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Dec 10 2008 9:46am EDT

Save Jack Shafer's Life: Ban David Broder

Slate's Jack Shafer has some good advice for incoming Meet the Press host David Gregory. Here's the best part:

Get rid of the Russert regulars. Who hasn't heard enough from James Carville and Mary Matalin by now? Hasn't plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin run out of gas? Doesn't William Safire phone it in? Can't NBC do the right thing and give Andrea Mitchell her own show? And why does the mere sight of David Broder, Bob Shrum, E.J. Dionne, or Peggy Noonan on television make me want to kill myself?

(Note: Shafer's suggested catchphrase -- "That's three and you're out" -- is not among the good advice. It's just kind of strange.)

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