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This is the transcript on the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal web site of The Journal Editorial Report with Paul Gigot. This show moved from PBS to FOX a little while ago, but I haven't gotten into the habit of watching it yet. I'm hearing enough positive things about it that I thought I'd start a thread about it when I saw that they post a transcript each week.

My best memory is that the WSJ, and thus this transcript, must be excerpted, so I've pulled the intro paragraph and added the link.

Dan Stephens: " Intelligent design is not a theory you can test. It's not a theory you can falsify. Therefore, it's not science. Therefore, it should not be taught in science classrooms. And I think it's time somebody said that."

Thank YOU for saying that.

I've started a thread with a link to the transcript of the talking head show, The Journal Editorial Report, hosted by Paul Gigot.

Looking at the transcript I thought it seemed that you folks might find it interesting. Since I don't have a social life (I'm married, old and damned near blind) I'll probably be home Saturday nights, when this is on, and I think I want to start watching this. Central time it's on at 10 PM Saturday night, and repeated 5 AM on Sunday morning. Sad to say I'm much more likely to already be asleep for the first showing and awake for the second...

I have watched this show every week...I LOVE it...no screaming or talking over each other...and I really LEARN things..

I saw a poster had posted a link the other day to a blog site that was TRASHING this show up and down...so, that is good news...because I am sure it was a lib site.

What makes the libs mad...makes me happy!!

Thanks for the transcript and thread...

The first show was about the NSA program...and the guests explained a lot about it..that I haven't heard on any of the other media...and enough for me to be pretty calm about any hearings and such...

Pollock: Yes. Johnny Weir hasn't made any secret this Olympiad about his likes and dislikes, the latter of which appear to include southerners and Republicans. But there's one red state Johnny does appear to like and that's the Soviet Union. He showed up at a practice session wearing a jersey with the Cyrillic letters for USSR written on it. Now, Johnny said he did this out of respect for the Russians. But, given the track record of the Soviet Union, that something Ronald Reagan justifiably called the evil empire, that sounds like to me a lot like, you know, showing your respect for the Germans by wearing a swastika.

And I should add that Johnny is a skater of obvious talents. And I'm wondering now if he isn't thinking, given his performance, that he would have been better off letting his skating do the talking for him.

Gigot: Well, just one more sign, if you ask me, of the decline of the American educational system. He doesn't even recall what the Cold War was all about. I think we need a Cold War museum in this country to remind people.

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Johnny Weir or johnny weird?
Now I know what the term "flaming idiot" is to be used for...