re: #163 Killgore Trout

Michael Smerconish Kicks Off CNN Show by Railing Against Partisan Cable News

Normally you might be the kind of thing that would appeal to me. Partisan activist cable news has been one of my pet peves. But I can’t help seeing though the marketing gimmick of “centrist” fake punditry. He’s reading off a script and a dumbly written one with stupid analogies. Why not just do a serious show and let the audience figure it out? Instead it’s a sales pitch saying “this stuff is market tested to appeal to self identified centrists”. I wish him luck but it doesn’t look like a show that will interest me. Just another marketing gimmick.

He’s a former Republican who left the party when it went too far to the right.