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Where's Emily Post when you need her?

Posted by Libby Liming at August 31, 2004 11:04 AM

I don’t watch television. Very often. We live in some sort of pit where you cannot get ANY channels if you do not have cable (which we do not) so I am blissfully ignorant of things like “The Newlyweds” on MTV and most of the Olympics. I was, however, “lucky enough” to catch some of Matt Lauer’s interview of President Bush Monday morning. To tell you the truth, I was a little bit appalled. It seemed (to me at least) that Lauer was verbally sparring with the president and the president went straight to a defensive position. I know that a lot of people don’t like “W” and don’t like the way he is running things, but he is still the president, if only for “two more months” (as Michael Moore is so fond of saying.) Shouldn’t we still respect him as the leader of our country? Would Emily Post approve of the way some people are behaving? Respond