“I love this country and I love the people in it. And I think that we’ve been through a very difficult time. And we’re going to identify where the real evil is, root it out, and make the country a better place.” – Michael Moore, describing the Bush administration, not terrorism, as the real evil, in an interview with Aaron Brown, CNN last night.
ROMANCE BLOSSOMS:“The newspaper column is pretty close to dead as a medium. There’s no newspaper columnist who can set the agenda the way that Walter Lippmann did or [James] Reston did. There’s only one destination columnist now, one whose column you look for, and that’s [New York Times columnist] Maureen Dowd. And she doesn’t write an agenda-setting column, delivering orders to the powers that be.” – Mike Kinsley, Chicago Tribune today.
“Calling Ari Fleischer ‘a great evasive bore,’ Michael Kinsley wrote: ‘Fleischer speaks a sort of imperial court English, in which any question, no matter how specific, is parried with general assurances that the emperor is keenly aware and deeply concerned and firmly resolved and infallibly right and the people are fully supportive and further information should be sought elsewhere.'” – Maureen Dowd, New York Times today.
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