— Christopher Hitchens on panel at which Oliver Stone had refered to September 11 as a "revolt."
The Prince and Sir Rudy.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Finally, as he nears the twilight of his term as Mayor, the cantankerous, hard-nosed and brilliant Rudolph Giuliani has received of the world's most prestigious honors from our British cousins and is now Sir Rudy. In the picture above Prince Andrew, the only prince to visit Rudy this month without pajamas on his head, seems to be telling him how to handle a knighthood. The side benefit of all this adulation of Rudy is watching the liberal media in New York fall all over their warm and fuzzy selves to get on the Rudy bandwagon. Mayor for Life sounds just fine to those who loved him when it wasn't chic (or easy).
A Fitting Testament: Here is an early review of Barbara Olson's soon-to-be-bestseller, The Final Days. Its publication so soon after her death as one of the September 11 victims, does rattle the spine with "what ifs." The most chilling being — what if we had had to watch the Clintons handling of the events of the last month? Kudos to her close friends Barbara Comstock and Victoria Toensig for braving the Today Show and Maria Shriver early yesterday morning to promote the book. Greater love hath no girl friends.
Bass-Akwards in Elba: Ex-President Clinton has been mumbling to friends in his retirement that if the FBI had spent as much time chasing terrorists as it had investigating his behavior, perhaps things would have played out differently. Is it too unkind to suggest (and we mean this in the most loving and nonjudgmental way) that if his behavior had been different the FBI would have had the time?
Someone Hit The Snooze Alarm: ABC News, in full Claude Rains mode, is shocked — shocked to discover government secrets on the Internet for everyone to see. Here's a Luddite clue — everything, and we mean e-ver-eee-thang! is on the Internet. Just go to Google and type it in. And here's another wake up call. Take a trip to your biggest local book store. A lot of it is right there on stacks of dead trees.
Dan Rather Eat Your Heart Out: Anyone find it passing strange that CBS hasn't received their powdery postal present? Why no Anthrax scare for the Tiffany network? Must have got lost in the mail. For the right attitude about all of this hysteria check out our fav Margery Eagan in the Boston Herald.
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-- Anonymous, October 16, 2001