Listened to a BBC news roundup about the President's visit last night in the car. Didn't recognize any of the names except for David Frum, who redeemed himself immeasurably in my mind when he challenged the assumptions of the twit-announcer's questions - which essentially were, given that everybody hates Bush, that doesn't mean that everybody hates America, does it?
Frum's assertion was that the BBC itself doesn't report news, solely, it also makes news, for example by reporting that everybody hates Bush.
Everybody else on the panel hated Frum and wouldn't talk to him except to hector him, and they agreed among themselves that despite the fact that everybody hates Bush, they wouldn't hate Americans, yet, unless we re-elected Bush, in which case they would probably lose their patience with us and hate us, too.
Why hate Bush? Oh, you know, Kyoto, and the ICC, and the NSS. Unilateralism. No respect for international law.
But, not to worry, Bush was elected in a razor thin margin and the people on the coasts were internationalists unlike the people in the provinces who were the only people who supported a cowboy like Bush.
Oh, it was priceless. Sort of like a car trip accompanied by Zonder, Sun Tzu and Jacob. I kept putting my finger to switch the dial and then pulling it back, admonishing myself that suffering built character. (I was on my way to a lecture on "The Nature of Evil," taught by a Catholic priest from Catholic U.) I did laugh a lot.
Poor poor Eurocrats, they do miss their Clinton! They even miss Reagan, compared to Dubya! And they seem to have forgotten how they actually treated Wilson, who has now been elevated to sainthood. |
