Tuesday, September 30, 2003
This whole thing about whether someone in Bush's administration leaked the name of a CIA agent seems rather bizarre. The impression I'd got over here on the question of Iraq was that the American media were still rather supine before the administration...
HACK: Mr. President, is there a faint chance that you've done anything that could have been seen as even slightly wrong in your life, especially since becoming president?
SHRUB: No, how could you even suggest such a thing?
HACK: Oh, please forgive my monumental stupidity (throws himself out of fiftieth floor window)
But it does seem as if the Administration were more rattled than it seemed, although to be fair we were busy watching Blair and Ali C dig themselves in to a hole with the whole Kelly affair. Hopefully there will be people in the American media who will remember that it should never be a crime to ask questions of those people the country pays to organise things and we'll sort out who said what. (There's a useful perspective on the affair at Mother Jones.)
HACK: Mr. President, is there a faint chance that you've done anything that could have been seen as even slightly wrong in your life, especially since becoming president?
SHRUB: No, how could you even suggest such a thing?
HACK: Oh, please forgive my monumental stupidity (throws himself out of fiftieth floor window)
But it does seem as if the Administration were more rattled than it seemed, although to be fair we were busy watching Blair and Ali C dig themselves in to a hole with the whole Kelly affair. Hopefully there will be people in the American media who will remember that it should never be a crime to ask questions of those people the country pays to organise things and we'll sort out who said what. (There's a useful perspective on the affair at Mother Jones.)
