PSoTD

Get back to me when Chris Matthews feeds hungry people for three decades.

Whoever are the leaders of the local religious institution that the following people choose to attend, I would like to see the RWSL* applied to them.

Chris Matthews
Nedra Pickler
Tim Russert
Wolf Blitzer
Charlie Gibson

Oh, and of course, John McCain.

Apparently this is the new cool thing in political reporting. So spread it around!

*Reverend Wright Scrutiny Level

Apparently Reverend Jeremiah Wright has announced his candidacy for President or something like that.

Pat Robertson didn't get this much attention when he arose from the dead. He did, didn't he?

Will there be a "Rock of Love 3"?

Fill in the blank: I would rather _________________________ than be subjected to another half-thought from John Fund.

I know, I'm not Catholic, but what possible "news" reasoning could there be for both CNN and MSNBC to televise the Yankee Stadium Mass today?

I wonder if Benny Hinn, Thomas Monson, Frank Page and others are curious how they could get such coverage, also...

The last Don and Mike Show aired last Friday. I guess you'd call them B-Team shock jocks. Syndicated out of WJFK in Washington they were broadcast on fifty-or-so mostly mid-market stations. I'd been listening here in Harrisburg since around 1990. I believe I heard them the first time on 93.5 FM but most of the last twenty years they've spent on AM talkers, ultimately finding a drive-time home on 1350 out of York. No signal up here after dark.

Don's wife was killed in a nightmare car crash outside of Ocean City in 2005. She was an integral part of the show. Incredibly, Don went back on the radio in less than a month. His first show back was simply heart-wrenching. He was always willing to bare every emotion on radio. That's a large part of what made the show great.

But he never really made it back emotionally and has now decided to hang it up for a while. Mike continues on. His solo show is different but has been unexpectedly good in the first week. (1350 AM 3-7 PM)

Here's the song Don chose to open their last show. Perfect as usual.

Atrios points out that a lot of bloggers seem to be saying that Obama had a rough night last night. Frankly, I don't think the debate is going to play out that way. I think the audience, in general, is going to weigh the Symbiotic Dipshittery coming from the news media and how it impacted the questions last night, and walk away with a general sense that regardless of how the candidates responded, there was almost nothing right in how that debate was run.

I say now that the debate was at worst a wash for Obama. Clinton may have a slightly better performance on some of the questions, but it's hidden in the glare of the craven moderators of ABC, who long to be seen important in the context of Washington's Hollywood Expose crowd.

First of all, why would any Democrat really care about Bobo's review of the debate? He's going to support McCain in the general editorially anyways, so of course he's going to find ways to trash the candidates.

But his review of how to moderate a debate? I disagree with this premise:

I understand the complaints, but I thought the questions were excellent. The journalist’s job is to make politicians uncomfortable, to explore evasions, contradictions and vulnerabilities.

I don't think that's it at all. I think the journalist's job is to dig for information that will be of use to the public, and in a political debate, of use to the public for their participation in civic decision-making. That could be what Brooks is describing, but only if the areas of exploration are of value.

Brooks is stressing technique over everything else in the debate, and I guess I just don't think that's the top priority for most Americans. Most Americans want content - technique is secondary to the delivery of the goods. To the degree of delivering content, ABC failed in an appalling way. ABC deserves an F, but a very special F, the kind where you have to go back and take the class over again in order to participate in the final project, because they not only ran a debate where they didn't understand the most important premise, but they did it on perhaps the final debate before the nomination is determined. ABC could not have picked a worse time to be this horrible.

Search as I may, I don't see either of these two men wearing flag pins! TRAITORS!!!!!

Listen to this morning’s “Meet the Press” if you want an example. Tim Russert, one of the smartest guys on television...

Ouch.

NBC Meet The Press

MEET THE PRESS WITH TIM RUSSERT WEEKEND LISTINGS 4/13/08

JAMES CARVILLE Democratic Strategist

MARY MATALIN Republican Strategist

MIKE MURPHY Republican Strategist

BOB SHRUM Democratic Strategist

I wonder, if you morphed all four of these people together, would the result turn you to stone?