American Thinker
Glenn Greenwald is an interesting guy with a passion for the First Amendment. Because he hated George Bush and the Iraq War, he spent years aligned completely with the left. However, because he hates the Biden administration’s sustained attacks on individual liberty, he’s suddenly a regular guest on Tucker Carlson. I don’t forgive Greenwald his uninformed hostility to Israel, but I find him worth listening to in other contexts — and given my abiding disdain for today’s late-night TV hosts, I was dazzled by his attack on Samantha Bee, whose show, Full Frontal, just got canceled.
I was lucky enough to come of age in the Johnny Carson era, and I watched him fairly regularly from the mid-1970s through his retirement in 1992. His show was carefully calibrated to entertain the greatest number of Americans, regardless of political stripe. While his comic routines were often silly (although I do love this oldie), his monologues were good pokes at the people and foibles of the day, funny without ever being savage. He was also an exceptionally witty man who always made his guests look good.
Jay Leno pretty much followed in Carson’s footsteps. He had an ecumenical monologue, gently poking fun at everyone, and had good regular bits, whether it was laughing at headlines, pointing out inadvertently funny wedding announcements, playing amusing 911 calls, or giving us a glimpse of Americans who displayed scary but amusing ignorance.
Greenwald is not an ideologue and as such he is free to call balls and strikes, to weigh actions on their merits, and not view them thru any prism of spin or agitprop. These are the guys we should be listening to and take seriously, the guys that by nature distrust all authority and value civil liberty and freedom.
@Rich Taylor July 28, 2022 at 2:59 pm
> These are the guys we should be listening to and take seriously, the guys that by nature distrust all authority and value civil liberty and freedom.
That’s the Surrender, talking.