tomo,

It'll be the scenic route back if he finds himself in London, but maybe he feels like a bit of sightseeing.

There's no reason for Carlson to pull his punches. The other side have been swinging plenty, and it does have entertainment value — a bit cathartic even — but I guarantee that those reporters came away with all their priors confirmed: just playing to his fans, bunch of intolerant rednecks, etc. And their tendentious questions confirmed Carlson's priors.

My comment was just lamenting that having everybody thrashing around is never going to get us out of the swamp.

Sorry about the double-comment. Squarespace was doing odd things this morning.

tomo,
Good to get the whole questions session. No doubt the reporters were just after *the* incriminating soundbite, and were ready for the bucketing.

Every week the ABC puts on Q+A (more or less BBC's Question Time, with prodigious left-wing bias), and they usually include one or two right wingers on the panel as the baddies de la semaine. The reporters from Carlson's event have had a taste of being the baddies, but competing echo chambers isn't much of a way to strike a balance.

tomo,
Good to get the whole questions session. No doubt the reporters were just after *the* incriminating soundbite, and were ready for the bucketing.

Every week the ABC puts on Q+A (more or less BBC's Question Time, with prodigious left-wing bias), and they usually include one or two right wingers on the panel as the baddies de la semaine. The reporters from Carlson's event have had a taste of being the baddies, but competing echo chambers isn't much of a way to strike a balance.

"castrated robots reading questions from the boss"

"castrated robots reading questions from the boss"

tomo,
I haven't been so engaged with the Ukraine ructions over the years. I remember the substantial coverage of the "orange revolution" back then, and the whiff of propaganda it had about it. Why is the media taking sides on this faraway unrest? My impression (backed up by pretty much nothing) was that it was a power struggle between unattractive factions and that the Ukrainians weren't going to be winners either way.

A few years later the propaganda may have worked on me, because I was much more in favour of Georgia than Russia in that fight (again, from a position of near complete ignorance).

Like you, I sympathise with the ordinary people in all this.

Sachs seems to have an obsession which blinds him to the possibility that *some* evils mightn't arise from the USA. In particular, he favours UN treaties.

The US does many bad things. I see that as a natural consequence of a government that is way too big. The solution is not going emerge from an even bigger "world" government.