In an effort "to refashion the liberal cable channel as a straight-forward news and politics offering," NBC News' supreme Andrew Lack is calling home MSNBC's "The Cycle," "Now with Alex Wagner" and "The Ed Show."
Yet Lord Lack moves in mysterious ways. He giveth relief and taketh it right back: "MSNBC will add a 5 p.m. program hosted by 'Meet The Press' moderator Chuck Todd."
I can't quite identify the source of my rather extreme Toddian discomfort. It could be that his hovering all-knowingness and "insider" certainty rub my Montaignean skepticism the wrong way. But those are hardly rare attributes in network pundits. So I just don't know.
At any rate, my creeping uneasiness has converted into full-blown apoplexy. Here I am, with neighbors in the foreground, upon hearing Mr. Todd last week — or is that Rachel Maddow? — on the teevee machine: