I remember that show - for the record it was The Chris Matthews Show,and the other two talking heads were Gloria Borger and Campbell Brown. But you're right, it doesn't really matter which pundits are filling the seats at any given time.
I saw this show while flipping through, and all I could think was that this sight, five liberals sitting in a television studio wailing about the evils to be wrought on our "democracy" by the Republican Party, perfectly demonstrates what the "news media" has become.
They sit in their Manhattan or DC studios or newsrooms, calling 61 million Americans stupid, bigoted, easily-misled rubes, peddling (with a wink and a nod) outlandish conspiracy theories about how Karl Rove manipulated vote totals in Florida and Ohio (after hooking up with Osama bin Laden to produce a videotape that was the sole reason for John Kerry's defeat), and just generally throwing a big kicking and screaming temper tantrum like a spoiled 3-year-old who's just been told by Mommy that she's not buying that toy.
In the mean time, they're either ignoring, or they haven't noticed, that their readership and viewership is abandoning them in droves, that more and more people are recognizing their blatant left-wing bias, that journalism is one of the most hated professions in America today.
I think you're right - it's just about time to pull the plug on them and start over.
What's really bizarre is the leftwing media's belief that the only reason people are conservative is because they are uneducated or possess low IQ's.
Surprisingly, their basic premise falls fat in the face of the fact that the major portion of the Democrat support base consists of poor, inner-city folk; blue-collar workers; public school progeny; undergraduates enrolled in public universities; and high-school-educated-only Hollywood types.
How is it, then, that all of these less educated folks know how great the Democrat Party is?