While most of the world rejoiced that Bill Clinton and Al Gore and so many other dedicated people helped secure the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea, I see my former newspaper the New York Post took an opposite stance. "Bill’s H-wood Blockbuster" they headline, writing that the "Homecoming Drama Is All About Bubba." (Well, I do believe the North Koreans demanded the presence of President Clinton as a prelude to letting these girls escape a dozen years of hard labor. Who should have gone instead, Rush Limbaugh?)

I enjoyed the ridiculous criticism against mogul Steve Bing, who donated his jet and paid the fuel bill, and the fact that the enterprise "had Hollywood written all over it." The plane landed at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank for the girls to be reunited with their families. Maybe it should have gone someplace else less convenient to all concerned.

I love it that the Post dumps on Hollywood as if their owner Rupert Murdoch doesn’t own a lavish house there and he is invited and goes to most of the big La La Land galas and parties. He also owns a successful movie production company. Criticism that the return of Ling and Lee was partly orchestrated by the Rogers and Cowan PR Firm seems to fly in the face of Fox’s own dedicated PR mechanism. The company is repped by the greatest PR man in New York history (Howard Rubenstein) with all the benefits that engenders.

Talk about the mote in somebody’s eye! So you don’t like Bill Clinton and his Hollywood pals. Your own Hollywood and PR pals are preferable. And who have they saved from 12 years of hard labor lately?