No, Phil, it's just that you sucked. However, to your larger point.......
If that is, as you suggest, MSNBC's strategy ("out-Fox Fox.....I assume he means 'out-FNC FNC', but hey.....who's quibbling) by sticking on a conservative here or there, then it will fail miserably. Allow me to demonstrate.
Two restaurants.........two buffets.
In one, you walk into a dark, dingy, somewhat dirty environment (that seems all too familiar, and not pleasingly so) only to see a single, long row of serving pans filled with steaming piles of excrement and offal. Among these smelly pans you see the one pan with decent looking steamed shrimp.
In the other restaurant, you walk in......it's clean, gleaming, and bustling. Before you are row upon row of succulent dishes; crab, shrimp, prime beef, wonderful fresh vegetable dishes, fresh fruits, numerous delicious salads, you name it.
Both restaurants charge the same for their buffets.
Now.......which restaurant would you go to?
""My wish for the people who replace us is a longer time in the ring and a more patient management team loudly cheering on from the corner," he said. "This is the only way for a cable host on MSNBC to have any chance of being a contender."
I wonder what Alan Keyes thinks about Phil getting the boot?