Art Buchwald Lets Slip - President is Fair Game

A Radio Show - Jimbo something ^ | 01/29/03 | Samizdat

[Samizdat]

Listening (by accident) to a radio show called Jimbo something. Jimbo has Art Buchwald on hawking some book of his. He starts out saying that after 911, word came down that the president was now fair after having been given the word that the president was off limits for Buchwald's columns. Interesting that a Republican president would be fair game and especially after 911? Wouldn't we want to support our president during this time of the aftermath of an attack by leftwing whackos from the middle east?

Anyone know who Buchwald writes for? If so, please post so we know who "word came down" from.

[Semper Paratus]

Buchwald always sucked up to the Clintons when they vacation mooched in Marthas Vineyard.

[BlueLancer]

Buchwald ceased to be funny years ago and his books and articles have become too tedious to use as anything more serious than a doorstop.

[Whitebread]

Buchwald is a New Yorker. I'm not sure which of the NY newspapers he writes for but I believe that it is the NY Daily News.

[Utah Girl]

I think Buchwald is syndicated, and he writes for the Washington Post.

[uncbob]

Would be nice if you could quote exactly what he said
too many times I have expierenced reports of what people supposedly heard and in reality it was somewhat different

Bush being fair game AFTER 9/11 which presupposes he wasn't before 9/11 doesn't make any sense

[ArcLight]

i'm not a Buchwald fan, but his politics have nothing to do with it. I just think he's not very funny.

In any case, i don't see anything wrong here. He's a humorist, trying to decide, after a decent interval, whether he can go back to making fun of our president. I think that's exactly the right way to handle it. And I'm glad to see that most jokesters have sounded the all-clear. Leno's firing off the zingers again, for instance. Makes me proud to be an American.

[Samizdat]

Okay, he said that he was previously told that the president was off limits. Then, after 911 "word came down" that the president was fair game. Perhaps this Jimbo has a website where you can hear archives. It was at the beginning of the program. It came on at 4 a.m. Pacific time so I don't know when it actually was live.

[an amused spectator]

Buchwald was funny thirty years ago. Reading his stuff is like eating stale grits straight from the box.

Make that "trying to read his stuff". I can't remember having made it past paragraph 2 in one of his recent pieces, and I've only tried a couple of times in the last ten years.

[bobg]

JIMBO IS PROBABLY JIM BOHANNON....

[metesky]

Buchwald was funny forty-five years ago when his column was written from France and he was mocking things French.

He ceased being funny when he returned to the U.S. before Ike left office.

[an amused spectator]

MMMMMM....grits......with bacon chunks...... (Homer voice)

;-)

[jackbill]

I don't ever remember the day that Buchwald was funny. And I'm 71.

[TC Rider]

MMMMMM....grits......with bacon chunks...... (Homer voice)

excuse me now, I feel compelled to visit my nearest Waffle House.

Grits and hash browns, scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced and peppered.

[PJ-Comix]

Buchwald ceased to be funny years ago and his books and articles have become too tedious to use as anything more serious than a doorstop.

Buchwald has had a cookie cutter approach to writing for years. He is too lazy to come up with original material so her merely writes the same basic column over and over again with just the names and places changed.