We Wave to the `Lamestream' Media

The crowd was waving, applauding, smartphoning photos, shouting to space.  We wondered what the fuss was.  Fresh out of the Bloomberg forum, we were not used to such frenzy. The crowd was oohing and aahing the Hardball guys from MSNBC, better known in Republican circles as the "lamestream media".  Kind of lame description...there is news and then there is opinion.  When they are mistaken for fact, that's lame. Luckily Miryam and I know the difference...we waved to Chris Mathews on the MSNBC studio stage, just below a restaurant-bar called Whiskey River, owned by NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chris waved back (in our direction) and seemed to mouth the words "Hey Homey, Whazzup??"  He then proceeded to sit down and have his hair done before the show started.  We could not stay to listen because we were hungry and the skies were clouding up.  Time to move on down the road in Uptown. In any case, if we try to give equal time to all the news media in town -- more than 15,000 crews in all -- we would literally end up lame from all the hiking.