A Farewell To Late Afternoon Cable News Shows

Posted By: Jack Page on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

I’ve got MSNBC on right now. Hardball is on with Chris Matthews, Pat Buchanan and KD Lang and the three are screaming bloody murder about something. What? I dunno. I think it’s illegal immigration but they’re all yelling over each other. It’s been going on for five minutes. I’m sure the aim of the show isn’t to make me wish I had been born deaf but I’ll be damned in they’re not seriously making me consider putting a pencil eraser in my ear just like my momma told me not to do when I was a little boy.

I caught more Lou Dobbs last week and have done a 180 after being greatly amused by him the first time around. He’s quite an arrogant guy, arrogant to the point where I feel like I’m sitting there watching him strut around in some kind of solo homemade sex tape telling me how huge his wee wee is. Everything from his smile as he unapologetically shills his book to that twinkle in his eye when he starts talking about how the world wants him to run as an independent but he just loves his job too much to do it. Just couldn’t take it anymore, and I ended up turning him off before he got to the money shot.

My late after viewing habits are going to change starting tomorrow. No more Hardball or any other of this new talk show BS. I won’t even have to see the first five minutes of the ever expanding Tucker Carlson before my lazy ass realizes it’s time to change the channel. I’m sending myself to television rehab and moving on. Today’s all about changes.


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