Televise Cliff Schecter!

Congrats to Cliff for signing his book deal. The subject matter: John McCain. I’m sure McCain is ecstatic about it, though probably not as much as Cliff is.

Atrios writes:

At some point one would hope these outlets would recover their moral center and start living up to the standards they claim to, and in part that will require seeing themselves as a counterweight to the bullshit spewed by the right wing propagandists at outlets such as Fox. Not necessarily an ideological counterweight, though giving a liberal a TV show every now and then wouldn’t be such a bad idea, but a factual one. [Emphasis added]

Hey, I know a liberal who should be given a TV show: Cliff Schecter.

Cliff has taken note of the Televise Cliff! movement and he’s flattered.

A friend of mine, Matt Browner-Hamlin, who blogs here and here, and is one of the more talented bloggers I have come across, decided to set up a site. It’s called Televise Cliff Schecter. He is putting up a petition and poll to try and get me a tv show.

I honestly had nothing to do with it. He emailed and told me about it, and asked if it was ok. I said sure. Very very cool. I am flattered. Well if that were not enough, he wrote a diary for Daily Kos, and with an assist from my pal Mike Stark and our very own, very awesome Paddy who are like Gods over there, it has been recommended.

I don’t know what to say but thanks everyone. Oh yeah, and one more thing.

Suck ass during SOTU tonight Bush!

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Please take the poll in the sidebar that asks: Would you watch a TV show hosted by Cliff Schecter? I know I would.

You can also take the poll at Lucky Polls.

Cliff Schecter is one of the most compelling, captivating Democratic figures on TV news stations. His smackdowns of Republican talking heads are the stuff of legend around the liberal blogosphere. He practically owns YouTube.

Cliff deserves to be given his own political news show on cable television. Cliff would be a jolt of electricity to any network and his clarity and conviction would surely garner huge ratings in a news environment starved of serious liberal voices.

Please spread the word. If you know TV execs, demand that they put Cliff on TV.

This site arises out of the tradition of the Draft Clark, Draft Gore, and Draft Obama movements. It is my hope that with enough grassroots pressure, Cliff will be given his own show.