Okay, let me say that I’m a bit conflicted. I’d rather leave the post below as the headline post for Thursday morning, seeing as it explains a case of the Bush White House really getting caught with its metaphorical hand in the cookie jar. Especially since the press has thus far shown distressingly little interest in the story.
Having said that, though, look: I don’t think I can resist the temptation of another Condit post. So here goes.
Yesterday I said that logic and experience told me that Condit was going to, if not blow this interview, at least put in a very weak performance. It’s just his MO. I’m not going to prattle on about how this provides some insight into his character or that it shows that he thinks the rules don’t apply to him or anything like that. But what it does show is this: Condit and his advisors seem to lack a sense for what looks good for him to do and what looks imbecilic and offensive for him to do. And tonight’s news reports seem to confirm it. According to those reports, Condit will not even admit to having an affair with Levy — which tends pretty strongly to confirm the pattern.
There’s no reason in the world that Condit needs to go on TV and spill his guts about any affair he had, at least as far as I’m concerned. But if he is planning to go on the air and deny even what amounts to the innocent explanation of his recent behavior then obviously he could scarcely be a bigger moron.
Pundits continue to assume he’s holed up somewhere with a clutch of media wizards who are spinning him into prime form. The truth is that he has no wizards. And I don’t think he’s even taking the advice of the wanna-be wizards who’ve flocked to him since this mystery began.
