1. Comcast is not owned by Pirate Rupert…Arrrrrr…although Brian Roberts has been called worse names (See “Big Ten Network”, “NFL network”, etc., etc.)

2. I believe Keith after the marathon he had been involved when the story first broke at 1 AM Saturday morning (8/23) and being on the phone plus anchoring the speech coverage from the main room at 3A, so they decided to ditch the special edition of Countdown all together. Thus, Keith was dispatched to Colorado with Tweety coming in from DC…

And no, Denver is not one of Keith’s eleventy hundred homes.

Yes, I also was disappointed to get a two hour Hardball instead (Slept through most of it).

I had to wonder if as Keith has problems flying they had not changed the schedule after the O’Biden announcement was dropped back several hours and were already driving the Big Guy to Denver.

But the question is — where is Keith?
Wasn’t Countdown suppose to be on tonight? Maybe he was just too pooped…?

I’ll blog about adventures in chimp land soon.

Rachel has her own ad! One of those serious why we are journalists things.

I had already been delighted to see her earlier in the day as a talking head with one line during the expanded version of the MSNBC post Conventions 9.08.08 ad.

I fell asleep and missed Obama, but I heard Biden. That’s what happens when the guy never calls ( sends you the promised email) and you are up all night, waiting by the phone/computer.

I did finally get my email that Barack, who still calls me FRIEND after all we have been through together, had chosen Biden. (I love Chris Matthews starting to call him O’Biden) and it was sent around 6:30 am my time, so 9:30 am EDT, but AOL did not send it on to me until late this afternoon.

Good thing that I had given up my pining away wait by then.

Houstonian. You’re home. Looking forward to the report when you are ready to share.

I am on Qwest cable, and I have had a lot of problems with MSNBC breaking up the digital signal as well, especially when Keith is on. Perhaps it is the “dark forces”, although Rupert is probably a member of that as well.

Here in Houston, MSNBC is almost unwatchable on Comcast — breaking up every few seconds. While many of the other channels on Comcast trips up every now and then, right now Countdown is the worst. Checked other news outlets — no problems.

Ah…Is Comcast owned by Rupert Murdoch?????

The one place I know I have seen it before (and since) is on the ad with Keith’s voice over for the MSNBC conventions coverage with begins as if it is for the Olympics. He is shown several times, and in the first instance, he is wearing this tie. In the second, it is the wide and lovely silver number.

I also suspect that it is the tie he had on during one of the early primary nights when everyone else was in red and blue. I remember that he had on a bright green number which I commented could be seen from outer space and seemed to give a green sheen to both his shirt and the gray in his hair.(If so, it looks lovely in sunlight and not so much so in the studio.)

I do not think that I will ever get tired of the McCain’s mansions and condos and ranches, oh, my, storyline or with the great glee Keith is taking in it all. Eugene Robinson was a perfect straight man for that.

And, I love the graphic with McCain’s face plastered onto the Monopoly Banker, with his empty pockets turned out.

For those of you who had the good sense to be asleep, at least in your far earlier than mine time zones, I am not certain when it started, but MSNBC has been running and then rerunning the same hour of David Shuster with Breaking News as to Biden being the VP choice. (How funny it would have been had that been an AP slip up! But, I just got a post quoting the Obama text message, and while my email from the campaign has not yet arrived, it seems to be true.)

Keith appeared via phone and commented first on the age difference between Obama and Biden (17 years?), which I found a rather amusing topic for him. Keith’s take was that he liked that look, of the older man as advisor. (NO COMMENT, but lots of thoughts.)

His second offering was to immediately bring up the old Biden plagiarism story and to explain it - almost as if he were all prepared with campaign talking points to get that version of the story out.

As that plagiarism charge had been the first concern that came to my mind when I learned that Biden was the nominee, and the McCain camp was already issuing some really nasty crap, I was glad to hear this explanation. Now, let it be true as any of us, giving the same speech over and over, could have forgotten to add a citation for a quote on one occasion.

If I promise to watch ALL of Keith’s appearances on MSNBC during the Democratic convention, which seem to be numerous, does that mean that I can pretend the Republican Convention is a rerun and skip it? Or, would I lose my fan girl creds?