Can we start a "Fantasy News Team" league? that would be fun

[PretzelWarrior]

you could have a draft at the beginning of say....political season in spring of 2006 when primaries are happening.

Each person could draft a main anchor, an analyst or two, a side kick, a weather person, someone at the newsdesk....

then throughout the political season if they say things like "Horse Race" 2 ponts. or "worst political smear job of all time" 3 points or "okay...well Mr. President, I'm sorry to interrupt our interview, but I'm gonna go live to Britney Spears' cat who has been stuck in an elm tree for over 2 days!" 10 points.

seems the teams for news coverage are quite interchangeable and it's becoming quite the bidding war for vacuous news readers

[brainshrub]

1. Jon Stuart as lead anchor.

[NewJeffCT]

2. main anchor - Keith Olbermann

Analysts: John Podesta, Center for American Progress for the moderate; Lowell Weicker for the Republican; & Noam Chomsky for the left...

[PretzelWarrior]

3. seems like we all like funny anchormen. ABC should get Lewis Black

to do Nightline. Now THAT would be good.

[mcctatas]

4. Maureen Dowd

and we could do an Hannity and colmes in reverse with Mike Malloy for the dems, and some mild mannered repuke to try and balance the conversation...(is there such a thing as a mild mannered repuke?).

[crispini]

5. this is brilliant.

organize it! and I'll play. But you need to give minus points for the boring stuff and bonus points for the fun ones. Like, +10 every time your WH correspondent takes a bite outta Scotty McClellan. oh, and dibs on David Gregory! :7

Seriously, make it a fantasy cable network and you have to fill two hours of primetime or something. you should SO do this!

[MetaTrope]

6. Pull Walter Cronkite

away from his journalism school for a bit.