Michael Kelly Mort Kondracke Ch. He was sprung from prison with lots of fanfare. Then he was busted again. Reading and watching the Downey news, I found myself getting almost as agitated over his arrest as over the arrested election.
Television does that.
By coming into our living rooms, it's a great emotional equalizer. It personalizes politics and all other kinds of performances, making moral equivalents of subjects both light and heavyweight. We hate the anonymous caller who ratted him out and the cops were meanies to arrest him just because he had five grams of cocaine hidden in the bottom of a Kleenex box. Ask any woman. The other long-running television drama came back to mind when NBC refused to break in with George W's speech when he won certification of his votes in Florida.