Charlie Rose

NeilMacCallister  06/09/2011 05:59 PM Report

Wow, John, ..Wow, Sheldon, ..what "conciliatory" praise!

For me, I couldn't figure out who Charlie was saying was "just like Gandhi", ..was it Barack Obama?? ..or his mother Ann Dunham???

And then, as Charlie continued his wall-papering, ..was it Gandhi that Barack (or his mother) is supposed to be like? ..or is it Albert Einstein??? (..another person who's name was repeatedly dangled within the vicinity of Ann and Barack.)

Dear Charlie, please let America know if you ever confirm who our President is, okay?

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Gandhi slept on a straw mat.

Who in Washington does that????

Sheldon  06/09/2011 08:42 AM Report

Great interviews. I agree with Charlie, criticizing Obama for seeing ANY fault in the American system is nuts. Frankly, I don't think it takes years in Indonesia (a foreign country) to see ones country objectively. I was hoping the his mothers biographer would shed some light on his conciliatory nature - in the coming weeks one would hope he might lean towards his mother's more idealist streak.

JohnGelles  06/09/2011 05:08 AM Report

I missed tonights update of the economy because I have not yet connected a non-disturbing TV to my bed. So here I am and Charlie Rose sees fit not to send his show over the internet as soon as possible. He has cut out transcripts. He delays internet re-broadcast by what seems like too long a time. C Rose is not perfect. Not by a long shot.

Bring back the the transcripts. Put a grader on the comment boards -- if you write pessimism, nit-pics or garbage you ought to get an "F".

JohnGelles  06/09/2011 04:56 AM Report

Charlie Rose brings biographers to his audience as one of his truly magnificent accomplishments. He does the same for architects and scientists.

I fail to read as much as I owe myself and others. Charlie Rose makes up for a fraction of my neglect.

As automation takes over all our work, the day may come when the introduction of ideas to his audience by C Rose will be followed by epic movies based on the stories involved. Then, if I can be re-incarnated, I will see another great movie based on lives and discoveries too important not to know in as much detail as possible.

REMant  06/08/2011 11:59 AM Report

Divorced mothers do not as a rule I think get along very well with their male offspring, because they see their ex-husband in them, and is probably all the more the case if part of the reason for the break-up was their patronizing attitude.

Ghandi, by all accounts, was a pretty irascible character altho perhaps not as much as his Muslim counterpart. Without the latter India might have remained whole, but it was I think the British socialists who took over after WWII, who were eager to rid themselves of the burden of empire. I don't know how Ghandi fell upon civil disobedience, but I realized in the midst of the student protests of the '60s that these things generally fail when others are allowed to dictate the terms of the contest. Protesting changes few minds and even if the point were won does not change character. The way to achieve change is to simply do it, and if you are able to do that, you need not worry about the opposition. But Ghandi's involvement in South Africa shows little sign of this, only the desire to be treated like the British, which continued when he urged Indians to volunteer for duty in WWI altho he said it would also serve to train Indians in arms. Ghandi was well aware of the shortcomings of his own ppl, and of their dependence on Britain, much like the American colonists. As with many colonials during WWII Ghandi pointed to the hypocrisy of an unfree ppl fighting for the freedom of their oppressors, and the Germans and Japanese had therefore their collaborators. Yet he remained an idealist, and simply turning the other cheek is really at odds with other aspects of his thinking.