ABC’s Jake
Tapper, a self-acknowledged acolyte of the King’s who made his journalistic
bones as an online columnist for Salon, showed off his Elvis-themed tie
Friday, as he – like The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd and several score
other national reporters – filed stories from the car museum across Elvis
Presley Boulevard from Graceland.
That’s as close as most observers – tourists,
protesters, reporters what-have-you – got to the grounds of the late music
icon’s mansion, or to the National Civil Rights Museum, where President Bush,
Japanese Prime Minister
Koizumi, and the rest of their party made an impromptu stop, or to the downtown
Rendezvous Restaurant, where the two heads of state and a largish retinue of
local officials finished off their highly private whirlwind tour of Memphis. (To read more, go to “Political Beat” here.
