Network Sunday Morning Shows Still A Platform For Old, White GOP Guys

Mediaite has the stats, first presented by Steve Benen on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. Shockingly, the majority of guests on the big networks’ Sunday morning political talk shows are overwhelmingly white, old, male, and Republican:

Coming in at #1, with a total of 27 visits to the Sunday shows is House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI), who spent most of the year arguing on behalf of the NSA. … Close behind Rogers was perennial favorite Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) with 25 visits. The Democrat who placed highest on the list was Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), who tied for third with former Speaker Newt Gingrich. At #11, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was the only non-white guest with more than 10 appearances, and at #13, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) was the only woman. The average age of the top six people on the list is 66.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.