{"id":2074,"date":"2007-02-17T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/02\/wow-tom-shales-didnt-hate-the.html"},"modified":"2007-02-17T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T09:29:00","slug":"wow-tom-shales-didnt-hate-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/02\/wow-tom-shales-didnt-hate-the.html","title":{"rendered":"Wow!  Tom Shales didn&#8217;t hate the &#8220;1\/2 Hour News Show&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/02\/16\/AR2007021602098.html?referrer=email\">It&#8217;s<\/a> a practically glowing review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All that aside, &#8221; 1\/2 Hour&#8221; definitely has its moments. Anchors &#8220;Jennifer Lange&#8221; and &#8220;Kent McNally&#8221; (Jenn Robertson and Kurt Long &#8212; why didn&#8217;t they just use their real names?) sit at a simple desk and deliver the facetious items without any of the dreadful, overboard mugging and mincing of &#8220;Daily Show&#8217;s&#8221; obnoxious Jon Stewart.[&#8230;]But those on the left anticipating, and probably hoping for, some kind of ghastly disaster will be disappointed &#8212; and may even feel like joining in the (apparently canned) laughter more times than they&#8217;d expect. In a nutshell: It isn&#8217;t terrible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He thought Rush was mechanical, which I did as well.  I couldn&#8217;t even finish watching the video because it was so dull.  Judge for yourself:<object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3WCNc7JZ24k\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3WCNc7JZ24k\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\">We live in amazing times when Shales would find it passable but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingnews.com\/mt331\/2007\/02\/give_the_12_hour_comedy_hour_a_1.php\">some on the right have panned it<\/a>.<\/object><\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/1\/2+hour+news+hour\" rel=\"tag\">1\/2 hour news hour<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Rush+Limbaugh\" rel=\"tag\">Rush Limbaugh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Shales\" rel=\"tag\">Shales<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/video\" rel=\"tag\">video<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a practically glowing review: All that aside, &#8221; 1\/2 Hour&#8221; definitely has its moments. 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