Alpha Delta Bush: The towel-snapping press conference

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It's too bad the White House pool cameras don't pan more to reporters during presidential news conferences, because--apparently--we missed an all out fraternity party during President Bush's conference....

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Dana Milbank: "...simply his old Delta Kappa Epsilon roots showing..."

David Shuster: "The president does excel at fraternity style teasing, like when he towel-snapped a 'New York Times' reporter."

Chris Matthews: "Did his P.R. people warn the president, when you go out and fight with the press and towel-snap like he was with Elisabeth Bumiller, you're going to face people that have videotape in their hands and notebooks?"

and

"Pat, you don't believe the president, who is a smart fellow in many ways, especially as a politician, didn't know what he was doing today when he did the towel snap at Elisabeth Bumiller"

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/west_wing_reportage/alpha_delta_bush_34196.asp

Gosh, what a playful....asshole. Just who does he think he is, Divine Emperor of the Entire World?

like you do at a frat house. Except he wasn't at a frat house. He claims to be Pres of the United States, and he was at a Presidential press conference, aired by all U.S. televison networks, and maybe on CNNI around the world, talking to a reporter from the New York Times.

Maybe his nod to propriety was not using an actual towel!

Maybe they forgot to show something that would let the rest of the country in on the joke, or maybe they're just not very subtle with the talking points, but I don't know if it's wise to remind us that bush is a privileged ivy-league frat boy.

Typical Tweety--nice going, Mr. Hard-Hitting Journalist. Way to stick it to The Man. :sarcasm: