As most of you who read the "stuff" that I write know, I find a total lack of "journalism" among the broadcast network news anchors. They walk through the nightly news, and would not say "strawberries" if they had a mouthful of them.
As a CBS employee in the late sixties, CBS News was still a proud organization. Today they, along with NBC and ABC give America what they have grown to accept in news, which is very little. They still however continue to do "pretend news."
It was very refreshing to listen to a "real journalist" Thursday night when David Letterman had Senator John McCain on his show. Letterman was better than the three network news anchors and Sunday morning interview show hosts all put together.
That is sad for America and at the same time good for Letterman. He assumed the role of a journalist with Senator McCain and asked him some tough questions about his selection of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Letterman behaved like a journalist. He asked Senator McCain some tough questions, and didn't spare Governor Palin one teeny bit.
Now I will do a little of my own Palin vilification.
I have mentioned before that she is: A demagogue and disingenuous!
I will now add a thought or two to "her list."
She is also callow: which the dictionary defines as: immature or inexperienced: like a callow youth; untried, green, raw, and naive.
Another definition of callow in the dictionary which is probably unfair but what the hell is: a recently hatched worker ant.
I have described Senator McCain unfairly as "a noun, a verb, and I was a prisoner in Vietnam and am a maverick."
Describing Governor Palin unfairly as well, she is: "a noun and a verb (provided these words are written on her cue cards), and Senator Obama palled around with terrorists." For a bonus, she is "shrill" and if need be, you will have to look that word up yourself.
Letterman has renewed my faith in Broadcast Network "employees" in that he asked a few tough questions of a powerful person.
No one has asked me but I would suggest that when Letterman's late night career ends, he be made President of CBS News.
Norman Horowitz
One who vilifies!