As much as I personally like and love Pat Buchanan (an old freind of my late father, he gave the eulogy at his funeral service back in the 80’s) he is nothing more than a distraction on PMSNBC: he can’t need the money that much to allow himself to be used by Griffin et al as “proof” that they indeed do have a bonafide “conservative” to cite when criticized for being uber-liberal & biased. Poor Tucker has been marginalized to the point of obscurity, but he is excellent once they put him on. And that walking political almanac, Chuck Todd, God Bless Him, does the best he can to make sense of things, but alas, falls prey to the overall goofy, unprofessional way MSNBC ends segments and is left in the cold sometimes when he trying to be serious. Witness Wednesday’s ending to The Schlomo Joe Show where Todd was dragged into a gag and wound up looking for something under his chair: hard to be taken seriously when the whole network comes across as a cartoon of itself ala a Saturday Night Live skit. When SNL does Matthews, it’s a Memorex Moment: one cannot tell the difference between the skit and the real thing. Brent’s right:
“Outside of special events coverage, MSNBC’s executives haven’t really seen the light about how their Obamaholics Unanimous lineup is bad for ratings. Even as they yank Matthews and Olbermann away from the anchor desk, MSNBC’s adding hard-left Air America radio host Rachel Maddow to consolidate the “progressive” carpet bombing after dark.”
Things cannot ever get better at this artificial network: they can only get worse.
Great article by Brent Bozell III. Thanks for posting. Great FReeper comments BUMP!