is morally wrong yet it gets tremendous ratings and makes their employer and them obscene amounts of money. Sometimes, Americans forget that it's a game and money making machine first.

So I'm with you.

It is, as you astutely write, the "inflammatory" nature of the rhetoric that is disturbing, meant to get people riled up. I'm sure these talking heads laugh at times at how powerful they can be and they let it go to their head, becoming drunk with "power."

So, you humbly call it "JMO," but it's fact-based evidence too.