> And why did Sullivan get to react to a tape? Seems to me like that might
> stem from Maher (or his producers) protecting Sullivan from getting sliced
> and diced in person, which would certainly have happened.
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> Was the Noam interview good enough to bother obtaining on DVD-RW? How long
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The interview was under five minutes. Probably nothing you haven't heard already from Chomsky. It's like the talking dog, remarkable not for the fact that it talks well, but that ite talks at all. It's not often that Chomskygets to appear on American TV, even a paid cable station. The Maher show has two kinds of guests, an in-studio panel, which included Sullivan, and people he interviews via satellite, of which Chomsky was one. Only Maher speaks directly with satellite guests; the panel doesn't interact with them. Maher took no special measures to protect Sullivan, and, within the framework of his own liberal view, was quite pugnacious in combating the hysteria of Sullivan and an earlier satellite guest, former senator Alan Simpson, who also lashed into Maher for "making fun" of decent Republicans like himself, which Maher indeed does quite mercilessly and unapologetically. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20041110/efd05f43/attachment.htm>