On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:07:50 -0800, "Snafu"
wrote:

Jim,

I'm sure it's completely normal for the FBI and/or Secret Service to do a
thorough background check on a person applying for the coveted White House
press pass who will be about 10' from the president of the US, and that they
fail to notice that he is using an alias, and has not previously worked as a
journalist, and the news agency he is working for came into existence about
4 days before he applied. I believe mistakes happen, and the (real) media
should just let this fade away. ...NOT!


Besides, he asked a question that wasn't stupid!

"Thank you. Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the
U.S. economy. [Senate Minority Leader] Harry Reid [D-NV] was talking about soup
lines. And [Senator] Hillary Clinton [D-NY] was talking about the economy being
on the verge of collapse. Yet in the same breath they say that Social Security
is rock solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you've
said you are going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work
with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"


John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes