[Rhodes22-list] Speaking of politicians.

[Brad Haslett]

Rummy,

Speaking of amnesia, last Sunday we had George Stephanopoulos on his ABC
news show discussing the firing of eight Attorney Generals, a non-event if
there ever was one, and little Georgie keeps a straight face through the
whole thing.  What a fine piece of acting.  Did George share his experience
as spokesperson for the Clinton administration explaining the firing of all,
every single friggin' AG in the US, including the one in Little Rock
investigating Whitewater?  No, he continued on, sure that most of the
country is too stupid to know or care. He was right. Want to know how much
press coverage that got when it happened?  About 20 seconds on one network.
Fair and balanced?

Brad

On 4/4/07, R22RumRunner at aol.com <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
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> Breaking News
> Scientists Study Memory Loss Among Politicians
> Near-amnesia Reaching Epidemic Proportions, Experts  Say
>
> An "unprecedented epidemic of memory loss" is afflicting  America's
> politicians, making it virtually impossible for them to  remember key
> phone
> conversations, meetings, and memos, a spokesman  for the world's leading
> brain
> scientists said today.
>
> The  spokesman, Dr. Hiroshi Kyosuke of the University of Tokyo, is one of
> over four hundred eminent brain scientists who have gathered in  Oslo,
> Norway
> this week for a high-level research conference to probe  the recent
> phenomenon
> of memory loss that has plagued the nation's  politicians.
>
> "The question at hand is this: why are  politicians so good at remembering
> contributors' names and phone  numbers but so bad at remembering
> everything else?
> " Dr. Kyosuke  said.
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> Over the course of the conference, brain scientists  have presented
> research
> papers on a variety of subjects related to  memory loss, such as former
> New
> York mayor Rudolph Giuliani's  inability to remember a briefing he
> received
> about former police  commissioner Bernard Kerik's possible ties to
> organized
> crime.
>
> "That seems like the sort of thing that a normal human brain  would have
> no
> difficulty remembering," Dr. Kyosuke said. "What we  are learning at this
> conference is that when it comes to  politicians' brains, we have so much
> more to
> learn."
>
> On  Monday, a full day of the conference was devoted to a paper  entitled,
> "
> The Neuroscience of Scooter Libby," followed by a keynote  address given
> by
> Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
>
> While  many attendees considered Mr. Gonzales' speech a highpoint of the
> conference, the Attorney General offered a different assessment: "I  have
> no
> recollection of it."
>
> Elsewhere, President Bush said  he would devote the remainder of his term
> to
> fighting global  warming, adding, "April  Fools!"
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