Thursday, April 29, 2004
THE HORROR, THE HORROR
On Monday Vice President Cheney came to Westminster College to deliver a speech. According to CNN the president of the college, Fletcher Lamkin, is unhappy with some of Cheney’s remarks:
Fletcher Lamkin told The Associated Press that Cheney's staff approached him last week about using Westminster as the backdrop “for a major foreign policy address. Nothing was said about a stump speech.”
In a campus-wide e-mail after the speech, Lamkin said: “I must admit that I was surprised and disappointed that Mr. Cheney chose to step off the high ground and resort to Kerry-bashing for a large portion of his speech.”
You mean that the Vice President took some shots at his boss’s opponent in a speech during an election year? GOSHEN TO CHRISTMAS!!!! Next thing you know Fletcher will be shocked to discover that water is wet!
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FURTHERMORE…
Why is this stupid thing a story anyway? After all, later in the story Lamkin backtracks a bit,
Lamkin said he was not expecting a speech minus any mention of presidential politics during an election year, but that the second half “was all about politics and a political stump speech and in that respect it was disappointing.”
So Lamkin expected Cheney to take some shots at Kerry, just not as many as he did.
Again, why is this stupid thing a story?
Maybe it is because it enables CNN to run a story with the headline “College President ‘Disappointed’ by Cheney.”
Liberal bias? What liberal bias?
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WHILE I’M ON THE SUBJECT…
Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States, Governor of California, brought the Soviet Union to its knees, and presided over the 2nd longest economic expansion in history. So how does this article in Washington Post about a proposed Ronald Reagan University begin?
On the silver screen, he was a college football hero and a cheerleader. He played cadets at two different military academies. He appeared as a zoology professor in the Hollywood classic “Bedtime for Bonzo.” But now America's only movie-star-turned-president may have another dramatic role in higher education: as the namesake and inspiration for Ronald Reagan University.
Reporter T.R. Reid even manages to mention “Bedtime for Bonzo” a second time in the concluding paragraph. There’s one journalist who will have a long and fruitful career.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004
PUFFBALL?
My latest at the Spectator.
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