I used to watch her because she's bright, articulate and has good researchers that dig up exclusives all the time, and also has good guest interviews. But after the election I finally gave up, because it takes her about five minutes to say what she could have said in about 30 seconds. And while she's dragging the point out painfully slowly, she repeats what is essentially the same thought over and over using only slightly different language to say the same thing. Really annoying.

I don't know, maybe they feel they don't have enough material to fill an hour, so they have to pad everything with repetitive, long-winded jabbering. That has ruined the show for me. At first I tried to fast-forward through it, but then it was hard to figure out when she was done with one thought and starting another thought. So I just gave up.

I fear that Lawrence O'Donnell is now starting to adopt the same technique, so I'll probably have to drop him as well. I wish the producers at MSNBC could get them to stop doing that. It's not suspenseful, it's just bad journalistic technique. If these monologues were newspaper articles, the editor would have slashed red lines through most of it to get it down to a reasonable length--and if it continued, the writer would be fired.