Henry The Intern: Topic A with tina Brown

The Gawker's intrepid intern Henry breaks down Tina Brown's Topic A with elan:

"'What are the chances this is going to change the minds and the convictions' of Arabs, voters, and the administration? (Foreign Affairs Editor James) Hoge hypothesized America is a superpower acting as a rogue state. Back to the pornographic imagery, what do these pictures mean for women? (bloated art critic Robert) Hughes: 'Women can be just as bad and demonic. . . the culture that generates this kind of behavior affects women just as much as men.'"

Hughes then, I thought brilliantly, referenced his own book on Goya, contrasting the Master with the pornographic "hooding" sadomasochistic photos. He said that while Goya's eye was "appaled," the soldier's photos were "... done with a kind of jokey approval."

Like, d'uh.

Then Henry notes that Tina forgot herself, or ran out of questions, and asked the same obvious question, twice:

"Tina's idea of a probing question for a tease: 'Would Camelot be possible without Jackie?' They all answer no, duh -- and Tina asks again on the other side of the break."

Wake up, Tina, when cometing with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, you've got to be at the top of your game, on the real.

Anyhoo: thanks, Henry.