12/12/2005
A Wee Bit More on Froomkin
Time's Mike Allen from yesterday's Meet the Press (try not to vomit):
But what you hear is, you talk to Republicans at Christmas parties, they think he still has the makings of Reagan. There's still great promise in this administration. But nobody sees a clear plan to achieving that promise. A lot of friends of the president thought he's going to be one of the greats. They thought it was a given that he was going to be a Roosevelt, a Lincoln. Now, they're not sure. They think he still has it in him. If you talk to his friends, the president has not changed. They talk about a sort of Zen- like quality that he has, that folks came up from Midland. They thought they were going to have to buck him up for Christmas. He was fine. He was reading military history, taking comfort in what happened to other commanders in chief who were underestimated in their time.I read things like that and expressions like "surreal fawning", or "shameless pandering" or "gag me" come to mind. That's the kind of critique we would get from our Washington press core without Froomkin's example.
Interesting that part of that excerpt ended up in Froomkin's column today. You don't suppose he was making a point or anything, do you?
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