Tuesday, October 02, 2001
IS THERE A BIGGER WEENIE in the public eye than White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer?
I just had to ask, after the limited selection of TV channels on the treadmill-mounted set at my new health club (more on that later) left me watching the Bush flack joust with reporters. As he deflected question after question, he wore the self-satisfied smirk of a freshman-dorm debate king. I kept waiting for him to mouth "Well, now you're getting into cultural relativism!" or start quoting "Star Trek" episodes, or maybe even read a prepared statement about those hilarious oxymorons, led by "jumbo shrimp."
I just had to ask, after the limited selection of TV channels on the treadmill-mounted set at my new health club (more on that later) left me watching the Bush flack joust with reporters. As he deflected question after question, he wore the self-satisfied smirk of a freshman-dorm debate king. I kept waiting for him to mouth "Well, now you're getting into cultural relativism!" or start quoting "Star Trek" episodes, or maybe even read a prepared statement about those hilarious oxymorons, led by "jumbo shrimp."
