Toward the dismal end of his career, "shock comedian" Lenny Bruce drifted away from his routine and started regaling his audiences with court proceedings, testimony, and newspaper clippings....and his audience ran away from him. He was so doped up and lost in the high weeds that his run-ins with the law became the obsessive material that he talked about on stage. In the end he was just a miserable little leftist all alone with his delusions of relevancy and became an overnight has-been.

This is the road that Mr. Maddow is on....lost in the high weeds and frankly, no one is listening anymore.