Surely its time for another roundtable chat with tireless purveyors of conventional wisdom. I wonder what James Carville and Mary Matalin think????
“Meet the Press with David Gregory” was again the #1 public affairs show last Sunday morning, but the gap between NBC and its competitors on CBS and ABC continues to shrink. Just 190,000 Total Viewers separated first place NBC and third place ABC. “Face the Nation” moderated by Bob Schieffer, the most senior member of the four show hosts, tied MTP in younger viewers with a .7 rating.
A .7 rating? Seriously? Does anyone watch that show besides Political junkies and Washington insiders? Why do advertisers even pay for that show?
Even though David Gregory is a former WH correspondent, he doesn’t have the grit and passion for politics that Russert had. I saw Newt Gingrich turn him into putty the other week while discussing whether or not President Obama was making America less safe. As a WH correspondent he was much more limited in the number of follow-up questions he could ask and , therefore, the amount of research he needed to do. Now that the game’s wide open, Gregory can’t play. Point blank, the boy’s just not doing his homework and that’s frustrating for all of us politicos out here…
Rachel Maddow wasn’t “serious” enough for sundays