One Giant Sleep For Mankind

January 23, 2008 at 3:10 pm

On Monday we wondered this:

Here’s a test for big media.

Will they cover Bill Clinton nodding off (New York Post video of Clinton snoozing in church here) the way they did Dick Cheney? As you can see, it’s a genre of news that particularly entertains Chris Cuomo …

We got a nice boost in our awareness campaign from Instapundit.

Well glory be. Guess what happened on Tuesday’s “Good Morning America” at the 8 a.m. eastern hour? This:

CHRIS CUOMO (Off-camera) And finally, in the name of balanced journalism, we have some new video. A while back, we showed you Vice President Dick Cheney nodding off at a meeting. Well, this morning, we show you former President Bill Clinton catching some Zs at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event. There he is, behind Martin Luther King III, getting some shut eye. He is sleeping, further blurring the line between Democrats and Republicans.

Perhaps Cuomo reads the blogs. Or maybe it’s an honest victory for equal time news judgment. Whatever the reason, we’ll take it. And in this instance, we’ll give Cuomo public acknowledgment for fairness. And we hope he keeps reading the blogs.

UPDATE:  An Extreme reader supplies us with photo and these suggested captions:

  • Thomas Jefferson: “I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever….”
  • Robert Frost: “And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep,”
  • Martin Luther King: “I have a dream…”
King Dream Bill Clinton sleep

Dick Cheney  TV celebrities  Bill Clinton

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