Light Reading

[Gordon Fitch]

Brad DeLong:
> >Specifically:
> >
> >http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/neolib.PDF
> >
> >And yes, it was a genuine pleasure to write.
> >
> >-- Dennis
> 
> My view was that Amy Goodman didn't know enough to pin the guy down.
> 
> For example, Clinton responds to a question about Cuba with: "We were 
> really making headway. And then, they illegally shot down those two 
> planes, and four people died on the planes. And the Congress passed 
> the Helms/Burton bill, so-called. And I don't have flexibility to do 
> much more..." The right thing to do is to say in response: "yeah. 
> Well you *signed* Helms-Burton, buster. You don't have flexibility 
> now because you gave that flexibility away then..."
> 
> But American political reporters--even the best of them--do not have 
> the depth of policy experience to be able to match someone like 
> Clinton across the board...

I think she had to be careful to keep him on the hook, which
meant not jerking the line too hard.  At any point he could
plead pressing business and sign off.