And the Beat Goes On
Friday, November 12, 1999
- Back-door neighbor Mary Matalin on Bradley v. Gore: "Bradley is off-beat but Gore is a beat off." If you say that aloud, it's very funny. I thought Mary had finally figured out Naomi Wolf's portfolio with the Gore campaign but, in a post-appearance phone call, she claimed what she meant was that Gore is always just a little out of synch.
- Wednesday, I remarked that the Clinton White House had ignored the 10th anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall. That was incorrect. A number of people - all but one of them Democrats - e-mailed me pointing to a speech on Monday in which Bill Clinton gave credit to Ronald Reagan and George Bush. In spite of searching both the AP and Reuters news wires, the crack research staff at Mullings missed it completely. Mistakes have been made but by this weekend those mistakes will have been corrected.
- See, in B-T-W (Big-Time-Washington) the trick is to (a) admit a mistake while, (b) placing the blame on others and, if you're really good at it, (c) suggesting it's being fixed using the pluperfect subjunctive case.
- It's like going to a Gallagher concert: At a fundraiser the other night, a Member of Congress was discussing his adventures in diaper-changing with his brand new son. "He did to me literally what people around here do to us figuratively all the time."
- A number of people have gotten their Drawers, Men's, Cotton into a twist over the fact that Presidential candidate John McCain shot a commercial at Arlington National Cemetery (there HAS to be a better phrase than "shot a commercial" when writing about a cemetery). Here's my suggestion for a new rule: If your grandfather was a four-star Admiral, and your father was a four-star Admiral, and you, yourself, spent more than five years as a prisoner of war, then you can tape and/or film a bio-spot at Arlington.
- I think to be fair, a father or grandfather who was President should be considered on the theory that one Commander-in-Chief probably equals eight stars. But that doesn't get George W past the prisoner-of-war thing. Pat Buchanan will claim a large number ancestors with those lightening rod thingies on their collars, but we don't think they should count.
- More corrections: Bruno Trouble, is the spokesman for the America's Cup challenger series now being held in New Zealand. I thought it was amusing that someone named "Trouble" had to describe a racing yacht breaking in half with the people on board having to swim for it. It turns out he is French and his name is pronounced: True-BLAY. Molly Riley of Reuters News Pictures e-mailed to correct me as did friend and supporter Terry Kohler who is watching his North Sails compete in real time.
- Kohler reports Mr. True-BLAY's wife had a convertible with the family name as the vanity plate. He said New Zealanders could be surprisingly vocal as a young woman, hair a-flowing, drove by with the word "TROUBLE" on her license plates. You just can't get a decent accent grave outside of Provence.
- I'll probably get angry mail from Naomi Wolfians (a post-modern version of Ellen Jamesians who cut out their salaries in solidarity with Naomi) pointing out that women have just as much right to have "Born to be Bad" and "If this Truck is Rockin' Don't Come Knockin'" signs on their vehicles as do men.
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