Adding insult to injury, the still-unnamed Saturday night program, which debuts next month, will appear on the cable network opposite McLaughlin in the Washington market. Barnes, executive editor of the Weekly Standard, and Kondracke, executive editor of Roll Call, are the latest to defect from McLaughlin, the high-decibel former priest who essentially invented the shout show in 1982. Both prognosticators were already Fox contributors. But at some point you want to go out and do a show of your own. We won't be doing a show on how the IMF guidelines affect Indonesia.
Business is business.
The Thursday tragedy was also carried live by a half-dozen L.A. stations, some of which have apologized for not cutting away. I regret that we didn't take it live. I think we should have.