Here I sit...
Jul. 26th, 2004 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpWhich is pretty good, all things considered.
I decided to go to see the local sawbones today about a complaint that surfaced yesterday, and ended up scheduling a session with another doc in Durango tomorrow, bumping the medical appointment I already had scheduled for the morning to the afternoon. When I asked the local doc how important it was for me -- on a scale of 1 to 10 -- to clear tomorrow morning's appointment, the reply was not heartening: 8.
Fortunately, I managed to finish some short items that came in this morning before going to the doctor's office, because right now, I really don't feel like doing much of anything at all.
* * * And the Tube isn't going to be much of a consolation this week, what with the Dems in Beantown. I accidentally turned the thing on a few minutes ago, just in time to hear Jimmy Carter talk about an "uninterrupted string of mistakes and miscalculations," which I presume was not an evaluation of his own performance as President and diplomat, but intead an instance of the pot calling the kettle black.
It's not as if the Convention fever doesn't have its interesting moments, though.
Yesterday, Teresa Heinz Kerry was heard to say, "We need to turn back some of the creepy, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics. I remember a time when people in political parties in Pennsylvania talked to one another and actually got things done."
Afterward, some reporter asked, ""What did you mean un-American activity?"
Ms. Heinz Kerry then says: "No, I didn't say that," and after a couple of exchanges where the reporter asked what she did say, repeating the adjective "un-American," but this time leaving off "activity," the woman asks, "Why did you put those words in my mouth?" Then the next thing out of her mouth is: "I didn't say 'activity' or 'un-American'," at which point, she turns on her heel and leaves.
She's 50% right. She didn't say 'activity', but she clearly said 'un-American,' and frankly, not only would I like to hear a good definition of 'un-American,' but I'm greatly puzzled by just what constitutes 'un-Pennsylvanian' behavior (aside from, say, not rooting for the Steelers).
Anyway, almost a minute later (according to the voiceover in the video featured on this page) she comes back, verifies that the reporter works for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, goes "Aha!" and tells the guy to shove it. The rest of the video seems to be saying that it was okay for her to say that, since the Tribune-Review is, according to the Kerry camp, "a right-wing rag," a charge that was obligingly allowed to be echoed by the august personage of the Pennsylvania governor, but not allowed to be challenged by anyone.
I'd offer to start a pool as to how successful the GOP would be with such an approach to handling presumably hostile members of the media, but anyone who'd buy a ticket in the pool probably ought not be allowed to handle money without supervision.
Cheers...
I decided to go to see the local sawbones today about a complaint that surfaced yesterday, and ended up scheduling a session with another doc in Durango tomorrow, bumping the medical appointment I already had scheduled for the morning to the afternoon. When I asked the local doc how important it was for me -- on a scale of 1 to 10 -- to clear tomorrow morning's appointment, the reply was not heartening: 8.
Fortunately, I managed to finish some short items that came in this morning before going to the doctor's office, because right now, I really don't feel like doing much of anything at all.
It's not as if the Convention fever doesn't have its interesting moments, though.
Yesterday, Teresa Heinz Kerry was heard to say, "We need to turn back some of the creepy, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics. I remember a time when people in political parties in Pennsylvania talked to one another and actually got things done."
Afterward, some reporter asked, ""What did you mean un-American activity?"
Ms. Heinz Kerry then says: "No, I didn't say that," and after a couple of exchanges where the reporter asked what she did say, repeating the adjective "un-American," but this time leaving off "activity," the woman asks, "Why did you put those words in my mouth?" Then the next thing out of her mouth is: "I didn't say 'activity' or 'un-American'," at which point, she turns on her heel and leaves.
She's 50% right. She didn't say 'activity', but she clearly said 'un-American,' and frankly, not only would I like to hear a good definition of 'un-American,' but I'm greatly puzzled by just what constitutes 'un-Pennsylvanian' behavior (aside from, say, not rooting for the Steelers).
Anyway, almost a minute later (according to the voiceover in the video featured on this page) she comes back, verifies that the reporter works for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, goes "Aha!" and tells the guy to shove it. The rest of the video seems to be saying that it was okay for her to say that, since the Tribune-Review is, according to the Kerry camp, "a right-wing rag," a charge that was obligingly allowed to be echoed by the august personage of the Pennsylvania governor, but not allowed to be challenged by anyone.
I'd offer to start a pool as to how successful the GOP would be with such an approach to handling presumably hostile members of the media, but anyone who'd buy a ticket in the pool probably ought not be allowed to handle money without supervision.
Cheers...
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Date: 2004-07-27 03:32 am (UTC)not to be an apologist for Heinz-Kerry, nor the Dems, neither of which light my fire to any great degree,
but from what i understand, the current GOP administration does its best to simply disallow hostile media from asking it questions at all (at press conferences) -- and George W. Bush recently pulled a turn-heel-and-retreat manouevre when asked about Enron at one of those press meetings (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040708/photos_ts_afp/040708125254_jg418y7h_photo1), when someone hostile apparently did get through.
i dunno, i tend to give more a pass to someone losing their cool (as did Bush in the cited story, as did Cheney with his go-'F'-yourself comment, as did Kerry's wife) than to the political points gained from, or lost from the furor following these little events. well, perhaps a little less so with Cheney's tantrum, as it was on the floor of the Senate, where decorum is supposed to be held, and having read some of his comments gloating over his own statements. hm.
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Date: 2004-07-27 02:09 pm (UTC)Cheers...
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Date: 2004-07-27 11:32 pm (UTC)i guess my view of the media is pretty skewed because i primarily listen to talk radio, Rush, Glenn Beck, Michael Reagan, and i don't watch TV, so i only hear a blatantly biased opinion day in and out.
-- have you been getting any Shaggy Manes out your way?
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Date: 2004-07-28 01:49 am (UTC)Cheers...