Bernard Shaw to retire.

November 11, 2000 7:11 PM

Bernard Shaw to retire. I guess the election foo-faraw was too much for him. :-)
posted by baylink (6 comments total)

Now you've made me think of Kent Brockman:"Tonight, on Smartline. The Power plant strike. Argle bargle, or fooforaw?''
posted by Mr. skullhead at 8:03 PM on November 11, 2000

Also, I once saw Shaw covering Bush's 'education summit' (what a joke that was) during my brief attendance of UVA. Someone asked him for his article and he refused. "I'm not an entertainer, I'm a journalist!" he said, which I thought was pretty cool. . .
posted by Mr. skullhead at 8:07 PM on November 11, 2000

Crap! I meant to say 'autograph'! Maybe I am a moron after all.
posted by Mr. skullhead at 8:09 PM on November 11, 2000

At the "Iraqi Crisis" town hall meeting in Ohio in Feb(?) '98, he kept yelling at protesters during commercial breaks.
posted by gluechunk at 8:13 PM on November 11, 2000

Bernard Shaw, from my extensive observation, is an idiot. During the Dem convention, he capped a discussion of the ongoing protests by delivering a eulogy for the shrubs that had been uprooted to prepared for the convention. "As a gardener, that hurts," he said. There were three other people on the panel, and they all looked at him as if he just announced that he wasn't wearing any pants. Hell, maybe he wasn't.
posted by lileks at 8:22 PM on November 11, 2000

I just knew, somehow, that the first post I'd get on this would be about foo-foraw.
posted by baylink at 10:34 PM on November 11, 2000