“That Concludes Today’s Live At Five Report With Stacy McCain And Smitty”

Posted on | December 14, 2012 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

American Glob picks up on the notion in the more swank right-of-center blogs that deep pockets like the Koch Brothers should buy MSNBC. The mental image of Rachel Maddow dissolving upon encounter with a teleprompter loaded with truth is satisfying (starting at 0:24):

Aliester:

The Koch Brothers should buy MSNBC and turn it over to conservative bloggers. That concludes today’s Live at Five Report with Stacy McCain and Smitty. Coming up at 6, Bill Whittle followed by Jim Geraghty and William Jacobson at 7 and Glenn Reynolds at 8. Ratings at MSNBC would go up as FOX News found itself competing for viewers for the first time since launching.

I’d vary the theme slightly and offer up the notion that the Koch’s do a KickStarter-esque project, with the notion that people putting up money have the option of converting their boodle into equity shares of The Koch Channel, or whatever. Spread the risk and build an instant market.

I don’t know that Stacy and I could anchor a show without vast amounts of training and more work than Pamela Anderson and Elizabeth Taylor combined, but I do thank Aliester for the complement.

Meanwhile, there’s a tangentially related gag on Twitter about putting (D) behind your name, so that you can say all manner of nonsense and get a media pass for it. Join the fray!

@jimmiebjr @jonahnro Hovering around asin-eight-point-five, so: yes, but not by much.

— Asin8.5 (D-NOVA) (@smitty_one_each) December 15, 2012

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16 Responses to ““That Concludes Today’s Live At Five Report With Stacy McCain And Smitty””

debra1682
December 14th, 2012 @ 9:14 pm

RT @smitty_one_each: “That Concludes Today’s Live At Five Report With Stacy McCain And Smitty” http://t.co/ZJjs4m4u #TCOT
Stogie Chomper
December 14th, 2012 @ 9:33 pm

That is a brilliant idea! Maybe then someone would actually watch MSNBC.
Finrod Felagund
December 14th, 2012 @ 9:45 pm

Heck, I’d watch, and I never watch TV news nowadays.
Becca Lower
December 14th, 2012 @ 9:57 pm

The only problem with this “fantasy league” line-up (okay, only two problems with it):

1) No Malkin.
2) I’d never be able to shut off the television.
BeccaJLower
December 14th, 2012 @ 9:59 pm

RT @smitty_one_each: “That Concludes Today’s Live At Five Report With Stacy McCain And Smitty” http://t.co/ZJjs4m4u #TCOT
M. Thompson
December 14th, 2012 @ 10:08 pm

Good point on 1.

Number two is a feature, not a bug.
Thane_Eichenauer
December 14th, 2012 @ 10:56 pm

I don’t see any reason why the Koch brothers should pay any amount more than one dollar to buy MSNBC. Glenn Beck has proved that any person can buy a video channel.
Becca Lower
December 14th, 2012 @ 11:06 pm

One dollar would be overpaying.
Bob Belvedere
December 14th, 2012 @ 11:16 pm

Could I anchor The Rule 5 Report on your show???
RichFader
December 15th, 2012 @ 12:02 am

Couldn’t possibly be worse than what’s on there now.
M. Thompson
December 15th, 2012 @ 11:25 am

Wait, we could have actual reportage on the Beauty Pageant circuit. Excelsior!
Quartermaster
December 15th, 2012 @ 12:18 pm

Bob, we couldn’t allow that for your own safety. You’d have so much fun no man could possibly stand it. Not to mention the eye strain you’d suffer from and at your age you’d prolly go blind prematurely.

Never let it be said we aren’t concerned about our friends.
bobbymike34
December 15th, 2012 @ 2:16 pm

No new channel take over existing I think would be more productive. We need to expand INTO the territory of the left by taking ground. Yes this is a war for the soul of America.
Bob Belvedere
December 15th, 2012 @ 3:09 pm

You’re hired if I get the gig.
Bob Belvedere
December 15th, 2012 @ 3:10 pm

Somebody’s got to do it and that somebody is me, Rule 5 Mojo Master.
M. Thompson
December 15th, 2012 @ 7:22 pm

In Comrade Obama’s America, I’ll take any job I can get.