Posted on 12/17/2002 11:39:16 AM PST by Davis
When Senator Tom Daschle, in the grip of post-party depression two weeks after his job as Senate Majority Leader was swept away in the midterm elections, held a press conference in Washington, D.C., he pretended to cast blame for the loss on talk radio in general and Rush Limbaugh in particular. This was preposterous, of course, a hissy fit unbecoming a grown-up much less a senator of these United States. Daschle was ridiculed,--even worse, he was quoted--but much of the media response wasn't quite on target.
No one asked him why he had not divulged Limbaugh's nefarious machinations way back in October or September, that is, in time to do something about it. Indeed, he was interviewed repeatedly on election night and didn't breathe a word of it then. A late discovery sets one wondering. And no one in the press, as far as I know, recommended a course of intensive grief counseling or, in the alternative, that he be whipped soundly and sent to bed without supper...more
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