Monday, October 6, 2003

Short Cuts

A Mind Not In Gear: From the Sunday LA Times: Gray Davis was addressing a Latino audience, and the topic was illegal immigrants. 'We need immigrants to pick our food and put it on our tables," he said as the audience — middle-class Latinos, primarily — shifted uncomfortably. "We need immigrants to clean our hotels and office buildings and take care of the elderly. That work is important.... Whether people are janitors or maids or busboys or cooks, it's all part of the experience we enjoy when we're at a restaurant or a hotel."

They Are Never Going to Get It: Feminist, leftists, so-called "progressives" and Bush Baiters are simply never going to understand that when Arnold was running around being a pig with women he owed us nothing. When Clinton did it he held the highest office in the land and had vowed the "most ethical administration" in history. Here's life-long feminist Katha Pollitt in the NY Times. "If Arnold Schwarzenegger were a Democrat, the right-wing news media — the tabloids, the shock jocks, the Bill O'Reilly's and the Rush Limbaugh's — would have sent him back to Austria long ago." Please note, not once during the recall campaign has anyone brought up Gray Davis' other worldly life while working for Gov. "Moonbeam" Jerry Brown.

Good Question: Commenting on whether journalists involved in the Frog March story should 'fess up. "I see why not revealing a source is very powerfully in your personal professional interest. But why is it also in the public interest?" - Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

I Never Had A Shirt-Pull With That Woman: Here's Arnold on Dateline last night: "I never grabbed anyone [or] pulled up their shirt and grabbed their breasts and stuff like that."

A Sign In The Crowd: "Gray Groped Our A$$sets"

Fantasy of the Weekend: Appearing on CBS, Joe "Frog March" Wilson said he is concerned that as a result of the leak, his wife will be "targeted by a terrorist organization or hostile intelligence service."

Think About It: The Wall St. Journal in an editorial about Rush Limbaugh's problems: "Character has as much to do with how we handle our failings as the failings themselves."

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