Omarosa on Tweety as a contributor. WTF?
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and maybe turn him on several times a year if that, and if I have the TV on at all (and if I do, I switch to CNN). But since there was breaking news going on (although that seems to happen every day now) and Erin Burnett was talking about Michelle Obama's book, I just kept the channel on MSNBC.
since they first came on the air a bit over 20 years ago. I remember my mom, who was a political junkie, was an early watcher of MSNBC - literally when it first came on the air (she kept calling it "Microwave" 
). She thought it was good because it had "younger people" (at the time) hosting the programs (the hosts would be there on stools with laptops prominently next to them). She had been a big watcher of CNN and CSPAN, but MSNBC became one of her favorites.
IMHO however, when they booted Phil Donahue (it's been 15 years...wow), they lost their true "erudite" host, leaving someone who is basically a self-promoting braggadocios hack who is all over the map with his views - the true "weather vane". He will annoyingly and obsessively highlight and support every prominent Irish-American politico, no matter how good or atrocious their views.
I think Burnett has matured in her role as host and manages to cut through some of the gish gallop that gets spewed by some of the guests. She is fortunate that CNN has been patient enough to have her build an audience given everything previously had been built around Blitzer. I had wondered why she had been off too but found out that she just had a baby in August. Kate Bolduan has been one of the main fill-ins for her and has inoffensively held her own.
90% of the time nowadays, I have no TV on unless there is some big breaking news going on. I am more a radio listener and a reader and at night, will often just listen to MSNBC on SiriusXM instead when I hit the sack (am an early to bed early to rise person).
is the PERFECT description! 