Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Bush State of the Union
Played it like a maestro, I thought. The "oil addiction" thread got right to the heart of things. Had Hillary bouncing around like a turnip. And then, later, Wolf Blitzer too.
Wolf emphasized to viewers (several times) that numbers from an instant CNN poll - of people who actually watched the speech - were probably skewered towards Bush because those who bothered watching it are likely to be pro- the W. man in the first place.
(Actually, the thing that interested me about the CNN poll is that it was conducted both during and after the speech. When, precisely "during"? Couldn't that too have affected the stats, Wolf, contrarily perhaps?)
To the apparent chagrine of the CNN interviewer co-hosting with Wolf, interviewee Senator McCain blurted out that the addiction-to-oil part of the speech had noticeable impact in chamber.
"But he's talked about this every State of the Union!" protested the CNN guy.
"Not in this kind of detail," said McCain, "and not with Russia, Venezuela and now Iran hovering around playing the oil card."
Bush mentioned ethanol, "not only from corn"!, "clean and safe" nuclear power stations, specific (oil) reduction targets. That all certainly hit a chord with me.
