Monday, July 01, 2002

Go To Your Room: Al Gore, remember him? - thought he could stick his head out and tell his fans what he thinks W's doing wrong with the war. He got the back of Secretary of State Colin Powell's mighty hand for his trouble. Powell chose Fox News Sunday to straighten him out and it was glorious to behold.

Mashing Martha: Facing a yawning summer news hole with no O. J. , Chandra, Lizzie or the like, the media now finds Martha Stewart's haughty life style and arrogant attitude ("I want to focus on my salad") an anecdote rich environment. Here Howie Kurtz reminds us that it was the media (who else) that built up rich CEO's like Stewart. The NYDaily News has a tale of her dogs munching a child, and the Washington Times finds a hauntingly familiar ring in her protests of innocence. She really didn't say, "I didn't have sex with that salad," but it sure sounded like it.

Balanced or Biased: The New York Times addresses the sticky situation CNN finds itself in for its coverage of the Middle East and cites one of the better lines in this morning's news telling us that the Jerusalem Post called correspondent Sheila MacVicar, "the woman who refilled the toilet paper in the Goebbels' commode." Then again, Palestinians called CNN, ZNN - Zionist News Service. It's all going to get a lot nastier before it gets nice.

Come On-A God's House: The singers' singer, Rosemary Clooney, died over the weekend at 74. She had a marvelous talent, a great career, a sweet attitude about herself and life and gave birth to five children in five years. Now that's a life well lived.

-Your Monday-Averse LComStaff