Fineman on Imus In the Morning yesterday....

Notorious double dipper Howard Fineman was on Imus this morning. He is the beneficiary of the both NBC and the Washington Post's largesse-so no doubt these newFCC rules are money in the bank for him.
You'd never know it though from his listless torpid call-in today. I'm beginning to think Howard is bipolar or something, one day he is animated even hyperactive, ready to slander anyone on the left with glee. Two weeks later finds the Newsweek columnista in a state of rhetorical paralysis.
Virtually nothing Imus said stirred Fineman... the last time he was this inert was the confused first days of the Iraq war when it looked like the whole shebang might not be a cakewalk.
I wonder if he knows something we don't it'd be just like Fineman to keep his trap shut about bad news for his President.
Oh he tried fitfully to rise to the occasion, parroting the Admin's line of French President Chirac calling him "...the leader of OLD Europe". Howard even tried to give some half hearted advice to Rumsfeld by advocating the return of U.N. inspectors to Iraq. Apparently it's Fineman's notion that if no WMDs are recovered it'll then be the U.N.'s fault for not finding them.
Slack call in though it was, this vulgar-Machiavellian proposal is media whoring at it's most raw and unpleasant. When things go wrong find an unpopular out group to blame. In this case the United Nations inspectorate. It's almost sad to hear Fineman reduced to such a semi-senescent state. I mean it never occurs to him that Hans Blix has been begging all and sundry to allow his people back in Iraq if for no other reason to secure the nuclear waste sites that the Famiglia Arbusto left wide open.
Maybe Howard just doesn't care anymore, years of water carrying for Bush and Bushism have atrophied his faculties to such an extent that he can't even dissemble effectively anymore.
Howard's only other howler was his assertion that Bill and Hillary are actively giving bad advice to the current crop of dem presidential candidates in order to clear her way in 2008.
Howie bay-bee! Whatever it is you are taking, up the dosage before going on Imus...because as far as I know, Hillary never ruled out running for Vice President in 2004.
It's be good to have her back...because at least Mrs. Clinton knows how to handle punks like Don Imus and Howard Fineman.
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Such is the Kingdom of Heaven
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6-3-03
7:48am EST.