A clueless guesser on who-to-replace SCHIEFFER for Face the Nation

[UTUSN]

If you name-drop TWENTY-SIX!1 names, then ONE of them is Bingo!1, you might get noticed as a sharp GUESSER!1 And he calls BORGER "non-partisan"!1 HAH!1 And he claims Tweety has "a sizable built-in audience" and is "the ultimate Beltway blue chipper-----DOUBLE HAH!1 Plus, since when is G.E.RUSSERT Tweety's "rival" as opposed to his boss and mentor into the transition from Dem flack into wingnut balls sniffer?!1


THE TWENTY SIX:

Greenfield, Pelley, Reid,Tweety, Stephanopoulos, Jonathan KARL, Rose, Gumbel, Moran, Tapper, John HARRIS, VandeHei, Mike ALLEN, Gore!1, Gingrich, Tina FEY!1, Moyers, Borger, Cooper, Shepard SMITH, David GREGORY, John KING, Couric, Balz, Brownstein, Meacham, Lauer.



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http://www.observer.com/2008/who-should-replace-bob-schieffer-face-nation

Who Should Replace Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation?

by Felix Gillette | April 2, 2008

.... The Experienced Veteran: Chris Matthews

If CBS News wants someone who can step into the Face the Nation job with little hand-holding and a sizable built-in audience, they might choose Chris Matthews—the host of MSNBC’s Hardball and NBC’s Sunday morning The Chris Matthews Show.

Mr. Matthews is the ultimate Beltway blue-chipper (albeit one with enough controversy to scare off some potential F.C.C.-wary broadcasters). Reading deeply into the network tea leaves, he may soon be available. In 2003, during his commencement address at the College of the Holy Cross, Mr. Matthews thanked Bob Wright, then NBC’s chairman (and a fellow Holy Cross alum!), for helping Mr. Matthews hold onto his high-profile job at the network. In 2007, Mr. Wright retired. That would seem to leave Mr. Matthews, whose current contract is said to expire in June 2009, without one of his guardian angels at NBC. Jumping to CBS’s Face the Nation might be a highly appealing prospect to both parties. Best of all, Mr. Matthews would finally go head-to-head with his current in-house rival Tim Russert—a potential Washington blood sport that would be sure to attract tons of buzz and eyeballs. ....

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[islandmkl]

1. Dear CBS:

Get out the gun that you used before hiring Katie Couric, clean it, reload it, then.....


aim squarely and directly at either the foot you shot then, OR, should that foot still be in the healing process, at your other foot.

Should work out well, once again.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Re: Russert/Matthews 'rivalry'.

Supposedly it is very real. Mainly that Matthews is unhappy being 'under' Mistuh Potatohead. Yes, Jack Welch turned Russert and Russert and Welch turned Matthews, but that was years ago and now just so much water over the dam.

Matthews is nothing if not a giant ego.

[UTUSN]

3. Your take is spot-on: Tweety "nothing if not a giant ego." But

from the peanut gallery I don't see the rivalry: They have the same Irish-Cath, blue collar background, with Tweety's being more overtly Rethug. Same flunky-dom political careers. Now they have neighboring mansions in the same neighborhood... Dunno.


But tell ya what: We here at DU sure can interpret junk better than all these pundits and writers for big name outlets!1