[Speed Gibson,
Sunday February 11, 2007 at 10:47pm]
Has Mike Opat fallen from grace?
I haven't posted for these past few busy days, and here Sunday night I'm finally catching up with Almanac and At Issue with Tom Hauser. FYI, for some unknown reason, my DVR doesn't seem to like At Issue. I have to set it each week. It has so far ignored every attempt to make it an automatic series recording.
First up on Almanac this week was Mike Opat, the Hennepin County Commissioner who engineered the Twins ballpark deal now stalled as many predicted in land acquisition. It wasn't until guest two, Peter Bell, Metropolitan Council Chair was nearly done that I realized something was different. I went back to the Opat interview and found I was correct.
Co-host Cathy Wurzer wasn't smiling when Opat was explaining why his plan wasn't working, again as many had predicted. Indeed, one look could have been characterized as "aghast" and a later expression was "the look" that Joe Soucheray made famous. She did smile at the closing yuk-yuk Eric and Mike managed to end on, but even that lacked any real sympathy or warmth. Contrast that with Peter Bell and the rest. Cathy was back to normal, alternating serious and smiling, never scowling, again one of David Strom's many fantasy dates.
I'd call it a "look" of no confidence.
First up on Almanac this week was Mike Opat, the Hennepin County Commissioner who engineered the Twins ballpark deal now stalled as many predicted in land acquisition. It wasn't until guest two, Peter Bell, Metropolitan Council Chair was nearly done that I realized something was different. I went back to the Opat interview and found I was correct.
Co-host Cathy Wurzer wasn't smiling when Opat was explaining why his plan wasn't working, again as many had predicted. Indeed, one look could have been characterized as "aghast" and a later expression was "the look" that Joe Soucheray made famous. She did smile at the closing yuk-yuk Eric and Mike managed to end on, but even that lacked any real sympathy or warmth. Contrast that with Peter Bell and the rest. Cathy was back to normal, alternating serious and smiling, never scowling, again one of David Strom's many fantasy dates.
I'd call it a "look" of no confidence.