I am so looking forward to watching movies this weekend and turning off the 24 hour cable news for a while. I can't take the highlighting of the whining by the dinosaur media in this country. It was refreshing to see Gov. Erlich, Republican in Maryland, speaking about his state's role in accepting the evacuees coming back to the States. He is making sure they are fed, sheltered, if necessary, and whatever they need is available. No political point making, no bashing and not worrying about re-imbursement. He said they are doing the right thing and will worry about the money later. Good on him. That's what Houston did during Katrina. Using Katrina as an example by the whiners and nutcases like Nancy Pelosi is totally absurd.
I was watching Anderson Cooper on CNN again last night. He's a cute guy and he is professional enough not to ram any opinions he may have down the viewer's throat, unlike most on that network, and I have one question - Did he only bring one shirt to the war? I think he's worn the same shirt every day so far. Or else he has many in the same color and style. You'd think with a mother who is Gloria Vanderbilt he would have access to clothes, wouldn't you? I can't look at him covering the news in the field without thinking of the Kathy Griffin joke she does about Anderson covering Katrina, in Prada! She cracks me up. And Anderson rejected the comparisons to Katrina evacuations, as hard as Wolfie tried to get him to say otherwise.
Mike Tobin of Fox News is another example of unbiased reporting. I remember him when he was starting out as a reporter in the Lafayette/Baton Rouge area when we lived there.
My girlfriend that I had lunch with last weekend has a friend who is caught in the Lebanon crisis. She and her son are working their way back. They were visiting relatives, as all the others trying to get back were, except a few of the students. To assume all these people were only vacationing and ignorant of the danger that may lurk is wrong. Did you know as an American you were not allowed to enter Lebanon with only an American passport until 1997? You would have had to produce a Lebanese passport, too. Not to mention those pesky embassy bombings and warnings from the State Department about traveling there. George Bush had nothing to do with any of this and this is very depressing to many bashers. Silly, short-sighted people.
President Bush is speaking to the NAACP meeting today. Let the hate speech from the membership and leaders begin. He has a long standing relationship with Bruce Gordon, the leader now, so he accepted the invitation. It won't be good enough. His cabinent has more minorities than any in history, minority home ownership is at record levels, more aid to Africa than ever before, faith-based outreach in poor urban areas, trying to revamp the educational system in this country, but none of that will matter. Remember the Coretta Scott King funeral? He honored her in D.C., too, along with Rosa Parks, but that doesn't matter. Sheep.
The best line I have heard from a press secretary ever:
"Thank you for the Hezbollah view." - Tony Snow to Helen Thomas
3 comments:
Tony Snow knows how to say it, doesn't he. I miss his radio show, but I'm glad he is where he is.
Tony Snow has found his niche, I do believe. But do you really see Anderson Cooper as unbiased? I love him, I have to admit, but I always see him tilting at windmills, even if he might be trying hard not to. You know what I mean?
Anderson Cooper is a cutie but with the silver spoon of Gloria Vanderbilt as mother, he just isn't believable as "just folks".
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