Alison Stewert - Any Else Think She's Great? [View All]

[Prophet 451]

I'm just catching up on the webcasts of the last few days of the Rachel Maddow show. First we had Arianna Huffington. Now, I'm sorry, I love Arianna and her writing is often superb but as a TV personality, her accent reminds me so strongly of Zsa Zsa Gabor that I just can't take her seriously.

Alison Stewert, on the other hand, is great. She's not as good as Rachel but it would be unfair to expect a substitute host to be. However, she is very good. Bright, attractive (it never hurts) and she actually looks somewhat more comfortable on TV than Rachel does. She doesn't have the same depth but that's ok, not every show has to be Newsnight and she's far better than David Shuster is on Countdown.

According to fairly reliable rumour, the liberal clique (for lack of a better term) is gaining power at MSNBC as the ratings for Countdown and the Rachel Maddow Show continue to remain reliably strong. Granted, there are always power games behind the scenes but if that's true, and MSNBC is starting to very slowly reposition itself as the liberal network (which would be excellent, Faux for the conservatives, MSNBC for liberals and CNN repositions itself as the moderate, objective middle), what can be done with Ms. Stewert?