On MSNBC's Scarborough Country, Time columnist Joe Klein asserted that former President Bill Clinton will be "a tremendous millstone around [the] neck" of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) if she runs for president in 2008, adding, "Not because of tomcatting, but because of the fact that he's been president for eight years."
How can eight years of peace and prosperity be a millstone?
Joe Scarborough then observed that a Hillary Clinton presidency would mean "a Bush or Clinton as president or vice president from 1980 to -- I guess it would be 2016," to which Klein replied: "Gag me with a spoon."
Y'know...no one, as witness my post below referencing Mary Stuart Masterson, is a bigger '80s fan than I am. But...even I know it is laughable when discussing presidents or vice-presidents (okay, maybe Quayle), to use "valley girl talk."
Also on Media Matters: Okay, the Enron thing.
In their reporting on the conviction of former Enron Corp. executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling on fraud and conspiracy charges, the network news programs all failed to mention the ties between the fallen corporation and President Bush. Further, the Los Angeles Times ran six separate articles on the Enron verdicts on May 26, but not a single one noted Bush's connection to Enron and, in particular, his close personal and political ties to Lay.
Full story here. You won't want to miss the excerpt from one of then-governor Bush's letters to Kenny-Boy Lay:
One of the sad things about old friends is that they seem to be getting older -- just like you! 55 years old. Wow! That is really old. Thank goodness you have such a young, beautiful wife.
As a certain Mr. Jones' father said on a similar occasion,
if a man cannot manage his native language, how can he manage his native land?
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