Quillnews, still vegging at the tube in flu recovery, finds a few items worth just a note:
1) Meet the Press -- what is the deal with the NYT's Krugman? Calling that guy squirelly doesn't come close. What is NYT doing with this hack? Can Princeton actually think this guy a scholar? Krugman's anti-Bush screed on social security wasn't even up to point papers DNC interns work up for boilerplate. This guy's eyes danced like he'd shot meth in the greenroom. At least Time magazine's Joe Klein showed the distain Krugman's whining deserved. After dispatching Krugman's disparagement of private accounts, Klein called for political creativity, such as pilot projects to see if the separate savings account could work. When Krugman dismissed Democrats like Sen. Hillary needing to offer more than centrist alternatives, Klein pounced:
KLEIN: Paul, I have a question for you: What was it about the peace and prosperity of the eight years of the Clinton administration that you didn't like?
KRUGMAN: No, I liked the way the country ran.
KLEIN: I think that he had a real governing philosophy. It wasn't triangulation. It was moving us from the industrial age to the information age, and that's where the Democratic Party is going to have to move...
KRUGMAN: There's a radical right...
KLEIN: ...if it wants to have any role in American politics.
KRUGMAN: There's a radical right challenge to America as we know it that's under way, and I think the Democrats--I mean, maybe Hillary Clinton can do this. I'm actually not opposed to her, right? But they need to make clear that they are going to turn back that tide, not blur it.
KLEIN: The answer to a radical right challenge isn't a reactionary left response.
2) Cold Case -- This Bruckheimer product is getting kinda weak and obvious on the story lines, and way over relies of oldies sound tracks, but the conflict between cop partners Rush and Valens, about Rush's sister romancing the mourning Valens, is excellent soap drama! Best character tension going.
3) Deadwood -- David Milch has lost it; taking his characters into such dark vulgarity that the show, despite its potential, production values and compelling mining camp theme, is almost unwatchable! The production company needs to bring up a clean up and clarity editor to supervise, or this is just a misogynist dope fiend's bad trip.
4) West Wing -- President Bartlett doesn't win points with Quillnews making smart ass remarks about Washington being a "tight ass." President Washington's character was molded by that Jesuit book of manners and it lessons of character and behavior are part of the DNA of American political behavior -- thank the modestly schooled Washington, who educated himself by copying these simple dictums into wisdom enough to create a nation that would enlighten the world. Quillnews is among those who believes the hand of Providence was revealed here. Here's a terrific book on this subject by Richard Brookheiser. Washington deserves better from today's Hollywood that being dismissed with a completely out of context vulgarism by this actor, who shows up at anti-American rants staged by communists, and is a proud signatory of moveon.org's agenda. And that guy Lawrence O'Donnell, the sometime DNC hack and current West Wing guru, who got in dutch with Quillnews over his ranting about how succession is the best answer to the red state/blue state divide, is being outed by the hard right, which is starting to arm up its pail of spit balls. Look at Malkin's summary of an O'Donnell performance. Whew!
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