All the more reason not to watch network TV.

They must be hurting at the network.

Chimpy shoulda taken that gig as greeter at Elliott’s Hardware in Dallas.

Had plenty of reasons to tune out years ago. Can’t locate my teevee now for the cobwebs.

Dickless Cheney and Twitchy Bush, The Hague ‘10

How creepy. A privileged party girl glides through life. That better example of what’s wrong with the system could the media participate in. Enablers of the empire.

What better… sorry typo.

Jus Cogens!

We only have broadband service…no TV feed… and “off-air” reception here is non-existent.

THANK YOU, GOD!

I wonder if she will be able to stick her tongue out on tv
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5473157/

Class act.

re: her getting a better job than her dad:

she displayed a natural ability to communicate and connect.

she’s better qualified.

I think it’s great that she actually served in UNICEF and maybe got a little compassion for the plight of those less fortunate than herself.
Maybe we’ll begin to see thsi wealthy family start to turn to Noblesse Oblige` sometime down the path..like the Kennedys did.
Hey, hope springs eternal

And I bet SHE wrote her own book, too.
Good on ya Jenna!

don’t know, I kinda think she’s hawt

let’s see if she continues her wild ness or latches on to the concervative movement

she could be the next ron reagan so give her a chance please

This is o/t. I mean the topic is kinda preposterous. I give that shit-for-brains one week to start saying dumb shit and knockin’ Obama.

Anyway, coul;dn’t watch the funeral live on Saturday. great jopb live bloging it, Lisa. Didn’t know you were Catholic. This old former altar boy enjoyed it. And “Holy God We Praise Thy Name” ?? Haven’t heard that in years. Fuckin’ rocks!!!!

Mornin’, Lisa, pups

Good for Jenna. One can hope that she will use her talents, and access, to do some good in the world.

I hope that silver spoon in her mouth doesn’t garble her articulation.

The Nepotism Broadcasting Corporation has done it again. First Luke Russert and now Jenna. Is this a great 4th Estate or what?

Looks like someone in the family needs to work…

But I thought affirmative action was a bad thing.

Wondering if Chelsea Clinton got media offers.

My niece is likely to graduate first in her college class next May after 4 years of hard work in the classroom while participating as a varsity swimmer for all four years (tri-captain this year) and playing viola and dancing in her free time and working her ass off each summer. This summer she obtained a $3500 stipend from her college and interned at Mount Sinai in NYC where she worked on a complex neurobiology experiment from 7am to 7pm, then swam for 90 minutes after work with a group of competitive swimmers and then walked a few miles to my sister’s apartment to get additional exercise and quiet time (and save money) where she would eat supper and plan out the next work day. (She was also the summer interns’ entertainment coordinator.)

She was spending the weekend with me when I became aware of the Today show hiring of Jenna Bush and I was just speechless. Here’s a young woman who has done everything right and received glowing reports from her supervisors at Mount Sinai and her college professors, but may not be able to attend medical school because of her parents’ financial constraints and the general decline in financial aid packages at medical schools. Where’s the justice?

And if Jenna Bush is going to focus her reportage on issues of social justice in America, then I retract my implicit criticism of this hire. But I find it peculiar and disheartening that after a nation wide search she is the best “special correspondent” the Today show could find to report/comment on important issues in contemporary America. Unless that isn’t the point of the Today show.

The point in tv is ratings.

Jenna is quite a talented girl…Don’t bet against her.

Jeepers, another Bush correspondent…One was too much.

But then again, morning news is now entertainment and not news.

I wonder if they’ll task her with real “education” stories…like the melt-down in California’s higher education system…or the utter failure of “No Child Left Behind”. Or how Republican “Curriculum Boards” continue to push Dark-Ages Cretinism, and anti-Climate Change tripe in Science classes?

Remember ” No Child Left Behind” was St. Ted’s brainchild.

I think that’s not been the point of the Today for quite sometime. I had been a long time viewer; CBS now gets my morning time. You can count on Harry Smith to be awake.

Well, I never have to worry about watching that show EVER AGAIN. Buh-bye, Today!

Dave Garroway, Jack Lescoulie, Frank Blair, and even J. Fred Muggs weep.

Proposed and developed by a Bush policy team originally. The legislation was proposed by the President on January 23, 2001. It was coauthored by Representatives John Boehner (R-OH) and George Miller (D-CA) and Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA), and signed by President Bush. Ted was only one of the sponsors. Signed into law by Bush.

There is enough credit to spread around. Get your history correct.

Makes you wonder: If Noam Chomsky had a nice-looking daughter doing similar work, would she be in the running, too? I doubt it.

Reread my comment. “It was Ted’s brainchild.” No statement about who proposed or sponsored it.

Dunno about media offers, but she did her part in wrecking the economy by working for a hedge fund/private equity firm for a few years.

I believe you have your girls mixed up, but who cares about facts.

In 2003, Clinton joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in New York City; she was the youngest person hired in her class. [10][13] In the fall of 2006, she left McKinsey and went to work for Avenue Capital Group, a hedge fund run by Marc Lasry, a donor to Democratic causes and supporter of the Clintons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Clinton

“Brainchild” is quite the editorializing and infers the policy development was all Ted’s. That inference is a total misrepresentation of the history of the legislation.

The No Child Left Behind Act was actually a rebirth of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. And was heavily influenced by the study A Nation At Risk, a study completed during the Reagan administration.

On April 26, 1983, a blue-ribbon commission appointed by the Reagan administration released “A Nation at Risk” – a report chock-full of strong language and disturbing findings on the state of education in the United States.

(snip)

In many respects, “A Nation at Risk” fired a shot heard across the US. A state of emergency was declared. The federal government couldn’t afford to leave education to state and local governments.

In 1989, then-President George Bush convened a governors’ conference on education, directly inspired by the report, and 13 years later his son signed the No Child Left Behind legislation into law. Because of “A Nation at Risk,” the federal government has an unprecedented and probably irreversible role in education.

Please link to all your hard evidence that it was his, and his alone, “brainchild”.

Here ya be:

Ted Kennedy, the legislation’s initial sponsor, has stated: “The tragedy is that these long overdue reforms are finally in place, but the funds are not.”

The bill, shepherded through the Senate by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), one of the bill’s sponsors, received overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_child_left_behind

And here:

http://educationfrontblog.dall…..-left.html

And here:

Bill Clinton Blames Kennedy for No Child Left Behind Flaws

http://blogs.abcnews.com/polit…..on-bl.html

And here:

The writer, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, was a lead author of the Leave No Child Behind Act.

http://kennedy.senate.gov/news…..8d9c283dc9

In the fall of 2006, she left McKinsey and went to work for Avenue Capital Group, a hedge fund run by Marc Lasry, a donor to Democratic causes and supporter of the Clintons

What do you think the Avenue Capitol Group is?:

The firm operates as both a private equity firm and as a hedge fund. Avenue’s core strategy is focused on distressed debt and equity securities although the firm also manages investment funds that focus on long-short opportunities, real estate, and collateralized debt obligations.

She has since left to go back to grad school, presumably because working for a hedge fund that helped pull down the middle class will be bad for her Democratic political ambitions.

My bad. I thought you were referring to Jenna.

yeah – i got that after i hit submit on my last reply. i should have quoted the original question so as to avoid confusion.

That was on the updates and rewrites of the bill when it was up for renewal in March of 2007, the biggest changes to the bill were to make it more aware in policy of special needs students. You posted that “the writer” out of context.

Please, your links are weak and failing in historical context in backing this idea of “brainchild”. Our family was involved in the lawsuit against the bill due to the special needs portion of the bill. My dept of history on NCLB does not match up to Kennedy being the “brainchild” historically.

Don’t blame me when he claims to be the lead author himself.

http://kennedy.senate.gov/news…..8d9c283dc9

Jeebus, weren’t ANY of the kardashian girls available?