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It Might Last Too Long, But At Least It's Boring As Hell

Posted by Stephen Green · 12 June 2002

MSNBC may finally have completed its quest to become both totally useless and constantly annoying.

The NYT reports that the struggling news network has signed on charisma-free lefty Bill Press and rabid anti-you Pat Buchanan to host a news & comment program weekday afternoons.

The new show will be two hours long. Two hours of Bill Press and Pat Buchanan, without even the morbid fascination of watching the two make out.

Which leads to an important question: What the hell is wrong with MSNBC? CNN didn't even want Bill & Pat on for 30 freakin' minutes. Buchanan's audience consists of drunk Irishmen looking to learn some new fighting words, and the only person who enjoys listening to Bill Press is his wife -- when she needs a quick insomnia cure.

Two hours of those two? I'd rather endure two hours of Fox's Sheppard Smith making up embarrassing nicknames for me. For that length of time, I'd rather watch CNN's Judy Woodruff model lingerie, and she's no spring chicken. Two hours would be better spent rubbing pork rinds into your eyes.

In other words, the new show might not be very good.

Comments

Yeah, but how do you really feel?

Posted by: John B. at June 12, 2002 10:58 AM

Steve,

>> Buchanan's audience consists of drunk Irishmen looking to learn some new fighting words,

For the record, I am not part of Buchanan's audience, even if I am on (all-too-rare) occasions a drunk Irishman in search of an expanded vocabulary!

Posted by: Ed Driscoll at June 12, 2002 11:26 AM

I didn't mean ALL drunk Irishmen. Just the worst sort of brawlers.

Posted by: Stephen Green at June 12, 2002 11:29 AM

Two hours of Bill Press and Pat Buchanan, without even the morbid fascination of watching the two make out.

Thanks. Now I'm going to wake up at three a.m. screaming. Let's not draw that mental picture, shall we?

Posted by: salsashark at June 12, 2002 12:38 PM

Hey -- don't you go picking on my man Shep! Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - in broadcast news has a bigger PD than Shep!

(PD refers to the distance between the pupils of a person's eyes - higher number, greater distance. AKA "Hammerheads")

Posted by: davidmsc at June 12, 2002 06:12 PM

I've despised Bill Press since he was a local commentator on a Los Angeles local TV news station. He has that rare ability to change my mind whenever he editorializes an opinion in agreement with mine - I'm instantly so annoyed that the blithering moron has adopted my position that I change it.
So Buchanan and Press? I'd shoot myself before watching 2 seconds.

Posted by: R Roberts at June 12, 2002 11:39 PM