The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
It’s Always in the Last Place You Look
“Confidential Information Found in Rubbish Container in Benalmadena”–headline, EuroWeeklyNews.com (Spain), Feb. 9
Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control
“Chicken Wing Supplies Ran Short in Some New Orleans Saints Viewing Areas”–headline, Times-Picayune (New Orleans), Feb. 8
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “Avenue B Won’t Be Getting a Fully Licensed 3,000-Square-Foot Italian Restaurant”–headline, Village Voice Web site, Feb. 9
- “New Orleans to Celebrate Saints’ Title Tonight”–headline, MSNBC.com, Feb. 9
- “CRS Finds Federal CTO Role Remains Undefined”–headline, WFED-AM Web site (Washington), Feb. 8
Small Medium at Large
National Journal’s Abby Livingston thinks she’s caught a New York Senate candidate in an error:
In [Sunday’s] New York Times’ [Maureen] Dowd column, ex-Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN) said, “I’m not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too, Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.”
It seems on odd statement, seeing as Eleanor Roosevelt died in ’62, two years before Kennedy’s ’64 SEN election. In the year of her death, Kennedy was JFK’s AG and was pre-occupied with the Cuban Missile Crisis and Civil Rights, and per most biographies, a Senate seat was hardly on Kennedy’s agenda.
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