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The news these days does not carry much to draw Monk's interest on these long, slow summer days. With Congressional elections coming up in the fall, and with our leaders and parties far out of favor, we are left with the sort of tired and melodramatic battling that makes one think of professional wrestling, but without the T&A - Trish and Lita, where are you? Monica?
The Bush Administration leads the way, relying on their old favorite tricks, playing up a proposed amendment to ban gay marriage, along with the traditional themes of being more against flag-burning than others and cracking down on extralegal brown immigrants. One fears the Administration will next bring out the color-coded chart on terrorism alerts - where is ol' John Ashcroft when you need him?
The spirit of this Silly Season was perhaps captured well in a message mishap during a White House press briefing yesterday. Tony Snow is the White House spokesman. Snow is one of the Republicans' Aryan princes, who was an anchorman on Fox News before being tapped for this position recently. Fox News! Fox has already been understood to be the megaphone for the Republican Party, but one supposes that, in a bid for greater efficiency, the Bush people decided to cut the middleman and just have Fox in the White House directly. Less chance of foul-ups that way. Or that was the hope.
Spinning the Administration's line on the proposed Amendment to ban gay marriage, Mr. Snow actually started to speak of it in terms of advancing civil rights, as though the racial segregationists of old were only trying to advance civil rights by preserving quality education for whites only. An alert reporter immediately called him on it, making a story out of it. The transcript is below. It sounds like a Doonesbury cartoon.
On a side note, one can see our leggy Ms. Coulter still begging to be reamed. She is actually mocking the widows of 9/11. She is essentially calling them media whores - talk about projection! I guess that whole 9/11 angle is no longer working so well for the Bushies, heh. So, the news on these sleepy summer days is not without its entertainment values, but there is just something depressing about it all.
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WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY TONY SNOW: Whether it passes or not, as you know, Terry, there have been a number of cases where civil rights matters have risen on a number of occasions, and they've been brought up for repeated consideration by the United States Senate and other legislative bodies...
Q You mentioned civil rights. Are you comparing this to various civil rights measures which have come to the Congress over the years?
MR. SNOW: Not -- well, these -- it --
Q Is this a civil right?
MR. SNOW: Marriage? It actually -- what we're really talking about here is an attempt to try to maintain the traditional meaning of an institution that has maintained one meeting for -- meaning for a period of centuries. And furthermore --
Q And you would equate that with civil rights?
MR. SNOW: No, I'm just saying that I think -- well, I don't know. How do you define civil rights?
Q It's not up to me. Up to you.
MR. SNOW: Okay. Well, no, it's your question. So I -- if I --
Q (Chuckles.)
MR. SNOW: I need to get a more precise definition.
-- RawStory.com
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The news these days does not carry much to draw Monk's interest on these long, slow summer days. With Congressional elections coming up in the fall, and with our leaders and parties far out of favor, we are left with the sort of tired and melodramatic battling that makes one think of professional wrestling, but without the T&A - Trish and Lita, where are you? Monica?
The Bush Administration leads the way, relying on their old favorite tricks, playing up a proposed amendment to ban gay marriage, along with the traditional themes of being more against flag-burning than others and cracking down on extralegal brown immigrants. One fears the Administration will next bring out the color-coded chart on terrorism alerts - where is ol' John Ashcroft when you need him?
The spirit of this Silly Season was perhaps captured well in a message mishap during a White House press briefing yesterday. Tony Snow is the White House spokesman. Snow is one of the Republicans' Aryan princes, who was an anchorman on Fox News before being tapped for this position recently. Fox News! Fox has already been understood to be the megaphone for the Republican Party, but one supposes that, in a bid for greater efficiency, the Bush people decided to cut the middleman and just have Fox in the White House directly. Less chance of foul-ups that way. Or that was the hope.
Spinning the Administration's line on the proposed Amendment to ban gay marriage, Mr. Snow actually started to speak of it in terms of advancing civil rights, as though the racial segregationists of old were only trying to advance civil rights by preserving quality education for whites only. An alert reporter immediately called him on it, making a story out of it. The transcript is below. It sounds like a Doonesbury cartoon.
On a side note, one can see our leggy Ms. Coulter still begging to be reamed. She is actually mocking the widows of 9/11. She is essentially calling them media whores - talk about projection! I guess that whole 9/11 angle is no longer working so well for the Bushies, heh. So, the news on these sleepy summer days is not without its entertainment values, but there is just something depressing about it all.
___ ___ ___
WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY TONY SNOW: Whether it passes or not, as you know, Terry, there have been a number of cases where civil rights matters have risen on a number of occasions, and they've been brought up for repeated consideration by the United States Senate and other legislative bodies...
Q You mentioned civil rights. Are you comparing this to various civil rights measures which have come to the Congress over the years?
MR. SNOW: Not -- well, these -- it --
Q Is this a civil right?
MR. SNOW: Marriage? It actually -- what we're really talking about here is an attempt to try to maintain the traditional meaning of an institution that has maintained one meeting for -- meaning for a period of centuries. And furthermore --
Q And you would equate that with civil rights?
MR. SNOW: No, I'm just saying that I think -- well, I don't know. How do you define civil rights?
Q It's not up to me. Up to you.
MR. SNOW: Okay. Well, no, it's your question. So I -- if I --
Q (Chuckles.)
MR. SNOW: I need to get a more precise definition.
-- RawStory.com
