There's uproar? Honestly, I don't have a problem with the double entendres - we're prone to word games and puns here all the time. I didn't see last night's shows (your reference to David Shuster makes me think it was last night's episodes), but I've never had a problem with the humor. I especially like the screen captions on the stories - there's evidence of really creative writing there!
While the shows do offer good news coverage, these are primarily commentary programs and, as such, I grant them some editorial license. Like other commentary programs, I can turn them off if they annoy me.
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It has seemed for awhile that MSNBC is the Progressives answer to the Conservative Fox News.

Neither network can be called "News" (in the traditional sense) if anything they are both news opinion networks and seem to be delusional for not admitting to it (especially FOX... "fair and balanced" c'mon)

I think Shuster and Maddow both know their audience, and are simply playing the same tune that has got them into the position they are in
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MSMBC has gone nowhere but downhill since the death of Tim Russert. They are not the answer to Bill O'Reilly, they are the answer (if we needed one) to Rush Limbaugh, and my respect for them has dropped to where it is just about as even as my respect for Limbaugh.
It is a sad day when Fox News has more credibility than MSMBC, but as a guy who voted proudly for Gene McCarthy and George McGovern that's exactly how I see it.
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