Monday, January 11, 2010

Imagine Waugh writing about the Christmas bomber

By Michael Barone

"In Evelyn Waugh's novel "Scoop," the best book on journalism ever written, Lord Copper, proprietor of the Daily Beast, is followed around by a flunky who responds to every statement he makes. When Lord Copper says something that is true the flunky says, "Absolutely, Lord Copper." When he says something that is false, the flunky says, "Up to a point, Lord Copper."


American politicians and public officials are not followed around by such aides. But the press and public opinion can and often do perform the function of Lord Copper's flunky.


Such has been the case in the Obama administration's responses to the would-be Christmas bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab."

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