MSNBC - Part 22

I haven't tuned in since inauguration day, because everything has been relatively peaceful.

It's so nice not to have to witness the "atrocity of the day," but I guess it's bad for MSNBC since viewership must be down.

AT least Maddow remains the most watched cable news host (12th day in a row as of today - Jan 26)

The other thread is paywalled. :o(

I can't believe that the Morning Joe panel i still talking about Trump. lol

Well, they're talking about the continued and inexplicable shadow of Trump over the Republican party.

One of the topics this morning, for example, was how GOP members in Massachusetts are seeking to censure Charlie Baker over his support of the Trump impeachment.

Jen Psaki on Rachel tonight!

Rachel has been killing it with high profile interviews lately.

What’s Clint Watts’ story? Gay?

Here we go again. Ari is asking Bill Gates about Lil Wayne.

I want someone on SNL to impersonate Ari.

Just bring random stuffy old white politicians in and demand they provide their thoughts on WAP or something.

I always thought that Clint (so hot!) Watts was gay. He, at least, seems like the perfect metrosexual. But I just started following him on Instagram and his home and surroundings look so.....straight guy in a man cave. I was really surprised and a little disappointed. I guess he might still be gay but he's not giving any hints on Insta.

DAVID HOGG on with Joy tonight!

What in the hell was Jen Psaki wearing today???

It was FLAMING pink!!

With huge turquoise beads, R12! Redheads have to be careful with colors, but she should have learned how by now.

Sexy daddy Jason Crow is coming up on Lawrence’s show to talk shit about Marjorie Taylor Greene and discuss her expulsion

Rep. Jason Crow is fucking hot! He has a nasally voice but damn he looks like he could deliver a nice hard fuck.

Rep. Crow dragging pencil neck hillbilly Tom Cotton

Would someone post on the Part 21 thread that they are paywalled and please fill out the last 16 posts and move here?

What’s a paywall?

Thank you r 585 on the 21 thread.

R18:

Data Lounge 101

Data Lounge/Mediaopolis is a for profit subscription website.

It allows us poor, old Paleo Gays to generally post for free except for two occurrences.

1] An entire thread is placed on member only posts. The circumstances for a particular thread being PAYWALLED change but only paid subscribers can post.

2] During periods decided by Red M, only subscribers can post. Practically all of last week was PRIME TIME.

Also, r18, when a thread goes behind the Mediaopolis PAYWALL, there are some nonpaying members who can START THREADS.

This is how a MSNBC Part 21 thread that is paywalled, begets a MSNBC Part 22 thread. Sometimes it is a 21A thread that is up until the original thread hits 600 and we all move to a new Part 22.

Just ways of dealing.

Gad, r 586 on the other thread does not know that you have to post brief posts to use up the 600 to end the thread.

Thread Closed is a Karen move.

Omg, Jen Psaki's press briefings are over an hour long!!!

So boring.

I can't believe that MSNBC would devote over an hour of air time to a lot of "filler" information.

Jen always seems to be "winging it" on her answers.

I don't normally like Stephanie Ruhle, but her CNBC creds really do come in handy when talking about news like the GAMESTOP story.

She really knows her business "stuff."

I would love to see George or Kellyanne Conway become commentators for MSNBC.

That would be fun.

How can you not like Stephanie Ruhle? She's sharp and good at questioning guests.

[quote]Jen always seems to be "winging it" on her answers.

Jen Psaki is a big fan of saying that she’ll “circle back” when she doesn’t know how to answer something.

[quote]I would love to see George or Kellyanne Conway become commentators for MSNBC.

No. Chronic liars like Kellyanne belong on Fox.

No. Chronic liars like Kellyanne belong under the dirt.

If Jen Psaki seems like she's "winging it" it's because she is. She's not reading from a script. She doesn't know what questions will be asked, though I suppose some of them are predictable. Nevertheless, she's doing it in real time in front of the world watching. I can't believe how poised and composed she is.

And I love that she and the Biden administration are not hiding anything in these press conferences. When she doesn't know an answer or is unable to confide or reveal something, she admits it. It's about as transparent as can be.

[quote]Rep. Jason Crow is fucking hot! He has a nasally voice but damn he looks like he could deliver a nice hard fuck.

Jason is my dream man. His wife is so fucking lucky.

Fine, R29.

But Jen should at least try to get some of the questions in advance so that she can research them, and won't look so ill-prepared.

Rachel is doing a great show tonight.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yes! I’m loving Rachel read what the DC judge said about that hillbilly who sat in Nancy’s office chair, smiling, while wearing a stun gun attached to a walking cane.

Love that the DC judge reversed the Arkansas judge’s decision to release this prick on his own recognizance.

The DC judge threw them in jail today until his trial date. Sayonara, fuck-face. LOL

R33, I also love that 200 Congressional staff members wrote a letter to the Senate urging them to convict Dump. That should be getting as much attention as the media is giving to that Q psycho cunt, Taylor Greene.

Funny, I switched Rachel off. What the judge said in one guy’s bail hearing just isn’t that important.

Fuck off, Deplorable QMAGAT R35.

You should be in jail, yourself. ASSHOLE!

Though I'm not a huge fan of "reader's theatre".. Rachel's reporting on the bail revocation was "must-see" TV. That judge really let the defendant and his attorney have it. I love it when Rethuglicans get served a big hot steamy plate of comeuppance, with a side of "you're so fucked."

I never understand the love for Rachel. I can't watch her. She is SO pretentious. All she does is reads what is on screen accompanied by long, pseudo-dramatic, pauses and eye blinking for effect. I also don't think she is a particularly good interviewer. Both Anderson and Brianna Keilar over on CNN are far better.

Has big and buff Chris Hayes fixed his hair yet?

Tiffany Cross is awful She just laid into Tony Scaramucci for being an opportunist, which is two years too late and a dollar short. She provoked a fight and he seized the bait and it was just cringy. Her fan base saw this as "you go girl" but I need another Saturday morning talk show while I sit in bed sipping coffee.

Stephanie Rhule, on air, questioned if Lindsey Graham was being blackmailed by Trump/Russia. That was a couple of years ago. Right-wing and Russian publications attacked her as being homophobic.

She nailed it, though. I like her show. She is very good on economics reporting.

R38, as a long time fan who has watched her less and less these days, I would blame her editor.

I will forever long for MSNBC pre-Trump. When Rachel was at her best. Creative freedom, niche journalism, and tough questions. The arrogance was funnier when it was unique satire....

[quote]But Jen should at least try to get some of the questions in advance so that she can research them, and won't look so ill-prepared.

Many of the questions are stupid, especially all of the ones that come from FOX.

Jen Psaki is not ill-prepared. She's not an actress regurgitating a pre-approved script.

Tiffany is just another race baiting protege of Joy Reid. She was also pretty rude to Tim Ryan this morning in regards to his potential senate run. Bringing everything back to race, implying a white man shouldn’t run, and asking why he thinks it’s smart to try to appeal to white working class voters. BITCH. He put her in her place tho and destroyed her argument.

Yasmin is fucking annoying.

Saw the Mooch segment again. She set up an ambush but he did not handle himself well. Nicole Wallace had Chris Christie on and devastated him by saying he was trying to wash the Trump stink off of himself. It was not a set-up. She spoke her piece and the interview moved on. Tiffany was doing a ratings grab that she and her producers obviously dreamed up. She could have attacked the Trump defectors MSNBC regularly has on and lionizes but that wouldn't wash. . She could have had on Omarosa and tried that tactic, but Omarosa would have ripped her a new one. Scaramucci is low-hanging fruit. Also, he's eager to appear on TV to promote his new cryptocurrency hedge fund. He'd show up for the opening of an envelope, as they say.

I think hiring her was as bold a move as giving a show to Melissa Harris Perry. Both women have very little use for white people and are more comfortable communicating to a Black, primarily female audience. I respect MSNBC's programming choice and will turn the channel off as soon as Ali Velshi is done and back on for Rev Al, Alicia Mendez and Joshua Johnson.

It’s about time that someone drags The Mooch for the exact reasons that Tiffany did. He’s full of shit.

Yeah, I was gonna say....are we now defending The Mooch? If Tiffany has scared him off from any more MSNBC appearances, I'd be fine with that.

She was incredibly rude to him. Like R47 said, it was a set up for her to pander to the “yas queen” Twitter crowd. She came off as immature and a poor interviewer. I won’t be watching her show again. She’s extremely combative with any white man right off the bat.

The Mooch is no hero, but Tiffany’s behavior was uncalled for and her subsequent tweets just prove that her and her team cooked the whole thing up ahead of time.

I also don’t think it went the way she wanted it to go. I’ve seen far more support for him than her on Twitter.

me too. they saying she is crass and unprofessional. agreed even before this segment. She hates White People.

Who doesn't hate White People?

Have to change my opinion now that I've watched the clip. Tiffany was incredibly rude to Scaramucci. And she really wasn't able to make whatever point she was trying to make. But I especially disliked how she wouldn't listen to him and answer his sincere questions.

The worst possible thing she could do to him is speak. Her voice should be registered as a deadly weapon. She could torture people in Guantanamo Bay with that thing.

Agree, R55.

The voice alone is the stuff of nightmares! I bailed five minutes into her first show. No, thanks, I have a better use for two Saturday morning hours.

how long before TIF gets let go?

Tiffany and to a lesser degree, Joy Reid, are primed to do battle with many white males who are not woke enough to suit. Sometimes uncalled for, usually unprofessional. Joy, overall, is a better interviewer and manages to control herself. Tiffany is all "black girl magic" and that just doesn't cut it.

However, the treatment many black political figures have gotten for decades is just not being given an opportunity to speak. They were not even given the opportunity to be challenged. Think back over the prior ten years, black guests were usually those who passed the acceptable to whites test. The networks trotted out big names in civil rights, who knew not to antagonize whitey.

Jonathan Capehart has Alex Padilla on. He's so handsome!

Jon also had La Belle HOGG on earlier, looking casual in blue.

Awesome show this morning!

Is Jonathan having issues reading the teleprompter or what? His verbal stumbling on today’s show was too much.

I think that Jonathan was dickmatized by having the very cute David Hogg on his show this morning.

Is Maddow still crying?

Well r61, that makes sense. After all, David Hogg is white.

Adam Kinzinger was on with Katy Tur today, and he looks like shit!

The Deplorables must be taking a toll on his looks.

Chris is irritating.

Someone please tell me what in the fuck is in the background of NBC's Kerry Sanders house?

Look at it!! It looks like a fucking junkyard!

I'm assuming that he has a collection of "antiques" that he's trying to show off, but it looks like crap.

Absolute CRAP.

Why is Rachel broadcasting from her home? Lord, has she been exposed to COVID again?

r67, she was snowed in.

R67, she said she was snowed in, which is why she did her broadcast from home.

Thank you r68 and r69.

I know Rachel Maddow lives in Mass, but I thought she stayed at an apartment in NYC during the week while broadcasting from NBC's studio. I did see on DL that the apartment was for sale recently, so maybe now she commutes to/from Mass daily and was snowed in at home in Mass? If she was snowed in at NYC, those blizzards are worse than I realized.

Does the job really require that Rachel be in studio?

She could have come back to New York before the storm. It was not a surprise.

Is it now considered appropriate to wish people “Happy first day of Black History Month” as a guest did on the 11th Hour? Do we wish others happiness on every day of the month? Or just the first, the ides and the last?

Mittens is just another American oligarch just like Shady Godiva from Georgia.

Peter Alexander is so fine to me, I wanna be his dirty little secret...

Wow, seems like viewership for MSNBC has gone WAY down ever since Biden was inaugurated.

I couldn't find anything about MSNBC's ratings drop, but I did find this . . .

Everybody’s number 1: CNN overall, Fox in prime time, MSNBC in weekday prime time.

Rachel #1 overall.

[quote] It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life. And I'm feelin' good..

Hallelujah!

I'ze a born again!

why is jason johnson on all the tome?

Cabinet Minister Pete will be on The Reid Out tonight! Please watch so we can then discuss and analyze possible hostilities on Joy's part.

Will be interesting to see how Joy joins the Secretary Pete train. Will it be graceful and gracious, or awkward and self serving?

Suck it, haters:

"Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell Continue to Eviscerate Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham"

R83, she doesn't have to join his train.

She just needs to ask pertinent questions and be professional.

It's an interview, not a rally.

I think everybody thought that CNN and MSNBC would see a drop in their ratings post-Trump, but it's been just the opposite. It's surprising that Fox is the one who saw the big drop. In the past, Fox saw an increase in viewership during the Clinton and Obama presidencies.

I think were seeing a cultural realignment across cable news and social media.

Fox viewer are tuning into Newsmax and OAN.,,,how low budget

[quote] why is jason johnson on all the tome?

Does he actually teach any courses at Morgan State? Or is he a professor in name only? What's the deal with all of the "professors" who seem to spend all their time talking on the cable news shows?

[quote] Cabinet Minister Pete will be on The Reid Out tonight!

Why in the hell would one of his first interviews as Cabinet Secretary be with this DISGUSTING homophobe????

Of all the shows on MSNBC, he goes on THIS ONE?

Did MSNBC force him to do it?

There are so many other shows he could have appeared on, whose hosts have actually treated him WELL, and who have not made bigoted comments about gays.

Somehow, I knew that with MSNBC's "new leadership" (you know what I'm talking about), that Joy would get preferential treatment over veteran hosts.

I'm so fucking sick to hear about this. She doesn't deserve this interview.

I really don't think Pete could be "forced" to appear on any particular news show. In any case, I admire him going on with a host who isn't perhaps enamored of him. It will certainly make for a more lively discussion.

And I'd be embarrassed for Pete appearing with Ari and not getting Ari's rap references.....at least Pete knew not to appear there, lol.

[quote]Does he actually teach any courses at Morgan State? Or is he a professor in name only? What's the deal with all of the "professors" who seem to spend all their time talking on the cable news shows?

This is not a fair criticism to make against Johnson or any of the other professors unless you're also going to make it against all the newspaper reporters from WaPo, NYT, Axios, Politico, etc. who also appear on these shows regularly. How can Ashley Parker, Phil Rucker, Michael Schmidt, Carol Leonnig, Jake Sherman, David Corn, etc. ever find the time to research and write stories for their respective news outlets when they're always showing up on MSNBC and CNN every day and night? They all must have ghost writers who cover their real jobs so they can constantly be on TV.

Joy isn’t a homophobe. Just because she (correctly) called Pete out for not knowing or caring about black people doesn’t make her a homophobe.

I love Jonathan Lemire but he's on MSNBC so much I'm surprised they haven't offered him his own show.

r92, a lot of queens are stuck on some homophobic tweets she made years ago. She has owed up to it and apologized, ON AIR. Most diverse minded people, and the LGBTQ+ community, has forgiven her, including me and her openly gay good friend Jonathan Capehart. Some queens, including some of these DL bitches, can’t let it go.

Dear homosexuals,

I am so sorry that someone hacked into my blog and edited my past writings to suggest that I believe you are child-predators. I hope the FBI tracks down the bastard. I’m also sorry if those words (which were not mine) offended anyone. In any case, now that I have this gig on a progressive network, some of my best work friends are homosexuals. And, even though I never said it, rest assured thatI don’t think that way any more.

So—we’re good?

Love, Joy

R95 is EXACTLY the way it happened.

That's not a fucking apology.

Tim Miller, BABY, please do something about that hair. It’s a mess. Do better! Shower maybe?

It's Nicolle's birthday today. Claire McCaskill holds up a slice of cake with a single lit candle. Claire admits that the cake was for her husband's birthday this past Monday.

Who manages still to have any cake left on Thursday that was baked on Monday?!

Pete was on Joy's show in the past month. I was a very civil interview. I think it is good for Pete to be seen regularly on shows that slant to the Black/African American population. He has his OWN work that needs to be done.

If Pete can go on Fox, h can go toe-to-weave with Joy.

Since when is Angela rye on msnbc? Is joy inviting all her racist friends on? Good lord

R95 nailed it!

I've been gazing at that cake on Claire's cake stand each day as it gets eaten up. Looks like there's still one slice left for tomorrow.

You all losing your minds yet-Pete is being interviewed by Joy shortly.

Joy is already making Transportation all about race.

Fugly Pete getting airtime. Y'all should be thanking Joy.

Ungrateful old bitches.

[quote] This is not a fair criticism to make against Johnson or any of the other professors unless you're also going to make it against all the newspaper reporters from WaPo, NYT, Axios, Politico, etc. who also appear on these shows regularly. How can Ashley Parker, Phil Rucker, Michael Schmidt, Carol Leonnig, Jake Sherman, David Corn, etc. ever find the time to research and write stories for their respective news outlets when they're always showing up on MSNBC and CNN every day and night? They all must have ghost writers who cover their real jobs so they can constantly be on TV.

The difference is that the reporters like Ashley Parker, Michael Schmidt, etc., go on the cable news shows to talk about the stories they spent all day writing and researching. As for the professors who spend all their time on cable news, I wonder if any of them actually do things like grade papers or reply to student emails. I imagine that they delegate a lot of that work to their TAs or junior faculty colleagues so that they can be cable news stars.

Wow, I did NOT expect Joy Reid to say "You ain't it, Miss Thing!" to Pete Buttigieg! But I'm glad that he laughed it off.

She really is a hateful cunt, R109.

This bitch should have been fired YEARS ago. Fucking homophobic bigot.

I absolutely refuse to watch her show, so I get my information from you guys posting here.

As a college professor at an Ivy League, let me tell you, I teach 6 hours a week (3 classes) provide 4 hours/week of individual student meeting time and I have plenty of time for other activities.

I have questions about some of those doctors that are on every day virtually the every hour. The two Indian women. Do they practice any medicine? They basically live on MSNBC and are always camera ready.

[quote] The two Indian women. Do they practice any medicine? They basically live on MSNBC and are always camera ready.

Rofl! They're THIRSTY!

Do you all not get it? These professional doctors are zooming in from their offices. Stepping away tom sit at their computer for 10 minutes 2 or even 3 times a day is not hard.

[quote] I imagine that they delegate a lot of that work to their TAs or junior faculty colleagues so that they can be cable news stars.

As a former TA, let me tell you profs don't need cable news contracts to offload all grading of term papers, midterms and finals to us grunts.

So good to see Angela Rye on MSNBC.

Trump impeachment #1 prosecutor Dan Goldman was just on MSNBC on ALL IN from his NYC apartment. His apartment is huge, this is a similar shot from earlier that doesn't do it justice, it looked much larger in the interview he did today. Still looks huge.

Goldman is definitely gay. And his apartment is worth many millions.

[quote] Goldman is definitely gay.

Does his wife and five children know?

I don’t know if Daniel Goleman is gay, but I’d like him to be.

*** Goldman

[quote] So good to see Angela Rye on MSNBC.

She has been on CNN on Don Lemon's show quite often.

Dan Goldman has 5 kids? Yikes...

[quote]Does his wife and five children know?

His wife and children are hired actors paid by Hillary Clinton.

Have you seen Goldman when he's interviewed by Katie Tur or Nicolle? He is not gay!

[quote] Have you seen Goldman when he's interviewed by Katie Tur or Nicolle? He is not gay!

Why, was he staring at Katy's huge tits?

I would love the scoop on Andrew Weissmann. Can't find any info on his personal life online.

Mika just mispronounced the word irreparably. Really. Why is she allowed to read - poorly - every morning? She’s like the dim third grader, standing next to her desk struggling through a poem. The other students roll their eyes. The teacher grimaces, then says sadly, ‘Thank you Mika, you may sit down.’

Andrew Weissmann has a different room and a different colored turtleneck for every zoom appearance. He is the very picture of effete. But he's smart, I'll give him that.

Mika really is a horrible reader, R128.

Is it because she's Polish?

Dan Goldman's mother was the grand niece of Levi Strauss. His parents were very well known philanthropists in SF. Must be lots of family money there.

JARED BERNSTEIN is a HOT daddy!

Weissman is married and straight. I went to school with his son. Andrew is a very private person. With his job he has to be.

Daniel Goldman’s wife is scary looking. Annorexic?

While Daniel Goldman looks big, muscular, strong and sexy in that picture.

R135 - does that sentence have a independent clause?

Is Nicolle a tad over-the-top these days? I think so.

I like Nicolle's passion. These are such treacherous times and we need newscasters like her with informed opinions.

Daniel Goldman is fucking rich.

I know this is the MSNBC thread, but I want to happily report that Erin Burnett from CNN just reported that Lou Dobbs’ show has been canceled. You can die now Lou. Just die you scummy Fox News conspiracy theorist.

Please don’t die before coughing up your share of the $2.7 billion libel claim.

Maria Bartiromo and Judge Jeanine need to be shitcanned too.

Nicole is getting annoying, I agree. Her show is the same discussion every day with the same guests. We get it. You’re really sad about what the Republican Party has become. But: spoiler alert Nicole, it was that way when you were in it and lying daily to Americans about the Iraq war and feeding talking points to Sean Hannity. Nicole first pitched her show as the policy wonk with insider experience on how the white house functions. I wish she’d get back to that now that we have a functioning government. Why couldn’t she have devoted a half hour of her show to Biden’s foreign policy speech instead of MTG? Instead it’s the same parade of former republicans trying to grift liberals and lament about the good ol’ days when the GOP used to be about screwing over poor people and perpetual war with Muslims.

I wish she'd do something about her limp, lifeless tresses.

If I were married to Daniel Goldman, five kids would not be enough. You would not be able to pry me off his penis.

interesting trump was good for msnbc.

now these hosts: ari, nicolle, rach are failing.

R146 - Failing?

What part of R78, R79 & R84 went over your head?

Dan Goldman’s on Rachel’s show right now

What an apartment!

It’s 9:52 PM and Daniel Goldman is on Rachel!

Go for guys

Rachel Maddow Sells Manhattan Apartment for $2.3 Million

While I don't think these net worth sites are real reliable this one says that Goldman is worth $4 million. Daniels middle name is Sachs as is his mothers. Sachs Goldman, Goldman Sachs. It doesn't say if there is a connection.

Per the link, Goldman's paternal ancestors include Walter A. Haas (pres. of Levi Strauss & Co.) and Abraham Haas (a founder of Smart & Final groceries) -- but no background is given for his mother (whose maiden name was Sachs). The site also says that he's been married twice: "In 2002, he married Olympic diver and Canada native, Anne Montminy; they divorced in 2004. In 2013, he married Corinne Levy. They have had five children as of 2019."

It’s time for cable news to die and be replaced by actual news. MSNBC can’t live 24/7 on what shit Trump did today and should hire hire more actual reporters.

They also will have to cover Biden in a more balanced way. Once the Trump revolt is finally done.

It also could be Sachs Fifth Avenue money.

Mike Memily is a STAH!

He's not the go-to guy for news on President Biden, and is camped outside the 'Wilmington White House."

What has Mike been doing all this time? I never really heard his name mentioned before this, and now he's everywhere on MSNBC.

Alex Witt is such a frau.

I can't stand her sing-songy voice.

She's hosting on MSNBC right now and had Congresswoman Val Demings on, talking about Trump being denied security briefngs now that he's out of office.

And Alex Witt asked her, "but what if his wife needs protection when they travel? There might be security threats out there!"

FRAU!

She reminds me of this lady...

[quote] It also could be Sachs Fifth Avenue money.

No, it could not.

Goldman’s apartment is not a “net worth of $4million” apartment. I’m sure his net worth is more in the tens of millions.

[quote] Alex Witt is such a frau.

I've posted this before, but of all the MSNBC hosts, I find Alex Witt to be the most fascinating. She's been at MSNBC longer than anyone else -- since 1999, when Bill Clinton was president. Other hosts have come and gone, but Alex Witt has always remained. But she's almost never featured in MSNBC promos and publicity, and she never substitutes for any of the other hosts. And I don't think she does any reporting or anchoring for NBC News (maybe she did in her earlier days). She just breezes in on the weekends to read the news for a few hours, then disappears until the next weekend. A nice gig, I guess.

She's had a long but thoroughly unremarkable career in TV news. There's almost nothing about her on the web, except that she was sued for not repaying a loan from a friend. And apparently she was in a band of suburban hausfraus who called themselves the "Mrs. Robinsons" back in 2001.

Perhaps Goldman's wife has a wealthy family. She was a U of Penn law school grad.

I noticed Goldman’s huge apartment too.

When I do these Zoom things, I always have a neutral/all white background. Have some modesty people!!

I think Dan Goldman is hot af. Would love to know what else he has that's huge.

Jason Johnson is a chunk.

I wish they’d hire some new pundits. The same people over and over again is getting obnoxious. I don’t need to hear from Donna Edwards six times a day.

I hope we will be seeing more of Jill Wine-Banks and her lovely pins during the impeachment trial in the Senate this week.

R128 I heard Mika mispronounce ridicule last week as ree-dick-yuled. Damn, she's dumb.

I would love to see more of Jill on MSNBC, as well as Jonathan Swan. And WEHT Mrs. Betsy Woodruff Swan who used to be a regular talking head?

Alot of this people lose their contract to be contributors.

Think Betsey did.

i'm moist as a snack cake every time Hakeem Jeffries is on

How did Kasie Hunt land the 5am?

Also, thought she was a lesbian?

Still no love for Mike Memily?

How is Phil Rucker talked about here, more than Mike?

Well, his last name is Memoli, for starters, R171...

Mike definitely has the insider scoop with President Biden.

Mike has been covering Biden since his 2007 bid for president. He’s basically the authority on all things Joe.

is mike straight?

he is nerdy cute.

Mike Memoli needs to take the wooden hanger out of his suit coat before he puts it on.

Mike barely has a neck in the pic @ R173

Lol R176.

I was thinking the same thing.

You're mean, R177.

There’s been a handful of CNN pundits who have been appearing on msnbc the past week or so. What’s up with that? Tara Setmayer is on with Nicole right now. Angela rye has been on a few times as well.

Kornacki and his baggy brown dockers at “The Board”on Nicole right now. He’s reporting on the impeachment convict/acquit polling. It looks dismal for a conviction, but in a separate poll, 57%of Americans favor trump being barred from holding any federal office in the future.

Buy some new pants Steve. Geeze....

Those are new pants.

He just happens to have a half dozen others exactly like that pair.

R182 - 😂

R180–if they have books out they can make the rounds

R181 - Ms. Kornacki is not wearing Dockers - those are Gap Palamino Brown jeans (same color as Carhartt jeans) and are all the rage for the budget conscious non-fashion oriented geeks. I think he is just adorable regardless of the jeans/pants/slacks he is wearing.

I was wondering if Steve is a boxers or briefs kind of guy but my guess would be boxers all the way.

Where has Jennifer Rubin been? Saw her tonight on Chris Hayes' show, which was the first time in a very long time.

Axios Alexi Mccammond was engaged in June.

By November she is dating a Biden aide.

Something don’t seem kosher about this timeline.

If you’re up for rubbing one out to DL hottie attorney Daniel Goldman, now is your chance. He’ll be commenting on the trial all day, and I assume all week.

Why the fuck did that ugly ass Chuck Todd have that racist drunk hag Peggy Noonan on earlier today. Did that old bitch apologize for that racist column she wrote about VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris during the presidential campaign? Chuck Todd is the worse. Why hasn’t MSNBC President Sister Girl Rashida Jones fired his ass yet? She has to know that he’s the most unpopular host on MSNBC and has been for awhile.

Lawrence was way too upbeat about the chances of enough repubs to convict Trump last night. He was making it seem like there's a chance it could happen. While I do think it could be more than 5, I will be absolutely shocked if it's more than 7-8 of them

Honorary DLer Michael Beschloss:

Tim Miller and his long luxurious locks, for God’s sake girl what are you thinking???

Wow, the camera just took a wide shot of Katy Tur and she is already VERRRRRRY pregnant.

Tim Miller needs to wash his ass.

I'm surprised no one mentioned that earlier on Morning Joe, Mika misread "expletives" as "explicatives."

R196 - Yeah... Mika has been stumbling through a number of common words lately. Is she reading off a teleprompter or handwritten notes. I limited my time watching MJ as I can't stand Joe Scarface borough - at all! The show does have some good commentators/guests namely Mike Barnicle & Michael Beschloss and to a lesser extent Claire Mikaskil. When Joe S. starts one of his diatribes about 'when I was in Congress' I switch to CNN! Who gives a flyin' Fuck what he did nearly 30 years ago - obviously nothing much since then.

Oh yeah - what's with the 1960's furniture/decor on the last several John Heilemann segments on MSNBC? He is usually in an ultra-contemporary environment. Does he have a time machine or maybe visiting with family/someone who has one of those velvet-roped living rooms that looks brand new but way out of date. Over and out for now!

An MSNBC drinking game could be take a drink every time you hear "that is exactly right" it must be said on MSNBC 100 times a day.

daniel goldman-oh soo sexy.

I want Phillip Mena inside me quite deeply. I just rubbed one out while watching him.

The news (to me, anyway) that creepy Josh Hawley defeated DL saint and honorary Mom Claire McKaskill is highly disturbing. Wassup Missouri?!?

R202 look at the whole area of states. Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arkansas and Iowa. The white majorities there are mostly AWFUL people. Those states have some of the worst congress members

Why is Chuck Rosenberg given a role to voice his opinion on MSNBC? Rosenberg who swore up and down that William Barr could be trusted to be an honorable and decent man?

Stop all the big happy-faced gales of laughter, Nicolle and Joy. Enough! There is nothing funny in these proceedings. CNN strikes the correct notes of reverence and professionalism, MSNBC's girly-girls not so much.

[quote] look at the whole area of states. Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arkansas and Iowa.

Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Arkansas are Republican shitholes. But Missouri and Iowa used to be swing states. Obama won Iowa in both 2008 and 2012.

Horse faced hypocrite Josh Hawley decked himself out in a pair of pressed jeans and a flannel shirt and presented to the voters as a honest, aw shucks country boy, while his campaign roasted Claire McCaskill for (gasp!) gallivanting around in a (horrors!) PRIVATE PLANE! And as we now know, Hawley sucked up to Repug establishment figures like former Senator John "Saint Jack" Danforth, who brought in the big donors.

And the easily led morons of Missouri fell hook like and sinker for this line of crapola. Missouri, once solidly blue (not to mention a longtime history of being a Presidential bellwether state (long gone now!) The rest of the state is chock full of Bible thumping, Walmart shopping, chain smoking, meth cooking Trumpers.

When is MSNBC going to put Andrea Mitchell out to pasture? She is awful. She can't finish half of her sentences in a coherent manner. She is just a dinosaur, not because of age, but because she is so locked in to the past and can't seem to grasp it is 2021, not 2001.

Out to pasture?

She should be sent to the knacker's.

WTF is up with Rachel, twice this week she has featured the prayer from the Senate Chaplin. I don't need to see that crap.

[quote] WTF is up with Rachel, twice this week she has featured the prayer from the Senate Chaplin. I don't need to see that crap.

She made a big deal of thanking people for their prayers when Susan had COVID and said she believes in prayer.

I was surprised to see Morning Joe run a decent length clip from Maddow's show last night when she interviewed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

I've been watching MJ for a few years - or at least the first hour of it - and never do I remember their referencing Rachel's show, especially given the smack-down she gave Joe a number of years back.

josh is a fat mother fucker

Yes, Josh is a big boy. They're obviously shooting his segments from the Hubble Telescope.

R207 I switch to John King at noon. Andrea is too anxiety inducing. I've given up on Joy Reid too. She's obsessed with race. My partner can't stand her either. If she is on the screen, he will leave the room.

Josh is so fat his belt size is Equator

Josh is so fat his blood type is Rocky Road

Josh is so fat......

Josh who?

Josh Dawsey Washington Post

I love how diva Lawrence only works Friday nights when something big is happening during the weekend or following Monday lol. Otherwise he's just too big and Velshi or Tur can fill in

Lawrence may be a bit pompous but he's always on our side. I find him and Rachel to be a good contrast in presentation. I like watching one after the other.

Where did you see Philip Mena, R201??

I haven't seen him on MSNBC in ages!

Lawrence lives in LA. He wants to go home for the weekend.

DANIEL GOLDMAN.

the jewish man of my dreams.

I do not want to see or hear Stuart Stevens on MSNBC again saying how Rob Portman is such a good guy etc. No, he's a piece of shit like the other 42 repub senators who voted to acquit Trump. There is no redemption for any of those 43. This infamous vote will be their legacy

[Quote]Lawrence lives in LA. He wants to go home for the weekend.

Eh? Because satellites between the east and west coasts on MSNBC are as bad as their audio? One fuck up after the other - even in controlled studio environments. It looks like NBC refrains from upgrading MSNBC even on Rachel's coattails

Ari lost his razor again.

Ari always lets it go on the weekend and holidays.

Ari is going to have to worry about going bald soon

Ari just said McConnell was crying Turtle Tears.

Ari said earlier today that he thought the Dems "blew it" on the witnesses. I'm not sure I agree but hope he will expand on this opinion later.

ari + steph

Ari looks hot as hell today...well, most days, but especially today.

Ari's wrong. The Dems could have brought in the ghost of Dump's mother to talk shit about him and those Repugs still would have acquitted. The acquittal had NOTHING to do with the trial and you all know it.

Ari is a lawyer and a cable news host, of course he'd want the witness drama to go on so he could fill his show and lawyer around it.

Any gossip on Ari's love life? I'd love to know what lucky girl got that call from him asking her out for Valentine's night. (Of course, I'd love it more if it was some lucky guy.)

Ari's furry arms.

Ari was married to a writer, but then they divorced.

He then dated “actress” Alexandra Dadario.

R235 wow he looks so old there

[quote] He then dated “actress” Alexandra Dadario.

From Maze Runner?

What’s up with that forehead @R235. Christ, you could land a 747 on it. Ari, bubby.

Snoop Dogg wine, $12 a bottle at Walmart.

I agree that that's not a flattering photo of Ari at all. Imagine if he was just some guy you were chatting with online and he sent you that pic. You might turn him down not knowing what a truly gorgeous man you're giving up.

He looks like he just woke up and is having wine for breakfast.

I want to run my hands over Chris Hayes' chiseled chest, huge biceps, and fluffy styled hair.

That picture of Ari at R235 is my cup of tea really...

Is that a bottle of Thug Rapper red?

ari was cute in 2017 and now what? he used to be the up and coming super star and now he is at the kiddie table for special events. what happened?

[quote] he used to be the up and coming super star and now he is at the kiddie table for special events. what happened?

Wokeness and SJW's happened.

All the young white guys got bumped for AA's and females.

Chris Hayes, Ari Melber? Gone. Replaced with homophobe Joy Reid, Tiffany Cross and Jonathan Capehart.

Now that a black lady is in charge at MSNBC, it'll get even worse.

All black issues, all the time.

I'll probably end up watching CNN from now on. I can't take all this SJW/Woke shit.

Ari may be handsome, but he just doesn't come across as serious journalism to me. He is too enthralled with celebrities to be taken seriously in my opinion. Maybe he would do well as a journalist for Entertainment Weekly.

Ari Melber has "Little Brother Desperate For Attention" energy. His eagerness to be liked and considered cool by the cool kids is hard to watch.

Wigger with a JD energy.

r247, Bye Bitch!

[quote] Ari may be handsome, but he just doesn't come across as serious journalism to me.

And Joy Reid does?

ROFL!!!!!

joy thinks every white person is a racist.

tiff does too!

I’ve noticed that Joy and her protégées have slowly started to take over msnbc. Just an endless parade of race baiters tying absolutely every single thing back to race.

Ari is the chief legal analyst for NBC. During impeachment coverage he was given a few 2 or 3 minute segments. The rest of the coverage was Joy and her 10 minute monologues about how this was all about black people, Nicole Wallace lamenting about how much she misses the Republican Party of days past, and the same handful of woke “contributors” who say the same thing every time they’re on.

MSNBC is becoming unwatchable, especially during special coverage. The Chris-Rachel-Lawrence block is still great, and they have some great on the ground reporters, but other than that it’s becoming tedious.

And don’t even get me started on Tiffany Cross. Her voice could cut thru steel, and that’s the least of her problems.

plus jason johnson!!!!!!

wasn’t he banned from contributing for awhile & now he is hosting/on every show.

R255 yes he was banned for making racist comments about black women who were Bernie supporters. As soon as Joy Reid got her primetime show he was back on the air full time. Mrs. Reid is clearly pulling some strings behind the scenes. Why and who is listening to her?

The 3pm slot with Ayman M is good as well. He is a great interviewer and it’s nice to have the perspective of a Muslim immigrant. He does a lot of stories other anchors won’t go near-including shining a light on Palestinians.

Joy is pulling the woman & woc card...

Why do you think she got that spot and not Steve K?

I turn the channel when Joy and Jason Johnson are on with their racial victimology messaging. That's their prime focus. Frankly, it hurt Democrats in plenty of the 2020 races. Recognize and support peaceful protests, but justifying or not condemning looting, arson, and vandalism, is going too far. And this "defund the police" rhetoric played into Republican hands. They can't be espousing "fairness is demanded" for certain political candidates while trashing Pete Buttigieg when he's not on the show or represented by a supporter or campaign staff member.

Angela Rye has begun popping up on Joy’s show the past few weeks. Another racist for Joy to invite on to bash any and every white person.

I know they don’t like to admit it, but Biden won because enough white people-particularly white men-were able to stomach him enough to hold their noses and vote for a democrat. Not every democrat needs to pander to black people. When Tiffany Cross had Tim Ryan on to discuss his potential senate run she attempted to shame him for focusing on the white working class when he was running for president, and asked him how that would be a winning message in Ohio. In Ohio, where democrats are bleeding support from white people.

Insightful political analysis is rare these days on msnbc. Nuance is out the window.

Joy kisses Nicolle & Rachel’s asses when on air...

Ari Melber trying to look tight with black entertainers, i. e. rappers, music producers, sports figures, etc., is too obvious, frequent, and has gotten silly. If it is pertinent news, yes; if it is opinion on politics and culture, not so much. There's plenty of sports talk and music/entertainment channels on cable for all that.

I am disappointed to report that while reading a news report on air a couple of minutes ago, the previously unimpeachable- hah- Nicole Wallace clearly pronounced asterisk, ‘ asterick.’

It will take some time for me to sort this al out and begin to heal.

Oh dearest!

lol at the triggered racist kweens in this thread. So sad.

R260 every vote counts but you are wrong. Biden wouldn't have won had more black and young people of all backgrounds come out to vote for him in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia and then Arizona was thanks to Hispanic and younger votes. The vast majority of white people over 40 voted for Trump yet again. So it gets you nowhere to pander to people who are never going to vote for you anyway.

Courage, r263.

Olbermann's latest YouTube video faults the Democrats for "folding" as well. Calls for Pelosi and Schumer to make way for new blood. He irritated me.

I wouldn't turn down Ari in that wine photo, not for a SECOND.

For Andrea fans

I understand respecting the office but it annoys me that most people in the media still refer to Trump as if he's a normal former office holder. He should just be called Trump. Not "president", "former president" or "45th president". Just call him Trump. He's a piece of shit who doesn't deserve any honorifics

Or better yet call him Dump. We'll all know who that is.

I'm not black but if I was I would be grateful for Joy for representing a point of view that's never been permitted to be expressed as widely and openly as she has. Privileged white people can be so blind and insensitive and not even realize what they sound like with their uninformed opinions..

AMEN r270!

R270 we're seeing the white grievance bullshit even in a thread like this. Sad to see that even some alleged Democratic voters here share bigoted views and get triggered by discussions of race and racism. The repub party is now basically a lawless white supremacist terrorist party. You can't discuss the repubs without bringing up racism or misogyny at this point

[quote] Ari Melber trying to look tight with black entertainers, i. e. rappers, music producers, sports figures, etc., is too obvious, frequent, and has gotten silly.

Ari claims to be an expert in all things rap, but he can't even pronounce Wylcef Jean's name correctly.

There hasn't been a lot of news to report on lately with the Biden Administration.

I guess no news is good news.

The Biden town hall will be on CNN and in the opposing time slot MSNBC is going with a Rachel discussion about Trump. Each week there has been a one topic that takes up airtime like Biden's executive orders, Marjie Q Greene, or the 2nd impeachment. Maybe this week there will be more covid relief bill talk as Biden sells his plan to the public. VP Kamala Harris is also doing an interview with Savannah Guthrie for the Today show.

Chris Hayes' face is rounder and his hair is flatter and greasy looking. What is up with that? Too much product? Hopefully his muscles are still big. They seem to fill out his jacket nicely.

[quote] VP Kamala Harris is also doing an interview with Savannah Guthrie for the Today show

At least she's keeping busy.

Joy serves a purpose we need Black people and PoC to remain on the D side. Her perspective is her perspective and it is good to have someone of color who speaks to our base.

[quote] Joy serves a purpose we need Black people and PoC to remain on the D side. Her perspective is her perspective and it is good to have someone of color who speaks to our base.

I'm sure there are better Progressive/Democratic representatives for African American females than Joy HOMOPHOBE Reid.

Plus, she's just not smart. Everything on her show is based on opinion, and not fact. I have no respect for that.

Rachel can be long-winded and boring, but she does her homework and her research so you know that at least what she's reporting is factual.

Joy is all opinion, and most of the time her opinion is wrong when checked against the facts.

I would love to see someone like that lady on CNN (I don't know her name) come over to MSNBC. She's AA, and she is usually on election night panels. She's so well spoken and professional, and 100x better than Joy Reid.

Joy loves Angela Rye

I cannot STAND Joshua Johnson.

His face is so damned smug.

I caught him on MSNBC over the weekend, and he acts like such a know-it-all. I wanted to punch him in his stupid face!!

I wish that MSNBC would put Phillip Mena on weekends, but of course that will never happen.

Joshua Johnson and former Navy SEAL Jocko Willink.

Hmmm....

Well, I love Joshua Johnson and think he's very smart, well-informed and sexy. So there!

John Heilemann has new glasses. That's all I've got.

Poster up thread was right.

MSNBC struggling for news these days....Impeachment and Trump are over!

Rachel needs to just retire and become a college lecturer. Her show this evening is half over and she has spend all of it lecturing and asking questions she will never answer.

I think I have figured out why she has so few guests, they would cut into her screen time.

[quote] ... Nicole Wallace clearly pronounced asterisk, ‘ asterick.’

I share your pain, R263. I felt this same way when Kamala Harris used "infer" instead of "imply" while interrogating Wm. Barr during his confirmation hearing. At least Wallace isn't running for V.P., so I don't have to struggle with deciding whether to vote for someone guilty of such a lapse.

Rachel's show tonight is on criminal and civil proceedings against Trump and his associates -- she's doing what she and her team do, laying the groundwork and bringing in relevant participants for "the interview" portion of her program. I find it helpful.

I enjoyed Rachel’s show tonight. Trump will have no peace. He’ll be tied up in litigation, with no immunity from State charges.

Bring it on Georgia. Bring it on New York.

lmao all this bitching. So it seems certain posters here hate all the female and black hosts. So you only want to see white males. Got it. That's not how things work anymore thankfully.

Stephanie Ruehl is so irritating. She is always speaking loudly and in a shrill tone. She also seems to jump on bashing Biden. She acts as if the Biden Administration has been in place for months and done nothing. She is another one of MSNBC's pundits who takes herself way too seriously.

I like Ruehl. She has great business and financial insights. She is just keeping Biden's feat to the fire.

But, Biden needs to start delivering now that the trial of the rotting, fetid former is over.

Maybe my bias is showing, but I think Biden has been delivering since 1/20 at noon.

Personally, I think it's going to take at least 4 years to clean up the mess of the last 4 years, but we shall see.

At least Biden is facing people's questions in townhalls. Trump just wanted to bloviate at rallies like a fuhrer and have the crowd chant back Lock [her, him, them] Up.

Biden promised $2000 checks to everyone “immediately”

Now he’s saying we’ll get $1400 checks “soon” but only if we were living in poverty before the pandemic hit. And you all can forget about that minimum wage increase I ran on.

Rhule correctly points out that so far Biden has been a lot of talk and no action. What’s taking so long?

^gets his news from Russia Today.

[quote]And you all can forget about that minimum wage increase I ran on.

Clearly it's hard to push it through as part of this particular legislation but he hasn't said at all that he's giving up on it forever.

Andrea Mitchell still struggles with calling Biden President Biden. In the last 14 minutes alone she’s called him “Joe Biden” “former Vice President” “Vice President”

Someone out that woman out of her misery. It’s just sad at this point.

[quote] Andrea Mitchell still struggles with calling Biden President Biden. In the last 14 minutes alone she’s called him “Joe Biden” “former Vice President” “Vice President”

[quote] Someone out that woman out of her misery. It’s just sad at this point.

Funny. She had no problem queefing out the words "President Trump."

Fucking old whore bag.

Mmmmm....Beto is back, baby!

Beto looks better than ever

Beto... mmmmmm. I gladly nestle up to his crotch and keep his junk warm till this deep freeze passes over.

Cuomo investigation is heading up the 10:00 a.m. hour.

Uh oh!

Now that Trump is gone, I wonder if Rachel will bring back her Friday Night Quiz segments and her cocktail segments.

^^ Perhaps. She already deed a Geek moment yesterday or the day before. ^^

[quote] She already deed a Geek moment yesterday or the day before.

Oh, DEAR.

She already DEED? Wow, that's really bad.

Last summer when he had all that goodwill and everyone was saying that Cuomo should be either running for President or put on the ticket with Biden, I knew it wouldn't last.

I always enjoy it when MSNBC has Congresswoman Katie Porter on. She reminds me (not physically) of a younger Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I wouldn't be surprised if someday she became a Supreme Court Justice or Attorney General Who knows maybe even President or VP. You did good California in electing her.

[quote]the previously unimpeachable- hah- Nicole Wallace clearly pronounced asterisk, ‘ asterick.’

Okay, let me know when the “Reverend” Al Sharpton learns how to pronounce the word “ask”. Mmmkay, thanks.

HINT: It’s not “Axe”.

Anyone who was worried about MSNBC losing viewers with Dump out of office, need not worry. Ted Cruz is here and ready to be rightfully lambasted.

Covid : Dump = Texas Ice Storms : Cruz

Joy going off on Cruzie.

Mitchell needs to retire. NBC forced Chris Mathews to do so.

Andrea is in a midday harmless time slot. easy to avoid. Maybe it's a good hour to take a break in the day from MSNBC if she bugs you so much, r312.

I like Andrea R313, but she really is horrible hosting her own show.

She was so much better reporting from the field.

Mika continues to misread the teleprompter this morning, saying that the catastrophe in Texas will end up costing more than Hurricane Harvey, which, she said cost "$19 million" in insurance claims.

The actual amount, as the newspaper headline was showing viewers, was $19 BILLION.

Is Jason Johnson gay?

R316

what’s the verdict?

Jason Johnson is NOT gay.

Joshua Johnson IS gay.

r318, it doesn’t matter either way. Both are fugly and full of themselves.

Jason is the fat one who's a prof and appears (seemingly constantly) as a pundit -- Joshua is the thin one who used to work for NPR and is now a weekend morning host on MSNBC. They both wear glasses but Joshua has a mustache and his ears stick out.

That Colin Allred (former pro-football player) is a big bohunk of eye candy. Watching him on The Cross Connection right now. Hey...hey....MSNBC... Give Jason Johnson the old heave-ho and bring us more of this piece of man-flesh.

What’s the story on Vin Gupta? Gay?

I enjoyed seeing both Castro brothers on Lawrence's show Thursday night

Julian is better looking

Vin Gupta is married to a woman, one child.

Vin is so handsome.

You can tell he's ambitious too. I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up as Surgeon General or even in congress some day

Who is the swarthy guy with the Brit (Estuary) accent and the Arab-sounding name who subs on the weekends and holidays?

He's pretty "in your face" and left of center.

So sick of Michael Steel, the former RNC Chair. He's a Republican so all he says is nonsense. They need to dump him.

R326 Mehdi Hasan. He's a Muslim Indian from the UK

I find Mehdi curiously hot!

I can't watch MSNBC on the weekends. It's only about black issues.

Starting with Ali Velshi, then Tiffany Cross, then Joshua Johnson.

It's too much.

I'll bet I'm not the only one turned off by it.

I really like American Voices With Alicia Menendez.

Vin is straight? Well, bummer.

but he is awful

r330, I feel for you......but can you just imagine how black people have felt tuning into television for the past 70 years and barely seeing themselves and their point of view represented at anchor desks on news programs? Even though black peoples issues have figured quite prominently in the content of those programs?

Why don't you just take a step back and think about that?

Ali Velshi used to cover economic issues -- which are boring, but he explained them well and I appreciated that. His early morning show now conflicts with the local news shows that I watch on weekend mornings so I don't see him except when he's filling in for someone at night. Last week, he did Rachel Maddow's show one night and his face looked fat -- I hope he's well.

ali took david gura’s cool show.

ali was better during the week, he is not meant to have 4 hours on the weekends.

[quote] can you just imagine how black people have felt tuning into television for the past 70 years and barely seeing themselves and their point of view represented at anchor desks on news programs? Even though black peoples issues have figured quite prominently in the content of those programs?

[quote] Why don't you just take a step back and think about that?

Black people make up only 12% of the US population.

They shouldn't get an entire weekend of programming on a national cable news channel.

There are other people in this country, too.

R337 we get it. You're a racist as you've proven in multiple posts complaining about all the black anchors and commentators. MSNBC does not "only talk about black and race issues" on weekends but clearly you are triggered every time because you are a racist. The problem is not with MSNBC expanding its coverage to be more diverse; the problem is you for viewing the perspective of other backgrounds as offensive. Check your privilege

I just realized why this thread goes nowhere on the weekends.

Thanks, R338!

Did you really just write “check your privilege” without ironic intent?

MSNBC should just go back to showing "Dateline" and "Lockup" all weekend long.

I'll bet their ratings would go up.

R341

The good ‘ole days!

That would be "the good ol' days."

It's Monday!

"And now, back to our regular programming..."

r330, stuck on my watcher.

Ahh, a blocked racist.

I was amused by Morning Joe this AM when Joe said, "Sometimes government is not the problem; government is sometimes the solution." And calling the situation in Texas, "Reaganism in its most extreme, twisted version," and then later in the show compared the Republican Party to the jet that fell apart over Denver.

R346 it's unfortunate those types are trying to ruin this thread with the same trolling, racist garbage.

really enjoying Jonathan Capehart's new show. He's a good host

Joy.

That’s all I’m going to say.

With Neera Tanden looking sadly and unfairly unlikely to be approved for Joe's Cabinet, I do hope she returns to MSNBC as a major contributor and becomes even more outspoken about Repug hypocrisy. And she can add idiot Dem Joe Manchin into the mix. I always enjoyed her intelligence and wit.

What is sad or unfair about that, R351? There are other qualified candidates. It won't make one bit of difference to the country. Why are you so invested? I'm just glad to have her horrible voice out of hearing range.

Watching Tim Miller on Brian Williams' show. He always reminds me of Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters.

Is Tim Miller going to declare that his name is Jethrine now? I can’t think of any other reason for that tragic weave. C’mon Tim, you must have a mirror.

R351 She’s a toxic hyperpartisan bitch. Karma came back to bite her.

Good riddance.

Is anything known about Tim's personal life? Does he have a boyfriend?

R355 nothing she has said or done remotely compares to what Manchin and the repubs allowed for the last 5 years with Trump and his mostly unqualified, offensive nominees

Never mind my question at R356; I just googled and Wiki says Tim lives in CA with his husband and their child.

*4 years

And Joe Manchin voted for Betsy.DeVos.

Tonight Rachel had a segment on the same Senators happily voting not only for hyperpartisan but also utterly sexist and offensive twitterers like Richard Grenell, and of course Twittler himself.

Same hypocrisy on dispaly at the Garland hearing today by Rethugs who suddenly remember the AG should be independent and not POTUS's lapdog.

No surprise to see some DLers here who are threatened and/or offended by Neera Tanden's aggressive criticism of the Dump regime. Personally, I think the Biden Cabinet could use a rabble rouser or 2 like her.

Those DLers need to be punished with forced listening of audio tapes of Neera and Tiffany Cross debating BIPOC issues, lol.

People really just don’t get Joe Manchin. All the cabinet officials in the Trump admin that he voted to confirm we’re going to be confirmed with or without his vote. He was “allowed” to vote to confirm them so he could go back home to West Virginia and tell people “see I vote with the republicans a lot!” which is why he’s able to keep winning there. When it comes down to it, on the important stuff he always votes with the dems and always will.

R356

Miller graduated from Regis Jesuit High School in 2000 in Aurora Colorado. Graduated The George Washington University in 2004 with a BA in Political Science.[22] Miller is openly gay. He attributes his decision to take the risk of coming out in 2007, while still working on Republican campaigns, in part to the Larry Craig scandal.[4]

As of 2020, Miller lives in Oakland, California with his husband and their child

Tim with short hair.

^^ Unfortunately his face is the same. ^^

He's earned my respect for this alone.

[Quote]ollowing a 2016 South Carolina GOP primary debate, Miller followed Trump around the spin room heckling him until Miller was "hip-checked" by Trump campaign strategist Corey Lewandowski.[8]

R362, the calculation shouldn't be the same when Senate is 50-50. But Manchin clearly likes flexing muscle.

Susan Collins does the same on the Rethug side. In this case, it seems personal - she was namechecked in some of Tanden's past tweets, which aren't anything more than what everyone and their cat says about Susan Collins's 'balancing act'.

Beto on with Chris Hayes looking HAWT! Love the scruff

Love Beto’s gray.

Rachel’s show is a technical disaster tonight. Where is she?

Love Beto's everything.

Who is this hottie on Hallie's show???

His name is Sam Brock and he's reporting from Miami Beach.

This guy is SEXY.

Damn, Sam!

We need to talk about Andrea. Seriously.

Andrea Mitchell is a walking, talking "Oh, Dear."

R373/R374, you need to get around more. Sam reports on NBC Nightly News nearly every evening. He's a giant, married, and lives in Miami.

[quote] He's a giant

Does he have a giant cock, too?

Tanden should just be placed as Acting head of OMB

r378, might be the reason Biden is holding off on the direct appointment. Get all he is going to get the traditional way, see how people vote on the Covid/Recovery Bill and then do what he has to do.

Can't wait for the Garland vote!.

Did any of you see Brian Williams' show tonight? A total clusterfuck. Apparently, there was a complete meltdown in the MSNBC control room. Milissa Rehberger had to step in and take over spur of the moment. They aired about 5 minutes of commercials. Then she did a few minutes of news headlines. Then about 5 more minutes of commercials. Then Lawrence O'Donnell reappeared and did a segment. Then more commercials, before they were finally able to get Brian up and running.

Here's video of the opening for Brian Williams' show last night.

It was weird. The first few seconds of the show, after the drumbeat intro was just Brian looking down at something. Then the Melissa person appeared and said “technical difficulties” and went to commercials.

I saw it, too, R380. At first didn't know what the fuck was going on.

Fantastic news! Glad to see MSNBC is finally starting to give progressives a vocal platform

If Mehdi gets a show Sundays at 8 p.m., that will eliminate the first hour of Joshua Johnson's weekend show on Sunday. I'll bet Joshua Johnson will soon be gone from MSNBC. The network hasn't given him very much to do. He probably thought he was going to be the "black voice" on MSNBC, but Joy Reid (and, to an extent, Tiffany Cross, Jonathan Capehart and Jason Johnson) have filled that role.

Speaking of whom, last night notwithstanding, WHET Milissa Rehberger? She hasn't been on-camera in ages.

R385 it eliminates Joshua Johnson’s Sunday show entirely. It runs from 8-10

I’ve never been a Craig Melvin fan-his gravelly voice is annoying to me-but he looks hot this morning without a tie.

Meh, R384.

He's ugly.

that's a mistake. Americans don't want to hear an hour long opinion show of a British guy. I think Mehdi is fine as a commentator but there's no need for him to have an opinion show. Remember the CNN Piers Morgan disaster? Obviously Mehdi is much more reasonable and likable than Morgan but the British accent giving opinions on the US will turn off viewers. Why can't the show just be a news show anyway?

MSNBC needs to give a show to an Asian American, maybe a woman since Richard Lui no longer has a show anymore. If not that, then a non-white Hispanic male would be good too.

[quote] Americans don't want to hear an hour long opinion show of a British guy

Exactly.

Two words: Piers Morgan.

I never mind listening to Jonathan Swan's Australian accent giving advice to Americans.

R390 Mehdi is very popular, his show on Peacock is popular and he gets some high profile guests with a lot of viral interview clips, and he’s Asian American. So every part of your post is wrong lol

[quote] MSNBC needs to give a show to an Asian American, maybe a woman since Richard Lui no longer has a show anymore. If not that, then a non-white Hispanic male would be good too.

How about an albino trans woman in a wheelchair?

R393 East Asian is not the same as south Asian .

online streaming popularity is not the same as being popular on tv either

Morgan was insufferably ignorant yet chose to be pedantic without a scintilla of that brilliant sense of humor and irony Brits are lauded for. He was a primetime bulldozer of elitist smarm without a least bit of charm or self-awareness.

^ I forgot to mention pompous.

R380 At first I thought Brian was throwing a hissy fit over Lawrence going overtime with that congressman who wouldn't shut up.

[quote]Andrea Mitchell still struggles with calling Biden President Biden. In the last 14 minutes alone she’s called him “Joe Biden” “former Vice President” “Vice President”

She obviously has short-term memory loss due to Alzheimer’s Disease.

Medhi said some rather bitchy and misogynistic things about MVP Kamala Harris during the campaign. Fuck him and I don’t mean that in a good way. On the other hand, he is MUCH easier on the eyes than Joshua Jackson.

Medhi is popular with young progressives, a demographic msnbc would like to capture. The only other progressive they have is Chris Hayes

Richard Engel is so cute.

Why aren’t we talking about Phil’s apartment?

Richard Engel is the best field reporter in the business.

I'm madly in love with Jonathan Lemire. He's sexy af, a great reporter, and I get the impression he has a fun personality.

[quote]In this case, it seems personal - she was namechecked in some of Tanden's past tweets,

It's personal in Joe Manchin's case too. Neera Tanden (rightly) went after his daughter for moving her pharmaceutical company to the Netherlands to evade US taxes and for raising the price of epi-pens by about a billion percent.

Neera Tanden. Instead of apologizing during the hearings, I wish she'd do like the Repugs and just double down. Can you imagine? Like when that southern bigot John Kennedy asked about her Ted Cruz tweet, saying "a vampire has more heart than Ted Cruz", she should have just said, "I'm trying to be transparent. It's what I believe. Do you disagree?" or comparing Mitch McConnell to Voldemort, she could have said, "yes, that was awful. I apologize to Voldemort."

I mean, seriously, she's not gonna win any of them over, anyway. If she does get in, it'll be by one vote, so why not make the hearings memorable and she might win more in the long run.

Senator Kennedy, how much heart did it take to abandon Texas for Cancun?

I saw the ratings chart for the Super Bowl week and Rachel had three of the Top 25 programs.

Any news this morning?

[quote] it eliminates Joshua Johnson’s Sunday show entirely. It runs from 8-10

Not according to this article. Mehdi's show will run for an hour (8 to 9 p.m.), eliminating the first hour of Joshua's show. Still, Joshua must be pissed, especially since his show just started a few months ago and is already being scaled back. I'll bet he wishes he hadn't left "1A."

Katy Tur got her hair did today.

[quote] Katy Tur got her hair did today.

What about Zoey Tur?

Zoey Tur is a hot bitch!

Tony knocked Katy up again.

Always thought she swam in the lady pond.

[quote] Tony knocked Katy up again.

If Tony were my husband, he could knock me up every night!

I wish Tony would come back to MSNBC.

He moved to CBS, but we hardly get to see him any more.

Tony looks like David Tyler Muir.

Joshua Johnson must not test well. He's been moved around a lot since joining MSNBC and he's rarely (if ever) a guest on anyone elses show and I've never seen him fill in the anchor desk. Seems like a nice guy though.

I like Mehdi. His interview with John Bolton is gold. Bolton couldn't wait to get out of there.

[quote] Joshua Johnson must not test well

I've been saying this way back in post R281!!!

Then I was labeled a racist by R345/R346.

Joshua Johnson is SMUG and CONDESCENDING, and nobody wants to watch that. Plus, he's just fucking annoying.

So suck it. I was right, and R345/R346 are reactionary cunts!

Chris Hayes did the 👏clap 👏 between 👏 each 👏word👏 - thing yesterday, and I swear I wanted to punch my television.

Which cringe-lord is more embarrassing to the network at this point, Chris or Ari?

I love Chris.

Wigger Melber is hard to take.

At least Ari is very attractive. Chris, on the other hand, is grown-up Charlie Brown (even if he does have his own stalker stan here).

Chris’ wife is not a looker, but they have been together since college. She is a law contributor on ABC and they have 3 kids. He seems to live a boring, rich life.

love fauci 💕

ugh JOY, and that hair ain’t doing you favors, girlfriend.

They're taking away an hour of Joshua Johnson on Sunday to make room for Mehdi Hasan. But they're adding an hour of Joshua on Friday nights on Peacock. Joshua is trying to spin it as good news ("Adding a third night!"). But clearly they're trying to scale back his MSNBC presence and relegate him to the streaming service while giving Mehdi more airtime.

Ari is sex on a stick. Chris is getting puffier and puffier by the day.

Is Chris a Wino?

OK, you don't like Joshua Johnson!

We get it!!

Enough already!!!!

R429 I don't mind him either.

the one who's most smug is Brian Williams. He can go and they can get someone younger in his place

I don't understand the hatred for Chris Hayes on this thread. If I can only catch one show in the evening these days, I choose his. He was doing important stories on the Post Office, and Q-anon weeks before other shows, even on MSNBC. His monologues have been killer. I think he's really been hitting it out of the park.

As for smug, Rachel has been the Queen of smug ever since the Insurrection. But I agree with her so I'm totally fine with it.

Funny, but has Joy Reid stolen Amber Ruffin's mojo?

The mugging, the laughing, the stinkeye?

Joshua Johnson is an annoying know it all

Since their shows are on directly opposite one another, I wonder whose ratings are better, Chris Hayes or Anderson Cooper? I mostly watch Chris but do switch over to Anderson from time to time.

I switch to CNN/Anderson while Chris is on. Then switch back to MSNBC in time for Rachel. Chris and Ari annoy me with their pretentious attitudes. A couple of lightweights when it comes to credibility.

Queen Rachel is by the #1 in terms of key demo and total viewers

Anderson almost always beats Chris in the demo but Chris usually wins with total viewers

sadly Fox's ratings have returned in the last 2 weeks. For whatever reason, Carlson finished #1 the other night. just ahead of Rachel

I think Chris has been hitting the weights and working out. He looks bigger and his suits appear to be somewhat tighter...which is a sure sign he has been working out.

....or a sure sign that he's been eating too much and sitting on his couch all day long.

Did Yasmin get her lips done?

Chris Hayes is fantastic. Rachel’s show is a bore now. She spends the first 20 minutes just reading the audience NY Time articles. You can tell she’s lost without a Russian conspiracy theory to promote or a way to scare her audience into tuning in every night. Her ratings tanked after the Mueller Report was released.

Rachel's deep dive into the history of arcane occurrences and how they impact today's corrupt Republicans is brilliant.

She has inherited the mantle of Paul Harvey...now you know the REST of the story.

I like Chris' show but there's a reason why Rachel is the Queen and #1.

and no for fuck's sake, Chris is not muscular or hot. He's fit-fat. Whatever his workout is, his diet overtakes it.

The Chris-Rachel-Lawrence block is fantastic. The three are different enough that you don’t feel like you’re watching three straight hours of the same news. Chris tends to highlight “lesser known” or “up and coming news with a progressive slant, Rachel is great at deep dives and corruption, and Lawrence is a charming angry old man who is an expert at the senate and loves personally ranting about Republicans. I watch those three every night.

The 8-11 block on CNN is horrible. Three drama queens and attention whores who spend their hour trying to one up the other ones.

Anderson/Chris Cuomo/Don Lemon block is sensational.

Brian Williams should be replaced at this point. They can find someone who's younger with snark.

What does age have to do with it? Williams isn't senile, like Larry King and Chris Matthews seemed to be sometimes/often. How would younger be better?

If they ain't getting rid of Andrea, they ain't getting rid of Brian.

Get rid of Chuckie & Andrea!

[quote]Did Yasmin get her lips done?

Her lips did look like she may have enhanced them.

What r448 said! It’s astounding that they haven’t fired Chuck Todd’s closet Republican ugly ass.

used to finger myself to ari, now he repulses me.

R445, I think you undervalue the snarkability of Brian Williams. He is a master. Not just anyone can do that. He even makes his guests laugh consistently.

And Anderson is far and above the better host compared not only to Chris Hayes but also to any other prime time host, including Rachel who is annoying as hell.

[quote]The Chris-Rachel-Lawrence block is fantastic.

[quote]Anderson/Chris Cuomo/Don Lemon block is sensational.

Do some of you really watch three hours of this stuff every night? Five minutes of Chris Cuomo is enough to make me swear off television news forever.

[quote]Do some of you really watch three hours of this stuff every night?

Sometimes I get up at 2am PT to watch Kasie Hunt and the three hours of Morning Joe, followed by an hour of Stephanie Rhuel. I don't miss YV though.

LET'S GET SMARTER!!!!!

[quote]Rachel’s show is a bore now. She spends the first 20 minutes just reading the audience NY Time articles. You can tell she’s lost without a Russian conspiracy theory to promote or a way to scare her audience into tuning in every night. Her ratings tanked after the Mueller Report was released.

Don't you get tired of repeating these lies?

Brian Williams is a master of snark because he so perfectly underplays it. If you're not listening carefully you can almost miss the irony and sarcasm. I think he's great and balances Rachel and Lawrence beautifully. He's a great steady reassuring voice before going to bed .

And to the Joshua Johnson naysayers, who the fuck is going to do any better bringing in multitudes of viewers on Saturday and Sunday nights? Was there ever an MSNBC anchor on those nights who was wildly popular? Joshua is great and I wish they'd have him start subbing for missing hosts during the week. Of the black hosts, he's far more intelligent and engaging than Joy, Jonathan and Tiffany put together.

[quote] And to the Joshua Johnson naysayers, who the fuck is going to do any better bringing in multitudes of viewers on Saturday and Sunday nights?

Joshua Johnson is fine, but the fact that they've relegated him to Saturday and Sunday nights, when few people are watching cable news, shows that he's not exactly a rising star at MSNBC.

[quote] Was there ever an MSNBC anchor on those nights who was wildly popular?

No, because any MSNBC anchor on Saturday or Sunday night who was wildly popular would be quickly moved to a weekday slot.

[quote] Of the black hosts, he's far more intelligent and engaging than Joy, Jonathan and Tiffany put together.

And I'll bet he'd be the first person to tell you that.

R445 R452 R456 Is “snark” something you want in a newscaster? I find it tiresome, immature and unprofessional and it’s gotten really old really fast.

Yassss, my Congressman on television!

Pete Buttgieg, who???

Excellence! 💅🏾

R458, you must be too young to remember David Brinkley, champion of "snark" before that term had been invented. My family got a TV when I was 5 and my parents watched the dinnertime news on NBC because they got such a kick out of Brinkley. So I grew up watching him and paying attention to catch his subtle reactions to what he was reporting, sometimes just his extremely agile eyebrow. Williams would probably be the first to admit that he's not up to Brinkley's standards, but he's got the right approach and that attitude can be more effective than straightforward "sincerity" that seldom comes off right.

Brinkley would have demolished Trumpy, with style -- wish I could have seen that.

Thank you for explaining to the youngsters, r460.

If they want sincerity at MSNBC, they need look no further than Steve Kornacki and his khakis. Except he no longer has his own show. MSNBC loves snark. And I love MSNBC.

So someone said Kornacki jumped to NBC to do Sunday night football? Because he's completely vanished from MSNBC (at least as far as I've seen).

Kornacki used to fill in for the anchor desk all the time. Almost every Monday for Chuck Todd and frequently for Brian Williams and when Hardball was still on. But he hasn’t done that in months. I assumed it was because he was focused on the election but he hasn’t been back since. What gives?

Kornacki will be back for the whiteboard during elections. He is a miserable fill in host, awkward, uncomfortable with POC and women. He has a narrow lane, nerdy obsessive election stat analysis.

Totally agree r464, especially regarding women of color. Just look up the clip when Zerlina Maxwell snatched his ass. Classic!

Kornacki was bad at his own show but he wasn’t too bad filling in. He’s socially awkward tho and no “woke” enough for the current msnbc run by Joy Reid

Haha Brian Williams ended his broadcast last night with another snarky Trump remark.

You guys are right. It's totally low-key snark, and very hilarious!

It starts right at the 40 minute mark in the video.

Brian is hilarious at R467, regarding CPAC:

"A festival of worship, and a political party that now exists in service to one man - a twice impeached private citizen in Florida."

Tee hee.

Speaking of Zerlina, why did they give the Saturday Joy Reid slot to helium-voiced YassGirl Tiffany, and not to her?

Because r469, I like Zerlina but she was almost as bad as Andrea Mitchell in her delivery.

Neera Tanden will get another job in the Biden administration if she isn't confirmed by the Senate, Chief of Staff Ron McClain said.

^ who, now?

Ratings

Rachel just announced msnbc was #1 in the ratings for ALL of cable, not just cable news. Wow

unfortunately Fox has rebounded with Carlson and Hannity. It's truly maddening. How many old white pieces of shit are there in this country? They watch Fox relentlessly. Being pumped with propaganda is their version of crack

Rachel dominated January and February but sadly I'm not sure that will continue in March

I'll be honest, I'm taking a much needed break from news the past few weeks. Now that Dump is gone, I need to decompress. How can anyone watch cable news for hours on end, anyway? It's so repetitive and boring. If something major happens, Twitter will alert you.

I always enjoy following the daily diminution of the homemade lemon cake in Claire McKaskill's kitchen.

I hate Stephanie Ruehl's voice and her histrionics. She gets so loud with her opinions.

I love smart strong loud women.

R476 - Why would anyone watch cable news for hours on end in the first place when one can watch in moderation?

I watch an hour in the morning (the first hour of Morning Joe) and an hour at night (Maddow), plus the NBC Evening News.

I DVR them and watch about 15 minutes after they start so I can zip past commercials.

It ends up being about an hour & a half of news & commentary (as well as Claire McKaskill's desserts)

Hate Jake Sherman.

What a little turd.

R481 same. He runs a glorified gossip blog but acts like an authority on congress and he always, always frames shit as being sympathetic to the GOP.

R482

100%!!!!! Its like he is always protecting the Trumpers.

That little mother fucker.

A new thread was started when this one is over. Don’t bitch at me for posting it so early I’m not the one who created the goddamn thing.

It is time for Muriel to acknowledge that her threadlocking strategy is a failure. It only encourages those locked out to start a new thread. Since they can’t alert people in the old thread, the discussion gets split up. Poor forum hygiene.

Rachel was talking about her brother-in-law but I didn't think that Rachel and Susan were married. She said her brother-in-law and Susan's mother went to get vaccinated together.

This link says they aren't married. All the articles about Rachel says that Susan is her partner, not her wife.

Can we talk about hygiene, R485?

I saw Phil Rucker at the dog park and I told him about the Datalounge obession about where he lives. He looked at me like I had 2 heads.

I am pretty sure, I was half asleep it was at 5:55 AM, on Way Too Early this morning the Axios reporter referred to the Rodney King Murder Trial, Hint: Rodney King wasn't murdered he was beaten by police, no correction on either Way Too Early or Axios.

What the hell happened to Superman wannabe, Chris Hayes? Besides his usual annoying manic delivery, he’s presenting puffy blowfish face, and an extra helping of greasy hair. Fugly on steroids. They’re paying you millions Clark; get your shit together.