March 8, 2005

Nina Totenberg Eats her Shoe

She gets it. Finally... From the Media Research Center comes this report: totenberg-shoe.jpg
Totenberg Eats Shoe, Admits Misjudgment on Iraq Election's Power
NPR's Nina Totenberg eats her shoe. Asked on Inside Washington over the weekend if President Bush deserves credit for the democratic movements rising in the Middle East, Totenberg, a critic of Bush's Iraq policy, replied that "if I had a hat I would have to eat it." Then, as she briefly brought a shoe to her month, she noted that "I've got my shoe here" and conceded that "I really did not think that this election in Iraq would make that much difference and I was wrong."
Of course, she then has to revert to her liberal roots and backpedal a bit:
She quickly added, however, that "it really does help that Arafat died and they had a real election in Palestine." Totenberg soon returned to her liberal roots, cautioning "that we not engage in a certain level of triumphalism about this."
Posted by DaveH at March 8, 2005 2:47 PM