Taking Out The Trash

Taking Out The Trash 11.14.05

By Patrick on November 14, 2005 4:55 PM

  • “Chris Matthews Bizarre Analogy Contest!”

  • Elizabeth Bumiller speaks to Clayton State University. (Go Lakers!

  • Salon turns 10.

  • From this weekend’s Saturday Night Live:
      (thanks to Hotline for the transcription)

      Chris Matthews:”I gotta say Secretary McClellan, I’ve been watching your press conferences. You look as lost as a dyslexic kid at a spelling bee.”

      McClellan, on the WH position on torture legislation, while dabbing his sweaty face: “Chris, I can’t comment on our ongoing efforts to protect the American people, as they are ongoing. Likewise, we can’t comment on efforts that were at one time ongoing, and now have ceased to be ongoing. Or on efforts that are ongoing that will stop going on, then at a later date will continue to be ongoing. It’s just something I can’t comment on. Is that it? Am I done?” …

      McClellan maintained that he could only comment “on things that are non-going, or have never gone, or things that won’t go.” After McClellan asked for air conditioning, Matthews: “Good lord McClellan, I haven’t seen fluid shoot out of a guy like that since I took a boat ride with the Minnesota Vikings.”

  • This NYT correction is worth a chuckle: They “misstated the subject of a comment he [President Bush] made to Matt Lauer of NBC in August 2004, ‘I don’t think you can win it.’ He referred to the war on terror, not the war in Iraq.”

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