Monumental and historical day and MSNBC is covering...

[Drunken Irishman]

The Olympics.

I'm all for the Olympics and shit, but c'mon now! It's not even an event right now. It's a goddamn update. An Olympic UPDATE.

:eyes:

[Vinca]

1. I couldn't believe it when they switched to Swedish women's hockey.

:banghead:

[gateley]

2. To be fair, they signed that contract long before this meeting was even a twinkle

in Obama's eye. I bet they'd rather be covering this, too, but they have to honor their commitments.

[activa8tr]

4. Then FUCK the contract, and play it on the weekends as re-runs, when

they usually play re-re-re-re runs of men in prison with tatoos and wanting to kill someone..

What is WRONG with that network, reruns on the weeekends, of things we have seen 10 times.

They need to hire a manager who is competent.....obviously Obama is not available.

[gateley]

7. Tell that to the Olympics attorneys when the lawsuits come knocking on the door.

I'm with you on the weekend lineups, though --

[dmr]

3. Of all days! n/t

[BeyondGeography]

5. That's a relief, actually, because you know they would mangle the HCR Summit

[customerserviceguy]

6. You didn't have enough coverage of this dog and pony show?

It was just a way for each side to try to make the other look bad, and both of them succeeded to their respective constituencies.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. I just wanted to hear Chris, Keith and Rachel.

Not Wolfy and Mary Matalin along with Ben fucking Stein.

[SoFlaJet]

9. Maybe it was just as well DI...

Andrea Mitchell had Pat Buchanan as her main go-to commentator before they switched away.

[Berry Cool]

11. There will be a two-hour special Countdown tonight starting at 9 ET.

Just take it easy, folks. Keith will be there (assuming things don't take a turn for the worse with his dad tonight).

Edited: No, appears he won't--it will be Tweety and Hardball instead.

Keith is with his father now, says TVNewser/

Damn, damn, damn. :cry:

[sohndrsmith]

19. Damn... you're right... it's on the msnbc website too. Nothing about KO, just

a note saying there's a schedule change.

(sigh).... : (

[dmr]

20. I feel for Keith. Such a painful emotional roller-coaster

I empathize. I've been in similar shoes with my mom. Some days I didn't know if I was coming or going.

[warm regards]

10. Change the channel...

[Bobbie Jo]

12. Well, at least they're not running "Lock Up" reruns.

I suppose we should be thankful.

[customerserviceguy]

16. Really

After you've seen one prison, haven't you pretty much seen them all? They always have the classic close-up of the razor wire at the top of the walls, and the "I gotta be meaner than anyone else here," tattooed guy as cliches in every episode!

[Phx_Dem]

13. They had a contract to cover the Olympics long before the HC Summit was scheduled.

[onenote]

14. I didn't realize there was nowhere else to watch the summit

Oh wait, there were other places where you could watch the summit.

If you wanted to watch the summit, here's an idea: change the channel.

[demmiblue]

15. Sure, omc-lite

[polichick]

17. A special Hardball is coming up soon. nt

[gblady]

18. Rachel said last night....

that there would be a 2 hour special coverage of the HCS tonight...
said it would be she, Keith and Chris...

and MSNBC had a promo ad about it as well.

[Drunken Irishman]

22. How was it? Cause when I watched, it was Chuck Todd and Tweety.

[gblady]

23. it didn't happen....

I remember seeing the ad, and hearing Rachael talk about it...

disappointing...couldn't take Matthews and crew, turned it off.

[ginnyinWI]

24. At the end Tweety said that Keith was supposed to be there,

but was off for family reasons--his dad. So send some good thoughts his way.

I too was disappointed with the show--why couldn't Rachael have taken Keith's place?

[high density]

21. ok STFU about these worthless sports and get Tweety on the screen

kthx