Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix recently described his bizarre first-and-only visit to the White House. Blix was struck by a strange breach of protocol in which he and his entourage were first brought to meet Vice President Dick Cheney, who "exceeded his reputation" as a most uninteresting man. Then they met with President Bush, whom Blix described as squirming and inarticulate. Note taking was forbidden. Blix, who has a good sense of humor and a great name, was once the only guy in the world who knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and said so, but apparently Bush wasn't taking notes.
Speaking of Cheney and Bush, rumors persist there's an AA connection between them, specifically, that Dick Cheney is George Bush's AA sponsor. Both men have DUIs in their driving records. If it's true, it would explain a great deal about their strange relationship. Cheney, who once told us he was building a "shadow government" in the event of an attack, is today a teetotaler and a weirdo of the first order. "Teetotaler," by the way, is short for "capital T totaler," a phrase that once described a non-drinker but is now a euphemism for recovering alcoholic. Ironically, it is not capitalized.
Journalist Bill Kurtis is something of a renaissance man: as he gradually retires from his khaki exploits in darkest Africa and other war-torn parts of the world, he returns now to his native Kansas to raise beef for McDonald's. On his ranch. He rides the horse. This is true. I first met Bill in 1978 when he was our local news guy on CBS. We both stepped out of different stalls at the same time in a men's room in Sears Tower back when it was Sears's tower. Naturally, having made eye contact, we washed our hands, then went across the hall to the booth where he narrated a film on which I was "intern," something about Kenmore innovation in action. You wouldn't have known it by watching the film but it was actually about how they were able to get one more refrigerator on the truck by making the door handles removable. I thought of those jerks every time I tightened my refrigerator.
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1 - RJ Elliott
"Blix was struck by a strange breach of protocol in which he and his entourage were first brought to meet Vice President Dick Cheney, who "exceeded his reputation" as a most uninteresting man."
Blix actually had the balls to call Cheney "uninteresting"?
That's like Madonna calling J-Lo a slut.