Programming Note
August 30th, 2008 - 11:01 am
I’m on this week’s Deep Background with Austin Bay. Also on the roundtable, Glenn Reynolds, Jennifer Rubin, and James Lileks. Produced my Ed Driscoll, with whom I hope to enjoy at least one more dinner next week in St. Paul.
Our main topic? Sarah Palin, of course.
Nice roundtable. I finally had the chance to listen all the way through this afternoon. It’s interesting to compare and contrast the “true believers’” take on Obama’s speech versus others who are less inclined to drink the kool-aid.
I’m going to have to dig it up on Youtube. Our TV’s been out for a couple of weeks, waiting on a part to come in from the warehouse, so I missed the entire Dem convention. I’m hoping the same doesn’t happen this week….
Clive Crook shows that not everyone at The Atlantic is bad:
While I am complaining about the odious instincts of my profession, let me mention in passing the bid that Campbell Brown is making to supplant Lou Dobbs as the most objectionable broadcast bloviator, thereby securing the top two slots for CNN’s “best political team on television”. On Sunday I watched amazed as her supposed interview of a McCain spokesman on the Palin pick degenerated into a laughing, contemptuous harangue. Her evident disgust at the choice was not to be appeased. Then on Monday she demanded of another McCain surrogate to know whether Palin could be a good mother since she had knowingly thrust her daughter into the spotlight. But who, for heaven’s sake, is directing that spotlight? This is like the mugger who tells his victim he regrets what’s happening, “but why were you so stupid as to walk up this dark alley?” Others might be entitled to make that point, but it is nauseating to hear it from the regretful self-righteous mugger herself.
http://clivecrook.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/the_palin_nomination.php
Read the whole thing. BTW–did Lileks serve food from his cookbook at the party? http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/