Well, I must say that Ana Marie Cox is an elfin cutie with a great headshot, but hey-woh hoppen? This morning on Imus (MSNBC TV) she drools over Tony Snow's evasion of David Gregory's direct question.
Okay, so Wonkette wanted the health plan that Time, Inc. offered, according to her interview with Imus this a.m. But who knew she would be savoring the pheromenes of Tony Snow like a meth addict at a Jesus Camp drug lab?
Now, we all know she's famed for her "sarcasm" and wit, so perhaps she was just funnin' when she reviewed the video playback with Imus and his fifteen-gallon hat. But they both chortled at Snow's derisive evasion of David Gregory's question about benchmarks, etc. Of course, Snow simply was performing the patented Bush Whitehouse Shuck and Jive (tm), something we've all seen a million times before, yet Ana felt moved to crown Tony the "new alpha male (finally) in the White House." [in the interest of full disclosure, no, I didn't record it, so maybe someone out there has the footage, so I paraphrase to the best of my ability.]
But it's just this sort of lame-brained broadcasting that got us to where we have been for years. Imus needs audience. He has to entertain, sell Imus-branded food products and t-shirts, and pimp his worthy charity constantly. So perhaps he's excused. But for Wonkette (http://www.anamariecox.com/...) to Lil Kim the Snowman is just wack. She gon' melt his carrot nose wid dat shit.