Meet the Press meets Mickey Kaus

Tim Russert lost me a long time ago when I realized his show was really Meet Tim Russert! One time, I surfed over to his show an hour-long intierview with an NBA basketball player. I didn't get the political implications. And I don't like his Matalin/Carville sideshow either. One time they brought their children on. That's when I knew MTP had defintely jumped the shark. Carville never seemed to me like a very good spokesperson for the Deomocratic party, at least on television. He's probably great at the conventions. He seems more like the cheerleader type to me. And, Matalin...I'd like to see her sans the hubby more often, before I decide she's not so great a pundit either.

I would like to know how she stays so fashionably thin, though.

Oh, uh Kaus uncovered a conflict of interest in the axis of threeville:

Lukegate: ... Step 1) Tim Russert books the tired Carville-Matalin act more than 35 times on his Meet the Press talk show, boosting their bankability on the lucrative lecture circuit. Step 2) Carville--with Russert's eager prodding--also uses their most recent, conveniently-timed MTP appearance to plug his new XM Satellite radio sports show. ... That's smarmily venal enough, you say? Wrong! Step 3) Carville's co-host on the XM show is Russert's son, Luke, who is "currently a sophomore at Boston College." Russert and Carville joke about this on the air but don't quite have the balls to actually inform viewers of the key conflict