I don't know if this is a minor irritant or symptomatic of the stupefying nature of broadcast "journalism", but this morning ABC's This Week followed a reasonably engaging interview with President-elect Obama with their usual roundtable punditry. The lineup ? George Will, as always, joined by Thomas Friedman, Peggy Noonan and...get ready!...Newt Gingrich. That's right. Obama's interview was subjected to the analysis of three rather ideological conservatives and one moderately liberal specialist in conventional wisdom.
The most revealing thing about this far-right-leaning colloquy was how little substantive criticism of the President-elect they could muster. But what is going on in the heads of This Week's producers and of host George Stephanopolous when they stack a roundtable so far to the right ?
"The most revealing thing about this far-right-leaning colloquy was how little substantive criticism of the President-elect they could muster."
This is very true, but on the other hand, in order to muster substantive criticism of anything you must first do something substantial.
Posted by: Akaky | January 14, 2009 at 02:52 PM