Begala isn’t leaving anything for the bloggers.
‘Substantive’ Press Is Taken for a Spin
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 29, 2008; C01Not Too Bright
The rhetoric gets heated this time of year, but Paul Begala, the CNN commentator, went way over the line in calling President Bush a “high-functioning moron.”
The former Bill Clinton aide can be a witty partisan, but there are 50 ways he could have ridiculed Bush’s capacity to govern without using such a slur.Begala, though, is undeterred: “I said it. I meant it. I don’t regret it. . . . You cannot imagine the positive feedback I’ve gotten.”