Uh... Keith? This ReadABookOnTeevee Thing Doesn't Work For Me.

[BlooInBloo]

Please stop. kkthx!

[malaise]

1. I love it

Go Keith! I'm ordering some Thurber books to read in summer.

[AngryOldDem]

27. Did you hear him say that Thurber is now at the top of Amazon's book list?

"I feel like Oprah now! :D

I'm going to be checking out some Thurber on my next trip to the library.

[Ecumenist]

2. ME TOO. It's funny and entertaining.

[baldguy]

3. You are free to change the channel.

[DesertRat]

4. I agree with you.

I hate to change the channel, but it doesn't work for me either.

[Junkie Brewster]

5. If nothing else, it's a sign of the regard MSNBC has for Keith

How many other TV talking heads could get away with this?

[JBoy]

6. I saw it the other day, and saw it again today. Not working for me.

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. My understanding is that this is something he thought his father would have liked.

I'm not going to knock Keith for doing it, if he feels he's honoring his dad.

Though I'm guessing it's probably not going to be a permanent part of the show. He'll have to run out of Thurber material eventually.

[BlooInBloo]

9. I certainly wasn't dissing his love and respect for his dad....

I just think it makes for shitty teevee.

Was curious what others thought, so I posted. Some agree, some disagree. (Guess that could have been predicted. :P)

[wellstone dem]

8. I love it.

It made me sit down and listen, rather than keep working on other things while the show was on.

[ashling]

10. I actually prefer it to Rachel's bartending lessons

I used to to read "The Unicorn in the Garden" to my daughters. It was on the requested list, along with "But NO Elephants."

[AnArmyVeteran]

11. Fox knows its viewers greatest literary conquest was a comic book. I applaud Keith's readings...

Could you in your wildest imagination envision someone on Fox News reading stories that required thought to grasp? LOLOL... It's hilarious. Can you see Hannity reading Hemmingway to his nitwit audience? LOLOLOLOL!!! LMFAO! With Keith reading substantive stories means he knows he can trust his audience to be intellectually capable of understanding thoughts, ideas and concepts. Compare that to the Fox News defectives who are barely able to even remember their buzzwords, and then they don't even know how to put the buzzwords they hear in context.

Go Keith.. I think it is a good idea and a very nice tribute to that special man who brought you into this world. We should all be grateful to Keith's dad...

[bullwinkle428]

16. The Fox News audience would find "Hop On Pop" frightening & confusing!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[chill_wind]

20. Oh my.

lol :-)

[WeDidIt]

12. I think it's great.

It's the biggest reason I've tooned in on Friday night the past two weeks.

[peace13]

13. You go Keith!

Thank you for reintroducing me to Thurber. Peace out!

[tularetom]

14. Why does he take his glasses OFF to read the stories?

I have to put my glasses ON if I want to read anything within 3 feet of my nose.

FWIW, I don't agree with your position. The fables are brief, pertinent and IMO, add to the shows content, sometimes reinforcing political events of the day.

[Flubadubya]

21. Apparently the same reason I take mine off to read...

Nearsightedness. My glasses correct for my distant vision; my close up vision is just fine without them. As a matter of fact, the glasses make close up work more difficult to see... better wtihout them.

Thanks for asking. :hi:

[Codeine]

25. I do that too.

Always have; I'm near-sighted and just find it more pleasant to read without them.

[DefenseLawyer]

26. I'm nearsighted

When I have my contacts out I have superhuman vision up to about 12 inches in front of me, beyond that it gets sketchy fast.

[AngryOldDem]

28. I take mine off to read.

For some reason, I can make out the text better if I'm not wearing glasses. And I have bifocals.

[handmade34]

15. Love the stories

[chill_wind]

17. I think it was a request from his dying father. He read to his Dad in the hospital

in his last days before he died when he visited. A lot of James Thurber (he and his father were life-long fans, I gather). I think I remember KO saying at the time that his Dad had suggested he read on his show. KO sounded a little doubtful when he joked about it on air, didn't sound too sure about whether he thought that would fly, but maybe he's just keeping a promise for a time..

[Donnachaidh]

18. so change the channel --what's the big deal?

It's not like he hasn't given ample warning that the reading is coming up. A great many of us love this -- Thurber is a great writer.

So turn on ET and watch some chick jumping up and down in a tank top. I find listening to stories with a point far more interesting.

:shrug:

[bvar22]

19. I thought it was genius.

Score another one for KO.
Always loved Thurber, books, and Fireside readings.
I will admit its not for everyone.

I've been skipping KO lately.
Ed, Tweety, KO, and then Rachael was just too much.
Now, I'll be rotating KO back into the lineup

[PCIntern]

22. I have mixed feelings

I love Thurber and am pleased to hear him reintroduced
I think that literacy is crucial and this is certainly helpful in promulgating the notion of reading to a group or to children
A whole week of blathering on MSNBC can easily take a few minutes of humor and originality

But,

KO's not the best reader by a longshot
We've all lost parents (and worse) and working out our (un)complicated bereavement at work was generally disallowed both socially and professionally...this has been a bit much, IMO.

I guess on the whole it's positive, but it leaves me feeling a mite uneasy.

[Change Happens]

23. I love it really......nt

[theophilus]

24. Just another thing I totally disagree with you about. n/t