Sunday, April 09, 2006

About the naming

Politicians, public buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

In true Jeopardy form, give us the question to that answer!

The answer is a line from Chinatown (written by Robert Towne). The question? It came from Iwana.

She wondered why does the press call Scooter Libby "I. Lewis Libby"?

They love their officials and when an official is in trouble, it reminds them all (especially at The New York Times and Time magazine) how easily it could have been them. So they class him up a little by referring to him as "I. Lewis Libby" -- the man who went through public life demanding to be known as "Scooter." Scooter was he then and Scooter is he now in our books.

He don't look like no old building. We'll leave it to readers to decide whether politician or whore?
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