Someone Needs To Coach Rachel Out Of Her Long-Windedness

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24. Exactly. It's like the audience is too dumb to get it the first time.

She's hardly providing context and a teachable moment. She's engaging in rote learning techniques - repeat ad naseum until it sinks in.

I agree with you on Tweets as well, though he grades on a curve. You can tell which guests he respects and which guests he takes for granted by how long he will let them speak before interrupting. I've often wondered what it's like sitting across that table from him as he spits all over himself.

Rev Al doesn't quite have the right cadence to his questions to let the guests know it's their time to speak. Lots of times there's dead air space because the guest - knowing the Rev's penchant for adding to his question - wasn't ready to jump in with an answer. The other problem with the Rev's approach to questioning is that he adds so many conditions to the question that any response gets narrowed down to not much more than a nod in agreement with what he just said.

I think Ed is actually the best of the bunch when it comes to interviewing people, but he too tends to interrupt guests before they've delivered their answer. His other bête noir is when he goes up on the tele-prompter, misreads a line and then tries to come back around to get to a statement that is at the opposite end of what he just misread (he did this last night a couple of times). It's sort of like the way KO used to get all worked up and trip over his words, most notably during his "Special Comment" segments, where he'd often walk all over the big moment by flubbing his delivery.

Then, there's "The Cycle." Yikes!