Will Saletan on Tom DeLay’s deathbed conversion:
This is what happens when you approach a tragedy as a politician rather than as a family member. You see quality of life as a slippery-slope abstraction, not as a reality affecting someone you love. You find it easy to impose a standard of documentation that would have forced your family to break the law. You second-guess a spouse in a way you would never second-guess your mother. You challenge people’s competence and impugn their character. You perceive the afflicted person more as God’s tool than as God’s child.
Exactly.
Now Playing: Episode 349
Troops needed in Afghanistan end up in Iraq, Obama punts on the FISA bill, and finally: the Supremes rule on the 2nd amendment.
Links Mentioned: The hunt for Bin Laden … the new Army Iraq report … the FISA bill … the Prof references Chinua Achebe and The Lives of Others … the Genarlow Wilson aftermath.
Here’s where they will win — in the gym! I am embarrassed to indulge my Fox craving in public, so I sheepishly tune to CNN just to appear “moderate.” HA! THAT’S their bread and butter!
If I’m at home, however, it’s clear: Fox is just so much more interesting than CNN. They have more of a take, they’re quicker to news stories, etc. CNN is too busy trying to appeal to the gym crowd (i.e., the squishy moderate no-offense middle).
Big Caveat: I rarely, if ever, watch Fox’s rabid heavyweights (oreillyhannity), so who am I to say?
I totally forgot until just a second ago: CNN cornered the market ages ago in the squishiest most moderate place in the world — the airport!
No wonder they’re so boring!!!
Exactly! The Fox “take” as you say is much more compelling. Because there’s more of a market for opinion journalism than for plain old news. If I want plain vanilla news, I go to Google News or, worse, CNN Headline News… the squishiest of them all!