2 good reasons NOT to watch meet the press

[spanone]

[mmonk]

1. I don't watch the Sunday shows anymore.

Haven't in years.

[broiles]

8. Try Up with Chis Hayes. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

11. +1!

And Melissa Harris-Perry, much better guests and discussion!

[truth2power]

17. I stopped watching the Sunday shows nearly a year ago. They have nothing to say

that's important for me to hear.

All across this country there are hundreds, if not thousands of intelligent people of vision who could actually contribute some substantive solutions to the plight we find ourselves in. Yet it's the same clowns, blabbering on, week after week.

Is Cokie Roberts still around? She's like fingernails on a blackboard.

[snappyturtle]

21. Cokie Roberts is right up there with Peggy Noonan

who was on "This Week with George Stephanopolis (sp?)". I sufferred
through her rightousness so I could see and hear Keith Obermann.

I totally agree with you that there are far more intelligent people
across our nation who serve in stark contrast to the blubbering talking
heads.

[Lasher]

22. The pundits are like referees at professional wrestling matches.

I got sick of guests' license to lie with virtual impunity, which they regularly exercise. And I hate to see political hacks allowed to filibuster on and on so that there is no time left for opposing views to be heard.

Like you, I stopped watching or caring about a year ago.

[truth2power]

34. Yes, and now that you mention it, I notice that the RWers tend to try to run out the clock..

prattling on and on until there's no time for a response.

The hosts seldom try to manage that.

[Lasher]

35. It is a tactic frequently used by scoundrels to hinder fair debate.

This is why ethically mediated mediated debates often have strictly enforced time limits.

[mehrrh]

19. MTP/Sunday shows

I've written to MTP countless times complaining of their favoritism toward Republicans and the abysmal job of hosting by Gregory -- I know I am not alone, yet MTP doesn't change. So I don't watch it - in fact, I don't watch any Sunday morning shows. I'd rather tune in the Food Channel and work the crossword puzzles from the papers.
Up with Chris Hayes and the new show by Melissa Harris-Perry are worthwhile endeavors, devoting sufficient time to complex issues, with thoughtful discussion. But Current TV is not available in many areas.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

24. "I don't watch the Sunday shows anymore."

"Haven't in years."

Same here!

[mmonk]

29. I remember a time when they had useful discussions.

Seems like a whole different era. I quit for good around 2002.

[randome]

32. Neither have I.

Why would anyone watch them? Can we learn anything new that we don't already know? TV 'news' is just a way to waste time that could be put to better use.

[Cleita]

2. I already decided not to when I saw the lineup.

My blood pressure couldn't handle it.

[mfcorey1]

3. One of the most politically segregated shows on Sunday morning continues. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

4. You forgot the MAIN reason to avoid it

[11 Bravo]

13. Yep - My two reasons were "David" and "Gregory".

The way he allowed Bachmann to continually talk over and interrupt Sen. Gillibrand last week gave me a serious case of the red ass.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

14. WOW - it just hit me!

Gregory is the dead-on spittin' image of my dad's oncologist. Unlike Gregory, Dr. Applebaum is a force for healing and truth as well as a very good listener.

[spanone]

31. you are absolutely 100% correct....excuse my ommission...

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[rurallib]

5. By putting clowns like them on major news shows, the media mainlines extremism

then goes off and pontificates on lack of civility.

[Daniel537]

6. Petah King's voice alone is enough to keep me away.

I think i'll watch Face the Nation to see Smiley and West talk about poverty. At least there's something of substance and importance on this morning.

[Thinkingabout]

7. I always watch the Sunday shows whether

I agree with the guest or not. Sometimes I hear some wild statements but also learn about what the right/wrongers are going crazy on. It helps me know what to bombard the wrongers with.

[asjr]

9. When NBC wakes up and replaces

Dances with Rove Gregory with Maddow I will watch it again.

[Ninga]

15. Yes, Dr. Maddow....read here:

A graduate of Castro Valley High School in Castro Valley, California, she attended Stanford University. While a freshman, she was outed by the college newspaper when an interview with her was published by the student newspaper before she could tell her parents.[15] Maddow earned a degree in public policy from Stanford in 1994.[16] At graduation she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship. [17] She was also the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford. In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in politics from Oxford University.[18] Her thesis is titled HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons (supervisor: Dr Lucia Zedner). She was the first openly gay American to win a Rhodes scholarship.[19][20]

Her stellar ability and commitment to researching her subjects, alone, more than qualifies her....her education tops it all.

Meet the Press is a revolving door of the same-ole-same-ole and I got sick of the retreads long ago.

Thanks goodness for Chris Hayes and the brilliant Melissa Harris-Perry.

[classof56]

20. Thank goodness indeed, for Chris, Melissa and of course Rachel.

I am reading her book, Drift, brilliantly written and also more than a little maddening. Out here on the West Coast, I DVR Chris and Melissa so I can watch them at a more reasonable time. Can also FF through commercials, though of course I appreciate their advertisers (well, the ones that aren't Big Oil!).

[Octafish]

10. Coupla rightwing kooks!

I mean "crooks"!

[mojitojoe]

12. Am I the only one who thinks...

...that the last group who should be investigating and criticizing government employees for spending tax payer money on expensive luxury junkets that serve no real purpose is the U.S. Congress?

[T Roosevelt]

16. You mean besides David Gregory?

Chris Hayes is a much better option...

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. I watched Nazis at the Center of the Earth this morning

Best B Sci/fi movie ever..

Nazis, cyber robot Hitler, death rays, nazis flying saucer, nazi scientists, Hidden nazi base at the south pole, world domination, explosions........ oh did I mention NAZIS?





don't waste your time on the nazis on meet the press.

[OVERPAID01]

23. Stopped watching years ago myself.

Nothing but soundbites and softball questions. The show used to be hard hitting and directly to the point. Now it serves as little more than sound bites and agenda promoting garbage. The state of politics and what passes for news in this nation is disheartening.

[TheKentuckian]

25. Stop propping up and legitimizing the right wing by giving this garbage ratings

This is "the liberal media" you guys are allowing to frame the national dialog. Reich wingers aren't watching this shit, Democrats are with almost no representation.

STOP IT!

[otohara]

26. Right-Wing Guests Week After Week

They invite the unhinged folks to say outrageous statements about the president.
The more outrageous, the better.

[BiggJawn]

27. I never watch the GOP Talking Point Parade.

It's always the same ReTHUGs and pet "Liberals" (who live in the beltway bubble) every damn week.

They had Mitch Daniels on, and instead of asking him why Indiana is so fucked up they played "Let me ask you again!" with him and his rumoured entry into the Clown Car.

"Press the Meat" and the rest of them are just FAUX NOIZ for people who think they are Thinkers.

[Marr]

28. Sunday shows are almost 100% right-wing. Even the minority

of Democratic politicians allowed on are almost always Third Way types.

Add to that their nakedly biased technique of holding roundtable discussions on the news (on subjects the corporate press wants to talk about), where actual journalists are "balanced" without openly partisan right-wing columnists, and it all looks like a big joke.

[customerserviceguy]

30. I've got it good

They run Chris Matthews at 10 AM here, then I flip over to the discussion part of This Week at 10:30, then flip back to the discussion part of MTP at 11, and I finish up with McLaughlin Group on PBS at 11:30. I get to watch the analysis, and practically none of the guest spin.

[Doctor_J]

33. why would any Dem watch Sunday AM propaganda?

You might want to get treatment for your masochistic disorder.

[pacalo]

36. Not even to save my pinky finger would I watch that garbage.

Up until Keith Olbermann's appearance on "The Round Table" (?) this morning, I stopped watching these stale, stodgy "news" programs designed to keep the corporations happy years ago -- when I found out that what they were hawking went against my common sense.

Even what I saw this morning, in between the glints of pride in listening to what little Keith was allowed to say, I'm convinced these programs are not in the public's best informative interest.