tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post114205815705552422..comments2024-01-22T18:22:29.391-08:00Comments on hedera's corner: Sometimes things just get so weird ...hederahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-1142391172549627602006-03-14T18:52:00.000-08:002006-03-14T18:52:00.000-08:00You're right, cooper, the only press briefing I ev...You're right, cooper, the only press briefing I ever heard where they really laid into him was the one after Dick Cheney shot the lawyer, and I think on that one they were mainly angry because they were scooped.hederahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-1142304192798737482006-03-13T18:43:00.000-08:002006-03-13T18:43:00.000-08:00hedera, my point is that reporters these days seem...hedera, my point is that reporters these days seem to feel happy just to be able to ask questions at a press conference. The fact that the question is skirted and never answered doesn't seem to matter to them. I sometimes read the transcripts from the White House briefings and Scott McClellan does an amazingly inept song and dance, but somehow gets away with it. He may occasionally get roughed up by the press, but it is the exception. <BR/><BR/>And you're right, Thule would be preferable to Baghdad, even with black fly season coming on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-1142129176685259782006-03-11T18:06:00.000-08:002006-03-11T18:06:00.000-08:00No, cooper, you miss the point: wouldn't you rath...No, cooper, you miss the point: wouldn't you <I>rather</I> be stationed in Thule, Greenland than in Baghdad? In Thule, the worst that happens is that you freeze quietly to death on a glacier that hasn't quite melted yet. There are no IEDs in Greenland.<BR/><BR/>Also, Rummy isn't the only one in the administration completely out of touch with reality - after all, you're the one who posted the link to the <I>Foreign Affairs</I> article over at FA. Anybody in the Bush administration who displays any grasp of actual facts is summarily fired.hederahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-1142122355455558562006-03-11T16:12:00.000-08:002006-03-11T16:12:00.000-08:00Why isn't some reporter who's had it up to here an...Why isn't some reporter who's had it up to here and ready for a few years as a style and auto-mechanics columnist in Two Dot, Montana (anything, but the Neverland of Pentagon doublespeak) call Rumsfelt on these absurdities he keeps blathering about? And what happened to the soldier who asked him about armoring their trucks and Humvees from the scrap yard because Rumsfelt wasn't seeing to getting armor plating to Iraq with appropriate speed? I wonder where he's stationed now? Thule, Greenland probably.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com