2/13/2004

Another Republican isn't getting the Dean Treatment

So I'm guessing that if a Democrat dares to raise their voice, suddenly they are angry and it becomes a huge sotry for a week; yet when a Republican screams at somebody, it's fine. That's certainly the way it looks.

The normally courteous US Secretary of State Colin Powell lost his cool during his testimony on Iraq at a Congressional hearing and shouted at a Congressman's staffer who nodded his head when he was talking about US-led war on Iraq, describing the action as "an editorial comment".

..."Are you shaking your head for something, young man, back there? Are you part of these proceedings?", he burst out.

Yeah, I know, the real point is that it's not a story if somebody shouts, but the media have made it a story. Yet they don't make it a story if a Republican does the shouting, only if it's a Democrat. If you ask me, that's not exactly fair.