🚀 go-pugleaf

This is a very unstructured thought, and I have no evidence off
the top of my head for it.  It's more of a nonspecific annoyance.
But...

Is it just me, or is the crusading Walter J. getting anyone else's
nerves lately?  Over the past few months, I've taken to grumbling
at my TV whenever Walter gets going on one of his "Perspectives"
pieces.  I just feel like saying, "Come on Walter, lighten up!  Give
it a rest!"  It just seems like he always has to be morally indignant
at *something*, and if there's nothing halfway decent to be indignant
about, he'll manufacture something to be indignant about.  It just
seems like there's this "I am Walter Jacobson, and I am God, and you
are sheep who will go where I lead... Look at me! I am the great
Moral Leader of this city!" kind of a feel to all of his stuff.  It
irks the hell out of me!

To a lesser extent, I also find myself feeling that way about Bill
Kurtis, Mr. Big-Time-Network-Guy-Condescending-To-Come-Back-And-Tell-
The-Local-People-What-To-Think.  He's a good journalist, and I respect
him for that, but I just think he has a slight "I'm smarter than you"
attitude, and also suffers from the Walter-J.-Crusader syndrome a little.

So, am I just a nut, or does anyone else see this?


colette
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