The Eric Massa Interview With Glenn Beck

It's hard to know what to think. It was a confusing, incoherent hour.

OS thinks they talked past one another, for the most part. Massa wanted to talk about his overwhelming frustration with his entire experience, and Beck was mining for diamonds, smoking guns, something to run with.

Massa is not an intellectual giant, but most members of Congress aren't. He's not terribly articulate. His brain does not seem to work in a straight line as he talks in public about his experience. His emotional turmoil overshadows anything else just now.  Listening to him was visceral, and enlightening in its own disjointed way. Beck didn't seem to pick up on that, and Beck himself is not a skilled interviewer, with the craft in place to pick up a thought and help the subject clarify and distill it. He was on his own quest for a smoking gun, or a silver bullet to fire at Obama. The veritable stake to drive through the heart. (Enough analogies already!)

Massa probably functioned well in the Navy, but that is its own world, far different from Congress.

What was he thinking, running for Congress?  He was asking himself the same thing, it appears.

(What possessed the Democrat powers-that-be to support this guy in his run for Congress?  Did no one notice there might be a problem?)

Massa is about to go through a dark tunnel personally, no avoiding it. There is that possible cancer diagnosis hanging over him as well.

Given the perspective that time and living through this next year will afford, Mr. Massa will probably have something much more coherent and specific to say, if he so chooses, sometime in 2011 or 2012.

In the meantime, let's hope the Obama White House and the Democrat machine don't hound him like the Clintons hounded those who spoke up about them in the 1990's.

OS wishes him well, as should we all.

Still, it's hard to make sense of the whole episode...

Another open seat, up for grabs!