Teevee Tidbits (II)

[MSgt213]

Like a lot of people I've been speaking to lately, I've been limiting my cable news and Sunday morning talkshow viewing, not out of depression or sulky resentment, but because there's only so much inane twaddle a person can take. I have no interest in listening to a Chris Matthews panel speculate on who might replace this or that person in the cabinet, as if they were engaging in Rotisserie League baseball. I assume whomever Bush picks will have horns, cloven feet, and a connection to an oil company, so who cares what name the minion goes by?

But this morning I broke down and watched CBS's Face the Nation hosted by Bob Schieffer. His guests were Dem Jane Harmon and Repub Lindsey Graham, the topic the situation in Iraq and the turmoil at the CIA.

And as usual, there was a huge gaping hole in the discussion.

Schieffer brought up newspaper reports of high-level resignations and departures from the CIA since the arrival of Porter Goss, how some longtime CIA officers were disgusted by the arrogant treatment they had received by Goss's henchmen. Both Harmon and Graham thought this was unfortunate, though what seemed to bother Graham most was that this was being played out ugly in the papers instead of being handled behind closed doors. He emphasized that the CIA had failed bigtime when it came to 9/11 and Iraq, and if a few hurt feelings were what it took to turn things around, well too bad.

http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2004/11/teevee_tidbits_1.php