Pfeiffer’s
Energizer Bunny Presidential defense counterpoints the usual suspects wheeled
out from the punditry wax museum and animated with higher-volume loops of their
usual spiels.
After
Pfeiffer’s pitch on “Meet the Press,” David Gregory features a parade of Madame
Tussaud figures starting with Mitch McConnell, frozen in his usual startled owl
expression, barely moving his lips to refute a 1987 tape of himself asserting that
tax laws are “being abused not just by people on the right but most of the
so-called charitable organizations who are involved...in arguable violations of
their tax-free status and violations of the campaign laws...on the left.”
Facing
voters next year, McConnell deviates only enough not to jump on the Benghazi bandwagon but insist that “getting to the bottom of this is an important
investigation.”
On
the following panel Peggy Noonan turns up her Rupert Murdochian pitch about the
“worst Washington scandal since Watergate,” while sitting next to a Bob Woodward effigy mouthing the Obama blame for not being a strong enough President
that is now his signature theme in the post-Nixon era.
To
cap it all, David Gregory trots out a true figure from the is-he-still-alive-? past,
Don Rumsfeld, to plug his new book about leadership.
Mellowed
by being a great-grandfather, he is now snideness-free and advises, “If you
foul up, tell the boss and correct it fast...Bad news doesn’t get better with
time.”
If
only he had told George W soon enough about al Qaeda and nuclear weapons in
Iraq...
But
that was then. Wasn’t it?
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