Why I Find Big Ed's Demotion To Weekends Troubling

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64. Amy Goodman isn't on MSNBC, so I don't see that she's relevant to this topic.

As far as the way Rachel and Chris Hayes "present information," that's one of the things that bothers me about both of them. They feel the need to give these extended intros to their topics, going on and on and over and over the same intro from different angles (Rachel is especially bad about this).

With Ed, you know he's a liberal. You know he's for the working man. He doesn't need to waste time with some long-winded intro that says, "hey, I've considered this issue from 20 different angles, and guess what? I think the liberal angle is the best."

I have to say that I'm at the point where I just can't watch Rachel anymore. I'm tired of the long-windedness, which comes off as being more formulaic than the opinion guys. It's like she''s vamping for the first 4 minutes leading into a story, rather than just getting to the story. Presenting an introductory exegesis to a story might be necessary in a college classroom, but this is TV, where you've got lights, cameras, graphics and all kinds of other shiny things about to make your presentation. So use the medium you're working in, and skip the college professor intro.

BTW - why apologize for opining that Amy is older than Ed? See, that's the problem I'm talking about, that age is an issue in this country because we all KNOW that being younger is better than being older. Innocently imagining that someone is older than someone else is an insult, and cause for a mea culpa if you're wrong. WTF?

What's next? "Oh, sorry. I just assumed you were gay?"