It does tend to reinforce one's convictions that the "experts" we see on TV are not much more informed than you or I. The BBC literally scraped someone off the sidewalk and interviewed him on a subject he had previously no inkling he would be quizzed on, and he comes off as having a working knowlege of the subject. Although I thought he was speaking gibbersh at times, that's pretty much how most of these interviewees come off. Hats off to Monseur Africain for a job well done. They should hire him.

Posted by: Charlton Griffin on May 16, 2006 10:38 AM

Actually, I think it would be an excellent thing if all of us were occasionally jumped for opinions, esp. if the rest of us paid attention. (I also think everyone should teach school for a day, be a traffic cop for a day, run for office for a day -- the old ideal of the participating citizen!)

It was the interviewer who came off as a nattering numbskull, rocking merrily along her narrow-gauge tracks.

Prairie Mary

Posted by: Mary Scriver on May 16, 2006 11:20 AM






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