for a late, late night: How the hell does Carson Daly (or his band/writers, for that matter) still have a job?

I first heard about Manu Chao through my Spanish roommate several years ago. He's been showing up in more places lately as he's tried to break into the US a bit more. This summer he hit the Montreal Jazz Fest as part of a NA tour. Last week, he was featured on Pitchfork and last night, he was on Henry Rollins' show. I came back to this interview after hearing his performance last night and found he had some interesting things to say. When I read the quote below, I immediately thought about the later scenes in Michael Moore's Sicko where Moore showed protesters in the streets of Paris.

Whis is that? Many reasons, I'm sure; some self-evident. It's an interesting question to ponder in any case.

 

Watching Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and George Bush face the music and take their thumpin' over the past few weeks hasn't been nearly as enjoyable as it should have been. Time after time, we've seen the threesome loose, giddy and nonchalant. Something just did not seem right. Slowly, in the days after the election, opinion pieces started appearing from liberal bastions such as Salon.com talking about how Bush was turning around his presidency with the firing of Rumsfeld the nomination of a competent replacement and the talk of bipartisanship. There were complaints from Republicans about the timing of Rumsfeld dismissal, that their campaigns would have been so much easier had Rumsfeld been sacked a month earlier. We now know that Bush had made up his mind to sack Rumsfeld well in advance of the election. So, the question we have to ask ourselves is "why didn't Bush can Rumsfeld earlier to save his party the beating it took?".  Do you buy his "didn't want to inject a major decision about this war in the final days of a campaign" alibi? I don't. The Dem's sweep in the elections and Rumsfeld's firing has put Bush in a new light and I don't think it's an accident at all.  Bush is now the underdog and Iraq's now the Dem's mess. I think Rove realized that there was no way out for Bush and the administration without the Dems taking congress.