BREAKING: Ben Bernanke Not a Female Texan Lawyer with Penchant for Exclamation Points
Who is Ben Bernanke, Bush's nominee for Fed chair? We'll tell you one thing: He's not Harriet Miers.
•"New Fed chief no Harriet Miers" (The Gazette)
•"Ben , he's no Harriet Miers!" ( Fortune )
•"The anti-Harriet-Miers" ( USAT )
•"Everything Harriet Miers isn't." ( LAT )
•"The perfect counterpoint to the Harriet Miers selection" ( AP )
Of course, all this harping on how Miers and Bernanke are different misses one crucial similarity: They both have beards.
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"A Love That Was Benched by Their Careers: The long-standing relationship between high court nominee Harriet Miers and Texas jurist Nathan Hecht entrances and puzzles their friends." [ LAT ]
"He's also got a very nicely trimmed beard. ... very nicely trimmed beard. We'll watch that, see how it grows over the next few weeks." [ CNN ]