Rachel now with the breaking news: Holbrooke

[nadinbrzezinski]

As I expected it, they did not go there with Keith due to recording and all that.

They HAD time to rewrite her show though.

[stray cat]

1. RIP Richard Holbrook - condolences for the family and the US

[Pirate Smile]

2. Keith never covered it? That's pathetic. Too busy bashing the President.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. No too busy dialing

the rolodex.

They don't do things half ass.

She had time to rewrite program and get people into the station.

Believe it or not it takes a little to produce a show. This broke what ten minutes from Keith's show?

[Tunkamerica]

15. Uninformed and strident. Great combo.

Why didn't they know he was going to die ahead of time? Why wasn't yesterday's show about this too?

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Well they should have expected it

these tears are usually not very survivable...

That is the devils advocate of the day.

But how they handled it, I liked.

[Pirate Smile]

20. The news broke during Hardball. I was surprised they didn't cut in during it to announce the news.

I certainly figured Keith would have mentioned it. People watch the news channels to actually get breaking news. CNN's entire 8-9 pm EST hour of programming was ONLY on his death.

An hour and fifteen minutes or so after the news broke, MSNBC bothered to mention it. That.is.pathetic. Keith had an entire stupid segment on the War on Christmas or something. Geez, we wouldn't want to have one live segment on the death of a very important diplomat who is actually a critical part of the Obama Administration's team on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

It's truly lame and is very similar to their weekends of Lockup marathons. They need to act like a full-time news station.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Thanks Andrea for that

beautiful... and this is why they did not do anything until they got the people in.

[ohheckyeah]

5. What breaking news? n/t

[AlabamaLibrul]

6. Holbrooke is dead of a torn aorta n/t

[ohheckyeah]

7. Thanks.

I've been working and haven't been watching the news.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. This broke about 90 minutes ago

best case... and it was my bad not to post about what.

My apologies

[ohheckyeah]

19. No apology necessary.

I'm usually watching the news but I had some online work to do and that had to come first.

[spartan61]

8. During commercials on Keith's show,

I switched to Parker/Spitzer on CNN. They were covering Holbrooke's death almost all hour.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. They got a faster dialing finger

[whathehell]

10. Richard Holbrooke was a PNAC signatory. n/t

[golddigger]

12. Yep. People with short memory spans.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. That is something nobody is gonna cover

way too many elite members signed it, from both "parties."

[DemoTex]

14. RIPs - but a nagging question

Should I have liked him?

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Well his work with Kosovo is something I still

admire him for that and stopping THAT genocide.

His signing the PNAC... not so much.

If you like public servants, he was one of those who worked all his career in public service.

[Joe Fields]

18. Good. One bad apple gone.

I don't feel sorry for people that are a big part of the problem.

Call me callous. I don't care. He was a son-of-a-bitch.

[upi402]

21. no tears here either

I wonder if he could have made amends. Can you make amends for complicity like that?
He was a PNACster. nuff said