Hillary Clinton, Republican TV Star

When I heard that Alec Baldwin might be hosting a weekly show on MSNBC, I was delighted: Maybe I wouldn’t have to catch reruns of “30 Rock” to get my Baldwin fix. Let’s hope he doesn’t take any anger-management classes before he starts.

My second thought was that this rumor, if true, will further prove Reince Priebus’s point. Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, made the rounds last week with the usual conservative complaint about media bias. The networks are mixing entertainment and news, he says -- Brian Williams making frequent cameos on NBC sitcoms, Tina Fey as Sarah Palin playing on a seemingly endless loop on NBC News. This fusion benefits Democrats, because the entertainment-industrial complex tends toward the liberal.