The Chicago Tribune has a piece about MSNBC today and the challenges MSNBC faces in combining news and opinion. It ends with this:

Olbermann, a former ESPN sportscaster, said it is “nonsensical” that “either you are a color guy or a play-by-play guy.” But he admitted that the format presents some “real head-scratchers. … Some of it is subtle, like can I do a ‘Special Comment’ on Monday and anchor primary coverage on Tuesday?” Griffin tries to navigate those issues daily, reminding the staff: “I want analysis; I don’t want feelings.”

Yes, it’s a real head-scratcher to wonder if it’s proper to insinuate that George Bush is a Nazi and then anchor primary coverage.

And I wonder if Griffin’s “I don’t want feelings” has anything to do with, in the words of Brian Williams, that “feeling Chris gets up his leg when Obama talks.”