So I'll preface this by acknowledging that Christian Amanpour had an excellent special on Iran last night. Both her and Fareed Zakaria continue to be at the top of their game...
BUT...
I happened to see a clip of a recent episode of Larry King Live hosted by Wolf Blitzer. The show included a panel made up of Democratic strategist James Carville, conservative analyst and former Treasurer of the United States Bay Buchanan, political analyst and media mogul Arianna Huffington, and former Nixon speech writer and actor Ben Stein. And they discussed among other things: healthcare reform, Iran and O.J. Simpson. Yes....O.J. Simpson. How timely.
So I'll be brief(well briefer than usual). I'm sick of seeing the same people brought on as analysts for topics they're not really qualified to talk about--namely, Iran. As you can see from part two of the videos, none of the "analysts" seem to have any real clue or unique insights into what's happening in Iran right now (none of them have a background in Iranian history, politics, etc....or even Middle Eastern history, politics, etc.). And after hearing Ben Stein talk about North Korea, it's clear that he must have been sniffing dangerous amounts of industrial glue and consuming exorbitant amounts of shrooms over the past few weeks. I'm not saying CNN shouldn't have these characters on every once and a while to get their perspective. They're intelligent people. But seriously--the amount of air time these people get is ridiculous.
And please, let the O.J. story go. I know it got you big ratings back in the early 90s. We all understand--he got away with murder. Crazy stuff. But can we please use the power of 24-hour news to focus on something current and relevant to the world around us?
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