Mark Steyn writing (from behind an obnoxious registration wall) on the summer show in Crawford, Tayhoss:
Is it only five years since the White House press corps was spending its summers traipsing round Martha’s Vineyard and the Hamptons watching Bill Clinton hang with Carly Simon and Steven Spielberg? Since the Bush terror, alas, they’ve been condemned under a little-known provision of the Patriot Act to confinement in Crawford, Texas for one whole month a year. Crawford is where George W. Bush has his ranch and, other than that distinction, it is (as I wrote here in August 2000) ‘a dusty crossroads in the middle of a drought-stricken, sun-broiled plain, population 690 — with five churches but not a single hotel’. Since the annual influx of journalists, they may have added a hotel but also no doubt half a dozen more churches just to wind up the godless hordes of the Fourth Estate....
Steyn goes on to rip them apart as only he can. You need to make a visit to www.BugMeNot to get past these registration walls. But with Steyn, it's always worth the effort. The guy is just outstanding.
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