Now, I'm no professional journalist or anything. I didn't go to J-school, I don't spell "lead" the right way, and I hate talking to people on the phone, but even with all those qualifications I've got to think this would be the time where you, I dunno, asked a follow-up? "Cheney was asked if he thinks the Bush administration bears any responsibility for the disintegration of Afghanistan because of the attention and resources that were diverted to Iraq. 'I basically don't,' he replied without elaborating."
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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Basically, burn in Hell. Basically, eat shit and die. Basically, thanks for nothing, asshole.
My thoughts, exactly.
Thanks, Karen. Too exhausted from days of family holiday magic to come up with anything original.
Basically, don't ask Darth Vader to say 'I'm sorry'.
I actually do have a professional journalism badge and I am here to confirm that you, Balk, are correct.
Real journalists would ask a follow-up question.
One-celled amoebas would ask a follow-up question.
However, the employees at Politico are just stenographers for the RNC.
"lede"
#30#
can scientists use this as proof of the multiverse?
To be fair, I imagine it's hard to ask a follow-up question when you have a politician's cock in your mouth.
And now I'm off to try to rinse that image from my brain...
Sometimes I think these people do shit to piss me off personally. Then I remember they have no idea who I am.
Though once on my birthday (two years ago?) I was having dinner at Cafe des Artistes and of course they fucking sat me next to Donald Rumsfeld.
I was going to make a scene, but I didn't want to ruin my birthday, and I probably would have given the mummies he was eating with an aneurysm.
I had scallops.
Wait, are you saying Rumsfeld was eating mummies?
For dinner?
He is hard-core!
No no, he was gnawing on the bones of the young.
I'll have to add "not elaborating" to my list of rhetorical tools of persuasion.
I have a question. When did W. or Cheney or Rumsfeld or Wolfowitz or any of Haynes and Yoo and Bybee last leave the continental United States? And when do they plan to do so again?
"not elaborating" = slamming door in journo's face
"...but you were ALWAYS WRONG!"
-Jon Stewart