Nina Totenberg always expresses herself as if she were utterly witless and guided only by her insatiable appetite for personal elitism. There is nothing about her that is caring, genuine or humane. She is a characterization of her liiberal elitist world view. That, more than anything else, is what endears her to the PBS crowd.
I just watched the clip. Good God, what a boring show. Mark Shields has always been an oaf, but now he’s just like one of those paid airtime guys. The one sitting next to Krauthammer—did she stumble in from picking up her kids from a playdate or something? I hate this namby-pamby mush-mouth stuff. The other two—oy, who could watch this week after week? Krauthammer is obviously an intellectual and just said it all, clearly and succinctly.
Your characterization of Totenberg sure seems spot-on to me. She was SO liberal on these talk shows, and NPR has never had a problem with her being opinionated, and she’s a REPORTER, not someone like WIlliams, whose whole reason for being on these shows is to give his OPINION, not to report.
Nina Totenberg is the quintessential smug, pompous, self-satisfied liberal elitist that makes me VOMIT....