While our country and wobbles on the precarious edge of a Tea Party America, let us pause to speak of the Emmy Winners 2010. Because if you don’t think this country has a future, why not celebrate the TV of today, right? After all, the new fall season does start before the November mid-term elections. So we got time, right?

I fear so much for this country.

We blogged earlier about the fortunes of one of the Emmy Winners 2010, Temple Grandin, who is as much inspirational hero to people from all across the Autism spectrum, as sudden media celebrity. The HBO movie made of her life received 14 Emmy nominations and 5 actual awards. Just the sort of person a Tea Bag Congress and senate would hold up “as an example of pull-yerself-up-by-the-bootstraps heroism… and then slash social services and school aid to autistic children at the same time.

But more importantly the Emmy Winners 2010 left behind several shows, many actors and countless producers, executive producers, co-producers, and production companies feeling very, very, very hurt by their Emmy results. I mean, sad, and everything.

Like the poor folks who brought you Lost, which was left behind so fast you’d think it had been a child in public school. No Emmys for the circuitous hard-to-believe-they-think-this-qualifies-as-narrative show that enjoyed its finale last season. Well, I hope they enjoyed their finale… no one else I know who watched it did.

This is the stuff that obsesses us as a Nation. Not the dwindling level of discourse and debate; not for the shrill propaganda that passes for network news; not the sympathy for British petroleum amongst the emerging Tea Party candidates; not the Sarah Palins and Glenn Becks of this world… we want to know what TV shows got to be part of the Emmy Winners 2010 parade.

Amidst last night’s Emmy Awards wins and winners, the name Temple Grandin was repeated throughout the evening’s presentation.