Talk Talk: Law and Disorder

Personally, I love hearing from Fred Newman and Jacqueline Salit every Tuesday with their thoughts on the talk show talk, current events chatter, news of the day.  I especially like this week's "Talk Talk" for its word-play-fulness and its free-range-i-ness. All the issues, all the time! In a format that ordinary Americans can relate to: conversation among friends! You can subscribe to Talk Talk here, and join me on my weekly BlogTalkRadio show BlogTalkTalkRadio/Hankster, which will launch in August.  "If you have something to say, make sure somebody is listening!" or "If you're listening, make sure somebody is saying something." or "What are they talking about?".. . Well, you get the jist -- Let me know what you think! In the meantime, enjoy: Talk Talk: Law and Disorder with Fred Newman and Jacqueline Salit... Law and Disorder Sunday, April 26, 2009

Every weekend CUIP's president Jacqueline Salit and strategist and philosopher Fred Newman watch the political talk shows and discuss them. Here are excerpts from their dialogues compiled on Sunday, April 26, 2009 after watching selections from "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," "The Chris Matthews Show," a Charlie Rose interview and "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."    Salit: Well, there are basically two arguments to address what you're pointing to. One is that the information that you get when you torture somebody is not good intelligence. And, two, if we want to prevent it from happening in the future, we have to take a hard public look at why it happened in this last round.   Newman: No we don't.   Salit: Because?   Newman: It doesn't make a difference.   Salit: It doesn't make a difference if you understand what happened and why?   Newman: It doesn't impact.   Salit: Because?   Newman: This is how human beings are. Don't you watch soap operas?   Read Talk Talk in its entirety here.