Well, this is what NYT’s Frank Rich equated these current times with when asked about America’s current obsession with starlets and Hollywood tramps on The View today. He said that even during the Great Depression, people were so devastated, that they looked to Broadway and plays to take their minds off of how horrible life was. Huh?

He was on hawking his (old) book today, and it seemed as though he was going to talk about a wide variety of subjects, but as Barbara Walters pointed out, his book, “The Greatest Story Ever Sold,” “absolutely tears the Bush White House apart.” So therefore, he must go forth and bash Bush and talk about how bad the President is. It’s The View mandate apparently. Barbara also extols the importance of Rich’s opinions as a NYT’s writer because he writes about everything from pop culture to politics. Big whoop.

As they discussed how “bad” the war is going, and how we were misled and lied to to get into the war, and all the other typical “no WMD” leftist media crap, Rich also discussed about how Rumsfeld was “fired,” and then his memo was leaked, etc. Here’s a portion of the transcript:

Behar: Don’t you think the tipping point was Katrina, when the United States of American people saw….

Walters: Yes, that’s in your book.

Behar: … that the President was out of control and incompetent in many ways?

Rich: I think when Katrina happened, and that’s why I ended the book there, cause I thought that was sort of the third act, the final curtain to the story, was that when people saw federal officials saying everything was “hunkey dorey” in New Orleans, and yet, it wasn’t. And people were screaming for help at the Super Dome. People understood that was also what happened in Iraq. We kept being told “Mission was accomplished,” “everything was great,” and it wasn’t. I think people put two and two together, and that’s when his poll ratings started to collapse.