GIULIANI FOLLOWUP….Remember that Newsday story from yesterday about Rudy Giuliani getting kicked off the Iraq Study Group because he couldn’t find the time in his busy schedule to attend their meetings? You could be excused if you don’t, since apparently no one in our press corps considered either the news itself or Giuliani’s laughable explanation for his absences to be worth commenting on.
A quick Nexis search shows that among the mainstream media, the New York Times wrote a short piece, and the Kansas City Star and Chicago Tribune carried brief blurbs. That’s it. On TV, Olberman discussed it, but no one else.
I’m keenly aware that an awful lot of blog criticism of the mainstream media is basically just partisan sniping. But is this seriously not considered news? A guy who’s running for president based on his reputation as a hero of 9/11 was given a seat on the highest profile group ever created to investigate a way forward in Iraq, but he decided it wasn’t worth his time? He blew off James Baker and Lee Hamilton so that he could give speeches in South Korea and attend fundraisers for Ralph Reed in Atlanta? And the consensus reaction is a big yawn?
Yeesh. Somebody please tell me this is just a case of the Nexis record being incomplete. Please?
