News: November 2004 Archives
Everyone has probably seen these two stories via Drudge: "September 11-style attack plans thwarted" and "Plane that was supposed to carry former president crashes". Can anyone point to any other "almost news" stories from 2004? There might be a prize in it for whomever links to the most almost-significant.
In case you missed it, Peter Jennings and Bill Clinton had it out on Thursday night.
JENNINGS (Discussing rankings by presidential historians]: They gave you a forty-first in terms of moral authority - after Nixon.(HT: A cute secret agent.)CLINTON: They're wrong about that. You know why they're wrong about it? They're wrong about it.
JENNINGS: Why, sir?
CLINTON: Because we had $100 million spent against us in all these inspections. ... In spite of it all, you don't have any example where I ever lied to the American people about my job, where I have let the American people down. And I had more support from the world when I quit than when I started. And I will go to my grave being at peace about it. And I don't really care about what they think.
JENNINGS: Oh, yes you do.
CLINTON: They have no idea ...
JENNINGS: Excuse me, Mr. President. I can feel it across the room. You care very deeply.
CLINTON: No, no. I care. I care. You don't want to go here, Peter. You don't want to go here. Not after what your people did. And the way you - your network - what you did with Kenneth Starr. The way your people repeated every little sleazy thing he did. No one has any idea of what that's like.
You've gotta read the "How Bush Did It" series in Newsweek. It's good stuff. That link is just to the introduction; make sure you read all eight full chapters.
Ah -- sweet, sweet victory. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. One, two, three, four-more-years, five, sixty-six, seventy-two, eight, nine, and zero. And, just because I love thee so much, eleven-to-one. (Actually only four-to-one, but it flows better this way.)
Update 041103 4:17pm
JT says that I should acknowledge it wasn't the landslide I predicted... alas! Twelve.
