[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Tue Sep 15 08:29:41 PDT 2009


On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Doug Henwood wrote:


> But O'Reilly is much more fun to watch than Maddow and esp Olbermann. The
> great tragedy of the Fox schedule is that when we're finally ready to catch
> some political TV at 10, Fox has the execrable Greta on, and not O'R. He's
> very good at what he does - which is noxious, yes, but entertaining.

Making politics into entertainment is something we should strive for?


> This may be a fault of liberalism vs. conservatism - there's no passion
> to liberalism

Olbermann has passion and so does Amy Goodman. Passion is not what makes you entertaining.

Michael



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