The Washington Canard

FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE

The Mnookin-Shafer event I wrote about last night can now be viewed on Real Player by clicking here.

The Hotline Comedy Show I've written about a few times now aired on C-SPAN over the last weekend, and is also available on Real Player here.

And just this morning Christopher Hitchens and the Chicago Tribune's James Warren did an hour and a half with Brian Lamb on "Washington Journal." Lamb and Hitchens have done at least two previous sit-downs with Andrew Sullivan, and while I'd still like to see another (especially with their little snit going -- see the endnote) of those, this was good. Great, at moments, even laugh-out loud. When Warren noted (twice) that C-SPAN had been mentioned on "Gilmore Girls" (Warren: "I hope this results in a precipitous increase in teenage girls turning in to C-SPAN"), Lamb wanted to know just what he was doing watching that show. Because, Warren deadpanned, the Tribune Co. has a financial stake in the WB network and, "Anything I can do to boost those WB ratings I will do, even if it means watching the Gilmore Girls." The "pornographic" 70's-era phone conversation between "It's your ass" Henry Kissinger and Barbara "Wawa" Walters is worth a listen, too. Click here here to watch the whole thing.

posted by WWB at 1:55 PM |