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Joys of ‘The Wire’

Some critics have called HBO’s hit series ‘depressing’ and ‘nihilistic.’ They couldn’t be more wrong.

By Brian Cook

In a recent story in The Nation, Chris Hayes used 2,200-plus words to argue why progressives should back Sen. Barack Obama. I’ll use only seven: Obama’s favorite TV show is “The Wire.” It’s certainly true, as Hayes noted, that Obama, like every presidential candidate, won’t be saying one word about the prison-industrial complex or the disastrous consequences of the “war on… return to article

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