Reply #34: I've always thought Rachel Maddow was the most informative of those shows

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She has an obvious (and declared) political bias, but after making her case she often brings on a right-leaning guest to give the other side of the story. And unlike many of those other shows, she doesn't talk over them and lets them actually finish talking before she argues them. It's the closest thing to actual genuine debate on cable news, IMO.

I definitely agree with you about Keith Olbermann and Lawrence O'Donnell kind of just being echo chambers for liberals (I haven't watched MSNBC regularly since a good bit before Keith left so I don't even follow who is on anymore). But I always found Rachel Maddow to be completely different and probably the most informative thing on cable news.

As far as Tweety goes, he just provides a forum for people to shout at each other and cut each other off, hence "Hardball". Just because he claims to be non-partisan, doesn't make his show informative. Jon Stewart very rightly pointed this out when he went on Crossfire and pretty much single-handedly got the show canceled. Having both sides represented on a show isn't informative if all they are doing is just yelling party talking-points at each other.