WASHINGTON TIMES

ELECTION MOVES TOWARD END

Thursday, December 14, 2000


Section: COMMENTARY EDITORIALS LETTERS


Edition: FINAL


Page: A24

The agonizing pain on the faces of the Gore camp, having received the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion Tuesday night and realizing defeat, was surpassed only by the frenzied, desperate convulsions of news media talking heads.

Flipping through the TV channels, one could see network anchors, their experts and their reporters from the nation's capital to Tallahassee, Fla., to Austin, Texas, in a pitiful, frantic search through the just-released opinion for any modicum of verbiage that might be interpreted (or even interpolated) as favoring a win for Vice President Al Gore.

As the full meaning of the opinion slowly became evident, the abject despair that permeated the "on air" news sets was reminiscent of the eulogistic aura surrounding the coverage of a state funeral.

So sad.

ARMOND "SI" SIMMONS

Pell City, Ala.

U0046583-121400


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