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Saturday, March 20, 2004
My name is Robert Moran...but it's pronounced "moron"....
This column for NRO doesn't call for an editor so much as someone who has the common sense usually found in one of your lower primates, or possibly a smooth stone. Robert Moran is unhappy with the coverage given to Kerry's snowboard fall as opposed to Bob Dole taking a header off of a stage in 1996:
It was September 19, 1996. I woke early, hurriedly dressed for a long day at the office during campaign season, walked out the front door of our townhouse, opened the Washington Post and beheld a vast, above-the-fold, picture of Bob Dole falling off a stage at a campaign rally in a Little League field in Chico, California. It was so patently wrong, so unfair, so mean-spirited, so petty that anger, pity and sadness all fought inside me for equal time. I was not alone.
Washington Post executive Leonard Downie Jr. received more than 150 irate calls that day. His response at the time was that if Bill Clinton had fallen off a stage somewhere, there was "no doubt" the Post would have run the picture.
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It is now March 20, 2004. It is one day after John F. Kerry had a spill on the ski slopes and cussed out one of the secret-service agents duty-bound to protect him.
I woke early, walked out the front door of our home, opened the Washington Post and was greeted with a full color, above-the-fold, picture of children injured in the fighting against terrorists in Pakistan. But, I was not greeted with a picture of a falling John Kerry. I was greeted by a ridiculous non-story about a Bush-Cheney 2004 sweatshirt made in Burma. But, I was not greeted with a picture of a falling John Kerry. I was greeted by a full color "gallery of soldiers who died in Iraq" on pages A14-15. But, there was no picture of Kerry's spill.
In 1996, the Los Angeles Times wrote that Dole's fall was a "visual metaphor for a presidential bid that has stumbled." Given Kerry's week, couldn't the same thing be said of Kerry's campaign?
Let me be blunt. If the Washington Post thinks it is newsworthy to run a picture of a conservative falling off a stage at a campaign rally, why wouldn't it run a picture of a liberal falling down and cursing a security agent there to protect him?
Bear with me, Bob, and I'll explain it all to you (I'll even type slowly):
People fall down when they snowboard. It's a inevitable part of the sport, like sweating when you play basketball.
Candidates don't normally take a dive off of a podium no matter how much the adoring throngs want them to body-surf the crowd.
One more time;
Snowboard...some falling involved. Normal.
Speech...usually delivered upright. Plummeting to earth while speaking: not normal.
Jeez. Even Mickey Kaus isn't that stupid.
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