Posted on 04/06/2005 4:27:30 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
All this adulation of John Paul II, a man of monumental moral stature, must be gnawing at MSM innards.
You could almost hear the command go out from the NBC honchos: "find me something we can use to bash a conservative. Make it Bush if you can."
And sure enough, Today managed to come up with a great two-fer this morning, managing to take swipes at both W and Condi over the exclusion of Jimmy Carter from the US delegation to the papal funeral.
Andrea Mitchell, reporting the story, clearly wasn't buying the White House line that Carter politely asked himself to be removed from the invitation list when he learned that space was very limited.
Tongues-a-clucking, Katie and Andrea wondered aloud at least three times why the White House didn't simply ask the Vatican for one more invitation, "especially because Pres. Carter was the first and only president to invite the Pope to the White House, and shared an interest with him in Third World issues."
Andrea surmised this was all pay-back for Carter's harsh criticism of the Iraq war, which he called a "quagmire," predicting the failure of the January elections.
Not content to snipe at W, Today also managed to get in a shot at Condi. Asked Katie "under the circumstances, wouldn't the right thing have been for Condi Rice to step aside and give Carter her place?"
Mitchell acknowledged that, after all, the Vatican is a state, and as the chief diplomatic official it was logical for Condi to attend. Nevertheless, Andrea opined that Rice should have ceded her seat to Mr. Peanut.
You could almost hear the sigh of relief on the set and in the NBC executive suites. After an intolerable week, Today was back doing what it does best: bashing Republicans.
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I'd be willing to bet that he wanted to take Rosalyn along and was told there wasn't enough room.
Gosh, I remember that so well! I was around 19 or so, and I recall thinking, "Is this what my adult life is going to be like?" There was a dismal pall over the whole country. We had gas shortages, gas rationing, the hostages in Iran. Carter was pulling the rug out from under US-supporting governments and promoting the Sandinistas.
I eventually turned off the news and went out to serve my church in the mission field. The Church sent me to France where I got a close look at socialism first-hand. Working among the Arabs, trying to convert them to Christianity, the Iranians, Moroccans, and Algierians we visited openly mocked America.
Then came Reagan. Being in the mission field, I really couldn't follow his election very closely, but the French media and all the Arabs hated him. Two weeks before the inauguration, there came a knock at our apartment door. It was a group of Iranian students who threatened to come after us if Reagan sent troops in Iran. When Reagan was inaugurated, a Frenchman called us in to watch the "cowboy" get elected. As "unplugged" as I was from US news at the time, there was a perceptible transformation of the United States that took place.
Over the next year, the French media were "peeing" on themselves because Reagan was going to put the Pershing missiles in NATO to counter the Russian's SS-20s in East Germany. They villainized the guy, but you know what. The Arabs didn't mess with us any more and the French people showed a whole lot more respect for him than they did for "the peanut farmer."
When I came home from my mission, America was a different place. The world was a different place because of it. Carter's "malaise" was gone. Reagan's optimism and vision transformed the US at home and in the world. Even the Clinton years, as bad as they were, didn't approach the sense of hopelessness that was fostered by the Carter regime. The Cold War could have turned out very differently. Thank God for Ronald Reagan!
GW
Thanks!
Just saw Mitchell again on MSNBC. Still whining.
I do believe a Presidency sets the tone for fashion. During Reagan we had the wonderful preppy, clean cut clothing. Clinton, we had grunge. Bush the styles are slowly reverting back to modesty...hope it continues.
Boy isnt that the truth!
Put a sock in it, Andrea. Go home and convince Alan to lower the interest rate!
thanks for sharing your # 204
I need to leave for quite a while today. I will check back in later to see if there are any further developments in the public humiliation of our worst president!
My profile page has the story behind my screen name...I doubt I signed your senior year book.
But, I graduated HS in 1973 and not that long ago I had occasion to visit an old friend from that time.
We got out his yearbook and found where I had signed it.
His wife was there, and he started reading.
I had written something on the order of "Good luck, you'll do well, even though you are a commie".
Of course I had long forgotten what I wrote but I had to chuckle - guess I haven't changed all that much LOL.
the today show is the television equivalent of bird-cage liner.
Great story. So . . . did your friend turn out to be a Commie?
I grew up in a very liberal area, btw. There was one conservative in my class, and he was such a rarity that in talking about him to my parents, I'd refer to him as "my conservative friend" rather than call him by name!
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Pretty much, I was right on both counts. He ended up as a full professor in math at a very prestigious university. I didn't spend all that much time with him, but I get the feeling that he's politically about what you would expect for an east coast liberal who grows up to teach at an east coast university.
You know, the type of people that go to see the Che Guevuera movie and wish they could have been there tooling around with Che on a motorcyle.
The story never changes, does it?
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