Yeah, I know...I almost want to claw my eyes out just typing that sentence. But after watching Countdown tonight, as I've done religiously almost every night for the last four years or so, I think the great gelatinous mass at the core of what's left of the Party of No-No may actually have more of a point than Keith Olbermann would like to acknowledge.
See, here's the thing: I understand the challenges in filling an hour of high-profile national television night after night, now that the most dramatic election campaign in recent years is fading into distant memory and especially now that our guy won.
Anyone who's worked in commercial TV news, as I used to, knows that you need more than just, you know, "news" to make an interesting hour of TV. You need a storyline, and you need something or someone to rail against, and absent the easy target of W in the Oval Office, you take what you can get.
But maybe...just maybe...the jiggling mass that long ago ate Rush Limbaugh had a good idea when he suggested that MSNBC try going 30 days without talking about him or showing video of him.
Yeah, I know...but humor me over the jump with some ratings statistics and a humble suggestion for the future of Countdown, won't you?
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