FRAMESHOP:FRAMESHOP: RICE IS COOKED

A great article, today, by Joel Brinkley of the San Franscisco Chronicle cast grim light on the smoldering train wreck that is the Bush administration. 

Brinkley recounts how Condi Rice recently tried to publish a newspaper Op Ed, but not a single paper would take it--one of the most famous people in the world, and no newspaper editor would bite:

A few months ago, she decided to write an opinion piece about Lebanon. She enlisted John Chambers, chief executive officer of Cisco Systems as a co-author, and they wrote about public/private partnerships and how they might be of use in rebuilding Lebanon after last summer's war. No one would publish it.

Think about that. Every one of the major newspapers approached refused to publish an essay by the secretary of state. Price Floyd, who was the State Department's director of media affairs until recently, recalls that it was sent to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and perhaps other papers before the department finally tried a foreign publication, the Financial Times of London, which also turned it down.

As a last-ditch strategy, the State Department briefly considered translating the article into Arabic and trying a Lebanese paper. But finally they just gave up.

(full article here)

John Bolton is also faded away, apparently stuck  in an Enterprise Institute position that affords him no real influence.  Now, if only the media would stop letting Dick Cheney spout off on national TV...

© 2007 Jeffrey Feldman, Frameshop