Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Primary madness.

Another big primary night, and I'm thinking about skipping the TV coverage and going out to dinner with Stonewall instead. But I'm watching now.

Chris Matthews just asked someone about whether the Jeremiah Wright issue didn't have as much impact as "some people would have hoped." Yeah, like you, Chris?

And speaking of Jeremiah Wright, I caught his interview with Bill Moyers on PBS last weekend. I had first heard of Jeremiah Wright in the context of reading about the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S., so my first introduction to him was not through the relentlessly repeated 5-second sound bites on TV or on the internet. It was refreshing to be reintroduced to that man. It was especially refreshing to be able to watch full-length clips of the sermons in question, so you could see the entire point that he was making -- and not just a disjointed climax. Watch the video here.

I can't say that I'm a regular Bill Moyers viewer, but I might be a fan. Imagine this: a conversation between two people, relatively uninterrupted, non-combative, in which each side is allowed to express an idea. Revolutionary.

And this was also interesting: Was It Really What Jeremiah Wright Said, Or Was It Because He's Black?

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