Originally Posted By Dabob2 "18 NEW! DDMAN26 Thu 5/26/2011 2:38p Getting back to the political talking head shows I always thought there should be a show called HOW CAN I BE WRONG WHEN I'M TALKING LOUDER THAN YOU? " Hilarious, and so true. Another reason I like Rachel Maddow. She never ever does that. If she has a conservative on, she always let's him have his say, never speaks over him. Then she calmly destroys his argument and leaves him wondering why he ever agreed to be on the show.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >Then she calmly destroys his argument and leaves him wondering why he ever agreed to be on the show.< That's why I love the Daily Show as well...
Originally Posted By velo The Daily show keeps me sane! does anyone else think that Chris Matthews just constantly interrupts his guests? It annoys me so much I can't watch him!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I used to HATE watching Chris Matthews, but I've been getting into him lately now that I've begun watching cable news a bit more again. Basically he Mathews keeps people on point and steers them away from their canned talking points by drilling (and interrupting). In the end he's always polite, though I can see why his style bugs some people.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 I have to be in a certain mood to watch Chris Matthews. Sometimes it really bugs me when he talks over the top of people and interrupts them and sometimes I can appreciate the way he makes people answer his question and doesn't let them get away with non-answers. It really just depends on the day. I do love Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnel and John Stewart is hilarious and I love the Daily Show, although I find it kind of sad that so many people use his show as their only news source.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >sad that so many people use his show as their only news source< Better than using nothing, at least he has some factual information.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***I'd rather watch cooking shows*** Hey Jeff! Guess what I've been watching since the big one hit!!?? Yup! And I think one of these days I'll even try some of the recipes!! And, believe it or not, I no longer give a crap about politics, either! AMAZING how the priorities shift JUST LIKE THAT! (I still do enjoy a healthy debate though, I just don't care as much as I used to, and I have ZERO tolerance for extremists on either side...)
Originally Posted By Mr X ***<<I'd rather watch cooking shows.>> Trust me that's the better option*** It is DD. It really is.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***I always thought there should be a show called HOW CAN I BE WRONG WHEN I'M TALKING LOUDER THAN YOU?*** lmao!
Originally Posted By Mr X ***Another reason I like Rachel Maddow*** I LOVE her! OCCASIONALLY, she's a bit too abrasive with some moderate right wingers when she doesn't need to be (Colon Powell springs to mind, and there have been others). On the other hand, she's not afraid to attack extremists (unlike most journalists these days). I would LOVE to see a similar right wing journalist come around on the other side...if that person materializes, we might have some fair and balanced journalism after all!
Originally Posted By Mr X ***I find it kind of sad that so many people use his show as their only news source*** I find it sad that his show is often the ONLY credible news source in this day and age. I've often said he deserves a pulitzer prize, and I've been shot down constantly for saying so. But I do believe it. He tells it like it is, in the spirit of journalism long past (only, he does it comedically so "it doesn't count"). IMHO, he's one of the only ones who tells it like it is (Maddow is another, and certainly Olbermann before he got fired).
Originally Posted By Mr X I would ALMOST be willing to count O'Reilley as "the voice for the other side", if not for his disgusting and contemptible "Tiller the Baby Killer" rants that, frankly, contributed to the death of that doctor. He refuses to man up and admit he was culpable. I believe that he most definitely was. Other than him, I don't see any right wing source that is reasonable and useful right now. Time for another journalist to step up, I think. Between the left wing and right wing propaganda, it would be nice to find a balance (and at this point, I think it takes two, or more).
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "does anyone else think that Chris Matthews just constantly interrupts his guests? It annoys me so much I can't watch him!" Yes! I have a hard time watching him because he starts yelling, or at least talking very loudly over his guests. It gets really annoying after a while, to the point I wonder why he even bothered inviting people onto his show...
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I like Chris Matthews. I do wish at times he would not interrupt as much as he does, but nobody, and I mean nobody, on the air these days will zero in on someone and keep asking a question until he gets either an answer or them admitting they won't answer the question. He's a true journalist in that respect. He also has a good sense of where the public mood is at much of the time. He does seem very in sync with the average person's daily struggles.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan (And unlike so many in the political world, he gets it that a dime one way or the other in things like gas prices have real consequences for families on the edge.)
Originally Posted By Mr X ***nobody, and I mean nobody, on the air these days will zero in on someone and keep asking a question until he gets either an answer or them admitting they won't answer the question*** Maddow. And she does it without being obnoxious.
Originally Posted By Mr X I appreciate your other points, though. I, personally, just don't like the guy. So I can appreciate the fact that other folks don't like other on-air personalities (personally, I think Olbermann rocks, but I can understand he rubs many people the wrong way).
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I've always said this. I liked Olbermann when he and Dan Patrick were the main Sportscenter anchors.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I definitely like Maddow's style. She takes great effort to discuss a person's policy, not them personally. And she goes about it in a very logical way. Matthews has newspaper ink in his veins, and he is like an old school newspaper reporter who wants to cut through the political flim flam and get an answer. I like that he talks fast and that he is anxious to leap to the next point sometimes before the guest is finished. It's ADHD but in a good way.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan As for Ed Schultz, I haven't spent a lot of time watching his show. He just feels like what a group of execs would come up with as an answer to be the flip side of the Fox News coin. Bleh.
