"The Emperor Has No...Audience"

[whometense]

Tweety was heard to comment this evening that the media is not covering Kerry - and my observation so far of the evening news bears out his observation. (We won't get into how much a part of the problem Matthews is, himself at the moment...)

The shadow president gave a speech at the CFR today, one day after Fearful Leader, and according to Think Progress, Bush couldn't get any people in the room.

The Washington Post reports that, at yesterday’s speech for the Council on Foreign Relations, President Bush had trouble filling the room:

Only a few hundred members showed up for the hastily organized event at a Washington hotel and empty chairs were removed from the back of the ballroom before Bush arrived.

It wasn’t for lack of effort. We were forwarded this desperate plea the Council sent out late Tuesday, asking people who were planning on coming to bring a friend:

Firedoglake http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_firedoglake_archive.html#113406631734627301:

Via the fine folks at Think Progress, it turns out that the Council on Foreign Relations had trouble filling seats for the Preznit's speech there yesterday. And that empty seats in the back of the room had to be hastily removed prior to the start of the speech on television. Funny, I don't recall reporting on that yesterday.

Hmmmm...guess the MSM doesn't find the fact that the rank and file membership of a nonpartisan think tank refusing to show up en masse to a Presidential speech --perhaps in protest or disgust at Bushie's refusal to take any questions whatsoever in contravention of the organization's usual protocols -- newsworthy.

Well, I sure do. Good on ya, CFR membership. And Bushie? Try having an actual policy instead of just pretending. I find it makes you a whole helluva lot more credible with people who use their brains for a living.

[blm]

1. Any word on the membership turnout for Kerry's speech?

We already know that media wouldn't cover it or analyze the speeches in any professional capacity.

Amazing that media wouldn't comment on the members refusing their seats in boycott of Bush's speech.

[whometense]

2. I've been looking around,

but so far no luck. It may be hard to compare, since Bush's was held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, and I assume Kerry's was actually at the CFR.

Kerry transcript is up here: http://www.cfr.org/publication/9375/real_security_in_a_post911_world_prepared_remarks.html

[DeadManInc]

3. Why travel to hear an asshole when they

can sit on the toilet and fart and get the same effect?