Comments on: A Raging Moderate http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/31/a-raging-moderate/ The View From Connecticut's Northwest Corner Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:08:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: fred http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/31/a-raging-moderate/#comment-345 fred Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:32:22 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/31/a-raging-moderate/#comment-345 And the interesting thing is, terry's post and the 1 comment by Jake are clearer, concise and intelligent statements about that video than all of the 15 comments on the youtube side. I have gone to see tapings of The Daily Show in NYC many times. Before the show begins Jon Stewart offers a Q&A with his audience members, and the man has more intelligent insight on politics and news today than Rush Limbaugh or Imus or any other media mogul wishes they had. And the interesting thing is, terry’s post and the 1 comment by Jake are clearer, concise and intelligent statements about that video than all of the 15 comments on the youtube side.

I have gone to see tapings of The Daily Show in NYC many times. Before the show begins Jon Stewart offers a Q&A with his audience members, and the man has more intelligent insight on politics and news today than Rush Limbaugh or Imus or any other media mogul wishes they had.

]]> By: Jake http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/31/a-raging-moderate/#comment-337 Jake Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:34:04 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/31/a-raging-moderate/#comment-337 OK, full disclosure. Gergen makes me ill (big surprise there). He's like a mayonnaise sandwich on Wonder Bread. He reminds me of Truman's economists, who that president wished were one handed. (Then they couldn't repeatedly say... "but on the other hand.") I suspect his centrism is really a kind shtick. Be the guy that the Kennedy school can put on display as the "house" non-liberal. Go on TV and be that odd sort who isn't one of those horrible partisans. Be the guy the NYT calls in the odd event that they need a "critic" for some liberal policy. (Not much money there.) He worked for Republicans until Clinton needed someone to parade in front of a country that had just thrown out a Democrat congress, and was presumably preparing to do the same to the president. Starting to see a pattern here? In the clip he claims that being at odds with the left on free trade and right on education policy makes him a centrist. Presumably that doesn't make him your kind of centrist. All those kids in charter schools in DC should go back to the war zone, I guess. Who knows what he really believes in? Probably not much more than his next speaking fee. His positions seem mostly well suited for keeping a day job at the Kennedy School... as the token. OK, full disclosure. Gergen makes me ill (big surprise there). He’s like a mayonnaise sandwich on Wonder Bread. He reminds me of Truman’s economists, who that president wished were one handed. (Then they couldn’t repeatedly say… “but on the other hand.”)

I suspect his centrism is really a kind shtick. Be the guy that the Kennedy school can put on display as the “house” non-liberal. Go on TV and be that odd sort who isn’t one of those horrible partisans. Be the guy the NYT calls in the odd event that they need a “critic” for some liberal policy. (Not much money there.)

He worked for Republicans until Clinton needed someone to parade in front of a country that had just thrown out a Democrat congress, and was presumably preparing to do the same to the president. Starting to see a pattern here?

In the clip he claims that being at odds with the left on free trade and right on education policy makes him a centrist. Presumably that doesn’t make him your kind of centrist. All those kids in charter schools in DC should go back to the war zone, I guess.

Who knows what he really believes in? Probably not much more than his next speaking fee. His positions seem mostly well suited for keeping a day job at the Kennedy School… as the token.

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