Just a Masquerade

Q: Can an entire television network wear a Mardi Gras mask?
A: Yes.

Brian Williams of NBC did a sit-down interview for "Dateline NBC" with Michael Brown, the former head of FEMA. Brown is doing no favors for himself or the Bush administration with his comments. Suffice to say that someone with such a poor understanding of FEMA's mission should not be its head, and Bush didn't score any points with Brown's performance.

Here's the rub: NBC Nightly News is running excerpts of the interview at the beginning of each episode this week, essentially raising a commercial for another NBC program to the head of the story list. If the story is so important, why don't they run the whole thing immediately, instead of teasing us with it every night? Maybe because they know the only way they can boost their raitings is to hype the story, rather than base it on facts and credibility.

During this week of Mardi Gras, when people dress up as someone other than their true selves, the NBC staff have exposed themselves as the self-congratulatory anti-Bush cheerleaders they are.

Posted on Mar 1, 2006 at 10:15:05 PM EST.