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Thanks again to Alas Babylon! for hosting the Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread!

OK, I'd like to indulge this group in a little experiment if I could. If there was a way to set up a straw poll I would, but I don't know how so I'll just ask straight out: what Sunday Morning Talk Shows do you watch?

I'll go first:

Fox News Sunday - I do watch FNS every chance I can. I miss the "good old" FNS that was hosted by Tony Snow, but Brit Hume keeps me coming back!

Meet the Press - I will tune in "the timmy show" (MTP) depending on comments from this thread, but haven't watched it with any regularity in about two years now. It isn't that timmy disgusts me with his overt liberal pandering, but the show is boring with its useless predictability (Bush Bad(tm). I do enjoy watching timmy get his butt kicked by Republicans (happens quite often).

This Week - I've struggled through perhaps three "This Weak" episodes in the last five years. I'd rather go to the dentist that sit through another...This "news" show is a showcase for the DNC even more than timmy's, but unlike MTP, little lord steffy keeps a tight rein on things so that no one can upstage him. I used to tune it is to see George Will, but since he wandered off into the tall grass, there i nothing that attracts me to this infomercial for the Dhimmicrat Party. Pathetic!

Face the Nation - In my area it comes on opposite FNS, so I've seen it even less than TW...

Late Edition - I don't have cable....don't want cable...and don't miss a thing!

The McLaughlin Group - I know that Alas Babylon! doesn't include this offering into the mix due to spotty coverage, but it remains one of my favorites. Why? Because it more accurately reflects the chaos that is American politics than all of the other shows combined. Take a "round table" of contributors that range from the Lunatic Left (Eleanor Clift) to the Rabid Right (Pat Buchanan), set them loose on one another, armed only with their tongues and their wit (well, in Eleanor's case just her tongue ;'} and then allow John to capriciously override them all with his opinion.

It's just like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" on politics!

So, what do you watch & support, and why?

I watch MTP. It is the first that comes on here while many are getting FNS. I mostly do it to give folks here a heads up on what's coming. The format with Timmy reading gotcha quotes from the NYT, WaPo and the guests prior comments, is boring and predictable. If there was a scale for excellence in this kind of role, Brit Hume would be at the top with a 10 and Timmy would get a -5.

NFS: I miss Tony Snow (who always seems to be leaving me, LOL), but they have the best in the business with Brit Hume and Chris Wallace can surprise with the occasional good inquisition.

This Weak: It is hard to handle this for more than a few minutes, but sometimes I leave it on and hear something worth remarking on.

After all that, I'm more than fed up with the whole thing.