Just As I Thought

Say it like you mean it

Just an amusing line from Tom Shales this morning:

“When I say something, I mean it,” George W. Bush said decisively near the end of last night’s prime-time presidential news conference. Nobody called out, “When will you say something?” — the White House press corps is too mannerly for that — but some reporters, and some viewers, must have been thinking it.

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