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.
Today Show peanut-gallery ping.
I saw that. Jimmy Carter is turning out to be more of a disgrace as a former President than he was as a President.
The whole episode reminds me of Newt Gingrich complaining he got a bad seat on Air Force One.
IIRC, Katie was pretty upset with Clinton over this. (/sarc)
I don't think that's possible.
Carter's upset that Michael Moore wasn't invited. Now he has nobody to sit next to..
Why doesn't everyone that voted 3 times or more get to go?
Carter shouldn't be invited out of his front door.
He's a free citizen, isn't he? He can go to the funeral without the President's invitataion if he wants to, can't he?
If Carter had stayed quiet, I probably would have forgotten that he was the WORST president in my lifetime. He is why I became a Republican!
Every time I hear about Carter and his latest insults to this country, I remember gas lines, no Christmas lights, 18% interest on mortgages, giving away the Panama Canal, no Olympics, the betrayal of the Shah, the Iranian hostage crisis, malaise, etc.etc. etc.
He is proving to be just as big a failure as a former president as he was in office.
If leaving Carter off the list ticked Katie off it was worth it.
I particularly liked this image.
If W was as vindictive toward Democrats as he is guys like, say, Tom Tancredo, that might hold some weight.
hehe!
When Jimmy Carter had a chance to go to a Papal funeral as President, he sent his mother!
Maybe Carter wasn't invited because of the ongoing investiation of his "house for humanity" excepting donations from some Aribe and then his blasting the war in Iraq.
Fox just aired an unconfirmed report that the seating chart for the Pope's funeral has Bush sitting next to the Iranian president..
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