Article: THE PRESS CONFERENCE

Part Two

I left it last week with me - a journalist by no stretch of anyone's imagination - on the verge of attending my first press conference. Holding it was Alberto Gonzales, George Bush's idea of what constitutes an attorney general. It was Alberto who brought 100 demonstrators out on short notice to the original location of the press conference. That many dedicated citizens wouldn't drop everything they were doing to show up and protest just any Congress-stonewalling bum. I happen to know, personally, a few of the people there, and I also happen to know they have more to do than protest every run-of-the-mill crook that blows into Boise for a couple of hours.

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