[Mb-civic] Claws And Effect - Jim Hoagland - Washington Post
William Swiggard
swiggard at comcast.net
Wed Jul 20 04:24:59 PDT 2005
Claws And Effect
By Jim Hoagland
Wednesday, July 20, 2005; Page A23
PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. -- This is crab country. Put a chicken neck on a
string, toss it into the saltwater creek off Inlet Point and get your
net ready. Or put out a dead fish as bait and bring in a squirming
basket of crabs clawing and wounding each other with a destructive
energy that spares not even themselves.
This beach town serves as a good place, then, to observe at a distance
the Washington scrum of politicians, journalists, zealot prosecutors and
lecturing moralists of all stripes going at each other over the vital
questions of whether Karl Rove or former ambassador Joseph Wilson is the
greater liar and threat to the republic, and exactly how "confidential"
other journalists' "confidential" sources should be.
<>The French, naturally enough, have a term for a mass of nasty people
doing endlessly nasty things to each other in a no-exit environment. And
un panier de crabes -- a basket of crabs -- is what the
politico-journalistic village of Washington resembles in this unhinged
summer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/19/AR2005071901555.html
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