Good News on Cable
Friday night on Dennis Miller’s show on CNBC, Gary Sinise appeared to promote Operation Iraqi Children. He brought some of the many pictures he has that he says show the good news that is happening everyday in Iraq. He has been there two or three times, and he was in some of the pictures. In addition to being a heck of a good actor, he appears to be a genuinely kind and decent person, as well.
Dennis Miller’s show can be quirky and doesn’t get the ratings of the other cable news chat shows (it is on CNBC, after all), but I love it. Last night in addition to Sinise and several other guests, on his “varsity panel", Doug McIntyre talked about his work on the animated series “Liberty’s Kids". He said he actually sat in on a conversation with PBS people who asked him if they couldn’t somehow do the show without including the references to or images of guns. McIntyre said it was necessary to explain to them that the series was based on the American Revolution, after all. He said something else about how we didn’t defeat the British by throwing parades at them or something to that effect. (I was laughing so hard at that point that I may have misunderstood him, and since the website doesn’t provide transcripts, I wasn’t able to double check it.) Anyway, if you haven’t seen his show, or haven’t seen it recently, give it a chance. It is definitely different.
-- Lorie Byrd