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 Anyone? Anyone? * Today is Question Day in The Trial when the Senators get
to ask for information they, somehow, may have missed over
the last year of 24-by-7 coverage. These questions have to
be in writing while the Senators, as Larry Margasak reminds us in his AP piece this morning,
must “sit silently on pain of imprisonment.” There is a move afoot to have a subliminal sign flash
the words “Go Ahead. Talk” above the podium in the Senate chamber.
* Believe me, I understand the Senators’ pain having to sit there hour after hour, day after day. I
am having flashbacks to high school where I had detentions lasting, sometimes, weeks at a time.
Like the Senators, I had done nothing wrong. The teachers were picking on me.
* Now, perhaps, you understand my reluctance to go out unescorted in Singapore last month.
* I was asked by MSNBC yesterday about Pat Robertson’s call for and end to The Trial. I said it
proved Republicans, Conservative Republicans, Religious Conservative Republicans are taking this
seriously and thoughtfully and are coming to independent conclusions. This is a far different view
of the GOP than the White House would have the American people believe that the Vast
Right-Wing Conspiracy awakes every morning, has a 130 million-person conference call, and
marches out to “get Clinton.”
* There was a story yesterday that James Carville had been arrested for beating up wife Mary
Matalin, putting a couple of rounds in the family couch, lighting off a nuclear weapon, and some
other stuff. This news raced around the internet like information for day traders that some – any –
internet stock was going to report a fourth-quarter profit.
* It was a fake, of course, which I knew the instant I got my FIRST e-mail about it. Here’s why:
When the fight starts between The James and Mary, whom I’ve known for 15 years, my money is
on Mary. She would kick his
bald-headed-snakey-eyed-book-hawking-Clinton-defending-Gingrich-hating butt back to Louisiana
so fast the White House would STOP spinning.
* Bob Shogan, LA Times’ senior political correspondent, at a luncheon honoring his excellent new
book, “The Double-Edged Sword: How Character Makes and Ruins Presidents” on why censure
might not be a proper punishment for Bill Clinton: “If the Senate passed a Clinton Censure, he
would thank them for naming it after him.”
* Bill Clinton’s dog bit a Marine. Roger Clinton’s dog bit someone in Los Angeles. Fred Imus’ dog
bit his girlfriend (and ate about a thousand chickens). Don Imus should start a ranch for
unsocialized dogs. And their owners.
* One Movie Title and It Comes to This, Department: “FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- A caller claiming to be
a police officer talked a male restaurant manager into strip-searching a 17-year-old female worker,
authorities said.” No mention, in the piece, if the caller had an Arkansas accent.
* Why isn’t there a 411 for cell phone numbers?
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