MSNBC's "The Weekend" Premiers! Your thoughts?

Symone Sanders and Jen Psaki are the new stars at MSNBC.

“Premiers”?

Oh, dear.

Symone is the real ⭐️.

She should takeover for Joy Reid.

Simone? Yikes.

Steele was a Lt. Gov. of Maryland. He’s been an analyst and guest host, but Menendez had her own show. So has Sanders, but she’s newer.

R5, Steele was also head of the RNC.

I’m just glad they put Katie Phang on at noon so I won’t have to keep missing her show.

This new show really makes it look like they demoted Menendez and Sanders. I mean — 8 AM? Who gets up early on Saturday to watch MSNBC?

Being the head of the RNC doesn’t count for shit in the MSNBC pecking order. Having your own show does.

At the top is Rachel, then Joy because Rachel loves Joy. Then the other female hosts with Alex at the bottom of the women because her ratings suck. Last are Chris, Ari and Lawrence.

Of course Rachel and Joe/Mika never interact or the universe would explode.

Watch the array and order of speaking on the next primary night.

It is a demotion for sure.

R8

Nicolle comes before Joy, but she is on maternity leave.

I’d say Nicolle and Joy alternate in the top spot.

By which I mean top spot under Her Part-time Majesty

R2 Don't get your concern. "Premier" as a verb is acceptable use. The Weekend, one show, third person singular present tense: premiers.

It’s premiere, moron.

Symone Sanders has this tone/style where she's always indicating that she is the smartest person in the room except when she performatively turns it off to act "teachable". I can see how she fit into the Bernie Sanders universe with the rest of the self-impressed weirdos who worked on his campaigns.

Symone Sanders also DOES NOT know that "anecdote" and "antidote" are two different words which is really disqualifying at this point!

R14 You are out of date kiddo.

r7, and 5am PT.

Peacock needs to replay The Weekend and Phang same day.

So now they are doing a 3 shot opening with Alicia Menendez still leading off with the top story. A contract rider?

You’d like an all male cast, right OP? It will be just like 1955!

Symone does not look like she is having fun on The Weekend.

Dean Phillips is on The Weekend on Sunday.

They better drill his ass.

I love the weekend staff. Especially Simone and Katie Phang. George Conway has had a real glow up. No wonder he got rid of that hag wife Kelly.

George Conway has had a glow up? He looks like Maggie Haberman.

R24, He looks like he’s in the process of transitioning.

I like Michael Steele. He hates Trump. Why does Symone always sound like she's giving attitude on RuPaul's Drag Race?

Alicia Menendez is like watching paint dry.

Isn’t he that young black singer?

Symone is too good for that downgrade show.

R28, Those breasts belong on Only Fans.

So, this weekend Symone was dressed more "conservatively". She looked more professional. I get it that she loves her body (especially her titties) and want to wear tight and curvaceous hugging clothes to attract attention. But it wasn't coming across as very professional to me.

Now... her delivery... Hmm... shall I start calling her the Mammy of the talk show political news pundits? As Symone speaks I can't help also imaging in my mind the Black Housekeeper (Mammy) that was in the those "Little Audrey" cartoons.

"Jen, you ignorant slut!"

Just noticed Alicia Fernandez' implants. So pathetic that a good looking girl like that would ruin her body with silicone.

^ MENENDEZ

Really Alicia has implants??

Maybe Daddy paid for those….

^ Is Alicia related to Lyle and Erik?

I'd like to see Jen Psaki have a show each day or evening during the week. Who's next to retire?

Feel like Symone is trying to tell us to save her from this show.

R34, Do her father’s issues ever become a topic of discussion?

Is Alicia the Latina Meghan McCain?

Alicia pretends not to know Senator Menendez.

The real question is what’s the scoop on Senator Cory Booker???

[quote][R34], Do her father’s issues ever become a topic of discussion?

I never knew they were related until I heard her say (somewhere on some MSNBC show) that because of her relationship she will not be reporting on her father as others of the network would.

That's a lot of material.

Poor Alicia...

She's not "ethnic" enough... yet

But Symone has bought out the "blackness" even in Michael Steele! Alicia will come on board very soon!

Hmm... "something" is going on with this program. I can feel it. First, I've noticed in the last few airings that "they" have toned down Symone Sanders' dress. Second, I had been watching Symone all over the place (other programs) giving commentary. It seems to be more than usual and more than Michael Steele. Now, this morning... Eugene Daniels is sitting in for her?

It could be nothing...

Nope! "Something" is going on.

So, whoever said that it doesn't take skills and talent to be a stylist has no idea of what they are talking about. Clearly someone has hired a Stylist for Symone. Her appearances over the last month have been more conservative (for lack of a better word for clothes that fit) but still quite sexy! GOOD JOB!

Symone looks like she is rocking the Coco Chanel look.

Michael Steele is stealing this show.

Love Alicia.

Someone, not so much.

It is beyond my comprehension why educated black people in the public eye (Symone Sanders) constantly reassure us, the viewers, by dipping into Ebonics (AAVE!) when they want to make a point, seem "authentic", or merely entertain the troops!

Isn't this performative "code switching" insulting to black people who only speak AAVE, that some people from a higher socio-economic group feel free to "black it up"? I have a black, Ivy League-educated friend who does this all the time and I can tell he finds himself quite charming in doing so. I don't buy it.

Only morons watch cable “news”.

r48, thanks for chiming in with your opinion.

It's a good question R47 and I don't have THE answer for you but only my opinion. On one level it's an attitude of familiarity. That one can relate to the other and they to them. But doesn't every ethnicity do the same thing to some extent? When Italian families gather isn't the speech and body language different. Jewish families? Asian families? Arab families?

I've written this earlier, but Symone is the Aunt Jemima/Mammy of pundit news. IMHO, this can cut two ways. One it enhances her credibility because Mammy NEVER lies honey-chile. She'll tell ya what you need to hear and when ya need to hear it. The other is that it is reminiscent of the Steppin-Fetchet, Black face days of yore.

IMHO, I don't think that Jaime Harrison is given his proper and due credit for his work as the DNC chair. THIS GUY IS GOOD!!! There have been a number of past Chairs who I have liked ie Tom Perez, Howard Dean and Terry McAuliffe. A number of past Chairs who I liked but was disappointed by ie Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, Tim Kaine, and even Donna Brazile (she went too "Hollywood" for me) However, this Jaime Harrison gets me excited about the Biden Administration and getting out the vote! I think he is doing a fabulous job!

Miss Symone is full throttle this morning! Alicia has barely been able to get a word in. Quite entertaining!

I've been DVRing the show every Saturday and Sunday morning and watch it at my leisure on those afternoons or nights. (I get to FF the segments I'm tired of - such as the middle-east). I have to say, I really enjoy this show and the chemistry between the three hosts. It took a few months since its premiere in January, but these three have found their groove and make the show informative and entertaining - especially Symone and Michael. One of the better political / news weekend shows on the air. I hope it lasts.

r48 = Judge Janine

R50, Symone’s phony southern dialect is embarrassing, and frankly insulting.

She was born and raised in Nebraska, for Chrissake.

r55 She was born and raised in Omaha. I grew up in the suburbs, but her accent is fairly standard of the area.

Why does it take an hour for Symone to spit out a question?

Andrea Mitchell style…

I've always liked Michael Steele and Symone - I'm not particularly jazzed about Ms. Menendez. She's dull.

I haven't bothered with MSNBC on the weekends in a while. Years ago I used to love Up With Chris Hayes and his table of uneaten baked goods. Now with this new show I'll give it a shot again for Steele and Symone.

[quote]Ms. Menendez. She's dull.

I believe she will get her footing. I would suggest bringing on more Latino/Spanish origin guests. You do that and she'll be singing "Come on shake your body baby do the conga" in no time.

Symone has gotten Michael to come back to his roots. He now acts as if he is talking politics at the corner barber shop.

MSNBC should cancel all their weekend garbage and bring back the tattooed prison inmate marathons

I fucking HATED the tatted up prison marathons.

Will Bob Menendez’s travails ever even be mentioned on “The Weekend”?

R62. Only if I take the weekend off.

I loved "LOCK UP!"

Let’s go to prison.

Ya know... I'm sure it's just me but I'm building a distaste to the news and political programs always referring to themselves as "Show(s)" "Have a great show!"; "We have a fantastic show coming up for you."; etc... To me it just cheapens the seriousness and intelligence of the offerings when the word "show" is used placing them on the same level as entertainment. But then again.. maybe that's all they are. Entertainment.

“I had to throw out my whole show!!”

^Exactly, R67! I mean... (IMHO) couldn't she have said that "We have had to reprioritize our reporting this evening..." You know... something to that affect.

Mmph... not of mention of Alicia Menendez's daddy being found guilty and resigning from office?

Alicia, such a pretty girl who ruined her body with breast augmentation.

It’s the Steele & Symone Show!!

^I agree. The synergy between Steele & Symone is definitely there and it is NOT because both of them are African-Americans. They just have a great repartee together.

And Alicia is boring and bland.

She didn’t used to be, R73. Symone overshadows her. Literally.

[quote]The synergy between Steele & Symone is definitely there and it is NOT because both of them are African-Americans.

I think I'm taking this back. Symone is doing her "Mammy" shtick (which I believe is real) and Michael is right there with her in the park at the Bar-B-Q. Alicia is that relation that married into the family...

I really like Alicia because she gives that professional journalist energetic balance that the show needs. I love Symone but she can be a bit too much at times.

Hmm... two Saturdays in a row and there has been no Alicia Menendez. Me thinks that MSNC i testing a show format that will use only Michael Steele and Symone

I was introduced to Michael Steele last month in Penn Station after he’d done the Saturday morning gig. My friend Denise knew him from his time as Maryland’s Lt. Governor when she did tourism promotion for the state. He is very impressive in person.

Stop trying to make Eddie Glaude happen.

The average age of an MSNBC viewer is 72.

And yet they show those insufferable rotation of stills like the viewers are five year olds and need to watch a picture book.

I tell ya what is annoying me about this show are the hands (and nails) in another panelist's shot. I suppose that the set is so small that it is a small camera shot. Micheal Steele could be talking, with the camera focused on him, and then every now and then Symone's claws will come into the shot. But, it's not just her. There are times that when other's hands come into the shot when someone else is speaking. It's petty but it becomes annoying.

I'm So glad that Michael Steele brought up his skepticism about the Trump campaign being hacked by Iran. I too don't believe the campaign about this. Until an independent objective authority verifies this I feel that it is most likely a lie.

Just awful, AWFUL, about these hostages...

Awful...

Michael Steele really hit it out of the park this morning attacking Shady Vance's "Fact of Life" speech about the school shooting this past week.

Steele, Sanders and Mendez has certainly clicked over the past few months and have made this 'must see TV' as far as weekend news shows go. I was never a fan of Steele's when he first joined MSNBC back in 2016-ish, but the guy has grown on me. He is one of the best talking heads on political TV.

Thank You to Maya Wiley (another favorite of mine) for laying out the plans for Project 2025 and its goal to dismantle the protection of American workers. Americans need to keep hearing this for the next 50 days.

Steele was fired up at the end of the show addressing Shady Vance's suggestion about 'childcare' and that grandparents should step in and help. And I mean 'fired up' - he just can't stomach the stupidity of Vance.

Sanders and Alicia also chimed in - really pissed off. Good for them.

Awful what Symone is wearing this morning! Very ill-fitting and side cut outs? On a Sunday morning??? ROLLS EVERYWHERE!!! It might have worked had she bought the correct size.

R87 What the hell are you watching ? I just watched an hour of the first episode - she looks fine. Not seeing anything ill-fitting or rolls everywhere. That style of dress has been popular this year, starting with the red carpet on The Oscars. Each host on THE VIEW (except Whoopi) has worn the same style / material dress since the winter. IIRC, Sara had the same one / color as Symone when the show returned this past Tuesday.

We are CLEARLY not watching the same program! A leather dress with a slit cut from here to Timbuktu and then cut put side panels? Is she coming to work or is she just leaving the club and stopping in to show her face? Then... WHEW! Yes, she likes tight but... c'mon now. Stop trying to fit a size 18 into a size 8. The only other one that I can think of at the moment that does shit like that is Mariah Carey. They both look like overstuffed sausages.

IF the women on The View can wear that style of dress on a weekday morning, then Symone can wear it on a weekend morning. I'm not seeing this the same way as you are.

OP, Michael Steele can be my pimp daddy anytime.

I guess Eugene Daniels called out today, so they had Billy Porter fill in for him, thinking no one will notice ?

Can 'Men for Choice' founder Oren Jacobsen strip naked for me and let me have fun with him ? Can I have the choice to fuck his ass, please ?

[quote]IF the women on The View can wear that style of dress on a weekday morning, then Symone can wear it on a weekend morning. I'm not seeing this the same way as you are.

No, Ma'am. No, Sir. Nuh-Uh... First, "The View" is an entertainment show and not a news program. Symone's job is to report the news and not be the news. She knows better. She knows her gran' momma would whup her tail up and down the block for walking out of the house like that. AND, on the day of our Lord too??? Has this girl LOST her mind? She was raised better than that.

Someone must be feeling their oats and is in dire need of attention! Either she wants/needs more clicks on her whatever platforms, or her hubby is NOT doing his job and sending her out the door correct and sufficiently satisfied.

Let the people speak and judge for themselves...

You mean to tell me that you can't see that this girl is about to bust out of that dress? And, all of the "meat"... FAT, spilling out of those panels? Then her titties...

(SMH)

[quote]First, "The View" is an entertainment show and not a news program.

First, The View is under the ABC NEWS division. Like Symone, hosts Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin are political strategists and have been hired as political commentators on their show with their 'inside connections' to DC. Their job is also to "report the news, not be the news" along with the other hosts.

If they can wear leather dresses which are way too tight for them, so can Symone.

[quote]If they can wear leather dresses which are way too tight for them, so can Symone.

Just because there are those who are so silly that they will jump off a 50-story building without a parachute doesn't mean that others should follow suit.

R97 Let's put this in perspective: We're talking about wearing a dress not jumping off buildings. Try to stay on topic.

The three hosts keep saying we have to 'move past' this Haitian false controversy, and I agree. We have fallen right into the right wing's trap - discussing this for over a week.

Yet they are doing the opposite - devoting most of their two hour programming to the 'Haitian rumor'. Time to move on.

HA! It's barely 5 minutes into the program and attorney Marc Elias alludes to Michael, Steele's fabulous "Morning Joe" performance! "I feel that I am channeling the Chairman!" LOL!!!

"If you think they're a POS, how can you be civil?" - 01.09.25 MSNBC

I AM SO LOVING THIS PROGRAM!!!

All 3 hosts have shed their "corporate" presentation images and just letting themselves be real. I suppose Symone was getting too many high "Q" ratings and so Michael had to reveal his true demeanor. With those 2 letting their hair down I suppose Alicia became comfortable enough to let her hair down too.!

They are CUSSIN' UP A STORM on this program this weekend!!! I LOVE IT!

Mark Elias is calling for a new opposition movement (because current Democrats aren't doing shit) and wants this program to be instrumental in creating such a new movement.

MICHAEL STEELE!!!!!!

[quote]MICHAEL STEELE!!!!!!

Yes! Yes! Yes!!! That MF almost came out of his mouth!

[quote]“Your country’s under assault!” Michael Steele explodes on-air, rips into Republicans for allowing what Trump and Musk are up to. (Video: MSNBC)

I KNEW THAT THEY WERE KICKING ASS!!!

[quote]The NBCUniversal-backed cable network is expected to move the trio of Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele to its 7 p.m. weekday slot Tuesday through Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter, and the group on Mondays will lead two hours, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The move will have direct implications for Joy Reid, the anchor who currently fills 7 p.m. She is expected to host her last show on MSNBC this week.

[quote]What’s more, Alex Wagner, who has hosted weeknights at 9 p.m. save for a Monday night led by Rachel Maddow, is expected to be named a contributor, according to three people with knowledge of current talks. Wagner, who has been working as a correspondent across the U.S. during the first 100 days of the new Trump presidency while Rachel Maddow anchors each day at 9, is unlikely to return to her weeknight slot, these people indicated. Jen Psaki is expected to take over at least one of the hours, according to one of these people. MSNBC is also in talks with Eugene Daniels of Politico and Melissa Murray, a law professor at New York University who specializes in the regulation of sex, marriage, caregiving and reproductive rights that would have them join the network in unspecified capacities, according to one of these people.

Is Joy Reid getting fired completely?

The international wig industry is taking a huge hit by the firing of Joy Reid.

Symone was always a star!!

Symone should get her BMI under control now that she’s moving to prime time.

Mary Hartman got a job

WHOA!!!

Symone Sanders called for the removal of Chuck Schumer! Well, what she actually said is that the same people who were knocking on the door of President Biden telling him to step down that these same people should be knocking on the door of Chuck Schumer. She also said that she was changing her registration from Democrat to Independent.

This show is really news breaking! Just 18 minutes in and Symone Sanders confirms how outraged she, Democrats, and even Republicans are over Schumer voting for this Republican CR bill, Rep Clyburn reveals that Hakeem Jeffries was blindsided by Schumer, and that there is major talk by Democrats to primary Schumer. WOW!

Symone D. Sanders Townsend@SymoneDSanders·9h

Let me reiterate

Okay... MSNBC really needs to bring in a stylist for Symone Sanders. I don't know if it's the color she is wearing this morning or what but her breastisis are not even fitting in the frame of her camera shot! Those things are HUGE!!!

Dear Chuck Schumer, the 'old' Republican Party is never coming back

Democrats keep assuming the fever will break, but it's just getting higher.

By Michael Steele, co-host of "The Weekend"

WOW! I really LIKE Michael Steele!!!

Re: Cory Booker's 25 hour speech..

(paraphrasing) It was a good week for Democrats... out of 52. In not taking anything from Cory Booker, that accomplishment should not be the main story/focus for Democrats. The stock market dropped 2200 points. People have lost real money. What is the Democrats message?"