How many times have you watched a talk show host bully a less articulate guest with slogans, cheap attacks, and an insulting demeanor?
How many times have you wished that someone would stand up to the yahoos, hooligans, boneheads, and O'Reilly clones who think that their opinions are facts?
How many times have you wanted to see a candidate deliver a bare-knuckled response with charm, poise, intellect, and power? Well, it all happened last week on the Houston PBS show that put Barbara Ann Radnofsky in the ring with a conservative bully. This is a video not recommended for vegetarians or those who don't like the sight of red meat, bone, blood, and gristle.
Take a minute of your time and view or online posting of the talk show "The Connection," a regular Houston PBS political program that puts candidates and elected officials in the buzz saw of a right wing-left wing duo who take turns chopping their unsuspecting guests into bite-sized pieces. The video is posted at
http://www.radnofskyvideo.com.
When conservative Gary Pollard took off the gloves and tried to push Barbara Ann around, he got knocked back on his heels--with a wrecking ball. This show will leave you shocked, awed, and filled with belief that smart, tough, charming people really are out there running for office. You will love Barbara Ann, you'll want to hug her, you'll want to send her out to the senate to do battle for all that is right, good, fair, and honest. And you'll pray for the day that she gets to sit down with Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh.
Of the five hundred-plus who have viewed this video in the last two hours (the video site normally gets a whopping fifteen visitors a day), not a single person has said anything other than that they were blown away. We've been telling people for three years that Barbara Ann is the most astonishing candidate to come down the pike in decades. See this video and see the proof.
Then compare her performance--an unscripted setup that Barbara Ann turned into a tour de force--with the performances of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison: advocate of perjury, afraid of the media, and dragged kicking and screaming into an Oct. 19 debate.
Now how hard a choice will this one be?
No matter how many talk shows you've seen, how many politicians you've watched, how many supposedly "hardball" exchanges you've witnessed, you have never, ever, ever, seen someone manhandle a bully like this.