The Limit To Foolishness on Television

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The Limit To Foolishness on Television
7/29/2011 | Email Hugh Hewitt | Columnist's Archive

The atmosphere in the green room at the Sean Hannity Show was amped up. On ordinary days I will banter with Beckel and talk radio shop with Sean as we both tell Levin stories, a friend of both of ours for years.

But Thursday night was tense. Juan Williams and Ann Coulter weren't yucking it up, but were watching the House maneuvers on Boehner 2.0. Once on set Coulter pushed for passage over Hannity's serious objections, and then Juan and Sean went two pretty heated rounds on the issue of where responsibility lay for the unfolding fiasco.

A truncated Great American Panel followed with Carol M. Swain who has a new book out, Be The People, pollster Pat Caddell, and me.

The segment began quietly enough. Caddell was struggling to recall the name of Aba Eban which I gladly supplied him. Carol praised the Tea Party, and I declared support for the Boehner deal based on the unsettling and very large cash flows out of money markets, an echo of the panic of 2008.

Then Caddell launched into one of his rants about everyone being irresponsible, which is just absurd cant, and when Caddell resorted to the old trick of demanding the right to talk in ever louder volume, I kept saying no. Bullies on panels are like bullies everywhere --give them an inch and they will rant for an hour. Caddell's schtick is old and tired but the crisis is real and immediate. (snip)

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