Actually, you scrape away the huffy hype (Olbermann) and the potty-mouth silliness (Stewart) and you can still find some good raw data, especially from Maddow. If all I want is mordacity, I could just watch that twitching ganglion of pantophobic apprehension known as Glenn Beck.
I am dying, dying, to see Paul Giamatti play Beck. Perhaps on SNL opposite Tina Fey's Sarah Palin.
But to answer your point, Ten: in a word, yes. But in the parallel universe of untold millions of Americans, Obama is polishing his black leather jackboots, preparing for some overnight Fourth Reich. Go figure.