O'Brien's quips make light of grim inner-city realities
(NEWSER) - There have been some hilarious moments in Conan O'Brien's mock feud with Newark mayor Cory Booker, but there's nothing funny about the plight of America's inner cities, writes Bob Herbert. O'Brien and his audience are mocking a place that, like too many others in America, is "poverty-stricken, run down, often unsafe, its children and teenagers in too many instances going nowhere," Herbert writes in the New York Times. More»
