Sobriety, rants and ratings

Olbermann and Matthews get canned from MSNBC's political coverage because they're boring?

Yeah. Sure. I can see that. Dead last in the ratings and all.

Also, there's the part about the new guy:

The network announced Monday that Olbermann and Chris Matthews have both been booted as co-hosts on political night coverage in favor of David Gregory, whose White House press corps experience may make him better suited to deliver sober and less opinion-driven assessments of the news.

I'm sorry, did you say 'sober' and 'less opinion-driven'? 'Cause I thought you said they were boring.