FLASHPOINT for Mar 17, 2007

Saturday, March 17, 2007 | 6:53 a.m.

I had to read this section of Christina Littlefield's Friday piece twice to make sure I wasn't missing something about Gov. Jim Gibbons addressing the geniuses who oversee higher education: "His four-minute speech before the Board of Regents earned two standing ovations, led by Chairman - and fellow Republican - Bret Whipple, even if Gibbons' brevity bewildered many listeners." Two standing ovations? For a four-minute speech in which he said essentially nothing? Was Whipple panting as he led the huzzahs? Was he yelling, "Governor, notice me, notice me"? Or cheering because the speech was mercifully short? I would say Whipple & Co. should be embarrassed. But we know they are beyond that.

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