Charles Pierce Critiques the Sunday “News” Shows
Welcome back to our survey of the state of Our National Dialogue which is, of course, what Goffin and King would have come up with, had they composed Up On The Foofs.
Cowards.
Welcome to NBC News where the primary qualification for stardom is making sure that Rush Limbaugh doesn’t shout loudly enough on the radio about what you’re doing for your bosses to hear it.
We have had our fun with the Dancin’ Master, but it’s past time to recognize that the way he does business is actively hurting the politics of this country and, therefore, thousands of people that he does not know, and would not give a passing glance if he passed them on the street and their heads were on fire. It’s not just the smugness, or the fact that his panels generally would not have been out of place in Versailles in 1789. or the resolute determination not to explain what is plainly in front of him. It’s the fact that all of this adds up to an deliberately cultivated obliviousness to what’s really going on in the country. Get off the veranda on the Vineyard and report something. It started right off on Sunday.
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