Yanks unimpressed by McConnell trip

The Herald, Daily Record, Scotsman, BBC et al. are all full of McConnell today - he's been getting in a New York shopping trip ahead of Christmas.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if he's Stateside to drum up interest in Scotland then all this coverage in the Scottish press is irrelevant - as well as boring. The whole point of the trip is to get into the US media so that Yanks will buy more shortbread. So I carried out a quick McConnell watch:

New York Times, New York Post, New York Daily News, New York Sun - nada.
USA Today - hee haw.
Wall Street Journal - SFA.

A prize of some shortbread to anyone who can break this woeful duck and find some US coverage of the trip.

In the meantime Jack, forget about the waste of taxpayers' money and get us one of those video iPods while yer there.