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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy brain just crawled out of my ear and committed suicide in the bathroom.
I don't blame it.
Yes, I'm listening to Chuck Todd, Haley Barbour and Tom Brokaw on MSNBC. At the same time.
Every two years I have to have a news station on all day long. It has been a rough re-entry into that sad necessity this morning. God, I hope things improve.
What an utter fucking wasteland is cable TV news.
Ugh.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)alp227
(32,029 posts)MSNBC's attempt to get a conservative audience. The wingers complaining "Moonbats Spewing Nothing But Crap" often ignore Joe or Chuck Todd or the non liberal shows on the channel.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)Oh lordie.
Sabriel
(5,035 posts)It's so much easier to clean the bathroom than, say, carpeting.
It probably figured that seeing as how you were watching morning cable, you had no further use for it.
barbtries
(28,798 posts)DU and DK are here.
RagAss
(13,832 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,735 posts)Hepburn
(21,054 posts)...
They are sooooooooo afraid Obama will be re-elected. That Repuke side of the MSM is sooooooooo hard to hide all the time.
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)The Legitimate 47% Election Night Party
2011 Tax Returns required for admittance
Fact Checkers Welcome
From 7P until.... As we eat, drink, pray and angst our way into an Obama Second Term.
Mira
(22,380 posts)glinda
(14,807 posts)Shocking how these people are there for the money and really nothing else since there is no integrity in what they say.
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)nuff said......
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Have had MSNBC on in the background, too.
Between Dan Rather, Brokaw, Barbour et al., there's a lot of competition in the "washed-up, old timer, pre-dementia" sweepstakes.
What a sad, laughable display.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)I'll never understand it... let the guy retire.
loudsue
(14,087 posts)If my teevee had ears, it would be horrified at the way I talk to it.
Pryderi
(6,772 posts)ciking724
(78 posts)Will toggle back and forth between Current and BET, which had good election coverage in '08.
Demonaut
(8,918 posts)this guy is the biggest tool
libinnyandia
(1,374 posts)to tools. Most tools I have known have been useful and helpful.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Blathering on about something - I don't know what, the TV is muted.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)FEMA SUCKS 9/11 WHAAARGARBLE was my basic take. Everyone around the table facepalmed their way through the interview.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)that enough or do you want more?
csziggy
(34,136 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)"I think that they are both right".
It was more nuanced, "demographics versus enthusiasm".
But the whole "they are more enthusiastic BS is getting thin.
If they are more enthusiastic then why do Dems always out perform EV.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I don't see many white faces waiting in line for up to 7 hours to vote. If that aint enthusiasm, I don't know what is. Showing up at a rally? Big fucking deal.
ewagner
(18,964 posts)Joe ("what dead intern) Scarborough and Rudy (subject, verb, 9-11) Guilleiani ..
uuuuuugggggggghhhhhh...had to turn it off.
mick063
(2,424 posts)That Fox News has no counter.
On election day, they all become Fox News.
Social media is all we have. They know it and just like they are taking your right to vote away, your ability to politically assemble through social media is next.
Bank on it.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)After covering all the local forums etcetera, I am ready for some real light crap.
calimary
(81,312 posts)Good LORD someone please get that poor man a good laxative! And then send him back to the old republi-CONs' home and let him gum a nice toasted biscuit in peace.
Methinks I wanna watch "Star Trek" DVDs most of the day. And maybe the Food Network... I just want to go hide until somebody tells me Obama won.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)an I Love Lucy rerun or, better yet, turn the tv off and go for a walk. It isn't worth the stress and it's all total bullshit anyway.
Loudestlib
(980 posts)She's on till 12:00 est.
dsharp88
(487 posts)Denise21
(63 posts)Chuck Todd, Haley Barbour and Tom Brokaw on MSNBC...I felt the same way I just could not stand it anymore their views on this election. Waste of time!
Sugarcoated
(7,724 posts)I may watch Alex Wagner while I eat my lunch, then shut it off. Very late last night I made the mistake of watching CNN in the kitchen while I was packing my husband's lunch. Mistake.
I'm gonna do some sewing, walk the dog, go to the gym.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)...lather, rinse, repeat.
tater_salad
(12 posts)were squashed this morning thanks to Chucky, Haley and Tommy. I'll try again later. But, I'm still 'Fired Up! Ready to Go!'
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)May I suggest that you ask someone to lock up any sharp objects in your vicinity, and keep the keys until tomorrow?
MsPithy
(809 posts)The usuals don't seem to be working.
Once the returns start, I'll watch Current and TYT.
Donkees
(31,417 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)because it was Repuke Joe & his Lap Dog, Chuck Toady...And...Mayor 911 911 911!
Ick!
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)LisaMCdonald
(21 posts)Morning Joe 6hrs on the Air..this should be a Crime against HUMANITY..and David Gregory is still a D.O.U.C.H.E
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts).... when they spent an extra 30 minutes telling us news of the future!
I hate news of the future!!!!! Otherwise known as "guesses".
(and they're all so serious about it!)
And we'll get even MORE Evening Nightly Guesses right after the election... "Will Hillary run in 2016????"
Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)Me, I'll just hang around the old movies and Looney Tunes until Martin Bashir comes on -- by then, it should be safe to go back to MSNBC.
Otherwise, I too would feel like my shorts just took a bus to Buffalo after stealing all my pepperoni.
SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)then shut down the Dem who was scheduled to speak after him (he got to speak a couple minutes).
That first part of this day on MSNBC was torture.
newblewtoo
(667 posts)there have been days when I would have just take an axe to it. I keep thinking about telling them to pull the plug because there are so few things worth watching for what it costs. I bet with a decent antenna I can still get most Boston channels and PBS. I guess I need to find out what it would cost for just internet access.
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)all local channels (PBS included). Cost for Comcast service for internet: $65. Soon to be hooked up with fiber-optic, which will reduce it to $50 per month. TV just not worth more than that.
newblewtoo
(667 posts)I use the internet to stream stuff so I will have to keep that but no TV will knock a substantial chunk out of the bill every month.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Or Free Speech TV. Democracy Now is on right now. They are discussing voting rights.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts). . all of those guys that you just mentioned on tv are white.
However, over 50 million non-white Americans will vote for Obama.
Very few for Romney.
Nixon's "Southern strategy" that he used in 1968 is dead . . forever.
Yes, WTH is Chick Todds problem??
He used to be reasonable and somewhat likable?
I just stick to my "Happy Clappy" bubble of factual news sources like:
Stephanie Miller
Martin Bashir
Rachel
I do sort of miss Keith Olberman
Bossy Monkey
(15,863 posts)or so I assume.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)...but when my Truthout Election Blog post is "qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq," you'll know it's because I knocked myself out.
Bossy Monkey
(15,863 posts)-LOKI -BAD FOR YA
(308 posts)My brain just crawled out of my ear and committed suicide in the bathroom.robme
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)I can't stand any of the American news media and wish we could organize a mass protest in front of their major stations. I would travel to New York to participate in such an event.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... the broadcast networks suck just as bad.
Hte stupid is everywhere.
AmBlue
(3,111 posts)Not much consolation, I know. I quickly changed the channel.
Left coast liberal
(1,138 posts)marlakay
(11,473 posts)Soon, I get back at 8pm. Just got back from walk and turned tv on, all crazy making!