It was shocking and offensive to see Tucker Carlson subbing for Aaron Brown these past few days on CNN. Aaron's viewing audience is predominantly liberal, and apparently, CNN stands to gain by catering to the right wing.
Almost equally offensive is Andrea (pruneface) Mitchell hosting Hardball over the holidays.
The real outrage is the disappearance of talented liberals. Thoughtful, intelligent Bill Press has vanished. Deborah Norville is history.
I can almost understand why Matthews let everyone down. He realizes that a liberal has no future in news, and gives self-survival priority over values. In doing so, he has made himself a nonentity - but a prosperous, working nonentity.
Lou Dobbs, Jon Stewart and Keith Ohboermann are the only reasons that I can think of for continuing to subscribe to cable these days.
Wasn't someone working on getting a liberal news channel?
That being said, it was pretty funny watching a Tom Wolfe (Kool Aid Acid Test) documentary yesterday ... on FOX NEWS!
In his dotage, Wolfe is completely innocuous, and said nothing to offend the Fox viewer - but none the less - you would never see him on CNN or MSNBC.