But then watch some prick like O'Reilly and his firing loaded questions and as the guest attempts to answer without falling into the trap the question sets O'Reilly starts with the, "What's the matter? Can't answer the question? Trying to hide something? A simple question. What's with all the stammering? Cat got your tongue? Forget your script? Take your time, we have a half-hour to kill" and that kind of crap.

Colbert will engage in that on a limited basis but you can tell it's just to mock the way RW talk hosts behave and not to badger his guest.

Scarborough also would not accept that Limbaugh lost the Missouri race for the pubs by mocking Michael J. Fox. He would not accept the view that Rove screwed over the GOP by having Bush and Cheney mouth the statements that if you're against them then you're against America and favor the terrorists at a time when most of America was against them.

Scarborough insisted that Limbaugh put a lot of pubs in office in '94 but failed to acknowledge how the pubs could have been so badly whupped last Tuesday if Limbaugh is so great. He insisted Rove wasn't finished and that pubs would be "lining up down the block" to have him work on their campaigns. Once again, he failed to acknowledge the glaringly obvious: Then why aren't they?

There was a time when the Limbaughs, the Hannitys, the Coulters and the O'Reillys were considered entertaining and informative. Now they are seen as callous, idiotic blowhards with all the sensitivity of a discarded toilet seat. Stewart and Colbert are the new breed now and it is obvious both left and right are watching and no longer finding the others worth a shit. The more they get ignored, the worse they behave and the worse they behave, the less their own fan base finds them watchable.

Scarborough is the most palatable of them but he too leaves a lot to be desired. It's only a matter of tiem before he turns on Limbaugh just as he turned on his own president once he realized the guy was his own worst enemy.