Posted on 05/25/2006 11:16:36 AM PDT by kristinn
ABC News, in their Web column on all things political called The Note, wallowed in the gutter today with their advice to those who view tonight's White House press conference with President Bush and Prime Minister Blair to watch for "sheer homo-eroticism" between the two wartime allies.
When one thinks of the great wartime alliances between the United States and Great Britain, "homo-eroticism" is not what one thinks of when Roosevelt and Churchill, and Reagan and Thatcher come to mind. Neither does it come to mind with Bush and Blair, except for the drive-by media.
Text of the ABC News report:
484 members of the Gang of 500 think Tony Blair is smarter, more articulate, more principled, and more visionary than Geroge W. Bush; their Brit counterparts think those Gang members are plonkers and muppets.
All of this will be on display when toothpaste buddies Bush and Blair ruin everyone's evening by holding a plush joint newser after or on Old Media deadlines.
A whole lotta thumbsuckin' going on as everyone vamps for the post-East Coast network news full press conference at 7:30 pm ET.
"This will be the President's 25th full press conference since taking office in 2001. His last press conference was on April 28 in the Rose Garden and was originally billed as just a statement on the economy. That day the President took questions from 15 different reporters," reports ABC News' Karen Travers, rattling off those stats as if they were sports scores.
Do not expect any announcements on troop withdrawals. The White House said Wednesday that such talk is "premature" and that those decisions will still turn on conditions on the ground. But watch closely the nuance, the body language, the bonhomie, and the sheer homo-eroticism (We are sort of kidding about that last one, Mr. President.).
The byline for today's Note: By MARK HALPERIN, DAVID CHALIAN, TEDDY DAVIS, JONATHAN GREENBERGER, KATIE HINMAN, and MATT STUART
ABC is homophobic now???
If only because Maggie Thatcher isn't a man!
Boy, whomever runs the show at ABC News is just wishing for a whooping from the big dogs at Disney. Betweeen this and the Hassert non story they are going off the cliff. But that's ok. We here at FR can just stand on the edge of the cliff and blow them kisses as they fall.
paging Drudge!
He seems to love stuff like this.
No, he's shaking his head as he looks down from heaven.........
"Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other" - Willie Nelson
Amen.
Looks like time to bring those FReepin' pajamas back out...Oh, and the popcorn..
The byline for today's Note: By MARK HALPERIN, DAVID CHALIAN, TEDDY DAVIS, JONATHAN GREENBERGER, KATIE HINMAN, and MATT STUART
Any of these people gay, perchance? Or is it that the media is so messed up that they see gayness everywhere.
Read the "subtext" and they are saying that manly men are attractive to them and they resent them for it (cause we can't have them, waah!).
ABC News is sinking even lower in the credibility ratings.
Last week, it was revealed that a rabid gun-grabber was covering gun-control issues for ABC.
Now an ABC blog is engaged in disrespectful cheap shots against the President and the leader of our strongest ally.
I haven't watched ABC News in a long time, and I don't feel I've missed anything worth watching.
Barf.
Please no hand holding like he did with the King of Saudia Arabia.
Those pictures were just lame.
Sounds like the columinist who wrote this nonsense is "plonkers and muppets."
Why am I not surprised to see Mark Halperin's name on this garbage??!!!
Thanks for posting this kristinn...
PING!
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