Well, looky there. NBC brass is FINALLY noticing @chucktodd 's lack of talent..........

[riversedge]

Well, some good news. Happy day!

Link to tweet

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[JustAnotherGen]

1. Good

Nicole Wallace is far less biased even if she was GOP - and assisted in unleashing Sarah Palin on the world.

She asks tough questions and doesn't let people get away with jack shit.

[magicarpet]

10. When trDumpie is gone will Nicole worship Tom Cotton during the 2024 presidential run ?

[old guy]

13. Beat me to it.

If not Cotton it will be whoever is on the ballot I'm afraid. She is after all a repub operator.

[Hekate]

20. She has long ago renounced the Republican Party. Didn't vote for McCain because Palin...

Hates Trump’s guts. Gives liars a hard time on air. Where does Cotton fit in?

[magicarpet]

30. Cotton will be on the Republican Party ticket come 2024.

He will be marketed as the GOP's new JFK and the totally reformed Rethug Party. They will coach him and teach him to be sweet and attentive to the general public with a wonderful toothy smile. He will come across as a Nobel laureate in comparison to idiot Donnie the dump.

The softer and gentler Tom Cotton for the duration of the campaign,... then immediately transition into Attila the Fascist Hun should he win the 2024 presidential election.

Upon a superficial glance Cotton seems intelligent and normal, to some charismatic. But this is a very dangerous man who we never want to see in the Oval Office.

[onetexan]

46. yup, Cotton's authoritarian air makes me wana puke

[pamdb]

70. Cotton

Every time I see him, all I can think of is Bates Motel.

[Dan]

71. I don't mean to sound mean....

But Tom Cotton (to me) appears too much like trailer trash to appeal to the remaining GOP post Trump. To me, he looks like a red neck (no offense intended to farmers) who just purchased his first Sears store bought suit. Looking at him, he’s seems the type when sitting down to a chicken dinner - and you say “pass the chicken”, he would reach over and physically hand you a drumstick.

[certainot]

97. all americans have to do to be rid of the teabag cottons is stop ignoring talk radio

he's clearly another product of it, came out of limbaugh's ass and will have no future when limbaugh dies and the rw radio monopoly falls apart shortly after.

the tragedy is that dems could have destroyed it long ago with very little activism. putin would have had little influence here, and trump would never have gotten anywhere near the white house

[calimary]

98. THIS.

Break up the ownership monopolies.

[lark]

44. Even after she was a never trumper, she strongly pushed Barr for the AG job.

She was 1000% wrong on that and I really don't trust her after the drumpf era. She reflexively gives repugs more than the benefit of the doubt. Now, I really like her against drumpf, she is one of the best voices out there on that so I do watch her - for now. I really wonder who she will be if Biden wins so am prepared to jump off quickly if she returns to her roots.

[Raine]

82. I feel the same, she's an anti-Trumper but she's not a Democrat and

how/what will she be like with a Biden win? I don't trust her one bit! 🙄

[lark]

94. See, I'm not that opposed, just not trustful as to how she will treat a Dem president.

I hope I'm/we're wrong as she is a very powerful and down to earth voice while still being smart. Hopefully we'll see soon.

[JustAnotherGen]

106. +1

And not buying the logic of some of the responses to your question.

I absolutely do not believe this asshole with be on the GOP Ticket in 2024. I DO think Romney, Hogan, Kasich will be . . .

[Celerity]

21. zero chance she will support a Cotton POTUS bid nt

[grantcart]

100. +1 but too rational for many here

If she was still GOP I doubt she would have divorced a GOP biggie (Ambassador/Sr Bush husband of 14 years) and shacked up with a NYT reporter.

Kind of seems like she went all in some time ago.

But that doesn't fit the crazed conspiracy of many here.

[JI7]

41. You obviously have not paid attention to her. She didn't even vote for McCain in 2008

[Blue_true]

87. I doubt it. She appears to be very opposed to what the Republican Party is now.

She may be warm to people like Charlie Baker of Massachusetts or Hogan of Maryland. But those two are basically just a little off being conservative Democrats of the Joe Manchin strain.

[Rebl2]

103. She better not

She lose a lot of viewers if she does

[magicarpet]

2. Chuckie should be reassigned to cleaning the toilets at the news broadcast studios only.

[Paladin]

4. +1000. (nt)

[jrthin]

7. I think even that job is way above him.

[Blue Owl]

15. A good 3rd shift job

n/t

[agingdem]

18. Chuck should resign and then embark on a new career path

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my suggestion: how-to videos..Chuck Todd talking out of his ass...

[Dave Starsky]

51. I can see Chuck working at a sporting goods store, like a Cabela's.

Not management material, certainly, but at least someone who can set up end caps, do a price check on fishing lures, or point out where you might find the mosquito repellent. I wouldn't trust him on anything complicated like how to put together a tent or anything, but he could probably do that other stuff fairly competently.

[usaf-vet]

101. Now Pro Bass. That would end my buying from them. Todd should just fade away.

Go buy a ranch in Wyoming and play at being a cowboy. He is already a horse's a$$.

[riversedge]

81. WINNER

[Paladin]

3. About fucking time!

Go Nicolle!

[old guy]

5. He'll be headed to faux for a prime time gig.

[Renew Deal]

6. There is a significant drop in quality from Wallace to Todd

So this is good news.

[JaneQPublic]

58. MSNBC brass were quoted off the record...

...in an article a few months back. They referred to Todd as the "hammock" between Wallace and Melber, both of whom have higher ratings than Todd does.

[underpants]

8. Where is Andrea Mitchell going?

Unless she’s not on the air anymore?

[csziggy]

16. Probably nowhere - she's on from noon to 1 o'clock

So starting at noon it will be Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd, Katie Tur, Nicole Wallace x 2, Ari Melber, Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Brian Williams.

Not a bad line up.

[underpants]

17. For all that I've been home I rarely have the TV on

and I’m a TV guy. It’s not that I’m teleworking I just don’t want to sit and watch it all day.

Lawrence is my favorite. I’ve always like the end-of-the-day reflective shows. Like Aaron Brown used to have on CNN.

[TuxedoKat]

22. Lawrence

is probably my favorite too, although I also like Rachel, Joy, and Nicole. I especially enjoy Lawrence when something is going on in the senate and or house and everyone is dithering about it all day long speculating "Oh, what could it mean?", then Lawrence comes on at the end of the day, cuts through the nonsense and explains exactly what happened and what will happen. So refreshing.

Glad to see less of Chuck Toady. Not wild about Ari Melber either. Brian Williams has gotten better in his job, that format was not his forte when he started but he's improved. Glad to hear Jonathan Capeheart got a show; always liked him. I was wondering why he looked so happy lately! Ali Velshi is good too.

[underpants]

25. Williams is fantastic right after a Trump appearance

His reporter instincts show. The way he dry reads what Trump said is very funny.

[JaneQPublic]

34. BW is very witty.

He was once a guest on the NPR news game show "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me," and his remarks were the most entertaining part of the show. The host call Williams the funniest person "to jockey an anchor desk."

Take a listen...
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114075281

[IcyPeas]

42. Stacy Abrams was also on WWDTM and

she has the best sense of humor!!! I think it shows brains when someone has a good sense of humor. I like when we see another side to some of the guests. (Obama was also on it eons ago).

[JaneQPublic]

49. Here's the audio clip!

Thanks for the recommendation!

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/09/692760758/not-my-job-we-quiz-georgia-politician-stacey-abrams-on-bromances

[underpants]

50. Suss THAT OUT Williams!

That was hilarious. He nailed them on the jazz note intros. Patton Oswald said the same - talk radio buffers are hard rock power chords and NPR is Brazilian woodwinds

FloFo

I don’t think we were speaking a lot of German here in 1944

[JaneQPublic]

56. Love WWDTM

...and that was a particularly funny exchange.

[renate]

36. Brian Williams is must-see-TV for me

I love his dry, blink-and-you-might-miss-it wit.

[Rice4VP]

91. I hate when Ali Velshi fills in for Lawrence. Lawrence brings the venom

[CaptainTruth]

48. I loved Aaron Brown. I still haven't forgiven Anderson Cooper for replacing him.

[underpants]

52. I remember his attic set and having Wesley Clark on before the war

Clark said flat out - this is a mistake and it’s going to be a disaster. If memory serves Brown got fired because he didn’t leave a golf pro-am for some breaking news story. They were going to get rid of him anyway, you can’t air anti-war stuff when everyone is getting their wargasm on.

[oasis]

88. I never forgave Brown for canceling an interview with one of our

most prominent DUers. He dumped our guy on the sayso of the number one Freeper.

[House of Roberts]

23. Tur, Ayman, then Nicole

just to keep this straight.

[csziggy]

33. I tried to look up the MSNBC schedule but the one I found was old

Still lists Velshi & Ruhle at 1 PM!

Mostly I don't watch from Andrea Mitchell on. Some evenings I will turn back to MSNBC but I got out of the habit while Chris Matthews was still on. I miss watching Rachel and Lawrence, but by evenings, I don't want anything serious.

Streaming TV has me spoiled - I'm watching a lot of the old British series I never got to see regularly. It has reduced stress levels tremendously!

[SaveOurDemocracy]

39. Where are Velshi & Ruhle going???

[csziggy]

74. Stephanie Ruhle is on at 9 AM weekdays, Ali Velshi 9 AM weekends

I don't think they still have their 1 PM show, but as I said, I haven't been watching MSNBC during the day much.

[House of Roberts]

65. Which British series,

if I may ask?

[csziggy]

76. Whatever I can find on Acorn TV and BritBox

Let's see.

Acorn - The Yorkshire Vet and Suspects right now; previously Midsomer Murders, Ms. Fischer's Modern Mysteries, Miss Fischer's Murder Mysteries, Hamish McBeth, Loch Ness, Chasing Shadows, Lovejoy, Pie in the Sky, The Brokenwood Mysteries, Dead Still, Manhunt, Murdoch Mysteries.

BritBox - Dr. Blake Mysteries, The Fall, MI-5 (aka Spooks), River, Red Dwarf. I just finished Poirot and Miss Marple. Some others that I ran through a while back. I need to get back to Classic Doctor Who - I got to Tom Baker and my schedule was disrupted so never got back on track with it. Others showing - A Confession, In Plain Sight, Dark Heart, Vera, Dirk Gentley (the original version, not the Canadian one).

[House of Roberts]

77. Murdoch Mysteries comes on some of the nostalgia channels

but I never got started on it.

I'm well acquainted with MI-5, Red Dwarf, and Doctor Who.

My Alabama Public TV runs British comedies on Saturday nights, but they've been stuck on Keeping Up Appearances and As Time Goes By for quite a while. They run Doc Martin on Thursday and Sunday nights too. Other Brit shows I've liked were Are You Being Served, To The Manor Born, Good Neighbors, Fawlty Towers, Vicar Of Dibley, and Chef.

[csziggy]

79. I got started on Murdoch Mysteries back before I bagan streaming

Not sure what channel it was on, but I watched it for a few years.

The nice thing about streaming is that usually you can go back to the first show and watch the entire series from the beginning. For shows like Murdoch Mysteries it makes the cast dynamics better. Recently I began watching Frankie Drake Mysteries on PBS streaming. It's done by the same Canadian production team as Murdoch Mysteries. On one of the episodes, George Crabtree from the Murdoch show had an appearance. They seem to do much as Murdoch, have plots using historical figures, but Frankie Drake is set in the 1920s, also in Toronto.

[House of Roberts]

80. We had a show we liked late on Sunday night called Forever Knight, about a good vampire

trying to catch a bad vampire, and it was set in Toronto.

Another was called Hawkeye, with Lee Horsely and Lynda Carter, set in and around Vancouver in 1755.

[csziggy]

83. Oh, I loved Forever Knight!

I was trying to remember the title of the show a while back and couldn't come up with it. Now I can search for it on streaming channels!

There was another Canadian show set in a small Canadian village with at least one female cop that I have been trying to remember the title of. Due South comes to mind, but it is not the correct one. DirecTV used to have one Canadian channel and it was on that, not on any of the American ones.

[Larissa]

93. British programming keeps me sane

My favs: Vera, Endeavour. Others I've loved: Hinterland (Welsh), Scott and Bailey, Luther, Inspector George Gently, Inspector Lewis, DCI Banks.

[csziggy]

99. Oh, yes, their mystery shows are amazing

I've watched all you named except Luther. I guess I'll have to start that one - too many of the ones I've been watching are running out of episodes for me.

[Fiendish Thingy]

63. Yup, Todd is the weakest link in that lineup; glad they gave Ali Velshi a weekend slot too nt

[napi21]

89. I'd like to see Ali Velshi get a perm. spot. I really like the shows when he's filling in. Since

Joy got her own show, I'm guessing Ali will be next when they have another shake up.

[WinstonSmith4740]

61. She's the next one they need to look at.

She was doing "both sides" long before Chuck came on the scene.

[underpants]

64. The thing for me with Andrea

Is that she lets us know what the conversations were like at the cocktail parties the night before. I’m not making a joke about drinking. I always took her as an inside story for the gossip.

[procon]

9. Looks like Katy The lost an hour of her show.

Wonder why she got her time chopped.

[unitedwethrive]

73. Maybe because she can't read a teleprompter to save her life, constantly mispronounces words, and

has cringe-worthy personal interactions?

I can't watch her, and I will admit that maybe she has improved, but I haven't seen her in at least 6 months.

[XanaDUer2]

78. Is that Katy Tur?

She'a a bit weak

[Rebl2]

104. She originally

was only on for one hour. There was a woman that used to be on at 9am central time who had a baby in April or May. What has become of her. Did she decide not to come back.? Wish I could remember her name. Last presidential election she along with Katy were on all the time following the election trail.

[demmiblue]

11. Also, Jonathan Capehart for the A.M. Joy slot.

Or, one hour for Capehart, and one hour for Cross.


I also like David Gura for something. Plus, he is a hell of a fiddle player:

Link to tweet

[renate]

38. I like David Gura too

And how fun that he has this secret talent!

[SaveOurDemocracy]

43. Another like for David Gura, even before I heard him fiddle. 🎻 😎

[JaneQPublic]

53. I still miss Gura's "Up" on weekend mornings.

Ali Velshi is a treasure, but on a weekend morning, he can be a tad intense and professorial.

Gura had his platter of pastry and very personable, witty guests around a table, which made it more like brunch. Of course, that lighter approach to news may not be appropriate in this burning hellscape that is the year 2020 of the Trump Administration.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. One hour of Chuckie the Toad

is still fifty nine minutes to much. So the Boy's VP of Political Affairs might be coming to a end. Damn,one can only hope.

[Happy Hoosier]

14. So no MTP daily?

Can;t say I'm disappointed. Todd is an awful interviewer. He rarely follows up against bullshit answers. He has a list of talking points and goes down them, letting the interviewee pretty much spew whatever nonsense they have prepared without challenge.

[stopbush]

19. Big fan of Nicolle here. Not so much Mr Toad.

Q: why is AM Joy still called AM Joy?

[lindysalsagal]

29. Nicole regularly admits she was wrong to support the bushies.

Gotta love hearing that. People can change. If they're human.

[PunkinPi]

67. I don't think their going to change AM Joy's name until fall, when her replacement is final. nt

[Celerity]

24. now sack the Toad from Meet the Press

[Evolve Dammit]

26. A step in the right direction. She is much better than Chuck.

[sarcasmo]

27. Finally!

[Hekate]

31. Congratulations, Nicolle and Katy. MSNBC has been fiddling about with the schedules so much...

...I can hardly keep track. I turn them on and get Brian Williams or Chuck Todd co-anchoring, things have been chopped into half-hours. My DVR is confused.

I want to be sure to see Nicolle. She used to be on at 1:00 sharp, but lately it’s been 12:30. So I am trying to translate these new schedules into California time — does this mean she will be on from 1:00 to 3:00 here, i.e. 4:00 to 6:00 in New York?

[moonscape]

57. Yes n/t

[Butterflylady]

32. Gently pushing him out.

Next stop will be the door.

[bucolic_frolic]

35. Moderators of network news talk shows need

strong grounding in political philosophy from at least Machiavelli forward. Ancient political philosophy wouldn't hurt either. This knowledge would allow them to filter the bs that is thrown at them, and quickly identify its roots, genre, and viability. To my mind, Chuck Todd just doesn't have an ear for political philosophy. He allows talking points that almost beg questions just float past. Both-sider-ism is not a substitute for good political judgment. Maybe the problem is they hire journalists, and some with thin credentials, because they talk great and sound good, whereas they should be focused on substance.

[ChiTownDenny]

37. Yay!

Now, please, fix "Meet The Press".

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. Great

[Sucha NastyWoman]

45. Oh good, I adore Nicole Wallace

2 hours will be great. One of the most compassionate newscasters I've ever seen. I can’t imagine why she ever thought she was a Republican.

Other favorite ex-Republicans include Steve Schmidt (who wins the award for the world best dream kitchen) and Anna Navarro. Don’t think any of them will ever go back to that party, certainly not in its current form.

Really like Katy too.

[moonscape]

59. Was so disappointed when Schmidt went to

work for Howard Schultz. It's hard for me to forget that in the middle of the crisis we're in and which he so eloquently opines on, that he did that.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

47. Will he still host MTP? Time to bring Brian Williams back into the Limelight?

I think revolving hosts would be a great idea. It would keep the guests on their toes, I think - Nicole, Brian, Rachel, Joy, etcetera.

[jcgoldie]

54. Good Wallace & Tur both Todd

Its not close.

[kairos12]

55. Good riddance, I hope, to Both Siderist Chuck Toad. He's a disgrace.

[ron dawson]

60. Chuck Todd's Lack of Talent

Not only is he a no-talent doofus, he's pretentious, smarmy,
patronizing, and unctuous in the extreme. MSNBC should show
him the door so he could go join his true equals at "Fox & Friends."

[Fiendish Thingy]

62. They should just bump to hosting the Weekend late night Jail shows and be done with him nt

[lunatica]

66. Oh good! I can turn the news on at 3pm Mountain Time now!

And I can watch Nicolle Wallace without grumbling about Chuck Todd coming on next. As long as she sticks to her present way of seeing the world I’ll gladly watch her. I have especially appreciated her sense of indignation and anger towards Trump and the corrupt GOP.

I really do hope she’s found a home in the Democratic Party. A real ideological one.

[Miles Archer]

68. Nicolle Wallace is the voice you want at that time, NOT Todd.

1 PM is the beginning of the end for Chuck. I NEVER watch MSNBC at that time.

[FakeNoose]

69. Did anybody happen to notice?

Does Chuckie Cheese still have the Meet The Press show on Sunday mornings? That's really the plum they all want, and he's still got it as far as I know.

When he gets bounced from Meet The Press, then we can all cheer. I actually think he's not that bad as moderator on MTP only because he plays the both-sider card so well that the Repukes are all happy to be guests on his show.

NBC News will need to do some deep soul searching when Chump loses in a few months.

[LexVegas]

72. He is unwatchable. I think he may be the dumbest guy on any network news. nt

[brooklynite]

75. The continued viewership of Chuck Todd is appreciated...

...how else could they endlessly complain about how bad he is?

[ecstatic]

84. Lol. I answered a survey on him last week.

I wonder if I contributed to his demotion? I have the "Google Rewards" app on my phone, and last week, one of the the surveys was about Chuck Todd! I guess because the app was spying on me and the show may have been on in the background. I don't intentionally watch Chuck Todd's show, but sometimes I don't get around to changing the channel after Nicolle Wallace's show.

Anyway, the survey mentioned Chuck's podcast, and asked if I would be OK with my assistant recommending his podcast to me. I kept selecting NO, and then it kept asking in a different way. Finally, it asked me to elaborate on why I wasn't interested and I wrote something mean down. I received $1 for my troubles.

[Cha]

85. Many of us saw that on his first MTP show when he interviewed

President Obama.

Todd said Obama didn't talk about something that he had previously mentioned 4 times in the interview.. if memory serves.

[Tbear]

86. Toad will get creamed at 1:00

by Brianna Keilor at CNN. She is quite good. She gets a special fire in her eyes when talking about the Russian bounties.
Tur won my respect reporting on the Trump campaign.
I liked David Gura's Saturday morning show.
Sorry Todd.

[Rice4VP]

90. Give Karnacki that 3pm hour. I want to hear about polls!

[Mike Niendorff]

92. All I want to know ...

... is when Rachel will be back

(* And yeah, also a bump for Steve Kornacki, because his election-day precinct-by-precinct analysis is head-and-shoulders above anyone else's.)


MDN

[samsingh]

95. CHUCK TODD is bringing down MSNBC's ratings. This is a good move. They should remove him entirely.

there rating will go up substantially if they do.

[Roy Rolling]

96. It's a bad show

Stop slamming Todd, the show would be bad with anybody hosting.

You can’t clone a weekly news show into a five times a week daily show.

Remember folks, there’s a reason it’s called show business and not show art.

Todd as a performance artist may be good or bad, but it’s advertisers who pay the bills.

[brooklynite]

102. Why then are they keeping him on the air?

[Rebl2]

105. Would prefer

they take him off permanently.