Deliberate Convention Planning Or Jungian Synchronicity?

You make the call! Nathan Goulding posts photos from both parties’ conventions. Near the top of the album is a photo with this caption:

MSNBC’s booth right next to Al Jazeera’s. Think RNC planners did this intentionally?

That whole media row on the west side of the Xcel Energy City was a wretched hive of old media infamy. While ideologically the networks housed in those booths moved from establishment liberal to very far left, in terms of skybox placement, the lineup ran from right to left as follows:

• CNN, Saddam Hussein’s favorite shills.
• CBS, home of Ra^therGate.
• Channel 9 Action News–OK, we’ll let them slide.
• And then Al Jazeera and MSNBC.

As I joked to Roger Simon on the day before the convention began and we first saw the lineup in the convention hall (and somewhat presciently in retrospect), if Keith Olbermann gets the boot mid-convention, he can simply walk next door and feel right at home. Hey, good enough for David Frost, good enough for Keith!