Lots of boilerplate, but quite a few funny lines, too.
Note at the bottom the most disturbing issue: as a counterpart to Goldberg at the Democratic convention USA Today is going to have Michael Moore at the Republican convention. Wow. A very smart and serious (and a bit of a smartass) opinion journalist who has spent years trying to refine what it means to be a conservative and a Republican, and Michael Moore. I know, I know, it's USA Today, but still, this is exactly why we all should ignore Moore. The tapping of Moore for such a job is not Jonah Goldberg's fault in this particular case, but it is partially his fault in a larger sense. Because smart people (like Goldberg) have engaged that gas-bag, the gas-bag is in conversations with smart people. The result is that the entire conversation is being taken down to gas-bag levels. Democrats are letting a guy most of them disagree with speak for them in national debates because they take delight in the fact that he rankles people with whom they disagree. Republicans are taking the easy way out by debating him and his ridiculous work, and as a result are becoming intellectually lazy.
Now we are all in the gutter. We need to learn when to ignore people.
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CNN’s AMERICAN MORNING – Aired July 27, 2004
COLLINS: For now we go back to Bill in Boston -- Bill? All right, Heidi. Thanks for that. Eight minutes now before the hour.
We're going to shift our focus a little bit here, lighten things up. Time now for a convention edition of "Political Pop."
Here in Boston, on the left, Democratic strategist, Kirsten Powers is here. Holding the middle, Andy Borowitz from "borowitzreport.com." And on the right, Jonah Goldberg of the "National Review Online."
How are you guys doing?
KIRSTEN POWERS, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Good.
JONAH GOLDBERG, EDITOR, "NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE": Good.
ANDY BOROWITZ, "BOROWITZREPORT.COM": We're great
HEMMER: Are you ready to go?
POWERS: Oh, yes.
BOROWITZ: We're ready.
HEMMER: Kirsten, what do you make of this photo of John Kerry yesterday?
POWERS: Well, I have this very kind of outside-of-the-box strategy in dealing with candidates...
HEMMER: OK.
POWERS: ... which is I try not to put things on their heads that make them look like condoms. I mean...
GOLDBERG: Especially what it implies when you put the condom around something, what it says is on the inside.
HEMMER: Do you think that is something that hurts him?
POWERS: I think it's not a great picture, and I don't know what they were thinking.
HEMMER: Wow.
POWERS: But you know, I also tried this morning with Jonah to convince him that it's not John Kerry. But he wasn't really buying it.
HEMMER: He wasn't buying it?
GOLDBERG: I wasn't buying it. I wasn't buying the spin, no.
BOROWITZ: You know, let's give Teresa some credit because moments after that picture was taken, she told the photographer where to put the camera. That was very helpful.
HEMMER: Hey Jonah, are Republicans making to big of a deal out of this? They're comparing it to the Michael Dukakis moment of 1988.
GOLDBERG: To give the Kerry campaign credit, this is the most disciplined they've ever been. And here, like a gift from heaven, they've got the Democratic candidate looking like he's saying, thank you, sir, may I have another, you know, in a giant, you know, bubble boy suit.
I actually saw that segment, but I do not understand what it has to do with this post. Explain.
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