Lessons in Civility: what liberals can learn from the right

Fire when ready, critic!

I happen to believe just the opposite, in that the cheap labor Republicans could learn a bit of civility.

It's not the truth. It's a biased opinion. What partisan agenda was pushed? The nation has been strengthened, not weakened. And that's the truth.

My truth is bigger than your truth! Nyah, Nyah!

Seriously, this has been going on since the country was created. Some of us had better go back and read the periodicals of the days of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, et al. Not to mention the scandals of 1876 (one hundred years into the Republic and those dang journalists were not just nipping at the heels of the politicians, they were biting off their feet!).

I know. I feel compelled at times to stick some positive amid the nabob cacophony.

I have to work on being that cockeye optimist myself sometimes -- Bill Maher says to be more cynical and sometimes I think he's right. No, he's left. No, he's right. Who the hell knows?

And I didn't know we had Indian dignataries on the forum. Are they all named Bob?




(Nay Bob)

Anyone here watching HBO's new "K Street?" I posted something about it and I'm still trying to figure out what Clooney and company are trying to do. Very experimental and difficult to follow.

I am completely hooked! K Street used to be the one I watched, while perched for Carnivale. Now, K Street is the draw. I'm sort of amazed at the view Matalin is allowing. Did you see the scene where someone told her they were surprised that, after her idealistic, important career, she'd chosen to slum as a lobbiest/PR rep? They characterized her as having sold out. Her answer--"I've got kids to feed..."

I don't know how much of an inside view we're getting--but it's much more than anything we've had before.

Me: enthralled.
You?

I'm hooked just because I'm fascinated at where it seems to be going. There's little delicious tidbits like the one you described and then the last episode that sprang backwards two months kind of threw me off.

I love Matalin's candor about lobbying and how much money there is to be made. They're both onery partisans so it sure puts a new twist on opposites attract, huh!

It is starting to seem like a new campaign/PR tool of some notable politicos.
Boxer made some brownie points, and Schuman (?Dem NY), specifically. Both anti-Saudi. That was a good show--and it pissed me off to see the Matalin/Carville firm bending over backwards to justify their Saudi bedfellows...

Hey. Maybe we should start a thread to commiserate.

I'm hooked on most HBO original films, series, etc., but have found Carnivale, K Street, and the movie with Maggie Smith, filmed in Tuscany, to be uniformly unwatchable! Go figure!

I started one in TV and then moved it to Politics but it got buried:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12273

SHUT UP!! :wink:
Nice to see your flower, Tartar!
Do you mean you didn't like My House In Umbria??? Get out!

<um, no. don't get out. hang around.>

LW, thanks for the link. We'll have to go there are criticise Tartar!

Didn't care that much for "My House in Umbria," and "Carnivale" has to unfold -- they have the atmosphere and time frame right but the storytelling is just getting started. It is a series, after all. As to "K Street," I have no idea where it's heading yet and Clooney himself said they were creating and writing it as they go along. I still want to give it a chance. Well, this should be over on the proper thread although I am ribbing Sofia for "taking a break."

(I'll admit they have a tough bill to fill trying to come up to the level of "The Sopranos," "Six Feet Under" and "OZ!")

I agree, K Street meanders. Carnivale reminds me of a David Lynch movie which I like, the bizarre. OZ is so intense, Sopranos good too.