|
Faithful husband, soccer dad,
basset owner, and former cowboy
Return to TboggHomePage
FELLOW TRAITORS
*The Nether-Count*
100 Monkeys Typing
Ain't No Bad Dude
Alicublog
Americablog
American Leftist
Attytood (Will Bunch)
Bad Attitudes
Balloon Juice
Better Inhale Deeply
Bitch Ph.D
Bloggy
Bob Harris
Brilliant At Breakfast
BusyBusyBusy
Byzantium's Shores
Creek Running North
Crooked Timber
Crooks and Liars
Cursor
Daily Kos
Dependable Renegade
David Ehrenstein
Democratic Veteran
Dohiyi Mir
Down With Tyranny
Echidne of the Snakes
Edicts of Nancy
Elayne Riggs
Eschaton (Atrios)
Ezra Klein
Failure Is Impossible
Feministe
Feministing
Firedoglake
First Draft
Freewayblogger
The Garance
The Group News Blog
Guano Island
Hairy Fish Nuts
Hammer of the Blogs
Hullabaloo(Digby)
I Am TRex
If I Ran the Zoo
I'm Not One To Blog
Interesting Times
James Wolcott
Jesus' General
Jon Swift
Juan Cole
King of Zembla
Kung Fu Monkey
Lance Mannion
Lawyers Guns and Money
Lean Left
Liberal Oasis
Main & Central
Majikthise
Making Light (Nielsen Hayden)
Mark Kleiman
Martini Revolution
MaxSpeak
MF Blog
MyDD
Needlenose
The Next Hurrah
Nitpicker
No More Mr. Nice Blog
Norbizness
Norwegianity
Oliver Willis
One Good Move
Orcinus
Pacific Views
Pam's House Blend
Pandagon
Pharyngula
Political Animal(K.Drum)
The Poorman
Progressive Gold
Right Hand Thief
Rising Hegemon
Roger Ailes
Rude Pundit
Rumproast
Sadly, No
Seeing The Forest
Shakesville
Sisyphus Shrugged
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Slacktivist
SteveAudio
Suburban Guerilla
TalkLeft
The American Street
The Left Coaster
The Road To Surfdom
The Sideshow
The Talking Dog
The Talent Show
Tom Tomorrow
Tom Watson
Whiskeyfire
UggaBugga
Wampum
Wonkette
World O'Crap
TOSS ME
A BONE
Amazon Wish List
SOURCES
MSNBC
CNN
The Washington Post
Media Matters
The New York Times
The Guardian
Yahoo News
Salon
The Raw Story
Common Dreams
Media Transparency
The Nation
Alternet
Joe Conason
Talking Points Memo
THE VAST WASTELAND
Captain Corndog & Friends
Cheerleaders Gone Spazzy
80% True
Corner of Mediocrity and Banality
Village Idiots Central
Darwin's Waiting Room
News for Mouthbreathers
Mailbox
Your e-mail may be reprinted sans name and e-mail address. Think about how stupid you want to appear.
Blogroll Me!
Site Feed
|
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Sense of entitlement
You've got to hand it to the Bush Administration; America is their playpen and they want all the toys. And the odd bagel. Here's hapless, over-his-head Tommy Thompson stealing food and newspapers on an airplane:
NPR's "On the Media" co-host Bob Garfield -- on his way to New York last Thursday morning to promote his book "And Now a Few Words From Me" -- stowed his bagel and newspaper on a front-row seat on the Delta Shuttle before walking back to confer with another passenger, former assistant secretary of state Charlotte Beers.
When he returned, Garfield told us, he was irked to discover that both the paper and the bagel were missing.
"If I find the person who took my bagel, I'll kill the SOB!" the media critic announced to a man sitting behind him -- a grim-looking, gray-suited, beefy type who, Garfield belatedly realized, was wearing a wire in his ear and protecting the gentleman sitting across the aisle -- the man who was, in fact, reading Garfield's newspaper and holding Garfield's bagel.
Namely, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.
It turns out that Thompson's traveling aide had assumed the bagel and paper were meant for his boss -- who's on a diet and isn't eating bagels these days anyway. When Garfield told Thompson the items were his, they were immediately surrendered.
"I guess you can never have too many newspapers," Garfield said.
"Oh yes, you can," Thompson muttered.
Yesterday Thompson spokesman Tony Jewell said the mix-up was the unidentified aide's, not the secretary's. Jewell added: "At a time when the nation has more important things going on than Mr. Garfield's bagel, this is obviously another example of why some people are fed up with certain members of the media. Maybe this is a subject Mr. Garfield can carefully examine on his show."
For those keeping score at home, this incident involved Thompson, his bodyguard, his spokesman, and an aide who's responsible for procuring newspapers and snacks for Tommy, as well as presumably cutting his meat for him.
Hope it's not the same guy who shakes his dick for him after he pees.
|
|
