So I am in a hotel room in Boston. I am watching MSNBC. Seething.

[NRaleighLiberal]

We've not had cable at home for two years, so I only watch this when I am travelling (infrequently). And I am so, so pissed off at the simplistic, stupid way that even the "good guy" media like Shuster plays it. You gotta be kidding? Tom DeLay? The idiot Bush woman? Jim Cramer? Harold Ford? Tucker Bounds? All Rush all the time? Why hasn't Obama rescued the stock market in just a few months? The Stock Market as the "real deal" when it is full of Ponzi schemes and other shady deals?

There are people who should be in jail who are being treated like they are great sages! Why? Why? Why?

Incredible short sightedness, reactivity, partisanship, grandstanding. I don't think that these types of shows do anything productive for our lives. They incite rage and anger - from both sides. These topics are way too complex for soundbites and idiot talking heads.

I need to turn this thing off or there will be one broken flat screen TeeVee in this here hotel room...there is already one very angry inhabitant in this room!

[leftstreet]

1. Don't you get porn?

:hi:

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Let me do some research and get back to ya!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

14. As a former traveling man, myself...

Who has stayed in many, many hotels of varying quality, trust me when I tell you: hours of fitful and fruitless masturbation to bad hotel porn is a far more productive use of your time than watching those chuckleheads opine.

Although both acts are remarkably similar on a philosophical level. ;-)

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. I am speechless, I tell ya (pretty good selection here, actually!)

[SOS]

27. Most hotel room smut is provided by right-wing media corporations

So it works out sorta the same.

[Historic NY]

31. I heard they were owned by the Salt Lake City crowd.

[polichick]

2. Lol - I've been traveling for a month and couldn't get MSNBC. Nice break!

[ixion]

4. Yeah, I'm like you... no cable at home, and only watch when I'm in a hotel

and I'm always incredulous at the stupidity and reminded why I dumped cable in the first place.

:argh:

[Windy]

5. I was just stunned that none of them read the stimulus bill! Kramer, Ford, Matthews

there are credits for homebuyers and carbuyers in the bill. wow.

[rvablue]

6. Don't meant to increase your rage

but Tweety had Delay on last week and closed the segment by saying, "Mr. Delay you are always welcome on the show!"

And according to some other DUer, ended the show today with the same salutation.

I think it's about time we let him now, that while the minority needs to be able to voice their opinion, he might want to find some non-criminals.

[spanone]

19. he had him on TODAY AND SAID THE SAME FUCKING THING

[sandnsea]

7. Aaack You're watching TV in BOSTON!!!!

Get out of your room RIGHT NOW. Way too much to do in Boston to waste your time with cable cacklers.

:spank:

I want pictures of your night on the town!

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. Yeah, I know - I am a native New Englander, know Boston quite well.

I am blasted from a long day of endless meetings. Actually, have a date with a Duke basketball game in a little while!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

22. Yes. Like Legal Seafood.

Go get some fish.

[originalpckelly]

8. I have to hand it to that Ron Paul, he shut Shuster down.

I could hear that coming out of the mouth of Dennis Kucinich.

[noiretextatique]

10. i have cable, but i never watch the teevee pundidiots

why expose my beautiful mind to that crap? america's next top model is much better :7

[barbtries]

11. it's a wasteland

i'm so glad i quit the cable. now i get my news from DU and watch the shows i like online. probably live longer for it.

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. That's what I think. How do these sleazeballs live with themselves??

[Fire1]

24. They live with themselves secure in the knowledge that they

can say any damned thing they want, when they want and it ain't a damned thing anybody can do about it cause they're protected by the freakin first amendment.:mad:

[Gormy Cuss]

13. Get out of the hotel and go to a bar outside of the tourist zone or in Cambridge.

Pick one with TVs glued to the cable snooze shows. Sit back and listen to the others at the bar critique them. Boston is one of the cities where everyone has an opinion about politics (and just about everything else, come to think of it.);)

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. I am in Cambridge and have spent many an evening in the Asgard or John Harvard.

I am a big fan of the microbrew! Good idea, though, going to listen to the reaction banter to the talking TeeVee chuckeheads.

[colorado thinker]

17. Watch Countdown

He'll never have Delay on his program, I predict.

[high density]

18. A hotel room with MSNBC...

The last few I've been at had Comcast cable which of course meant no MSNBC.

[spanone]

20. i have comcast cable and msnbc

[colorado thinker]

23. ????? It's a basic cable channel

isn't it? I have Comcast and MSNBC. If I couldn't see Keith, I'd be moving to a different provider.

[polichick]

25. Just spent a month in the South - no MSNBC with cable in hotels.

[colorado thinker]

26. Let me guess

You could get Fox, of course. :evilgrin:

[polichick]

29. You got it - I kept asking for the channel to be changed from Faux to real news...

...in the breakfast area off the lobby. Heh heh.

[Generic Brad]

30. Or you could download his podcast

Countdown minus the commercials is pretty sweet.

[high density]

32. It is, but...

Comcast has been moving MSNBC to the digital tier. I've never been to a hotel with a digital cable box. Even one that I went to that had HDTVs still had analog cable. (DUMB!!!)

[graywarrior]

21. Go drinking at the Black Thorn Pub in Southie

[KharmaTrain]

28. Slingbox...A Great Toy For The Road...

It allows you to connect to your home Cable, Satellite or DVD from anywhere you can get a broadband connection. It's been my salvation on the road where most hotels give you the choice of Faux and Chicken Noodle Nuze...little else. I need my CSPIN fix in the morning...plus Keith and Rachel at night. Plus many hotels still don't carry Comedy Central. It's kept me sane on many a roadtrip!