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     COMMENTS: Brian Williams Watches Battle of the Bulge

Brian Williams' special skill as an anchor is his knack for deadpan understatement. Contrast his passing mention of the Carrie Prejean brouhaha with Dan Harris' labored complete report on ABC. Harris had to spell it out the "delicious absurdity of the spectacle" as Miss California, a celebrity champion of the campaign to prevent homosexuals from getting married, was forgiven by Donald Trump for posing in modest topless photographs. On NBC, a straightfaced Williams called the Miss USA press conference "a rare moment of media exposure for Donald Trump" and observed that Miss California "invoked Gen Patton, World War II and the Battle of the Bulge in her own emotional defense."

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