Journeys with George

I watched Journeys with George last night, which was a documentary made by Alexandra Pelosi (Nancy's daughter) who was with the NBC press corps in 2000. I think it was shown on HBO, but I rented it from our local video store. The documentary is about following Bush around the country on the press plane. About half the movie features Bush joshing with the press corps on the back of the plane, and the other half is mainly about what it is like being one of those reporters. It's pretty interesting. It looks like a hellish job - she traveled almost a million miles during that year (an average of a cross-country flight a day?), got to hear the same stump speech three times a day for an entire year, ate loads of prefab turkey and bologna sandwiches, etc. I liked the part where one of her friends, the Houston Chronicle reporter RG Ratcliffe, deconstructs the relationship between one of their bologna sandwiches and the Republican presidential candidates while showing the parts of the sandwich. You've got the white bread, the bologna, and the cheesy ads full of holes (Swiss cheese).