Bush leaves the Capitol to go to the University of Texas to work out. The press watches and yells questions. Bush returns to the Capitol. By design of the Bush campaign, nothing newsworthy happens at these brief sightings. And exactly what doesn't happen is chronicled by the day's pool reporter, a scribe assigned to cover the event and share it with colleagues in order to avoid mob scenes in close-quarters locations.
Reporters love to wax poetic about the weather.
It makes them feel like real writers. Bruni then recounted Bush's brief repartee with John Berman, an ABC News producer who has been on the campaign trail for more than a year. And then, according to Bruni, it got personal. For at least 36 and possibly 48-72 hours, Mr. Berman had not come anywhere near a razor. But where other observers might have seen, on Mr. Berman's cheeks and jowls, follicular decrepitude and hirsute disrepair, Mr. Bush saw something else.