For someone like me, who always tries to trace the reasons for human behaviors, there were a couple of very odd interviews on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report this week.
These shows almost always interview recently-published authors on book-promotion tours. The interviews are set up by the authors’ publicists, to get the word out about their books and hopefully generate more sales. But The Colbert Report‘s guest on Thursday night was, puzzlingly enough, one of the founders of Twitter. I speculated to GoddessJ that Twitter is trying to attract a buyer, and what do I see in Friday morning’s RSS feed?
But the one that really has me confused is Wednesday’s guest (in two parts) on The Daily Show: Peter Orszag, President Obama’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He’s ostensibly promoting Obama’s new budget, but to whom? Does the Obama administration really believe that they need the PR, or is Obama just starting his reelection campaign a little earlier than usual?
They do need the PR in the US, they may be in love with him in Canada, but there’s a lot of skepticism about his domestic program in the US, with all the repeated bail-outs and big spending proposals that will run up the deficit just before the baby boomers are set to retire. (Well, that last part others aren’t worried about, but I am.) Most people are happy that he’s at least not W. though, including me.
Yes, just about everyone (even many Republicans) agree with that last part. 😉