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...MSNBC reporter, Kelly Smith, reported as follows on Thursday from Crawford, Texas: "Governor George W. Bush made an appearance before reporters at his ranch today, trying to look presidential." The comics (Leno, Letterman, Comedy Central) have swarmed all over Gore and Bush, pointing and woofing at the forest of American flags arrayed behind non-presidents and non-vice presidents as they've appeared on television to wheedle and spin. The flag (reverenced as a sacred object during annual flag-burning-bill debates) turns into a cheesy stage prop for the drooling suitors...
...cable news networks that carried the hearing stretching to make the tapes visually dramatic: CNN busied up its screen with a collage including the presidential seal, a picture of tape machine reels, head shots of attorneys and Justices, closed captioning and a live shot of the SCOTUS building; MSNBC added goofy computer-generated animation that zoomed through a digital court building as they tape played, reminding us why the Sony PlayStation has no videogame set in a federal courthouse...
...level of angry stupidity. Thomas Friedman, a normally presentable columnist for the New York Times, has just delivered himself of a scurrilous piece that cartoons Bush Republicans as a collection of evil "elder elite white men and women." Paul Begala, late of the Clinton White House, did an MSNBC online column in which he invited his readers to look at the electoral map on which the Bush states appeared in red: "You see the state where James Byrd was lynch-dragged behind a pickup truck until his body came apart. It's red. You see the state where Mathew Shepard...
...That MSNBC plays "Saturday Night Live" clips all day Sunday, so we don't have to sit through the whole episode...
...quickest route to stability. Or it may leave people reasonably suspecting that they've been sold out by secretive mandarins. Say what you will about the bile-spewing cable culture of call-in shows and town halls, it's all about enfranchisement: zapping your e-mail to CNN or MSNBC, hustling down to a live camera shoot with a homemade picket sign...