Tucker! A man and his lame-ass talk show

I tried watching The Situation with Tucker Carlson the other day and the only thing I got from it is Tucker's smug satisfaction that he has a show on TV and most of the rest of us don't. Otherwise, not much to differentiate it from the other conservatives run amok on cable TV.

Apparently, the NY Times agrees, adding:

And on MSNBC, he does not even seem like a breath of fresh hot air: the cable channel already has plenty of conservative spokesmen, including Joe Scarborough, whose talk show, "Scarborough Country," follows Mr. Carlson's.

Mr. Carlson is a well-known conservative, but even MSNBC does not treat him as a reliable anchor. After President Bush's speech on Iraq on Tuesday, MSNBC pre-empted "The Situation" with a special edition of "Hardball," so that its host, Chris Matthews, could lead the discussion. Mr. Carlson, sidelined to a seat next to the White House reporter Norah O'Donnell, barely got a word in.

MSNBC, there can only be one FOX News, and you ain't it. And for that, most of the nation is thankful. The rest are donating money to Robin Hayes for telling it like it is.

I hate to tell you MSNBC and your neighbor CNN, but you guys will always be portrayed as liberal, even though you aren't, and running to the right isn't going to fix that. So you should either become view neutral and report facts and not opinions from both sides as news, or you should go liberal and become a voice for the 59 million other people that currently lack their own news channel but voted in the past election.

But please stop hiring conservative to host talk shows, okay? I'm sure they'll all find nice jobs in the right wing media machine. They don't need you help.