Game over
The New York Times has a story today about how hard it is to be the father of a total failure, in this case George Bush:
Only in the Bush family could they compare a man engineering conflicts that are costing thousands of lives with a kid booting a ball at third base. There are plenty of fathers today who will never go to a Little League game with their sons.
Because they're dead now.
I was going to let this go, it being the puff piece that it is, but I saw this from Atrios:
It's all a game to them. Today on Countdown, Jonathan Alter told Keith Olbermann that when Steve Skvara asked John Edwards about health care during Tuesday's debate, Alter was so moved he turned to his son and told him "This isn't sports."
It's nice to know there are people in the media who are still able to snap out of it.
Before the debate, Tucker Carlson said "You are watching MSNBC, the place for politics. Eight minutes from game time." As soon as it was over, Chris Matthews said "It wasn't an NFL football game, but it was pretty close." In fairness, the debate was at Soldier Field. I'm not sure it would have made a difference.
P.S. Can somebody at MSNBC.com please get with the program and make transcripts available promptly like CNN does? It's not even close.
These are distressing days for the Bush family patriarch, only the second former president in American history, after John Adams, to see his son take the White House. At 83, he finds it tough to watch his son get criticized from the sidelines; often, he likens himself to a Little League father whose kid is having a rough game. And like the proud and angry Little League dad who cannot help but yell at the umpire, sometimes he just cannot help getting involved.
Only in the Bush family could they compare a man engineering conflicts that are costing thousands of lives with a kid booting a ball at third base. There are plenty of fathers today who will never go to a Little League game with their sons.
Because they're dead now.
I was going to let this go, it being the puff piece that it is, but I saw this from Atrios:
Three months ago today, the 4th branch of government said that it was "game time" in Iraq.
Since then, approximately 177 US troops have died in Cheney's game.
It's all a game to them. Today on Countdown, Jonathan Alter told Keith Olbermann that when Steve Skvara asked John Edwards about health care during Tuesday's debate, Alter was so moved he turned to his son and told him "This isn't sports."
It's nice to know there are people in the media who are still able to snap out of it.
Before the debate, Tucker Carlson said "You are watching MSNBC, the place for politics. Eight minutes from game time." As soon as it was over, Chris Matthews said "It wasn't an NFL football game, but it was pretty close." In fairness, the debate was at Soldier Field. I'm not sure it would have made a difference.
P.S. Can somebody at MSNBC.com please get with the program and make transcripts available promptly like CNN does? It's not even close.
