the senate floor? he speaks in little more than an hour from now. one of the ways you can judge the bigness of this moment, the fact that the president has been impeached is by the smallness of his response on the day when the house of representatives voted the president is not fit to serve. he demeaned the office by hurling insults at the late congressman john dingell, standing in dingell s home state of michigan, that his wife now represents in congress. he suggested that john dingell is in hell. she calls me up. it s the nicest thing that s ever happened. thank you so much. john would be so thrilled. he s looking down. he d be so thrilled. i said that s okay. don t worried about it. maybe he s looking up. i don t know. the president of the united states. and we ll talk about that in just a second.
there was a bigness to the stories, and they could afford to do it on a network if you re doing one episode a week. you can t do that if you re doing five episodes a week for a daytime show. so just the production value gave it that pizzazz. if you can t have it, watch other people with it, or so say the three networks who are programming nearly 40% of their prime time fare with series about the very rich, and the public is devouring it at such a rate that make-believe money has become ratings gold. the characters were larger than life. they were more evil and more cunning and manipulative, and more gorgeous. i mean, really, look at the way they were dressed. look at the way they lived. everything, it was fascinating. alexis. yes? i didn t thank you for your present. it s he you should slap, dear, not i.
after dallas proved that ewing oil was better than real oil for cbs, the networks rushed to give the public more. the great prime time soap operas of the 1980s, dallas, dynasty, they re all about excess. this is about being over the top, stabbing each other in the back, going for the gusto, and having fun. i know what s wrong with you. the empty-armed madonna. mourning the baby that she couldn t have and the baby that she almost got to adopt. that is it, isn t it? you miserable bitch! there was a bigness to the stories. and they could afford to do it on a network if you re doing one episode a week. you can t do that if you re doing five episodes a week for a daytime show. so just the production value gave it that pizzazz. if you can t have it, watch other people with it, or so say the three networks who are programming nearly 40% of their primetime fare with series about
bigness, toward centralization. at its worst cable tv could invade our privacy, tranquilize our children, remove us electronically from the flesh and blood world. and we d have to pay for the privilege. the question is, indeed, will
pete will be a major target of the other candidates on the debate stage on wednesday and how they go after him, whether it is his record with the black community, whether it is his positions on the medicare for all issue, it will be interesting. and one of the things he s trying to do is cast himself as not necessarily more moderate when it comes to policies but also but also in temperament. president trump brose warned democratic candidates most voters don t want to tear down the system and here is what mayor buttigieg said about that. the presidency that i m envisioning is one that delivers big and bold changes and answers and also seeks to do it in a way to unify and include as many as possible. i reject the idea that the bigness or boldness of an idea or proposal should be measured by how many people it angers. look, i mean, obviously this gets to the core of the