Re: theater

[Peter Campbell <campbellp@mail.montclair.edu>]

For those of you who did not get to experience Steven Colbert rip  
Bush a new one at the White House Correspondents' dinner, here it is:

(put this into RealPlayer):

rtsp://video.c-span.org/60days/wh042906_dinner.rm?mode=compact

It starts at 1:06:25

It was the most satisfying 15 minutes I've had in a long time.


On May 4, 2006, at 11:41 AM, GERALD BRACEY wrote:

> Stephen Colbert has been getting all the attention--including  
> attention about the media's inattention--for his savaging of Bush  
> and the media at the White House Press Corps dinner (a pack of  
> stenographers, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., once called them), but there  
> was some decent street theater at the National Press Club last week  
> when Larry Mishel took on Jay Greene over dropout rates.  Jack  
> Jennings put the event together.
>
> You can hear the debate, lasts a little over an hour, at  
> www.epinet.org.  Good comments from the floor, too.  Some parts of  
> Larry's initial presentation might be a little hard to follow  
> because he's using graphs and doesn't always describe them  
> completely, but the ideas are clear.  Larry opens his response to  
> Jay by calling him a flag waver, a term he says he learned in  
> graduate school about people who makes claims with no data to back  
> them up.  Sets the tone.
>
> Jerry