Overnight replay of Meet The Press on MSNBC now.
Last chance to watch Mary Matalin zing David Gregory and Maureen Dowd.
Must see TV!
Mary Matalin absolutely mopped the floor with Gregory and Dowd... it was a beautiful thing to watch! KUDOS, Mary, if you're lurking... ;-)
A couple of quick impressions. First, don't ever p*ss Mary Matalin off. Second, contrary to my first impression Gregory seems like a halfway decent guy who knows he was over the line and is hanging in there swinging for his side (not that he should have a side, but he does). Third, Dowd really does live in a parallel universe. If she really did go on all those "Republican" hunting trips and only now has discovered that the shooter bears the responsibility I'm awfully glad I wasn't downrange from her at the time.
I also get the sense that it's dawning on the media that a good part of their country thinks that they're insufferable asses. That's a healthy thing.
Now, as to the real point of the article posted - yes, outside of a certain self-congratulatory irritation, it's pretty accurate that the locals knew what was going on and instead of listening to them the White House pressies went ballistic over things the locals could have told them if they hadn't been so arrogant. It isn't just us flyover folks the talking heads hold in contempt, it's their own colleagues who happen to work in small cities. That's bad, because it stems the flow of information and the cause isn't that it isn't being offered, it's that it isn't being listened to. That's not only bad manners, it's poor journalism.