Thursday, October 06, 2005
All This Hullabaloo
There are a lot of batty things going on in the world today, and I haven’t the time to write about them, so I’ll just link them.
Based entirely on second-hand Palestinian sources—sources who know precisely how American politics work and are generally displeased with current chumminess between Bush and Israel—Drudge, BBC, and Haaretz are going crazy with an exlusive, set to be displayed as a BBC mini-series, that Bush purportedly told Palestinian ministers in 2003 that God speaks to him and tells him to invade various countries.
Al Gore gave a windy and inconsequential speech at a media conference. He doesn’t like the fact that media is becoming decentralized, is the gist.
The European Union and the United Nations, neither of which have ever contributed materially to the invention or the free-market fostering of the internet over its 15-year lifespan, and both of which would prefer to forget that it wouldn’t exist if not for the United States Army, would like to please take control of it now.
And the President, meanwhile, gave the best speech of his life today. It had been planned for a month or so ago, but Katrina got in the way. His delivery was decent; his text was phenomenal. Kudos to Gerson and crew for finally putting the big man far out in front of all the naysayers.
Posted on October 6, 2005 01:35 PM. Permalink 