Do You Speak English ?

Watching Christopher Hitchens mumble into his sweater something about Valerie Plame not being a CIA operative on Hardball this morning was both embarrassing and difficult to watch, not to mention understand. It's like listening to Kieth Richards. I know it's the Queens English but what the hell...

Followed by Condi's assurances that the result of the referendum didnt matter as much as the purple fingers and "process". Not a word from the Secretary about the trip to to all the "stans" (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, etc..) she just got back from to check on all that democratization supposedly going down out there. She laid out the long theme of Iraq being the front line on the War On Terror but seemed particularly unenthusiastic until she started in on some vague blather about Karirri and Syria and some sort of tough action. God help us. Followed by some "thinker" or perhaps "tanker" ( no,thats the SS CondiRice) from the American Enterprise Institute who showed Ben Wattenburg the huge tatoo of Ayn Rand he had on his torso. All in all an informative morning.