I have slowly come to realize why I don't watch television very much and this was partly made clearer when by chance I was at work and tuned into
CNN hoping to see the next domino fall. It took some hard work, but I think I saw it fall. <seacrest>Find out why...you guessed it, after the flip.</seacrest>
The bread and butter and the roof over my family's heads is provided quite nicely by my work in television. My wife watches next to nothing, she finds the sound irritating, I like to watch basketball games (they cover the whole play of the game with one camera angle, so I know they haven't cut to a game being played where they shot the moon landing, that is they usually only have the opportunity to trick me with an edit during the replays). Now and then I watch one of the shows I have worked on with my children, and try to get my wife to watch as well, and she does now and then, from a distance. <seacrest>But before we can get back to the story, we have to take a little break. Stay tuned, we'll be right back.</seacrest>
On President Bush's Watch
Back to the story at hand: CNN Scores! So I was at work and had the moment to scan for BREAKING news, which breaks all the time and happened to tune into CNN just as Lou Dobbs was becoming Wolf Blitzer and we were leaving the economy for the real world, or the world that effects the economy that Lou Dobbs or his replacement has related to us. Wolf arrived, and he was standing. He seemed to be standing and frequently his body was turned slightly to his right, viewer left, and over his left shoulder were banks of video projections. As he talked, Tony Snow appeared on his shoulder, his image split into the four panels that made up the screen behind Wolf. I can't remember what Snow babbled on about, but he kept babbling, yet in a silent manner, as Wolf turned slightly from his left to his right and began to speak about some other breaking news. I was hoping for number three on the page's list of pervs, and was mildly disappointed when instead Wolf informed us that we would be again looking at the split screen over his shoulder and that a Pentagon correspondent would be joining him to discuss the latest developments in the global jihad against terror that <billmon>the little Dauphin</billmon> is waging on our behalf. Ah, reportage from the belly of the beast. <seacrest>Coming up, after the paragraph break, find out how CNN Scores!</seacrest>
Right Direction
I was sitting in a post production bay watching, on a small, japanese television, Wolf Blitzer talk to CNN's Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre, who is framed up in the boxes that Tony Snow has just vacated, and Wolf has told us that Jamie is really at the pentagon. It was at that moment that I began to lose focus of the story, and my eyes began to drift around the screen. I looked at the ugly edge of the plastic chrome television, the black buttons and various plugs on the front of the set, and then my eyes began to drift back again to the middle of the screen, just up over Wolf's shoulder, and then just up over Jamie'ss shoulder, and I began to notice the environment behind this reporter at the pentagon: he seemed to be sitting in a library. There were books over his shoulder, and I began to look very carefully at those books. And I began to look very carefully at the titles. And that is when CNN Scored! What was in that library at the pentagon? <seacrest>Stay tuned, the answer is coming right up, after this break.</seacrest>
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Let us recap: Wolf has left Tony Snow at the White House and moved on over to the pentagon where the CNN correspondent is reporting on progress of the <billmon>Dauphin's</billmon> global jihad against terror. The correspondent is split into four quadrants of video screen somewhere above Wolf's shoulder, and has been reported to be at the pentagon, and as I said, he seems to be in a library at the pentagon with some artfully placed books just above his left shoulder. That is where we left you just before the break. And now for the moment you all have been waiting for. What books would we find in a pentagon library just over the shoulder of a CNN correspondent: Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, by Thomas E. Ricks, its bold title prominently displayed. And just next to that book separated by several anonymous volumes? State of Denial, by Bob Woodward. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the score I saw, and I'm hoping you can see some too. <seacrest>SomeTV out!</seacrest>