On the one hand, the guy leaves the gal at the bottom of the river struggling for breath pressed up against the window in some small air pocket while he pulls himself out of the briny, staggers home, sleeps it off and saunters in to inform the cops the following day that, oh yeah, there was some broad down there. And, on the other hand, the guy calls 911, has the other fellow taken to the hospital, lets the sheriff know promptly but neglects to fax David Gregory’s make-up girl!
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<p><a href=“http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn19.html[/url] ”>http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn19.html</a></p> ;
<p>And the self-parody by the MSM continues apace this coming week:http://drudgereport.com/flash2ch.htm[/url] ”>http://drudgereport.com/flash2ch.htm</a></p> ;
wyogal
February 19, 2006, 2:24pm
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<p>LOL :D!!</p>
<p>This whole thing is so perfectly reflective of the stratospheric level of self-absorption on the part of the beltway MSM. I saw Alan Simpson on one of the TH shows today and he put the correct perspective on this: