Wednesday, November 14, 2001

Quote of The Day

NBC's Today devoted 75 percent more time two weeks ago to
Jeffrey Toobin's claim, that Gore really won in Florida, than on
Monday to the new media re-count which disproved that. "The wrong
man was inaugurated on January 20th, 2001," CNN's Paula Zahn
quoted Toobin before asking: "Do you still agree with what you
wrote?" Toobin remained unswayed: "Oh absolutely."

-- Media Research Center CyberAlert

"I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions - sometimes in the form of news."

-- President George W. Bush

Rag tag and ready to rumble....Northern Alliance fighters enter Kabul singing.

Look Muffy, Toy Soldiers: People love to be cutting edge but the scramble to suck up to our war effort has gotten out of hand. The minute style setter Tina Brown decides war is chic we are in big trouble. Keith Kelly at the New York Post tells us that the Talk mag editor wants West Point as a backdrop for some sort of self-promoting conference. Fortunately, military heads who don't care squat about being "in" prevailed.

For The Birds: The probable cause of the American Airlines flight out of JFK changes by the hour. Gov.Pataki says it dumped fuel. The FAA says it didn't. Birds did it says the AP. Not so says the NTSB. There wasn't an explosion. The engine and tail dropped off possibly from loose screws says someone else. Now comes the Dallas Morning News to say the NTSB says "no birds." Someone wake us when they have the answer.

Little Miss Dowd Says "Ick": One of the enduring mysteries of American journalism is how Maureen Dowd keeps her job at the New York Times let alone won a Pulitzer prize. Today's girlish twittering about the consequences of war, clearly jotted on the back of a LeCirque menu between sips of a Fuzzy Navel, shame her country, her employer and her colleagues.

EEEEEHaw, No Borsht: We thoroughly expect to see Vladimir Putin in full Texas drag before the weekend is out. If there is one place that knows how to throw a nonstop party is the Lone Star State. He will never be the same. Has a Russian head of state ever defected?

There All Along: Buried in the middle of Secretary Rumsfeld's briefing yesterday was the news that U.S. Special Ops forces have been on the ground "tracking" the Taliban all along thereby confirming their hidden presence for the first time. When the ladies of Kabul and Khandahar throw off the burques there may be some real surprises.

What's With O'Hare? Hawk-eyed security guards at Chicago's O'Hare have done it again. A "confused" Chinese chef got on a plane there with a bag full of meat cleavers yesterday. What next? A rocket launcher, an ABM missile? A horse?

Oops: Seems Look Muffy, Toy Soldiers: People love to be cutting edge but the scramble to suck up to our war effort has gotten out of hand. The minute style setter Tina Brown decides war is chic we are in big trouble. Keith Kelly at the New York Post tells us that the Talk mag editor wants West Point as a backdrop for some sort of self-promoting conference. Fortunately, military heads who don't care squat about being "in" prevailed.

For The Birds: The probable cause of the American Airlines flight out of JFK changes by the hour. Gov.Pataki says it dumped fuel. The FAA says it didn't. Birds did it says the AP. Not so says the NTSB. There wasn't an explosion. The engine and tail dropped off possibly from loose screws says someone else. Now comes the Dallas Morning News to say the NTSB says "no birds." Someone wake us when they have the answer.

Little Miss Dowd Says "Ick": One of the enduring mysteries of American journalism is how Maureen Dowd keeps her job at the New York Times let alone won a Pulitzer prize. Today's girlish twittering about the consequences of war, clearly jotted on the back of a LeCirque menu between sips of a Fuzzy Navel, shame her country, her employer and her colleagues.

EEEEEHaw, No Borsht: We thoroughly expect to see Vladimir Putin in full Texas drag before the weekend is out. If there is one place that knows how to throw a nonstop party is the Lone Star State. He will never be the same. Has a Russian head of state ever defected?

There All Along: Buried in the middle of Secretary Rumsfeld's briefing yesterday was the news that U.S. Special Ops forces have been on the ground "tracking" the Taliban all along thereby confirming their hidden presence for the first time. When the ladies of Kabul and Khandahar throw off the burques there may be some real surprises.

What's With O'Hare? Hawk-eyed security guards at Chicago's O'Hare have done it again. A "confused" Chinese chef got on a plane there with a bag full of meat cleavers yesterday. What next? A rocket launcher, an ABM missile? A horse?

Oops: Seems two 500-pound bombs flattened the al Jazeera TV facility in Kabul without killing anyone. A managing editor there told the AP he thinks we might have done it on purpose. Golly, we sure hope not. Maureen Dowd will be so upset.

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