bon mot<\/span>.<\/p>\nHowever, in this case, I am referring to the original, and rather more mild definition of, the point in a television program’s history where it’s done, and there is not much more to get out of it.<\/p>\n
Regular twice-a-show mini “Special Comments” are an indication that the program has run out its string.<\/p>\n
It’s not surprising: Countdown<\/span> was always more driven by snark, particularly in the early days, and outrage at Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup> and Olbermann is a (very good) sportscaster who tends to see political confrontations in the same sort zero-sum terms of a ball game.<\/p>\nBTW, if one of my reader(s) could rat me out to Olbermann as a “Worst Person in the World<\/span>“, please do so. I could use the eyeballs.<\/p>\nI’m more of a policy wonk myself, and as such I prefer Rachael Maddow’s show, and I will always be grateful to Keith Olbermann for introducing me to her show.<\/p>\n
I’ll still probably watch it streaming on my PC, in the background, which is what I do with both of their shows now, but Keith does not surprise me much any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No, I’m not talking about his bit with Richard Wolffe, where conflates bureaucratic turf wars with a group of Republican moles actively aiding terrorists, I mean his new feature, the 2 short “mini-comments”, each 1 minute long, which will air each show. Normally, I use the phrase “Jump the Shark,” to describe some sort of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1065,974,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-hack-journalism","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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No, I’m not talking about his bit with Richard Wolffe, where conflates bureaucratic turf wars with a group of Republican moles actively aiding terrorists, I mean his new feature, the 2 short “mini-comments”, each 1 minute long, which will air each show.<\/p>\n