Login HereNo, it's not a good day. Take a look below this post: today the Pentagon announced the deaths of five soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's not a good day, and what follows isn't any sort of balm.
As you've probably read everywhere else, Rachel Maddow finally got her own show on MSNBC. What an achievement this is. It wasn't long ago that MSNBC fired Phil Donahue for opposing the Iraq war. To see an unapologetic, confrontational progressive display a forthrightly liberal point of view from behind the anchor desk of a cable television news show with any consistency has been, for years, nonexistent, even as the country has grown progressively more progressive as the obvious decadence of conservatism has been on display. Rachel Maddow is long overdue. Take heart from one thing, conservatives: the markets are doing what you've always said they should.
Rachel, I promise to watch you every day at the gym. Can I propose a panel of Josh Marshall, Jane Hamsher, and Jon Soltz?
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So, Great post, Spencer. Love your choice of a panel. Hope they take your suggestion. Do you happen to know if that means Dan Abrams show has bombed and will be gone as soon as Rachel’s show starts to air?
Specner:
How about you add Duncan Black and Glenn Greenwald to that list?
Ugh!! I can’t even spell your name right.
Thanks for recognizing that everyday we lose a service member, that should be the lead story.
And if Soltz is unavailable, I know someone who can fill in.
Bruuuuce!
Oh, and how ’bout Juan Cole? And for conservative “balance” put MSNBC’s own Pat Buchanan up on there so Glenn, Josh, et al. can tear him a well-deserved new one on a nightly basis. That would be sweet.
For “conservative balance,” she should have Mark Shields, David Gergen, or Donna Brazile.