Still, what I watched on MSNBC on Friday is beyond thought, beyond endurance.

Hardball has a new weekly feature - the Hardball All-Stars; Original, no?

The last segment of each Friday will feature "them," in a summary of the most significant happenings of that week, for instance, the losers and the winners, who's up and who's down; original, no? That, plus commentary identifying which stories strike the All-Stars and their master of ceremonies, that "Tweety" guy we've come to know and loathe, as being worthy objects of their gossip. Here's how they are described on Hardball’s homepage::

We have gathered together some of the strongest voices in politics today for their take on the hot news of the day.

Here's who was on this Friday’s panel: Joe Scarborough, Rita Cosby, and Tucker Carlson. Yeah, right, MSNBC went far and wide to gather those All-Star voices together on one spectacular panel. There remains the question of what makes them the strongest "in politics today," other than the fact that MSNBC has parked each of them on a prime hour of cable real estate five days a week, and whether or not their perceived "strength" is based on anything other than that fact, making the MSNBC lineup, with the exception of Keith Olbermann, on occasion, the journalistic equivalent of the Gabor sisters, famous for being famous, and little else, (with, to be fair, the possible exception of "Eva.")

Do I really need to tell you who the losers are here? That's right, it’s us, all of us. The American public, the American nation, the very idea of America, the very idea of the nation, anything good this country has ever stood for in its own view and the view of other nations, American journalism, the American mind, not an iota of an iota of which was on display on Friday’s Hardball, but then when isn’t that true on MSNBC? On copious display was the seemingly preternatural inability of this group of overpaid twits to accurately provide even the elementary facts of any story they touch.

Not that you didn't know that, either

I’ll bet you can figure out who the loser of the week was, too? Yeah, that’s right, and we do mean winger right.