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The Great Miscommunicator

5.30.08 @ 12:01AM

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(4) "This should keep The Daily Show busy for days." No doubt about that. Keith Olbermann already has had a field day with this, but hey, the right has Rush Limbaugh (and Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin et. al.) and the left has Keith (and Al Franken, etc. etc.) Nobody reads or listens to these people for objective, sober, nuanced analysis delivered in soft voice. They listen because they enjoy seeing and hearing their ideological opponents held up in contempt, scorned and denigrated in elegant vitriolic language. And, lets be honest; they really do enjoy this. If it weren't so divisive and antithetical to a healthy body politic, I would be inclined to quote Larry the Cable Guy concerning this whole spectacle: "Now that's funny." Perhaps, we should be quoting Larry's other famous line: "Lord, I apologize for that."

A final point. Karl Rove suggested that Mr. McClellan was purposely kept out of the loop concerning the plans of the administration. If this was the case, why shouldn't we think that all other press secretaries have also been left out of the loop? And why should we give any credibility to anything said by the president's press secretary?
-- Mike Roush

Best dissection of this non-event I've read yet. You nailed it.
-- Laney Bormel
Maryland

THE LOVED ONE
Re: Christopher Orlet's Creative Class Blues:

I just read Chris Orlet's article "Creative Class Blues," which discussed author Nan Mooney's complaints about how her life has turned out. Mr. Orlet's article only skimmed the surface of the life of this spoiled, smug whiner.

After doing a bit of World Wide Shoe-Box research, it turns out that Ms. Mooney is not a typical starving journalism-major wretch, unsuccessful at eking out a living writing for the Squaresville Daily. She is actually "an award-winning author" with several previous books to her credit. Before her untimely demise into single-motherhood, she apparently lived in Manhattan. Now, sad to say, she is still living with the 'rents in Seattle, Left Coast and currently writes a blog where she continues to trash her parents for not whole-heartedly agreeing with her lifestyle while they continue to subsidize it.

Would that someone get the parents side of the story!
-- John Pierce
Mobile, Alabama

This article rings all to true. However, not everyone in this generation is like this lazy piece of trash. It also, speaks volumes for the way journalists look at the world.
-- Joseph D'Ambrosia

FREE BOBBY JINDAL
Re: The Washington Prowler's None But the Brave:

Please tell me that someone, anyone, in the McCain inner circle has enough sense to NOT waste such a rising star on the nothing role of McCain's Veep. The Veep job is not all it is cracked up to be anyway (not worth a warm bucket of spit, and all that), and with McCain it will be worse. Where, pray tell, is the evidence that that stubborn, hot-head ever seriously listens to anyone not named Kennedy, Kerry, or Lieberman? Leave Jindal alone to ferment and age. In 2012 or 2016, depending on this election, he will be ready to be a true star, a comet streaking across America's political sky.

On another point, I always respected Sen. Sam Nunn. I know that he was a good and true Democrat, but he always impressed me as a man that would put country above party, and a man that truly understood and respected the military, even though I didn't always agree with the conclusions that he came to. I simply do not believe that Sam Nunn is a Socialist, and Obama is a confirmed Socialist, demonstrably so. I truly would hope that Sen. Nunn would tell Obama no, if asked to be his Veep. I surely do hope that the radical Left has not gotten their traitorous hooks set in Sam Nunn.
-- Ken Shreve

Bobby Jindal needs to stay as governor of Louisiana for the next four years. He will then be forty and ready for the next presidential race. I've watched him from early in his career and spotted him as the brightest bulb in the conservative movement. Why not make him chairman of the Republican Party, which would give him the spotlight and the microphone for the next four years? The conservative movement desperately needs a real leader and BobbY Jindal is that leader. He is the only one now that gives me any hope of a revival in the conservative movement, which now lies near dead with McCain driving it toward the precipice of disaster.
-- Bette Schaffel
Miami, Florida

I heard some "Democratic Strategist" (don't you love that term) say that the first criterion for Obama's selection of a Vice Presidential running mate is that he or she must be qualified to be President.

[Sigh] If only that were the first criterion for selecting a
Democratic candidate for President.

Tenth criterion, even.
-- A. C. Santore
Independent Strategist

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