[lbo-talk] Re: Sharpton

[Tim Francis-Wright]

Perhaps someone else already posted this and I missed it in a flurry of 
digests, but the Daily Show shows on Thursday the utter absurdity of 
MSNBC's "coverage".  As Alessandra Stanley of the Times noted:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?K25E322F8

 > Mr. Stewart lampooned those who deplored the slick, synthetic

 > packaging of events, then grew indignant when Al Sharpton diverged

 > from the script. ("I think it is an insult to African-American voters

 > that they are giving this guy as much time as they have," groused

 > Howard Fineman, a Newsweek columnist who as a panelist on MSNBC,

 > alongside Chris Matthews, was on the air more than most speakers.)

 > And "The Daily Show" exposed the inexperience of NBC's next evening

 > news anchor, Brian Williams, who crashed his way through the crowd to

 > buttonhole Mr. Sharpton right after his electrifying speech and then

 > could not think of a question. Mr. Stewart showed a tape of a slightly

 > disheveled Mr. Williams telling Mr. Sharpton that he had been watching

 > the teleprompter "while you did a riff on whatever you did a riff on."

--tim f-w