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03 June 2008
What will they talk about tomorrow?
Oh, the noise. Oh, the chatter, the bloviating, the smug self-satisfied game-calling. What fun the Village has had -- at the expense of whatever dignity remained to the profession of "journalism."
What will it do for an encore?
Posted by EDN on June 3, 2008 at 03:07 PM in Election '08, Kvetch & Retch, Press Clippings | Permalink
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"What will it do for an encore?"
They will turn on Obama quickly enough, and wax rhapsodic over the manly McCain's service and his awesome maverick-osity.
It's already started. During one of the unending MSNBC in-house gasbag roundtables tonight, Brian Williams came out of nowhere with a prolonged paeon to McCain and his Vietnam experiences.
Williams recounted a chapter from McCain's book in detail. He took air time to repeat McCain's description of flying over the battlefield, the anti-aircraft missiles that looked like flying telephone poles, his crash landing in a lake and his awakening in the captivity he would endure for the next five years.
Oh, it was stirring! It certainly stirred Williams. He was practically choking with emotion as he urged everybody to get the book and read that chapter.
Had Williams' launched into this effusive blather before or immediately after McCain's speech tonight, it might have been justified -- or at least comprehensible. But he didn't. Williams' felt the urge to tell us about his man-crush right before Obama's speech.
The moment was redeemed only by the vaguely puzzled and embarrassed looks on the others' faces. Tweety was goggle-eyed. Olbermann looked like he had gas pains.
Posted by: Chiaroscuro | Jun 3, 2008 9:50:58 PM
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