I don't think too many people watched that failed HBO show, K Street, which featured the faux inner workings of a fictitious Carville-Matlin consultancy in DC, but I found it somewhat interesting and counted myself among the viewers. Not because of the acting or the premise necessarily, but because the feeling of the show itself was fascinating to me. The gamesmanship that was portrayed (however poorly) was interesting to me, and seeing the goofy portrait of the Carville character in what would otherwise be considered his preferred milieu had to be one of the things that killed the show. But I digress (and so early).

I'm not a big fan of the Fox News Channel. I was at one point, because they were the hip, young news channel with something to prove and a crew of young hotties to deliver the message. Now, of course, the message is clear, but I do watch on occasion to see what the far, far-right view of the world is. Dick Morris does the same, I suppose, and they bring him on because like Zell Miller, he's got an axe to grind and he'll start flinging some mud as soon as the mic is plugged in.

Not that Dick Morris doesn't have a bit more to say than ZM. Running a campaign in this day and age is no small task, and he did manage to get Vicente Fox elected in Mexico-- whatever that means. Some political insight mixed with a speak-your-mind attitude is a good thing most of the time, and when you know the agenda of the speaker you can apply your own filters. With Morris I'm not quite sure how much of what he has to say is tainted with the sour grapes of his relationship with the Clintons and perhaps others in that circle. I don't think Carville has that issue, though I suspect if he did there would be little doubt.

I'm not trying to write a cheer for Carville or his ilk, but I did find it refreshing to hear his presentation. Sure, he had some talking points-- some prepared, some off the cuff perhaps-- and he threw them about quite comfortably. He also owned up some Kerry shortcomings (some, not all...) and seemed to be throwing around some truisms that you don't normally hear out of the current crop of pundits. But he still glossed over a few things... that health care costs are skyrocketing is fine, but really it is health care prices that are skyrocketing (that is, government policies in general are shifting the price of health care to consumers and away-- to some extent-- from health care plan providers).