In order to download Charlie Rose podcasts to iTunes for transfer to an iPod, you must have iTunes installed. If you do, please click the following link to download the podcast for this interview:
itpc://www.charlierose.com/view/itunes/12707
Otherwise, close this window to continue viewing.
Close
Page 1 of 1
Page 1 of 1
NeilMacCallister 12/29/2012 04:27 PM Report
Mr. Stevens? ..Who honors "success in business or statecraft" anymore???
Not Barack Obama! ..he says to businesspeople "You didn't build that!"
And "statecraft"????? ..You should have heard the SILENCE from the audience in my blue-collar town as the curtain descended after the "victory" of the money-lusting Democrats last November!
***
In 'Shane', ..why could not Ryker and Starrett sit down and develop a 'business plan' that could have allowed BOTH 'cattle raising' and 'fences and farms'??
You know, ..something that someone like Mitt Romney could have envisioned and constructed??
Why do you Democrats have to "cling" to the old-world battles that continue to deliver us nothing but the widespread distribution of poverty and politicians???
REMant 12/21/2012 12:49 PM Report
I think the Kennedy Center Honors are far less about grace and beauty - altho I would argue with Kennedy's premise there too, something which in fact annoyed me, and a lot of others, at the time - and much more about the growing American propensity to pat themselves on the back, from gold stars, participation trophies and grade inflation generally, to the explosion of awards, medals and badges in the military. There seem to be awards given for every variety of the arts, scores of them, which either disagree with the evaluation of peoples in other places, or give an entirely mythical impression of American life. Even if the object is advocacy, just how far can you expect to get with that in a nation of spoiled brats? These particular ceremonies have also been politicized and corrupted, which one only need to look at lists of recent honorees to observe. The Constitution specifically forbids the granting of any title of nobility, and this business comes awfully close.
Unfortunately, despite displaying more facticity than usual, both "Lincoln" and the Bigelow thing have been severely criticized, the former for overplaying the emancipation issue, and the latter, torture, the suggestion in both being that the end justifies the means. It never does. I'd consider sitting through "Lincoln" to make a more informed judgment, but not the other.
Nice shirt, BTW.