Smart Human Tricks...
A lot of people read about John McCain's no-show on Late Night With David Letterman. And Dave skewed him about it for weeks. So much so that McCain rebooked and actually showed up. If you didn't see it, let me tell you that Letterman grilled McCain on a variety of topics. And he asked questions and made points that no "news reporter" had even come close to making. I thought, "hells yeah! And why aren't real reporters asking these questions?"
In this weeks Rolling Stone magazine, writer Matt Taibbi spins some tales from his time following the various campaigns. Here's a excerpt where he writes about the Letterman deal:
After thousands of reporters sat around for months on end listening first to Hillary's and then John McCain's people blather on about Obama's connection to former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, it would take David Letterman-David Letterman!-to challenge either candidate of the matter. "Are they driving cross-country?" Letterman asked, after finally having gotten McCain to squirm about his own relationship with equivalent extremist G. Gordon Liddy. In a society of grown-ups, Brian Williams and Katie Couric and Wolf Blitzer would have done that from the start. But they didn't-they treated the mudslinging like it wasn't vile horseshit to be laughed at, but something real to be discussed with furrowed brows, debated. So it persisted.
A lot of people read about John McCain's no-show on Late Night With David Letterman. And Dave skewed him about it for weeks. So much so that McCain rebooked and actually showed up. If you didn't see it, let me tell you that Letterman grilled McCain on a variety of topics. And he asked questions and made points that no "news reporter" had even come close to making. I thought, "hells yeah! And why aren't real reporters asking these questions?"
In this weeks Rolling Stone magazine, writer Matt Taibbi spins some tales from his time following the various campaigns. Here's a excerpt where he writes about the Letterman deal:
After thousands of reporters sat around for months on end listening first to Hillary's and then John McCain's people blather on about Obama's connection to former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, it would take David Letterman-David Letterman!-to challenge either candidate of the matter. "Are they driving cross-country?" Letterman asked, after finally having gotten McCain to squirm about his own relationship with equivalent extremist G. Gordon Liddy. In a society of grown-ups, Brian Williams and Katie Couric and Wolf Blitzer would have done that from the start. But they didn't-they treated the mudslinging like it wasn't vile horseshit to be laughed at, but something real to be discussed with furrowed brows, debated. So it persisted.
walkere:
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