Bill Clinton hasn’t lost the knack. Carville had it spot on when he predicted Clinton would deliver a terrific speech that would put an end to the endless dissection of the Clinton’s intent with respect to the upcoming election. Maybe deep down he and his wife can’t stand Barack Obama, or maybe they’re just sore about being beaten, but you’d never know any of that from the speech he delivered last night. John Kerry did a pretty good job, too.
But why is CNN there at the convention center if they’re going to ignore 95% of what’s going on? I know you can go to their web site and watch the speeches streaming live, but what fraction of people are going to do that? I would rather have heard Madeleine Albright, or Even Bayh or Bill Richardson than Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer repeating the same things over and over again, interviewing each other instead of presenting the news as it happened. They could have stayed in Atlanta and done the same thing.
Gustav did the time warp last night, with a jump to the left, and now his course is less certain than it was yesterday. Texas is now more likely than before, though the major model still has Louisiana as the bull’s eye and Mississippi and Florida as possible targets. In the nineteen years I’ve lived here, Rita was the closest we’ve had to a hurricane strike, and we barely even got rain out of that one. I watch the model updates with the same interest that I watch the election news, to be informed, but I’ve come to believe that we just aren’t in a location that is favorable for hurricane strikes. That doesn’t mean it will never happen, but if I had to place a bet, I’d bet against Houston every time. It’s like predicting rain: forecasters would be more accurate if they always said it’s not going to rain on a particular day more than three days out than try to guess whether it will rain!
Eureka was good this week. A great punny title, too: “Show Me the Mummy.” I like the way they handled the events of last week’s episode. They didn’t belabor it, but they didn’t ignore it, either. And the writers are usually pretty darned clever about having something innocuous from the early part of the episode prove crucial at the end, like Carter’s sister’s music. Sure, the science is beyond wonky, but it’s still fun.
I hear CSPAN as OK coverage. But I don’t know for certain.
Maybe I’ll try that out instead tonight, though I expect CNN will break from their inane commentary to show at least some of Obama’s speech…
I made the mistake of DVR-ing CNN the first night, and was very angry by their bloviating and constant interruptions. They promised coverage of the convention, but never actually gave it. They just wouldn’t SHUT UP!
So I DVRed C-SPAN the following nights, and was much happier.
I was confounded by their inane commentary after Biden’s speech.
News anchors no longer try anymore to be journalists. Just talking head celebrities who think their opinion matters or wants to be heard.
The only really good coverage we are getting here in Denver, I think, is from PBS. They are showing things that no other channels are showing and there isn’t the commentary from the reporters like there is from other stations. Good luck finding a station that gives good coverage. Maybe CNN will shape up for tonight.
Oh, and I was happy with the way that Eureka handled everything this episode. sometimes I hate when shows jump forward a few weeks but I didn’t mind it so much here. The passage of time made everyone’s feelings more believable. And I loved what they did with the idea of a mummy curse.
Yeah — Fargo’s encounter in the “memorial hall” pointed things in one direction when they were actually going in another.