Quote:You watch the Joy Behar show?Naw, she's on at the same time as Rachel Maddow, and she (Joy) is not worth recording. I had to go on the net to find a transcript of Undead Annie to make sure I had her Liberal Laundry List right.
No surprise to you, I record
-Countdown
-R Maddow Show
-Leno
-Daily Show
and keep about 3-5 days of each, because sometimes I sleep rather than watch all of them.
The DS is the top priority. Must see. I watch for the comedy but his interviews, though short, are great.
Second priority is to watch the comedy parts of Leno (monologue, post-monologue sketch, final comedy bit).
Third priority is one or two of the serious political shows. If I know something went down that day or previous evening (like the day after "You Lie!") I'll be sure to watch.
Much of the first half of Countdown is too dull to watch (I forward if they use the Newsweek guy) because they spend too long on the first topic. The best/worst persons are must see.
Keith O. may be too mouthy for non-liberals to bear, but hey, the show is for me. If you don't like him, there's plenty of conservative talkers out there. For years there were shows for cons, but I felt all alone -- but now I have commentary where my values are respected rather than feared.
I like Rachel and she's usually respectful while asking the hard questions. She took the gloves off recently for this Republican who's running a "grass roots" campaign, with the purpose of showing that his group really wasn't grass roots. Good for her, and us.
Since you've made negative observations about Beck I'll mention this: I feel Maddow was going too far interviewing the woman who is the co-owner of the personal inspiration group that is having G Bush as a speaker. (Yes I'm too lazy to look it up.) Maddow kept asking questions about how the group makes money and appeared to be making an attempt to belittle the group. The business is just that, a business so they can make money by having sessions and selling recordings etc. I suppose RM was making sure that the business wasn't just a (conservative) money-launder thing, which would funnel money into conservative politico's hands, but her interview just seemed like bullying. Fortunately for the interviewee, she was unfazed and came off with the upper hand by thanking RM and saying that she was happy to have been on the show to answer questions -- indeed she made her group look good by being honest with a critic.
-V
(edit: brainfert: I said Ken O. meaning Keith O.)