Tee Vee Update

For those keeping score, I'll be heavily-makeuped and shooting out radiation sparks from ye olde MSNBC tomorrow morning, sometime between 9 and 9:30 am ET. We will be discussing the weightiest of issues: Harry Potter.  

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Hopeful Independence Day

Once again, Keith Olbermann hits it on the nose. “And for you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, there is a lesser task. You need to achieve a very low threshold indeed. Display that iota of patriotism Richard Nixon showed on August 9, 1974. And give us someone, anyone, about whom all of us might yet…

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It’s Good to Sweat Together, 2007 Edition

DD at Hammerstein Ballroom 6-17-07 "So, you're not going to go home and say this was the worst Duran Duran concert you've ever been to, right?"Well, John. What to say. When you: start 15 minutes late and come out on stage to collectively inform the fans that they're now going to hear selected tracks from…

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Sunday schedule

Jr. Network News So for those who have an interest in such things, I'll be appearing on Alex Witt's news show on MSNBC tomorrow at 9:15 ET and 10:40 ET. In the ay-em, as they say. Which kills a late Saturday night, I tell you. We will be discussing how Michael Moore's new film "Sicko"…

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The other side of the lens

Jr. Network News What a lot of people who watch TV news don't realize, or don't think about — and frankly, why would they — is that those talking heads the newsreaders keep cutting to for expert opinion are not just in another room, they're often in another building, in another city. They're often in…

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