Old persons’ program 60 Minutes is about the only thing on the teevee that occasionally does journalism. So when the nation’s half-dozing seniors saw this report air last Sunday about how the representatives in Washington have turned the Halls of Congress into a Temple of Insider-Trading Whoredom, you knew there would be some serious upheaval, [...]
Once again, we are posting the results of a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll, which sets up a bowl of suet and has Annie Leibovitz take a snapshot of the Americans around it while Andy Rooney complains about how we don’t use suet anymore. So what is the important lesson we have learned this time, besides [...]
America’s single greatest achievement, John Boehner, was interviewed on last night’s 60 Minutes, and, thanks to his stage mom standing off camera, yelling at him to cry on cue, he didn’t disappoint. “I’ve never been in a tanning salon in my life, I’ve never used a tanning product in my life,” he said, his tears [...]
The Summer of Celebrity/News Death continues! Don Hewitt, the guy who created famous old-people program 60 Minutes, is dead at 86. He, like all people who died this summer and got obits in the NYT, is/was a legend. Legend of what, you ask? TeeVee! Before this guy, we hear, there was no such thing as [...]
The chemistry just sort of shoots off the screen, doesn’t it? We have no idea which 60 Minutes correspondent this is supposed to be — Morley Safer? Andy Rooney? — but she is clearly not very happy about this interview. Shouldn’t Joe Biden get one of the young, wacky 60 Minutes reporters? A guy named [...]
IS OBAMA A MURDERER BECAUSE HE LAUGHED? We have resisted the temptation to write about this all day but did you know that Politico WON THE AFTERNOON yesterday? Totally ace! AND YET VERY SERIOUS: Obama’s “awkward laughter” on 60 Minutes last night “highlighted an issue [he] has faced dating back to the campaign, a sense [...]
That CBS decided to call the DVD Obama: All Access makes it pretty clear that this collection is not intended as a political souvenir for the policy nerds — this is about celebrity. Barack and Michelle make very good celebrities, and the two years worth of 60 Minutes interviews included here are probably a large [...]
60 Minutes is a television show about evil pharmaceutical company executives and child molesters, starring Andy Rooney as a straight-talking curmudgeon who guiltily masturbates to old issues of Life Magazine. In this week’s installment, Steve Kroft interviewed a promising young movie star named Barack Obama about what it will be like playing the nation’s first [...]
