10. Thinks Libby's call came in after five o'clock and, hey, that's quittin' time and I'm outta here
9. Was so excited that the chief of staff of the vice president of the United States was on the telephone, just tried to hurry Libby off the phone, so he could call "Big Russ" and tell him about it
8. Was concentrating on Libby dissing Chris Matthews, so he could get it right and start spreading office gossip
7. The little "Scoop" light on this telephone must not have been working that day
So, we reach back to the delicious sit-com of the mid-1960's, The Patty Duke Show, to borrow their zany opening theme song and give it, as a gift, to the dynamic duo.
The Scooter and Cheney Show
Meet Scooter, who's leaked most everywhere, From Zanzibar to You-Know-Where. But Cheney's only seen the lights. A Neocon can with preemptive rights What a crazy pair!
But they're conspirators Identical conspirators all the way. One pair of matching liars, Different as night and day.
Where Scooter adores his sobriquet, The aspens turning, a literary vignette, Our Cheney loves to Shock and Awe, A Bunker Buster drops his jaw -- What a wild duet!
Still, they're conspirators, Identical conspirators and you'll find, They leak alike, they gossip alike, At times they even lie alike
You can lose your mind, When conspirators are two of a kind.
Diminutive QB Longtime Copyright Holder; "It Still Feeds My Family"; Says Open To Negotiate On Usage
Using the big bully pulpit of Super Bowl XVI, former NFL Quarterback Doug Flutie said that he has begun sending out "Cease-and-Desist" letters to the media - newspapers, magazines, television, cable, blogs and zines - regarding their usage of the term "Hail Mary Pass" in describing the Bush Administration's Iraq Occupation and escalation policies.
"It still feeds my family,' said the diminutive Flutie, a Heisman Trophy winner, who toiled for 21 seasons in professional football, first in the Canadian Football League, for eight-years, before entering into the NFL.
Flutie retired after the 2005 season, at age 43, from the New England Patriots. In the final game of the season, Flutie "dropped kicked" a field goal, the first such feat in the NFL since 1941.
With his Boston College team trailing Miami 45-41, and only six-seconds remaining in the game, Flutie heaved his Hail Mary Pass towards the end zone. The ball sailed over a group of defenders and into the arms of BC receiver Gerald Phelan for the win.
Since that moment, the term "Hail Mary Pass" has been used frequently and often, in the context of football games and some other sporting events, but only very recently has been applied to politics.
Flutie, at a beach front press conference said that with the "explosion" of usage of the "Hail Mary Pass" phrase coming out of Washington, he had to take action.
"It's just like the music downloading," said Flutie. "If you don't own the copyright, it's not yours to use."
In a study conducted by the Project for Excellennce In Journalism, the phrase 'Hail Mary Pass" showed up in over 330 stories during the week of January 10-17. The word "Surge", according to the study, appeared in 18,118 stories, followed at a distance by the word “escalate” or “escalation,” with 10,112 placements.
"I've seen the PEJ Study," offered Flutie, "and it was a key factor in directing my attorneys to take this action. If someone wants to make me an offer, I'll listen"
Flutie admitted that it is likely, at some point, for someone to come along and throw a better "Hail Mary Pass" but that "I want to see that done on the field, not just mouthing off in a newspaper."
"You've also been slinging around the "Hail Maliki Pass" (227 stories according to the PEJ Study) ... Now, it's up to President Maliki if he wants to join my call, but it's also pretty disingenuous to use it ... I mean, I didn't see Baghdad University ever put out a football team and I don't remember seeing President Maliki beat Miami with a last-second touchdown pass."
