his piece from the globe on the death of Mother Theresa is my favorite column of all time on any subject. It’s not available online but you can get a glimpse of the idea of it here:
Well, I think the past week has been, you know, nearly totally media-driven. I think it’s–we’re crazed by celebrity in this culture, not just here in this country. And much of the coverage of the funeral is certainly media-driven, and much of the attraction to the coverage is because it’s so media-driven. And an odd thing happened today. If you believe in God, or a higher being, it’s almost as if God tapped the news media around the world on the shoulder at about 1 o’clock this afternoon and said, “It’s time to straighten your priorities out. Mother Teresa is dead.”
For five straight days we have been making Princess Diana larger than life. She seems like a very wonderful woman, a nice woman. She was 36 years of age. A woman died in Calcutta today who spent all of her life touching the poor and helping the poor. And I’m going to be interested, and I think many Americans would be interested to see if Peter Jennings and Dan Rather and CNN and Tom Brokaw go to Calcutta.
Now today on Morning Joe it was a pox upon all incumbent houses. Sorry Mike you should know better, it isn’t republican incumbents in trouble. Show me some polls that indicate that? It is democrats who are on the run, if you don’t believe me ask David Olby.
Now Margaret Carlson on the same show is trying to talk about the “two year cycle”, the of course the administration will lose seats line.
You would think the tea parties and this healthcare nonsense never happened. C’mon guys!
And Barnicle you still need to get them to do a show from a diner in Fitchburg.
Update: Bennett is Utah is one I should have thought of.
