The latest nine day wonder is the story of former Clinton national security advisor Sandy Berger walking out with classified documents and notes inadvertently “stuck in his pants”. Former President Clinton’s take on the story is interesting:
Bill Clinton defended his embattled national security adviser Tuesday as a man who “always got things right,” even if his desk was a mess.
“We were all laughing about it on the way over here,” the former president said of the investigation into Samuel “Sandy” Berger on classified terrorism documents missing from the National Archives. “People who don’t know him might find it hard to believe. But … all of us who’ve been in his office have always found him buried beneath papers.
In this spirit rather than commenting on the merits of the story how about a rundown on the sly, funny, and mocking things being written around the blogosphere on the story?
From IMAO:
Why couldn’t Sandy Berger just steal furniture like the other Clinton people?
Oh yeah; harder to fit down pants.
“We’re sad to see our trusted friend, Sandy Berger, leave the Kerry-Edwards campaign,” said Mr. Kerry, “But we’re glad to have a chance to recover some items that had gone missing while he was here.”
I don’t know if it’s the drink or the dog days of summer but Steve Green of Vodkapundit is in rare form on the story apparently blogging it non-stop:
It’s nearly 1:30am, and I’m writing about pants.
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ALTERNATE PUNCHLINE: John Edwards will no doubt claim that Berger was too poor to afford warm shoes, and was forced to stuff his socks full of paper to keep his toes from freezing.
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I know “Trousergate” seems to be the name that sticks, but isn’t it time we at least considered “The Per-Loined Letter”?
Scroll around. You could spend the day looking at Steve’s observations on this story. Included: a link to a whole page of pants jokes, a list of other things found in Sandy Berger’s pants, and some serious, intelligent commentary. It should become obvious why Steve is one of the most popular bloggers in the blogosphere. Did I mention he was a fellow St. Louisan?
And the unique, inimitable, and irreplaceable Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom writes:
Q: What do you get when you cross Sandy Berger and a Bengal Tiger?
A: A former Clinton national security adviser and current John Kerry campaign advisor with a 400 lb. carnivorous cat stuffed somewhere in his pants.
Once again scroll around. You’ll be glad you did.
