OH, YEAH - YIPPEE!
Yes! It appears that the rumors I mentioned a few months ago are joyously true! The man Skippy accurately describes as "the unholy spawn of George Will and Pee Wee Herman" has lost his regular slot! Tucker - the show, if not its eponymous host - has been euthanized by MSNBC!
And there the exclamation points must end. Sadly, they're still keeping him on as a "Senior Campaign Correspondent" and he'll apparently be a commentator on all their "news" programs (by which, I presume they mean Badminton with Chris Matthews, Countdown to Obama's Victory with Keith Olberman, and Hey, We Still Have One Program That Isn't Ridiculously Biased with Dan Abrams). I guess they need to offset the ubiquitous Pat Buchanan's relatively rational and astronomically better-informed conservative opinion with a flapping dunce like Carlson.
And, contrary to the initial rumors, he'll not be replaced by Rachel Maddow, but by the innocuous David Gregory (or at least he's innocuous when he isn't doing his impersonation of a total dork at a high school dance). This might be just as well - Maddow seems to have taken leave of her senses over the past few months. Really, Joan Walsh would have been a much better choice (though maybe she spends too much time looking concerned), but I suppose Gregory was considered "safe". We'll see. If they really wanted a bit of sorely needed balance, though, they should just have given Buchanan a slot. God knows he's in their studios every day, anyway - and putting him on salary would probably be cheaper.
Anyway, I don't really care what they do with Carlson's timeslot, so long as he's not filling it. To me, this is better news than Benedict XVI's update of Gregory the Great's Deadly Sins, the long-awaited success of the Justice Department's targeting of Eliot Spitzer, Obama's unsurprising victory in yet another red state, or Admiral Fallon paving the way for a strike on Iran.
So... one more exclamation point: Hurrah!
And there the exclamation points must end. Sadly, they're still keeping him on as a "Senior Campaign Correspondent" and he'll apparently be a commentator on all their "news" programs (by which, I presume they mean Badminton with Chris Matthews, Countdown to Obama's Victory with Keith Olberman, and Hey, We Still Have One Program That Isn't Ridiculously Biased with Dan Abrams). I guess they need to offset the ubiquitous Pat Buchanan's relatively rational and astronomically better-informed conservative opinion with a flapping dunce like Carlson.
And, contrary to the initial rumors, he'll not be replaced by Rachel Maddow, but by the innocuous David Gregory (or at least he's innocuous when he isn't doing his impersonation of a total dork at a high school dance). This might be just as well - Maddow seems to have taken leave of her senses over the past few months. Really, Joan Walsh would have been a much better choice (though maybe she spends too much time looking concerned), but I suppose Gregory was considered "safe". We'll see. If they really wanted a bit of sorely needed balance, though, they should just have given Buchanan a slot. God knows he's in their studios every day, anyway - and putting him on salary would probably be cheaper.
Anyway, I don't really care what they do with Carlson's timeslot, so long as he's not filling it. To me, this is better news than Benedict XVI's update of Gregory the Great's Deadly Sins, the long-awaited success of the Justice Department's targeting of Eliot Spitzer, Obama's unsurprising victory in yet another red state, or Admiral Fallon paving the way for a strike on Iran.
So... one more exclamation point: Hurrah!