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22Apr/101

In Debunker

Playing a few holes of Rocketman's favorite hypothetical:

News flash: President Obama hasn’t held a formal press conference in almost a year (274 days and counting) yet has golfed 32 times since he was elected—eight more times than President George W. Bush did during his entire presidency.

Bush stopped playing golf in 2003, feeling that it wasn't the kind of thing a war-time president should be doing, and knowing that he'd be pilloried for it if he did.

Strangely, for an article in Salon, a literary critic argues that Burroughs' Naked Lunch is fundamentally pornographic, with no redeeming thought content. One of the most chilling passages in film is in a biopic on Burroughs in a scene where he and Allen Ginsberg are talking on a rooftop about Kerouac, deriding him rather sneeringly as a "nice boy."

Speaking of censorship, my dog Fred eats purple flowers. Hide the Decline videos yanked from YouTube. Fair use, shmair use: Downfall videos pulled. Pam Geller prevails against CAIR in Miami. B-Cast interview with Pam on the subject, here. Via Allahpundit, Comedy Central's disgrace.

I would like to suggest that schools perform an anatomical improbability on themselves.

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Bob Reed
April 22nd, 2010 - 15:02

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Bush played 24 rounds of golf in two and a half years before giving up the game. Obama has played 32 rounds of golf in fifteen months. Bush was a villain for amusing himself on the golf course; Obama’s a cool, self-confident hero for playing golf in the midst of the same wars and a collapsed economy.

That certainly shows a double standard, but McKinnon points out a more troubling double standard that goes more to performance on the job. The media routinely cast Bush as a fumbler on the media stage and routinely complained about a lack of press conferences, where the reporters could ask tough questions. McKinnon notes that Bush averaged about one press conference every two months — not exactly the most forthcoming, but certainly better than Obama’s performance. The current President hasn’t held a formal press conference since July 2009, when he created a mess by opining on the arrest of his friend Henry “Skip” Gates in Cambridge, accusing the police of “acting stupidly.” Ever since, the White House has avoided allowing Obama to get exposed for another goof.

http://tinyurl.com/37ge5or

That certainly suns it up nicely, and shows how the pass by the press extebds into more serious issues of transparency and governance as well.

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