Categories: Coyne v. Wells

Coyne v. Wells on Obama's visit

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by macleans.ca on Friday, February 13, 2009 8:16pm - 19 Comments
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  • J@ck M!tchell

    That was great, thanks for a fine podcast.

  • Andrew (not Potter or Coyne)

    Great! Is this going to be a regular feature?

    • Paul Wells

      We fondly hope so. In Season 5, you’ll find out where the island came from. And also why I need a headset mike and Andrew doesn’t.

      • Dot

        I just assumed the helmet wasn’t available to keep the glasses on.

        Good job – keep innovating.

        • Jason Townsend

          While they set up the Macleans AV suite in Andrew’s office they sent Paul to Futureshop with a 20 dollar gift card.

          Good Vlog. Came across as a bit less of a ritual Taking of Positions than the at issue panel, not that I don’t enjoy it also.

  • Ti-Guy

    I’m glad someone’s finally talking about the failed Obama administration. Well done, Mr. Coyne.

  • Neil from Calgary

    That was wayyy better than At Issue. Two of Canada’s top pundits discussing without a moderator.

  • Ti-Guy

    I should gush and say I do like this innovation. Anything to bring to the elite journalists closer to their public is fine by me.

    Next up: Barbara Amiel and Scott Feschuk in an armpit fart contest.

  • http://scottdiatribe.canflag.com Scott Tribe

    Very good, guys. Talking Points Memo has been doing this sort of thing for awhile. Good to see it up here.

    • seaandthemountains

      i thought this was more bloogingheads.tv in orientation… but yeah, this can be fun.

      I think the challenge is to get a range of people with fairly diverse opinions to the table. (unless this is just an occasional wells/coyne thing?)

      not to hammer macleans, or denigrate the coyne and wells duo, but i think that to the degree we all ready read them daily (or when Coyne blogs), adding others adds a lot/

  • DR

    I would have gone with a jazz spin on the Seinfeld theme.

  • Ti-Guy

    So, without reviewing the clip, who remembers what Coyne and Wells discussed? Anyone?..Anyone?

    …Bueler?

  • atruehistory

    Yeah this looks like you guys had fun doing it. Totally awesome, look forward to future installments.

  • madeyoulook

    Well done. You might want to think of having a 15-second “Subscribe Now!” blurb at the start of these. Hey, if it creates one new subscriber, it will have been worth it…

  • http://carnewsandviews.com jwl

    Well done, thanks for this.

    Is it just going to be Wells/Coyne or will other Macleans bloggers/writers get involved? AC will have to be in every one or else the commentators will be always argreeing with one another because there is not much ideological diversity here.

  • Sean Stokholm

    Very worthwhile. Thanks for sharing it.

    I was struck by Paul’s observation that the global response to the economic meltdown is taking the form of localized blaming (i.e., every nation’s citizens seem to be holding their own governments to account). I’m suspicious of the notion that any particular nation can do much about a problem that is so general in nature (particularly when we’re mortgaging our grandkids’ future by racheting up the national debt.). But that caution seems to be lost in the panic to DO SOMETHING.

    Anyway, thanks again – keep ‘em coming.

  • Al Heck Brakes

    A failed administration, yes. But not in the eyes of most people, and certainly not in the eyes of his core supporters who are even stoopider than the Christian right who propped up Dubya for eight years.

    The most ominous sign is the studied imitation of Lincoln and FDR. Nobody else in U.S. history killed more Americans, caused more financial chaos or shredded the constitution more thoroughly.

    If Obama has his way he’ll knock the entire world economy on its azz for two decades and kill a couple of hundred thousand Americans and a few million foreigners. (Note well – his continuing threats against Iran and the constant background chatter by him and his followers advocating a mandatory “national service” draft.)

    For his trouble he’ll be deified with a very fine, white, marble monument somewhere near the Mall in Washington DC. Public school textbooks for the next 200 years will promote the cult of Obama worship and brainwash generations about how he “saved capitalism from itself” and “saved democracy around the world”.

    Mandatory Can Con: as much as I dislike Harper and his lame-brained opportunistic spending spree, during Obama’s bull-in-a-china-shop imitation it would probably be better to keep him around than to surrender to the triumvirate of Iggy, Boob Rae and Jr. Trudeau. Their mix of ideologies and attitudes makes me nervous.

  • John W

    Andrew and Paul. I don’t think you guys are watching enough AMERICAN television.

  • Geoff

    Ambinder and Sullivan have a wayyyy better intro.

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