Liberal YouTubers

But I'm not counting my chickens - since we got redistricted a few years back, we're no longer considered part of the Capital Region (where I was born and my Dad was originally from) - we're now part of the North Country and we're stuck with national embarrassment Stefanik as a Rep. - and she replaced a moderate Democrat who retired.

Though pretty much everyone I know well would do just fine on DU. And I keep in touch with my cousin in Colorado (she and I are the only females of our generation on that side of the family) and she's thinking of moving since she's stuck with Lauren Boebert as her Rep. since the last election.

As for Colbert, that really is a tragedy. I'm a fan of all the late night shows, but Colbert is my favorite, post his monologue and opening every night - and I've been a fan since he was on The Daily Show. It makes no sense that CBS gave in. TFG was invited to that "debate" he's suing over, but it was his choice not to show up. And it's hardly like they changed anything except a few angles. But that's his thing, suing everybody that he disagrees with, and it's CBS's loss.

And I did used to work with CBS - what my company did was provide the TV listings for the newspapers across the country so I got faxes from publicists or kept in touch by phone. And I wrote the descriptions and made recommendations (like for the NY Times). Sometimes I was lucky and got a "screener" so I got to see a show ahead of time.

The 60 Minutes publicist was one of my favorites. And my main news contact was Dan Rather's publicist and I consider firing him to be another terrible decision. He was, and still is, a brilliant newsman.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear that you're hanging in there, but just listening to the news is painful (and often unbelievable) these days. It's shocking that we have a leader with an unprecedented 34 felonies, was convicted of assaulting women and attempted to overthrow the government! I keep thinking that the damage he's doing can't possibly last for 3 more years since it gets worse every day. But it sure does help to have DU where everyone here feels the same way that I do...