Don’t pull your punches, they just get back up again
This is what’s known colloquially ’round my neck of the woods as “tearing ‘em a new one”:
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?”
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.
Nah; judging from standard liberal “journalist” practices, such an event wouldn’t have been worth bothering about, and could even inflame the passions of unreasonable people to a dangerous degree, which a good liberal “journalist” would never want to do. Well, unless you can find shots of a US soldier igniting Cheney’s entirely justified “rage” by forcing him to stand on a box with a panty on his head or something. Then, and only then, would you have a story worthy of some proper “journalistic” zeal.
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.”
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!
One can only hope others agree with Ignatius’ insightful analogy, and that the reprehensible Cheney will be hounded from public life the way Kennedy was all those years ago. One would hate to think folks would just let it slide and three decades from now this Cheney guy will be sitting on some committee picking Supreme Court justices and whatnot.
Gawd. After a sound ass-whomping like that, as a DC liberal “journalist” I’d be ashamed to show my face in public for a while. Of course, that premise is propped up by a false assumption: that as a DC liberal “journalist,” I am capable of feeling shame in the first place.
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There'a place for people like David Gregory: it's called Gitmo.