CBS Mornings co-anchor John Dickerson on Monday hijacked the usually lighthearted “Talk of the Table” segment to hyperventilate about “Our Democracy” and January 6. Using the Iowa Caucuses as a jumping-off point, Dickerson panicked that the people of Iowa might soon select a candidate who had “attacked the culminating sacrament of the national election in 2020.”
“Talk of the Table” is a recurring segment in which each co-anchor gets a couple of minutes to talk about whatever they choose, be it a funny story, an interesting factoid, or an obscure news item. For example, Nate Burleson’s contribution on Monday was a video of a man who put on an impromptu magic show in a Portland, Oregon cafe.
Dickerson instead kicked off the segment with a clumsy monologue about democracy, complete with weird pseudo-spiritual rhetoric and a heavy dose of…
