Quick thought.

I watched Face The Nation and a bit of Meet The Press today. 

Same people, same memorized talking points.

Both Repubs and Dems.

The Dems are running a somewhat real campaign. As real as you can while the Repubs are running a campaign based entirely on lies. There isn't a single truthful thing in their repetoire. It's all a con. 

But that's not the thought.

The thought is this. Why do the networks let these people do this?

The shows are completely useless. 

I can see why they might want DJ Trump or even Hillary, they're at least entertaining and draw viewers, but the rest of them? Pointless aggravating bullshit. Not. Entertaining.

Why don't they scratch the whole thing and start over. Get rid of the roundtables of news people too. Get some people who know something about something and have nothing at stake so they might say something interesting or useful.

Or...

The only other option is to have a second screen with a running commentary from experts talking about the lies in real time as they're speaking them.

I tried that the other day during Trump's "press conference" where he supposedly repented for being the Birther-in-Chief. I didn't watch the actual show. I just watched what people were saying about it on Twitter. Not only didn't I miss a thing, but it was much more interesting. And a lot more entertaining! The press people were pissed. I like to see them get real, even if only on Twitter.

A famous ad guy once said to a presenter who had his notes on the back of the ad that he should just flip it around. The second screen is where the action is. That's where the news happens. The second screen is where the truth shows up?

Just a thought.

PS: I had to buy a domain to go with this. As usual I have no idea what I'll do with it, if anything. 

PPS: There's no doubt Twitter gets this, that's what they're doing with the NFL. But we kind of need this now for the politics. ;-)