It Is Only An Accident...

When Bobo says something lucid. Last evening I returned to my one of my old teevee staples, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, to see Mark Sheilds make David Brooks look like the half-baked opinion writer that he is. There are few things more annoying than seeing Bobo gloating and he was in good form, stating this week (relating to Alito) was "a very good week for Republicans."

DAVID BROOKS: I thought that was actually a crucial moment in the hearings because there was Leahy and others saying how do you justify a strip search of a ten-year-old girl and aside from the judicial issues, Alito coming back and saying if we don't have searches of children, that's where every drug dealer will put their drugs.

And so in this case, the girl was brought aside, they had a female person do the search. And it -- that seemed to be an important moment because it's really a clash between two different value systems. And personally, I was persuaded by the Alito argument.

MARK SHIELDS: Well, I wasn't. And the question was that there was no suspicion and allegation that the girl was involved in anyway criminally.

Indeed, Mr. Sheilds. Bobo really is a moron, and if it were as simple as he thinks it is we would be in big trouble. But I haven't given up on the notion that a majority of Americans will still see these issues for what they are, not the way Bobo wants to frame them.



Which way did he go, which way did he go?