Mr. Kornacki, please be quiet. Just stop talking and---go away. Please. nt

[Atticus]

[Sherman A1]

1. Who is Kornacki?

[Atticus]

2. I am trying to stay civil. Let's just call him a "very enthusiastic" number-cruncher on TV. nt

[CaptYossarian]

4. Steve Kornacki from MSNBC, an overcaffeinated guy who analyzes whenever

Rand Paul and Marco Rubio burp in public. He finds himself to be very interesting. Imagine Chuck Todd on crack.

[Sherman A1]

9. Oh

I don’t watch M$NBC so it’s all pretty meaningless to me.

[PatSeg]

33. Yes, good analogy

Chuck Todd used to the statistics guy on MSNBC (long time ago) and actually, he was watchable in that capacity. Never should have gotten his own show though. Kornacki is just exhausting. I'm sure the numbers could be very interesting, but his hyper-kinetic presentation is too distracting.

[brooklynite]

3. MORNING JOE appreciates your continued viewership...

[polichick]

5. As a civics nerd since eighth grade, I appreciate his enthusiasm.

[NJCher]

6. Kornacki distinguished himself

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During Bridgegate, when we New Jerseyans had our own trump-like bully as governor.
His show at 8 a.m. was a must see and I would get up early to watch it. Chris Christie is persona non grata in nj, in part to his highly accurate reporting.

[True Blue American]

11. Steve was great when

His show came on.UP. But as he moved up the ranks at MSNBC he just became obnoxious.

[LenaBaby61]

19. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[milestogo]

7. If you don't like him, don't watch. He's excellent at what he does.

I really like watching him on election nights.

[csziggy]

28. Yeah - I don't get complaining about a TV personality

If you don't like him, change the channel. Eventually if enough people do that, the channel will notice a drop in viewership at a particular time.

For example, see the reputed soon to be done shuffle that will move Chuck Todd to 9 AM. Apparently MSNBC noticed that after good numbers from 4-5 PM (Nicolle Wallace), viewership dropped at 5, and then went back up at 6 PM (Ari Melber). So there is talk that Todd will move to the slot following Morning Joe.

With the lackluster performance of Todd’s MTP Daily at 5 p.m.—“a hammock,” as one insider put it, between the robust ratings of Nicolle Wallace’s 4 p.m. show and Ari Melber’s 6 p.m. show—there has been talk of switching Todd to 9 a.m., as Page Six first reported. Under that scenario, the current 9 a.m. anchor, Stephanie Ruhle, could move to 3 p.m., where her financial expertise would mesh well with the market closings.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jitters-at-msnbc-as-brass-eyes-moving-chuck-todd-and-talks-to-shep-smith

[Paladin]

8. Go away, Kornaki---and take Chuck Todd and Chris Matthews with you.

MSNBC is way the hell overdue for a personnel-shuffling.

[dem4decades]

14. Matthews is clueless, he just doesn't get it.

[Paladin]

17. Matthews shows serious and repeated signs of faltering.

He was always irritating, but he used to be a lot more competent. The same, of course, can't be said of Chuck Todd---he ought to be doing weather reports somewhere in South Dakota.

[True Blue American]

21. I have not watched Mathews for a long time

But saw him one day this week. He looks awful. Has he been ill?

[LenaBaby61]

20. REALLY THIS FOR ALL THREE 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Hoyt]

10. I like him and his analysis.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. He locked up his "big board" screen last night after all the manic swiping and flailing around

and then when they fixed it, he broke it again while on-air and they had to have a guy come back to try to fix it while he was on-camera.

(I remember when he broke his hand last year and was still flailing around with his hand wrapped and splinted)

[Cornus]

13. I like Kornacki

and his analysis of the voting, but I still don't understand what's happening in Iowa. Seems like Bernie has more votes but Pete has more delegates...kind of like the Electoral College.

[NJCher]

15. Urmmmm

Yeah.

The irony.

[NJCher]

25. actually, there's more to it than that

In his report on Maddow, he said it is possible for Buttigieg's delegates to disappear.

Brian Williams concluded the segment by saying this is an enormously complex situation.

Last I heard, Bernie was up something like 8 delegates.

[Tom Rinaldo]

16. His energy can be jarring, but he is always keyed into the bellwether questions

to focus on when trying to interpret election data. No one is better than he is at looking at patterns of which unreported precincts can effect the final outcome on an election night. And his post election analysis of what happened why can be illuminating also.

I admit, the horse race aspect of election night reporting is trivial compared to the impact on our society of the choices those elections signify. But on election night I am glued to the screen looking for tea leaves that might indicate how a specific race will turn out because, well, I want to know damn it! And no one is better at sorting through those tea leaves than Kornacki

[milestogo]

32. Exactly.

[NCjack]

18. A lot of folks on TV can make election numbers balance in a simple table

and direct our eyes to the leading and losing candidates, etc. Steve makes the numbers on his maps balance AND dance on a rope.

For me, if a dry presentation of statistical data puts me to sleep for a few seconds, and when I am jolted back to paying attention, I am lost in the numbers. Steves keeps my attention. His presentations (and great maps) make me want to balance and dance on a rope.

I like Steve. Let's keep him.

[Hotler]

22. Seems to own only one pair of slacks, one shirt, one tie.

[Paladin]

24. He has one sportcoat---wears it about as often as trump tells the truth...(nt)

[dajoki]

23. Agreed n/t

[redstatebluegirl]

26. I have to change the channel with Kornacki is on MSNBC.

[COLGATE4]

27. I find Tigger endlessly irritating. Rush to change channels

when he appears.

[Polly Hennessey]

29. He does give us information; however, he wears me out.

I wonder if he ever has a calm, non-moving moment. He reminds me of the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. Whirling, running, might be late, must hurry, brain ahead of speech. Screech, down the rabbit hole I go.

[USALiberal]

30. Easy solution, stop watching! Nt

[Turbineguy]

31. What is it about this guy that wrankles people around here?

He enthusiastically analyses statistics.

[nolabear]

34. I like him! He's enthused and engaged with what could be a dry narrative.

He’s got a sense of humor about both himself and the quirks of the supposedly straightforward issue of numbers and statistics. We get to see real time how fragile our supposedly dependable technology can be and it’s a cautionary tale at the very least.

The rancor over a young man happily working away to give us dependable info against a sea of fast shifting statistics shocks me. It DU seems full of rage these days. Some I get. Some I absolutely don’t.

[Atticus]

36. My OP was about exhaustion, not rage. Sorry if it struck you otherwise. nt

[nolabear]

37. There's a whole long thread, and many, I drew from.

Nothing personal. The pile-ons get to me these days.

[greenjar_01]

35. Kornacki stans gon be all up in your thread

They're the sniffiest.

[rsdsharp]

38. Iiiiiit"s WAVIN' WENDELL TIME!

Kornacki flails his arms wildly. He reminds me of a third base coach the Cubs had in 2003-04. His name was Wendell Kim, and he never saw a play where he didn't think a runner could score. He'd wildly swing his arm to signal the runner to keep going to home, where he's get thrown out by 15 feet. The fans took to calling him Wavin' Wendell. He was not my favorite.