By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--March 27, 2009
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The pressure was on now because the president had called on me. Someone handed me a microphone, millions were watching, and it’s scary to think about changing topic in a split second because you might get flustered and screw up. But it’s fun to gamble and like any good quarterback (though I was never athletic enough to actually play the position), I decided to call an audible.And then he asked that question. But for the next day, Henry took a pounding from the moonbats and this seems to have shocked him. So, what is the upshot?
What do I think? I’ve got no hard feelings toward the president and I assume he feels the same, but I can’t worry about that. I was doing my job — and he was doing his.Really? No hard feelings, eh? And we should care…. why? Since when do reporters ever come out with a more than 700 word piece to explain why they asked the president a question? Did any reporter ever feel it necessary to offer a mea culpa or an “explanation” after having asked George W. Bush a “tough” question? Or did they rather do a few victory laps with the hearty back slapping of colleagues and moonbats alike, defiant in their revelry? Ah, but not this time. You see, this time we are talking about The One and anyone asking Speaks-with-TelePromTer a tough question gets the whole tribe up in arms. So, Henry hastened to his word processor to slam out an apologia that is as much asking his pals on the extreme left to stop hitting him as it is trying to get them all to understand that he was just “doing his job.” In any case, with the moonbatteries out to score a direct hit on him, now Ed Henry knows what its like belonging to ABC’s Jake Tapper’s club!
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.