At today's White House press conference, Tony Snow spun the usual bullshit tales. Apparently, according to huffpo, some heckler got so frustrated that he yelled out that Snow was "insulting our intelligence".
It's certainly nice to know that you're awake back there, Edward R. Murrow, but it's not your intelligence that he's insulting.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's your balls he's stepping on, not your intelligence. He doesn't believe this shit, and he doesn't expect you to either. You're just supposed to write it down so that it can appear in the NYT and WaPo as fact.
There's a few other things getting insulted along the way, but rest assured that your intelligence isn't one of them. Your integrity - yeah, big time. Your patriotism, certainly. Your heritage? Yeah, after all you might be smart, but it didn't help you get born rich. Your relatives? Sure, if any of them serve in the military. Your faith? Sure, if it's not Fruit-Loops fundamentalist Christian or AIPAC Jewish.
But what they're insulting most of all is your desperate striving to not be perceived as a failure in your posting to the White House. You'd rather keep your job than do it right. You want to be the Bob Woodward of Hardball and "Plan of Attack", not the one from Nixon's enemies list and "All The President's Men". You want to be David Broder. And if there's one thing Tony Snow and I can agree on, it's the fact that that is pathetic.
So Tony Snow insulted you, eh? Do something about it, or shut up. After all, while you're busy heckling, some important talking points are going entirely unrecorded.
Unfortunately, I probably won't stay up to tend this one, so consider it a bitter, lonesome screech.
