Tom Shales had the
of yesterday’s sad little press gathering in the East Room of the White House,
where our Fearless Maximum Leader was seen on television doing his usual,
stumbling tap dance. Shales began:
“When I say something, I mean it,” George W. Bush said decisively near the
end of last night’s prime-time presidential news conference. Nobody called out, “When will you
say something?” — the White House press corps is too mannerly for that — but some reporters,
and some viewers, must have been thinking it.
That was our snap judgment: the guy is simply out of his league.
