From Jim Geraghty at NRO’s Campaign Spot:
MSNBC Surrenders, Chooses Not to Cover Election Night. No, Really.
It is pretty darn astounding that with all of the insistence from the White House that Fox News Channel is “not a real news network,” that their preferred channel, MSNBC, did not have live coverage at 10 p.m. Eastern on ELECTION NIGHT. They re-ran Olbermann’s 8 p.m. coverage, which was, of course, two hours out of date.
No, really, when you stop covering the news, people can legitimately say you’re not a news network. That has nothing to do with percieved bias or ideology (although we can speculate as to why Olbermann disappeared from the 10 p.m. coverage, as previously expected) but because you’re not actually bringing any new information to viewers.
In fairness, they had Chris Matthews and the glue huffing idiot Ed from the Ed Show on at Midnight. I am a sick, sick person or perhaps I was engaged in my semi-regular hobby of wallowing in epicaricacy, but I watched MSNBC from around 7:30 last night (with an interlude of sleep and a switch over to Fox News when they repeated Countdown) until 8:00 am this morning (concluded with an unhinged Larry O’Donnell-I recognize that is a redundancy – screeching at Michael Steele on Morning Joe). Here are a few short observations:
1. Ed Schultz is the single dumbest human being on television. He is so
stupid that even Chris Matthews — who along with Jim Moran is living proof that my Jesuit alma mater is superior to Riley’s Jesuit alma mater — winces in pain every time Ed opens his mouth.
2. I don’t get Rachel Maddow. What is the angle here? She isn’t funny and for all her alleged intelligence, she has a hard time stringing coherent sentences together. Also, from a sex appeal standpoint, they should have gone with a lipstick lesbian–I would definitely turn into that show everyday. It would have been hot to be berated everyday by a marxist sapphic babe. It is not hot to be berated by an incoherent bizzaro-world dude looks like a lady, who is a doppleganger for my middle school shop class teacher.
3. Watching Olbermann is really confusing when you first turn him on. I keep expecting Chris Hansen to walk out from off camera and instruct Olbermann to ”have a seat, I have some questions for you.” Aside from that, if I were George W. Bush, I would probably get a restraining order against Olbermann as Olbermann is definitely straying towards Glenn Close/Fatal Attraction level of obsession with the former President. You can slice the homoerotic tension with a knife. It is almost like watching the “volleyball scene” from Top Gun.
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