OCTOBER 31, 2007
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Former TNR hand Tim Fernholz has somehow found and passed along a clip of the 2000 Bush-Gore debate I mentioned in my item below about the Hillary "glare." Clinton wasn't nearly this clumsy last night, of course, but I do think the spirit may have been the same. Now I need to find a clip of Lazio confronting her in their famous 2000 debate. (Skip ahead to about 0:55 on the clock if you're impatient):
--Michael Crowley
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The media is hopeless re Gore. He just doesn't look that bad here. Bush looks worse; he looks like the ego-maniacal asshole we all know him to be.
This, like the last few weeks of Hardball and other cable news programs, highlights one of the biggest problems with the current state of politics in this country: our awful media. It's just non-stop gossip and baseless speculation. It's irresponsible, maybe even immoral, in its focus on the trivial and unimportant. And, frankly, I'm depressed to see TNR go down this path.
How about something that f'ing matters, e.g., a debate about the Kyl-Leiberman controversy or a study of Giuliani's FP advisors. Spare us this bs. We can't afford to be this petty.
- ralphnelle
October 31, 2007 at 10:24pm