Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Short Cuts

Déjà vu All Over Again: The democrats, more accurately, the Clintonistas-in-the -Wilderness have, like some teenage girl with a crush on the football captain and his uniform, gone bats for a candidate that will inevitably break their hearts. Richard Cohen writes this morning that Clark's former boss, Gen. John Shalikashvili "recognized that Clark was too brash, too cocky, too self-absorbed, too hard on subordinates, too dismissive of critics and criticism — but, also, too brilliant and talented to be overlooked. Shali promoted him." The exact same thing was said and felt about Clinton in the early nineties. The world is wiser now but will the dems ever learn?

A Weekend's Work: Last Friday, Clark (or General Jell-O as Mark Steyn has so aptly dubbed him) promised he would go back to Little Rock for the weekend and sort out what he thought about things. Work, one assumed, would have been done in the months he teased about running. Yesterday he delivered a speech at the Citadel (get it?) that consisted of sentences like this: "Patriotism doesn't consist of following the orders, not, not not when you're not in the chain of command." Huh? Looks like it's back to Little Rock on Friday for some more thinking.

Whatever Happened to Janet Cook? One might believe the Washington Post had reached out and rehired the hapless reporter who, in l980, became the poster girl for making up stories. Here's a correction in the Post concerning an incident that appeared in a Metro Brief that "incorrectly reported the woman's age, the child's sex, the child's location at the time of the shooting, and the street on which the shooting occurred."

It's Starting...Slowly, slowly movers and shakers are beginning to realize the unfairness of the reporting on the situation in Iraq. Yesterday, a house committee charged that reporters "rarely strayed from Baghdad and had a police blotter mindset...that displaced reporting of the real progress in other areas." Even Dan Rather has begrudgingly admitted that his own network stories don't match with reality. Now that's a breakthrough.

-Your Patient LComStaff