Lovely Rita

by digby

Dear Gawd. I didn’t think it was possible to drag down the quality of Hardball any further, but the addition of Rita Cosby is a new low. I’m sure she’s a very good tabloid crime reporter. People seem to like her. But her take on politics is so shallow she is making Tweety and Tucker look like intellectual heavyweights. She clearly spent too much time at FOXNews not entirely paying attention. The result is a lethal combination of knee-jerk wingnutism and tabloid silliness. I guess this is an MSNBC attempt to boost her profile, but it’s cringe worthy even by “making a drunken fool of yourself at a dinner party” standards.

Update: I take it all back. Matthews is just as silly and stupid as she is. (Why did Americans like Hugh Grant playing the prime minister in “Love Actually” rather than Billy Bob Thornton’s creepy American president? Because we all love Tony Blair, that’s why! Jayzuz….)

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