Josh Bolton always seems to be unflappable. You just know in his mind he is thinking, "What a freaking idiot. I cannot believe President Bush asked me to come on this show".
"Now look at me, I haven't been covered with this much spittle since doing Hairball with Chris".
Tim shows Tony Snow saying that killing embryos is murder. Does the Prez stand behind that, Tim wants to know. Bolton does a nice job of setting out the issues in ESCR.
He reminds me of a friend of mine who used to work for my company. Before he joined us he was in the Ford administration. He's a Human Relations type and his specialty was setting up, staffing and running new organizations during their start up phase. What he did for the Ford administration was to create a little group within the Energy Department called NEST, the Nuclear Emergency Search Team. This is, as you probably know, a bunch of folks who carry geiger counters and guns and are told to assume that someone has planted a nuke, somewhere, so they should go find it.
When he joined our company (long before I did) he was involved in our HR group as a senior executive. He got involved in a couple of very nasty labor disputes where there were literally death threats being hurled back and forth across the negotiating table. My friend was the only calm person in the room and he was asked how he could be so calm. His reply was to ask a question "are their any nukes involved? No? Then we can work this out."
Bolton appearing on the talk shows after having been thrust into the midst of the ongoing UN melt down is like a walk in the park. No big deal. Why should he get tense? <g>