A Comment About

The Envelope Please: Dems Debate in Hollywood

February 1, 2008 - 12:10 am - by Roger L Simon
Broadsword
2008-02-01 05:02:14

“Why is it that the media don’t ask the Democratic candidates some obvious questions on Iraq? ” Before the classical music began, I sometimes waded through the last few minutes of The Diane Rheem show on NPR. She and a guest were discussing the humor in the film, Life is Beautiful, about which Diane Rheem said, with horror, “But I don’t want to feel that way about the holocaust!” Not ‘think’, but “feel”. In the same way, the obvious questions are not asked because they all, unquestioners and unquestioned alike already have the right answers. They know how they “feel”. What’s left to know, or ask?