Tina Brown: Bush is a dense, angry, taciturn, dry drunk, second-rate actor

NY Post Page Six ^ | 4/7/03 | Richard Johnson

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TINA Brown, whose CNBC show was canceled when the war began, has lashed out at President Bush. Comparing him unfavorably to Brititsh PM Tony Blair, whom she terms a "saint," Bush "has the damped down anger of the dry drunk," Brown writes in her Times of London column. "There is something dense and taciturn about Bush even when he's being charming . . . When he's not scripted, his bald answers seem to be covering up ulterior motives. . . . Bush seems as occluded as a second-rate actor." Meanwhile, Brown says she's thankful that at least she didn't go down like Peter Arnett. "Being pre-emptively struck off the air is a more honorable way to go than the bum's rush administered to other cable-news types such as poor Peter Arnett or the world-class swaggerer Geraldo Rivera." Comparing her plight to that of Phil Donahue and Connie Chung, Brown writes, "Perhaps canceling shows before they start will be the wave of the future. As usual, I'm there."

[Roughneck]

"Tina Brown, a has been."

Who is Tina Brown anyway? I've never heard of her.

Is she really a has-been or is she a never-was?

[Bob]

Tina Brown, a has been.

More accurately, a never was.

[theDentist]

Tina Brown: a t*rd-rate journalist.

[rj45mis]

Taciturn isn't a bad thing to be, Tina. You should try it sometime.

LOL! She likely heard someone else use the term but doesn't even know what it means.

[js1138]

I guess I'm out of it, but I don't recognize the names of any of these "celebs".

[giotto]

Bush "has the damped down anger of the dry drunk...There is something dense and taciturn about Bush even when he's being charming . . . When he's not scripted, his bald answers seem to be covering up ulterior motives. . . . Bush seems as occluded as a second-rate actor."

Brown doesn't realize how much of herself and her own narrow world she is projecting. She observes Bush's classic Texas rancher mannerisms, with the squint from the Texas glare and the no-nonsense bruskness of a man whose list of chores is longer than a Texas summer day, and she interprets them according to the self-indulgent wussified New York/London parlor pansies she surrounds herself with. She should just shut up, lest she reveal more of herself than she intends to.

[MEG33]

'Sour grapes turning into raisins on the rack of self absorption' How perfect!

[ALS]

[al_c]

Who is Tina Brown and why should I care what she says?

[F.J. Mitchell]

These play like people, seem to have a problem dealing with a real person. What you see is what you get, with George W. Bush- he could no more fake it, than liberals could not fake it.

[CaptainK]

Tina loathes the president who is a dry drunk but drools all over the ex-president who is a dry hump.

[dead]

Thanks for the link, but I don't think I'll bother to read it.

[mountaineer]

Isn't she the pathetic loser who gave Chelsea Clinton a forum after 9/11/01 to whine about the federal government not funding social programs in NYC?

[kimchi lover]

and we should care what this hag thinks because??????

[TLBSHOW]

all liberal women are dogs..........

[Centurion2000]

Kato Kaelin

WHO IS THIS GUY ??

[an amused spectator]

Tina Brown was ALWAYS able to suck the chrome off Bill Clinton's bumper hitch... ;-)

[rj45mis]

I believe he was the houseguest of O.J. Simpson during the time of the murders.

[TC Rider]

Who cares about Tina Brown. She is so last millenium.

[No Left Turn]

When did Tina Brown stop writing about dresses and waif super models?