Did you remain calm too?
An absurd “news” story in the AP suggests that that organization wants to be numbered among the good dogs, not the bad dogs:
Clinton calm in hostage crisis…When the hostages had been released and their alleged captor arrested, a regal-looking Hillary Rodham Clinton strolled out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis. The image, broadcast just as the network news began, conveyed the message a thousand town hall meetings and campaign commercials strive for — namely, that the Democratic presidential contender can face disorder in a most orderly manner.
We don’t know about you, but, difficult as it is, we always try to remain calm when demented drunks tape highway flares to their shirts five hundred miles from our house.
December 1st, 2007 at 1:42 pm
The A-list despots in Beijing and Moscow would not tolerate the tacky quality of grovelling in that article, but the piece might pass muster in Pyongyang, Havana, or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
The 255 Yahoo! readers who have voted to date have given the story two stars out of a possible five. Maybe Yahoo!, like CNN, should get some grass-roots Americans to weigh in…
In fairness: Hillary restricted herself to meddling via telephone. Back when the bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, the Bushes–both of them, presumably with entourages–made separate personal visits to the active accident site.
December 1st, 2007 at 3:53 pm
“We don’t know about you, but, difficult as it is, we always try to remain calm when drunks tape highway flares to their shirts five hundred miles from our house.”
That is very presidential of you, dinocrat. Have you thought about running?
The media is deperate to make Mrs. Clinton LOOK presidential, even if they make thmeselvrs look like fools in doing so.
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:19 am
This episode reminded me of just how tiresome are the Clinton’s; the media’s treatment of them, even more so. They are not subtle, for all their supposed love of nuance.