Sunday night wind-down

If you’re like Carpetbagger, you consider Sunday the week’s best night for TV. Two things caught my attention that I thought deserved comment.

First, 60 Minutes debuted the much-hyped “point-counterpoint” debate between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. If you missed it, CBS has kindly put the whole segment online.

This wasn’t a real debate, of course. Both participants were reading prepared texts and both traded copies of their remarks to other earlier in the week so their rebuttals would sound better. But I loved the segment anyway. Clinton obviously crushed Dole, which was fun to watch.

An hour later, The Simpsons was a real classic. The show’s parody of Fox News Channel was not only hilarious, it was some of the sharpest political satire I’ve seen in a long time.