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Is Howard Fineman Worth it?

As his lackluster career enters its sad last phase, We ask Howard Finemans readers;

“Is He Worth It?”

Mrs. Edna Grimsby.
4th grade Elementary School teacher

“ I thought he was like Woodward and Bernstein, but it turned out he was just another TV talking head” I’d tell my students “ you know, Howard Fineman was once my student” and they would just look at me like I was speaking Spanish or something, none of the kids have any idea who he is, but the real hard thing was when I tried to explain who he was, and you know, I couldn’t point to a single thing he had done, he was a complete cipher. I know he’s important, he’s on TV every week, but darn if I can figure out why he’s important.

Mr. James Escutcheon.
PBS Station Manager

He had such promise as a prognosticator, but he never really delivered. It was always “wait till next week, you’ll see, Bush will lose on this vote and the Republicans in Congress will dissolve in the first heavy rain like they were made of alka seltzer and return the Democrats to their rightful place in control of the Government.”, but you know, next week just never comes.

Janice Plenty
Software Programmer

“Week after week of he writes these articles that are full of angst and fear for the future of our democracy but I keep wondering, has he ever been right about anything? I mean if I was consistently wrong in my job, how long would I last? This guy has weekly column,52 shots a year to make a prediction that actually happens, but he misses every single time, I mean what are the odds? Then he gets on TV shows to pontificate about the same stuff that he’s always wrong about. I mean, who pays this guys salary? and why? I can make crap up too! Oh lookie everybody! Bush is evil!, Cheney is a puppetmaster!, Mccain is a really great guy. Howard Dean is our next president, whoops, I mean John Kerry is going to win, whoops!, I mean Bush wont get his Tax cuts-judges-legislation passed by Congress because of the moderates like Mccain who really run everything, Oh Whoops again! El Salvador is Vietnam, Kuwait is Vietnam, Afghanistan is Vietnam, Iraq is Vietnam! Feh!

Jhonen Catharsis
Starbucks Barista

“You know, he comes in here every single day, “tall macchiato, no foam”, he says with his finger in the air, like it was the first time I heard that. Then he always makes a big deal about fumbling with his ATM card, always wants to know if I want to “see his ID”. I say fine, I’ll look at your ID, just to make you happy. So I look at it “Howard Fineman” – So what? Is that supposed to mean something to me? I mean, He does it every day, and every day it s the same damn thing. He gets his tall macchiato and then storms out because no one in line knows who he is. You know, I don’t think he even likes Macciatto.

Kari Pulaski
High School Student

So one day were at the food court at the Mall and my friend Meg says “ Hey look at that guy, he’s talking to himself” and she points over at this guy, a real “square joe” you know, blue suit, red tie, haircut, the whole bit, at first I thought; ”cell phone” but no, he’s just sitting their talking to himself while he’s eating his sbarro pizza. He kept mumbling under his breath and then he started shouting “Bush this” “Bush that”, “Cheney this” ”Cheney that”,” blah,blah,blah, Mccain” and then laughing like a maniac, I mean it was the weirdest thing to watch.

Howard Fineman? Who’s that? Is he important?

Posted @ June 11, 2005 12:05 AM | Current Affairs

Posted by: Gerard Van der Leun at June 12, 2005 08:06 PM