my commentary on this:
1.RWers like to fawn over one another. This kind of thing is very commonly seen on Townhall.com
2.Kathleen Parker has some kind of fixation on being considered a grownup. The theme is also found in my favorite column of hers, where she prematurely gloats about the stupid Saddam statue falling down.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/opinion/11321374.htm
Bill Bennett bases talk show on intelligence, candor and goodwill, and horse picks*
Revolutions are not always noisy events. Sometimes they are quiet affairs -- the product of long, thoughtful conversations between two people over coffee.
Or among millions listening, nodding their heads, building a contract through mutual need and mute assent. The success of Bill Bennett's morning talk radio show, which celebrated its first year Tuesday, suggests the latter kind.
In just one year, Bennett -- variously known as America's "drug czar" or, if you're the New York Times, the nation's "leading spokesman" of traditional values -- has managed to land 116 markets, including 18 of the top 20.
By comparison, Al Franken's "Air America," conceived as the antidote to conservative talk radio and launched a week before Bennett's show, airs in just over 50 markets.
Media analysts can parse the meaning of all this, but the secret to Bennett's success seems clear. He's a grown-up voice at a time when people are weary of childish tantrums in the public square. Just as spring comes when no one can bear another second of winter, Bennett found his radio venue when Americans couldn't stand another minute of broadcast hysterics.
His show, "Bill Bennett's Morning in America," is unique in sevaral ways
More…*the last one is a joke
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/kathleenparker/kp20030412.shtml
It's also hard to be humble when you're right, but guess who is both? Guess who first cautioned against glibness, hubris, immodesty and arrogance? Those mean men Dowd can never bring herself to address as adults: her Bushy, Rummy and Wolfie. The lead players in this epochal drama have spoken with the restraint and authority of grown-ups undistracted by childish antics, either from the pacifist nursery or from exuberant Iraqis tasting freedom, in some cases for the first time. "Let them rant" or "Let them loot," as the case may be, is an attitude of tolerance born of higher sights.
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