Reply #14: Oh ya gotta send those quotes to Leher.

[Donna Zen]

He blew that one. My take:

It hard to watch, isn't it? That gummy, lipless, soul-bereft smile grimacing his self-congratulatory gawks and squeals, do turn ones blood to ice. And yet, I watch in horrible fascination, the man who made every bad decision that could be made, yet fails to accept one grain of responsibility. At one point Jim Leher stared in disbelief, as Rummy coyly applying “Carnage Math” tried to lower the number of dead service people to 1,600. If you watched, then you too saw the quick brush off by the Rumsterstein as Leher gawked: “...are you saying?”

But that was not all...oh no, that was not the highlight. That came later when Rumsfailed grandly pronounced how happy and safe the moderates Arabs in the Gulf region feel now that he, Rummy The Great, has tamed the Iraqi beast. Alas, I’m sorry to say, that in the true fashion of the mewing press, Leher muttered not a mumbling word. Not a word. No word.

I’m not sorry that I watched. My hair was getting a little long anyway. And after all, it provided a chance for me to imagine a group of Rummy supporters eagerly awaiting his appearance, quickly getting the video on the web, and admiring his tie.
I’m sure these strange people will someday make the pages of a Stephen King novel entirely peopled with Gorgons trapped in an insane asylum.