I'm smarter than Les Kinsolving
At today's White House press briefing conservative buffoon Les Kinsolving managed to waste everyone's time in his usual fashion with this line of questioning:
Q There are news reports this morning that parents and children who were guests of the President, when they visited Congress, wore stickers with the wording, "I was an embryo." And my question is, since all of us were once embryos, and all of us were once part sperm and egg, is the President also opposed to contraception, which stops this union and kills both sperm and egg?This might have been amusing if it were Jesus' General doing the interrogating — asking McClellan about the rights of "Blastocyst-Americans" and such — or if Kinsolving were genuinely interested in critiquing the president's childish musings about a "culture of life." Instead, this moment underscored the utter banality of the White House press briefings, the daily burlesque show which the press corps itself has long since decided to attend only while nodding off in an alcoholic stupor. Scotty did his best to sound irritated with Kinsolving, who now writes for the diagnosably lunatic World Net Daily and sits somewhere among the press corps' top five in seniority. But everyone knows that Kinsolving's role is to run interference at these press briefings by cracking wise at the appropriate moments and consuming swaths of time that might be better spent asking America's Ombudsman about, say, torture, or the ongoing futility in Iraq, or the indictment of the Runaway Bride. Instead, we get a moronic Monty Python knock-off from a right-wing gasbag. All this came after an especially unhelpful, 15-minute experiment in bloviation as McClellan tried to explain his master's position on the Israeli security fence, Sharon's "disengagement" from Gaza, and the "Roadmap." In every respect, it was an all-too-typical embarrassment.
MR. McCLELLAN: I think the President has made his views known on these issues, and his views known --
Q You know, but what I asked, is he opposed -- he's not opposed to contraception, is he?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, and you've made your views known, as well. The President --
Q No, no, but is he opposed to contraception, Scott? Could you just tell us yes or no?
MR. McCLELLAN: Les, I think that this question is --
Q Well, is he? Does he oppose contraception?
MR. McCLELLAN: Les, I think the President's views are very clear when it comes to building a culture of life --
Q If they were clear, I wouldn't have asked.
MR. McCLELLAN: -- and if you want to ask those questions, that's fine. I'm just not going to dignify them with a response.
That Scotty, he is one smooth customer.
ReplyDeleteHe knows how to rebuff vacuous nonsense.
Still not as good as when, in the face of uncooperative reality, he clings to talking points like a scrap of wood thrown off a sinking ship. Those are special days.
The White House Press corps is the infected pus from the boil that is the fourth estate.
That's a nice looking sperm you got there.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the point of having these press conferences anyways? Kinsolving fills the void left by Gannon's departure pretty nicely.
ReplyDeleteHave you noticed that the more Scott lies, the more his face puffs up.
scotty mcmuffin never had the flair that ari fleischer had for lying. with ari, you got the sense that he knew that he was full of it. but scotty seems to be a true-believer.
ReplyDeleteif anyone in the press corps had any dignity, they'd have quit showing up to the briefings a long time ago.
James, that's a good idea. Bush would have to fill the seats with a bunch of crazed hanger-ons with one day passes and the show could get a little interesting.
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