"News" Media Goes to the Toilet for Bill Clinton Story

This was just too good to pass up. It' s from the Associated Press, so I assume it's true:

Bill Clinton Turns "Heads" in the Senate
[quotes on "heads" added for reasons obvious to Naval personnel.]
By MARY-CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press
January 4, 2006

The Clinton who turned heads in the Senate Thursday was not Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, notwithstanding all the speculation about her running for president.

Former President Clinton cheerfully called out, "Hi, everybody!" as he strolled through the Senate Press Gallery past correspondents for The Associated Press, The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

He was surrounded by a security entourage, but wasn't really seeking publicity. Something more mundane, actually. A bathroom, and then the swearing in of his wife for the new 110th Congress.

Then he headed for the men's room - followed by his Secret Service agents and a cadre of reporters. The questions were obvious:

"Do you want to live in the White House again?

"I would like not to talk about it today," he said.

"Is Mrs. Clinton going to run for president?

"Ask her."

"All I know is, this is a happy day," Clinton added. "It's a great day for the largest number of women we've ever had in the Congress...

Bill, so how many women have you had in "Congress?" And I really have to wonder from the story MARY-CLARE JALONICK filed whether she conducted this interview in the bathroom?

It's been a while since I was in the Senate, so I'll count on those with better knowlege to remind me: is path through the Senate Press Gallery the only way to a bathroom? That might explain where most reporters get their stories: right out of the crapper!