Nice to know that Liberals ardently support people and

programmes which represent their views and issues.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/?ml=bl_db

" It's been only three weeks since I announced that Moyers & Company would end, as originally planned, on January 3. ... What I could not anticipate was the response of our viewers. ... The outpouring is unmistakably about the importance of public broadcasting and the value many people place on our mission to offer a place for sane, calm and civil consideration of what is going on in the world.

" Our funders also weighed in with an equally simple but passionate message: keep going. And they have backed those pleas with commitments of underwriting. So, I want to announce today that we indeed will continue with a half-hour weekly broadcast and multimedia offerings that will feature the trademark ideas, interviews and analysis that you have told us are important to you. ... The final episode of our current series will air January 3. One week later — on January 10 — the first episode of the new series, still Moyers & Company, will premiere."

I just wish that there were more like him. MSNBC seemed like it might develop into that sort of network, but with the death of Tim Russert, the poor support for Cenk Uygur, the NBC interference and then firing of Keith Olbermann, and the advent of Al Sharpton, that dream seems to have gone up in smoke. I'm glad that Rachel Maddow is there, night after night, speaking good sense, Chris Hayes and the slightly grey and underplayed Lawrence O'Donnell, who is better the more you watch.

Thank god Alec Baldwin is gone, for cause. Martin Bashir formerly of the BBC, then CNN is a very good broadcaster, but not someone who excites passions.

Please note that I have not said anything unpleasant about Joe Scarborough, whom I don't mind at all. I don't particularly agree with him, but he doesn't make me want to run out and buy a .357 Magnum to shoot the Television set. Nor do I mind Chuck the K (Charles Krauthammer) who at least has a brain, and a vocabulary, and uses both very well. Misguidedly, in my opinion, but well nonetheless. I just disagree with him fundamentally, but I respect him in the morning, something I can't do with the rest of the Right (salve Joe Scarborough). But I won't suffer through the rest of FoxNoise in order to watch him because I'd be dead in a week, either from a stroke due to sky-high Blood Pressure or felo de se (suicide).