PBS coverage was pretty good, I though babbling Brooks was ready to vote Dem & Shields has certainly been on-line for a while as he's grown alot better informed & fiesty, it's a pleasure to watch him. The panel of historians was soporific (doesn't Bechloss remind you of a grown Eddy Haskell?), the exception being the Norton guy, who's quirky & always fun to watch
The low/high moment came with intollerably smug & cynical Gwen Ifill on the floor interviewing a woman who was, I believe the head of the Dade County delegation. Ifill asked if she could now laugh about Florida 2000 debacle -- the delegate looked sort of shocked & said no, then clearly told Ifill that the disenfranchisement of voters was not something to laugh about. Ifill should have been shamed, but instead followed up with some question about what "you believe happened" as if the disenfranchisement was just some conspiracy believed by the delegate. Rarely has the smugness of the SCLM been so contrasted with people like those on this site who take these things seriously.
Later, when Ifill interviewed Rahm Emmanuel, she mentioned how the Democratic Party had lost its way over the last 12 years.....Emmanuel asked, "over the last 12 years?" incredulously & looked at here like she was really really stupid, then caught himself & went back into interview mode.
In my book, Ifill runs a close second for creepy idiot media star of the public airwaves.