I saw crazy people throughout the GOP candidate debates. Each time, all present had a case of the crazies except for some debate moderators, like Wolf Blitzer, who was universally lauded for his handling of time, issues and the gaggle or show-offs who mugged for attention. Fox News didn’t come close to that […]
Posts Tagged ‘Fox News’
Current Looks Are Deceiving
September 15, 2011“Americans will flirt with and hear out any voice or opinion but will at last tend toward moderation. My last post told why Romney, at campaign’s end, will be the Republican nominee, and I stick with that prediction. Just a little over a month ago, Michelle Bachmann was the flavor of the […]
Murdoch: Or, When They Do It to Themselves
July 13, 2011I love dead poets, and dead philosophers too. Thank goodness for liberal arts educations and their classical referents. They won’t make you rich like an MBA does, but they help to make important sense of the world. Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is among the truest of insights: people and institutions that have the […]
What Is WRONG With These People?
July 22, 2010These days are nothing short of temporary social insanity. Such is human nature when stress is virtually intolerable and the body politic is hurting. I say “temporary” because we can only hope and pray that it is. At such times, certain behaviors are excusable to a degree but there is a difference when inmates attempt […]
Here Come Da Judge(ment)
March 25, 2010We moderns despise the notion of judgment. To our minds, no one is Up There watching and there are no paybacks. But something there is that likes to imagine both ultimate comeuppance and just reward–and more than just “bad” and “good” cholesterol. That the foregoing requires a Mr. (or Ms.) Big (as the case may […]
CNN Is Drinking the Tea
March 5, 2010Pygmies casting such long shadows is a sign of how late in the day it has become. CNN is drinking the “Tea,” a libation as lethal as Jim Jones’ cool-aid in Jonestown, and, in its infinite tolerance, purveying this deadly potion to the public. As U.S. politics boil to extreme temperatures, CNN’s apparent pull-back from […]
Ichabod's Kin 