did anyone catch Rich Lowry on C-span this morning?

[Cocoa]

C-span gave me a big laugh, they promoted a segment of Washington Journal as something like "The insurgency and U.S. troops."

I thought it was going to be someone like a reporter that had just come back from Iraq, or an Iraq expert, or a military analyst that had been in Iraq.

So when I saw the rosy-cheeked Lowry, I thought there must have been a mistake, or a schedule change, or something. But then I realized that he was the one discussing the situation in Iraq.

It was so surreal, because for almost the whole interview, the C-span host was treating Lowry as if he were an Iraq expert, when clearly Lowry knew absolutely NOTHING about Iraq. Obviously the host knew at least ten times as much about Iraq as Lowry, but he pretended that Lowry was some kind of source of knowledge.

With one exception*, the host didn't ask how Lowry knew all of these things he was asserting so strongly, and Lowry didn't come close to explaining where he got his thoughts, he just stated them.

Finally, one great caller, a middle-aged-sounding female, called Lowry "Rich Airhead." :-)


*the exception is that finally the host asked Mr. Airhead if he'd ever been to Iraq, at which point Lowry's face got a little redder and admitted he hadn't, not that that would have been a surprise to anyone. And this basic question might actually have come from a viewer, not from the host himself.

[Gabi Hayes]

1. I listened a bit to that douchebucket from National Urinal before

the twerp, and to the segment beforehand, in which the question was asked if the boomers are the "most selfish generation"

he based this on some ahole column by Kristoff, and cited some other RW talking point articles as well

most of the callers (both sides) are ignoramuses, so what's the point of listening to such twaddle?

I know, bad as it is, it's better than other talk garbage, but, jesus, isn't RW Fridays enough?

Book Stuff on Saturday had some good stuff, during which Max Boot couldn't constrain his rabid sensibilities before an LA Bookfest panel, and was basically called a liar by Mark Danner and others

then, there was a panel with Alterman, Dean, Mo Dowd, a historian (who ripped the crook of a national archivist * installed)

and there's a foreign policy talk with Amy Goodman and another person who reamed Max Boot on the other panel

give CSPAN credit for shows like that, but Washington Journal seems to have become mindbogglingly topheavy with wingnut mouthbreathers these days (or at least whenever I catch it==either on tv or Sirius)