Excellent Reader Post on TPM re; MSM Convention Coverage....

[zanne]

Dear Sweet Mother of God, Will You People Just STFU Already?
By The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve - August 26, 2008, 8:24PM
I said it last night, but tonight it is worse.

I've watched a lot of conventions. I've always found them entertaining. This year, however . . . this year, the asshats just will not shut the fuck up. Its like they think the party rented the hall and put on the speaks just so they would have an exciting new place to bloviate and pontiicate and genrally spout oceans of uninformed blather as if it were news. Olbermann gets stupider the closer his proximity to Tweety. Tweety and all the rest of them get stupider the closer we get to the election. Russert's son is proving himself to be just as big a tool as his dad could be. Even Chuck Todd has run out of intelligent things to say, and yet must keep talking and talking and talking and talking. Hey, they say. No one wants to hear those speeches, they want to hear us talk and talk and talk because god knows there's not enough oportunity to listen to us the rest of the year. (cont'd)


http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/dear-sweet-mother-of-god-will.php

[grannie4peace]

1. i thought that about russert's son also.

[eshfemme]

2. Yeah, he was trying waaay too hard to be hip and young and with it.

Plus, the ridiculous use of Tim Russert's name EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME like he's a saint to be called upon every time Luke Russert comes on. It's annoying-- also, regardless of whether or not he deserved it or not, it just seems like a fucking good old boys' club that requires nepotism to break into the TV news business. As part of an American meritocracy, I do NOT approve of that.

[hisownpetard]

4. Did you hear when he said that young people don't think it's any big deal to have a woman

running for president or a black. It's no big deal to them. In fact, unlike some older voters, the "youth voters"
could vote for Obama without it turning their stomachs.

What a statesman.

I think it's ridiculous that they gave him the job, in an orgy of grief for losing his Dad - which is really
his only qualification.

[hisownpetard]

3. C-span. No commentators.

[monmouth]

5. I really, really don't think Tim would have approved of his kid

being put on mic and on camera, over lots of others who have been waiting for this opportunity. Luke is the "prince", only revered child of the Russerts and it shows. He doesn't have the chops yet and my fear is he's hanging around that idiot Brian way too much....