ABC This Week host Christiane Amanpour (11/6/11) kicked the show off with a pretty funny joke:
Clash of the titans in Texas last night, as Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich met for the first of a series of one-on-one Lincoln/Douglas-style debates.
Less funny was the show‘s very imbalanced roundtable discussion:
So let’s bring in our roundtable: George Will, the Huffington Post‘s Arianna Huffington, former George W. Bush strategist Matthew Dowd, and historian and Newsweek columnist Niall Ferguson, author of the new book Civilization: The West and the Rest.
Three conservatives and the left-liberal Huffington.
But if anything, ABC‘s panel was teetering leftward. On NBC‘s Meet the Press:
Finally, our roundtablewill discuss ifthe state of the Republican race in flux now that the front-runner is engulfed in controversy. Republican strategist Alex Castellanos, Wall Street Journal editorial board member Kim Strassel, author of the new book Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero and host of MSNBC‘s Hardball Chris Matthews, and Politico senior political writer Maggie Haberman give their views.
Two conservatives, a Beltway reporter and Matthews, who described himself recently as a George W. Bush-voting pragmatist.
And on CBS‘s Face the Nation:
The guests are Ed Gillespie, former Republican National Committee Chair; Ed Rollins, former Bachmann campaign manager; Ken Blackwell, Perry supporter, Liz Cheney, Republican consultant and John Dickerson, CBS news political analyst.
So four conservatives and a reporter.



Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Chris Matthews explain that Obama’s problem (in relation to JFK) was that he hasn’t saved anybody’s lives (ala PT 109) to where these friends would then be willing to ‘kill his enemies for him’? There’s a couple questions about this. I suppose the first one is: who did Kennedy’s PT 109 buddies kill for him? I know Matthews is trying to sell books, but that seems to be a strange, gangster qualification for office. While typing this, Matthew just announced that Conrad Murray was convicted for ‘administering an aesthetic’ to Michael Jackson. So this means I need to turn off everything and get back to my “Smile” box set.
Arianna Huffington is a left-liberal? Or, more to the point, what the hell is a left-liberal? Someone on the centre-right closer to the centre than other centre-rightists?