Garrett: “Let me just put it to you this way. Had these commission folks been in charge of indicting Jeffrey Dahmer, they’d have probably charged him with, like, improper use of basil and garlic salt.”*
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related: Malkin 1, 2, 3; Geraghty; QandO; Scylla & Charybdis; and Captain Ed, who sees things differently than Leif.
Blogs for Bush has a nice roundup of links. See also: Ace 1, 2, 3.
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update: And from the department of sentences I never thought I’d write: Hugh Hewitt agrees with Leif Garrett.
And that would have made Martha very angry indeed.
When I was a wee little shite, I got caught forging my mother’s signature on detention slips. It was embarrasing, and that was the main motivation to never repeat a similar offense.
Unless the school rules that you had inadvertantly signed your mother’s name out of misplaced zeal—and that you weren’t really trying to get out of showing your mother the detention slips.
POWERLINE IS MY MASTER!
Oh, I almost forgot my question:
What is the collective noun for ‘ass’, specifically, four of them? Like whales travel in a pod, baboons travel in a rumpus right; so what do asses travel in? Is it a gaggle of asses? A grist? A swarm? A flutter? A quiver?
Linky
POWERLINE IS MY MASTER!
Sure—put that Hindrocket in some shiny white vinyls and leather chaps? I can see it.
shank: the correct answer is “a CBS News Division”
[rimshot]
Well, Moonves’ response takes Mapes out in the backyard and shoots her. No mystery who got the short straw is there?
And Moonves’ misrepresents the report’s conclusion on political bias conveniently.
So, Jeff…what’s that state of your nippular areas?
Cordially…
The report claims that this was all due to “competitive pressure.” As someone who has worked in television news production, I can attest that this is patently absurd.
First of all, Mapes had been working on the story for five years. Why the sudden rush to get it out? What was on the event horizon that might make them want to do that? Hmmmm.
Secondly, competitive pressure from whom? This story had been done and dropped. Everyone had moved on. The only thing that could revive it would be some kind of smoking gun. They had to know they were the only ones that had this source and these memos. There was pressure, all right, pressure to air the story while they could still hurt Bush.
I think it’s a jiggle.
“One time, when I was out in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains on a two week long journey of self-discovery, I was set upon by a large number of angry wild asses. There must have been a whole CBS News Division of them, and I was forced to fight them off with only my hiking staff and a…”
Yeah, that works just fine. Thanks for the tip.
The guys at CBS in the technical department have a sense of humor. Remember how if you boosted the contrast you could see the scrunch marks on the Kinko memos ?
…. well, if you do the same to the report there’s a superscript(ish) ‘th’ as a light grey watermark.
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not really, but one of my New Year’s resolutions s is to start an internet rumor and get a listing on Snopes.
As of 1:49 Central time, a Google search of “Dan Rather” yielded ratherbiased.com as the first result. Heh.
With this caption:
“Hundreds of quotes from America’s most partisan journalist on numerous issues and people, plus many sections relating Rather’s many weird experiences.”
Rather’s legacy, summed nicely. Heh heh.
I thought it was a thong of asses. No? Oh, well.
Donkey: A herd or pace of asses.
An association.
An assignation?
An assimilation?
“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated!” brayed Three of Four, leader of the Confounded Borg System.
Now that’s funny, Ana.
Mapes was jousting at windmills. Comes from drinking too much donkey ho tea.
Collective noun for asses. Well in this case I believe it would be embarassment.
Leif, in this one particular instance, has stumbled onto profound truth.