msnbc: The Place for POLLitics

ok, so assume question is valid. or that someone can be striving for something that no longer exists.

I think one of the only areas in which NBC wins out is in the nightly news sector. Brian Williams seems to be liked by most everyone, but he's nowhere near having the influence of Walter Kronkite.

cronkite didn't have the influence of cronkite tbh

fuxk, why do I always want to spell Cronkite with a K?

i don't have cable so i haven't seen much other than a few clips, but going with chris hayes just because i liked his columns for the nation so much back in the day.

alex wagner because HOT

Brian Williams is scary because he's a blank. Remember when crusty William Holden complained about TV babies? He meant Brian Williams. The guy offers no inflections, turns of phrase, or even warmth. He's a guy with varnished looks who reads briefs.

(I'm a partisan of the late Peter Jennings partisan)

Williams is blank at the desk, but always funny and charming elsewhere.

I loved Peter Jennings. He was the best.

He's great on 30 Rock though.

I agree that Alex Wagner is totally adorbs, btw. I just can't vote for her.

http://accidentalalien.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/alexwagner-politcsdaily.png

haha -- scratch off that last partisan. Second glass of wine etc

Voted Krystal Ball cos

Ball's father, Edward Ball, was born in West Virginia and has a Ph.D. in physics. Her mother, Rose Marie Ball, is an educator in King George County, Virginia. The name Krystal came from her father, a physicist who did his dissertation on crystals.

Kornacki writes decent stuff for Salon, but I don't watch this BS.

I'd like to see Ed Schultz eaten slowly by wolves.

I'd like to see Ed Schultz eaten slowly by wolves.

IAWDM

People do not remember but the entire quote went:

"If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America. Will no one rid me of this troublesome news anchor?"

ok this Hayes guy is okay on the DNC coverage but his show seems much more promising.

there's some folks missing--mr. born on 3rd and thought he hit a triple luke russert and the foxy Tamron Hall. It's too hard to pick one semi-acceptable one. Much rather "most hated" in which case I would choose Willie Geist...is he a bro, a frat guy, a d-bag, which? He's also part of Nepotism Broadcast Corporation (son of the irritatingly unfunny Bill Geist on CBS Sunday Morning)

I guess I find Tamron the least offensive. I way, way left of MSNBC but Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow have that NPR smugness that I just can't take

Tamron Hall is there.

I only included people that host shows, leaving off contributors like Luke because that would go on forever and I would probably have to include people like Richard Wolffe.

Michael Ian Black ‏@michaelianblack
Chris Hayes looks like the lovechild between Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes.

OK that's sort of funny...

Oh OK, sorry about that Gubke...xp

MHP for the win - her weekend show is awesome, they get all liberal arts seminar academic instead of just arguing about the news of the day. I like Hayes' weekend show too but I haven't seen it as much since it's on so early.

Maddow is so good at television and as an anchor of MSNBC election/convention coverage. I def enjoy watching her show but it gets a little cutesy and aggravating when she spends whole segments on silly stuff - soundbites of the day blown out of proportion, that sort of thing.

Haven't seen any of these folks since cutting cable almost a year ago. Voted for Tamron Hall because she's ridiculously hot.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y13ls3Cw5Fo/Tclf5heOo4I/AAAAAAAAM8c/Hb1lARu8d9g/s1600/TamronHall56113.jpg

the one on the right was shtupping Matt Lauer, correct?

Lockup: Raw

ok so this Chris Hayes show is pretty good.

Morbz would be pleased that Scahill has a place on cable news: http://leanforward.msnbc.com/_news/2012/09/09/13759676-america-in-the-dark-about-laws-governing-the-war-on-terror?lite

Another Jennings fan. One of my mom's formative childhood experiences was watching Jennings run through the jungle in Vietnam trying not to get shot. Kinda hard to imagine any of the above doing that.

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willie geist
but hes not real so
whoops i already voted

a toure vs a sharpton imo

Maddox hands down

(Also her book is pretty good so far)

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Krystal Ball votes str8 trollin'

Should've thrown my vote to Alex Wagner.

Which one of you jokers voted for Chris Matthews?

Chris Hayes' monologue was pretty good today:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#49137523

i liked ratigan

Me too. :(

I also liked The Abrams Report way back when...

I thought they should've given Ratigan the primetime show instead of Lawrence O'Donnell (much hate for that guy).

I even bought Ratigan's book but it was mostly a diagram with descriptive paragraphs.

Chris Hayes' monologue was pretty good today:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#49137523

― timellison, Sunday, September 23, 2012 7:40 PM (1 hour ago)

yeah the ending slays. not sure about that suit tho

glasses too high on face also grates when he lifts chin.

not to mention that the glasses boast the wrong frames for that face.

basically what i meant to get at there

I'm reading his book and it's pretty good.

the msnbc dudes made me almost feel bad for rudy giuliani after the debate last night.. they basically brought him on to yell at and berate to take their debate frustrations out on. it was a pretty juvenile display..

Chris Hayes' Homeland Security zing was great though.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/cher-married-tv-nerd

This would be hilarious if it weren’t so slanderous and destructive. Liberals laugh at Fox news but this is just as toxic.

Also, ex-FBI, totally credible source here. https://t.co/8OXKk8VI3K

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) November 24, 2019

jesus

so glad the Democrats have defaulted back to Cold War paranoia

joy reid is by far the worst msnbc host

at least in terms of her vendetta against bernie. cf.

I didn't answer your biased reporting about Bernie during the last 2 years @JoyAnnReid. But don't ever use me to demean my husband. I am very happy & very proud to be Bernie's wife. Your perception couldn't be more wrong. Have you ever talked with him? You've never spoken w/me. https://t.co/SZG7uV8cfO

— Jane O'Meara Sanders (@janeosanders) November 29, 2017

but yeah, the cold war paranoia stuff is obviously not limited to her

Isaac Chotiner interviews Chris Hayes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/business/media/msnbc-new-name-ms-now.html

"As part of a corporate spinoff from Comcast, MSNBC is changing its name to My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW, for short."

Microsoft NOW

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Hmmm. Comcast is disassociating itself from MSNBC, eh? Feels like more spineless C-Suite execs rushing to stay on the good side of our newly-anointed dictator.

My Source for News, Opinion, World!

sounds like they're getting ready to sell the whole thing off to a spam company

xp The spinoff was announced in mid-Nov. 2024 but seems to have been in the works since before the election: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/media/comcast-nbcuniversal-cable-spinoff-msnbc