This blog, May 18*:
As students began to leave their seats at the end of George Washington University's graduation ceremony Sunday, school president Stephen Joel Trachtenberg said, 'And you may now turn your tassels from right to left, as I hope happened to your politics in the last four years.'"
Richard Leiby, May 25:
Stephen Trachtenberg, president of George Washington University, went a little beyond the usual inspirational pablum at graduation ceremonies May 16, deciding to make a political statement. "If anybody has a mortarboard, you can move your tassels from right to left, right to left, which is what I hope happened to your politics in the last four years,"
Not to mention that I beat Leiby to the Washingtonienne story by about five days as well, and I wasn’t the only one. The lesson, as always: the paper of Woodward/Bernstein and Kornheiser/Wilbon needs to hire Silver/Wahlman.
*The words are National Review's, but I was indeed an eyewitness, and posted that day.
Posted by Stephen Silver at May 25, 2004 07:49 PMWhen Kornheiser and Wilbon retire in a few years, I think we're the next logical hosts for "PTI."
Hopefully someone from the WaPo is reading this (and why wouldn't they be, considering the Washingtonienne thing?)
Posted by: Jeremy Wahlman at May 25, 2004 10:30 PMWhen we're hosts of PTI, I'll make sure it's scheduled later at night, so I can watch it after work.
Posted by: Stephen Silver at May 26, 2004 12:13 AMSounds too much like Matt Drudge. Steve, you're no Matt Drudge, and that's a good thing!
Posted by: at May 26, 2004 12:31 AM