I will follow Ali Velshi wherever he goes.

[milestogo]

If we lose MSNBC, I will find him and follow him. He is a brilliant journalist and a great human being.

Watching him this morning.

[PlanetBev]

1. Agreed

He is the absolute best.

[BonnieJW]

10. I wish

They would get rid of Joe and Mika and put on Katie Phang, Ali Velshi, and Stephanie Rule

[yorkster]

19. Wish I could agree re Ruhle.

She sometimes has interesting panels, but she often talks over guests and in the process weakens their summations.

[Trueblue Texan]

44. And I've never seen her pander to the right wing nut jobs. nt

[yorkster]

45. So, what you're saying is you have?

I'm a tad slow on the uptake tonight, so I may have mistaken a straightforward statement for a bit o' snark...

[Trueblue Texan]

46. No

She does NOT pander to the right wing nut jobs.

[yorkster]

47. Right. Unlike Ari Melber she doesn't have

them on her show, at least the ones that I've seen. So, on that we can agree.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. He's been one of my favorites, an unsung hero

May 30, 2020
NBC News reporters Ali Velshi, Morgan Chesky, and their respective crews found themselves in the center of the clash between police and protesters in Minneapolis. Velshi was struck in the leg by a rubber bullet. Chesky and his crew evaded tear gas after a flash-bang went off near them.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. I watched that happen live on TV!

[Dennis Donovan]

8. I did too

Back in 2020.

[question everything]

18. This was when I lost all respect. He was screaming about curfew when there "peaceful demonstration"

There were not! he was not there when daytime broke and we saw all the vandalism and looting of many minority owned businesses.

Until then, yes, I followed him. From CNN to Aljazeera and then to MSNBC with Stephanie Ruhle and then his own.

But his shameful comments during the riots sealed him for me.

Not that it will matter to anyone but was waiting for an opportunity to say thus.

[vapor2]

3. If he does leave MSNBC

PLEASE post his whereabouts for us. LOVE him too.

[Jit423]

4. I would follow MOST MSNBC journalists. (Not Mitchell or Tur).

I wish most of their legal team and pundits could run the Justice Department.

[yorkster]

5. Heartily agree. He's a multi-faceted gem.

[MacKasey]

6. How about calling/writing MSNBC and tell them what we want to see

Instead of maga , normal people who vote for Democrats

People who liked President Biden and VP Harris

List of democratic accomplishes and the good they are doing

Have the Republican lie list

Explain how Tariffs really work
By using school house Rock videos

Just throwing out stuff

[calimary]

16. FANTASTIC idea, MacKasey!

6. How about calling/writing MSNBC and tell them what we want to see
Instead of maga , normal people who vote for Democrats

People who liked President Biden and VP Harris

List of democratic accomplishes and the good they are doing

Have the Republican lie list

Explain how Tariffs really work
By using school house Rock videos

I copied your list to use when I send my own message to MSNBC.

[MacKasey]

22. Thank you , calimary!

[Rhiannon12866]

9. He's my favorite, too. I thought he should have won an award for the reporting he did from the Ukraine border

At the very beginning of that terrible ongoing war.

[milestogo]

11. I remember him hugging that teenaged Ukrainian girl.

He really comes across as a caring person.

https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/teenage-refugee-helps-fellow-ukrainians-i-m-only-15-but-i-tried-to-help-people-because-they-are-people-like-me-136342597595

[State the Obvious]

14. A favorite of mine also....beautiful moment to remember

His sincerity is genuine.... and spontaneous.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

12. I am following him on BlueSky.

As I am following many Pols, Journalists, conversing with Joy Reid, some of my favorite people in and out of Politics. From Luke Skywalker, to Lt.Sulu, to Jasmine Crockett herself.

Ali is at BlueSky.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. and Rachel, Lawrence and a few others

[pwb]

15. We only had the third shift on MSNBC

The rest of the day was all Trump loyalist. IMO. Cable news has become tabloid junk.

[Greybnk48]

17. I will follow Velshi too, and a handful of others. Wallace, Maddow, L. O'Donnell,

Hayes, the warrior Joy Reid, and I also like Jose Diaz-Ballart.

[moniss]

20. He is sharp and innovative

and his "Books" shows are really great. A guy named Mike Feder was a long time radio guy around NYC and he used to do a talk program that was excellent where he would mix it up between books and interviewing authors, interviewing musicians, reminiscing about how NYC was growing up, how the Beat/Folk scene was etc. Really nice guy and I had some nice correspondence with him over the years.

[canadoc1]

21. So many good people on MSNBC

I will follow each of them. Can't we have a real liberal channel somewhere?

[milestogo]

23. I hope so.

Welcome to DU!

[Xavier Breath]

25. Welcome!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

43. Welcome to DU

[Xavier Breath]

24. It's a bit before my time, but the title still made me hear it.

[milestogo]

33. They don't write songs like that any more.

[Xavier Breath]

34. Too true.

When I was younger I thought it was hokey, but hearing it again today for the first time in a long time, I can appreciate how well it was performed.

[milestogo]

29. He is now on weekends at 10am on MSNBC

https://www.msnbc.com/velshi

He's quite versatile, so he does a lot of foreign reporting. He was born in Kenya and raised in Canada by Indian Muslim parents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Velshi

[Mike Nelson]

27. Agree on Ali Velshi!

... also Joy Reid, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Nichole Wallace.

[mopinko]

28. i wonder if the employees cd afford to buy it.

maybe w a little help from someone like mark cuban.

woulndt that b great?

[barbtries]

30. i consider MSNBC lost.

just another corporate media tool.
I'm hoping the good ones quit and start their own youtubes, podcasts, write books, etc. They may not make the kind of money they do presently, but they'll be making a decent and an honest living.

[Shoonra]

38. Velshi or Maddow without a research/reporting team ....

Velshi and Maddow might be your favorite liberal news analysts but they are so good because they're hooked up to the enormous NBC news gathering establishment. Without the newsgathering army these two (and others) would resemble Randi Rhodes on the FreeSpeech channel; relying on something clipped from yesterday's news and trying to stretch it into an hourlong show. Randi Rhodes could be the next Rachel Maddow if only she had the impressive newsgathering support available at NBC, but without it she's a voice crying in the wilderness.

[bluestarone]

31. YES, he is one of the BEST!!

No doubt about this!!!!

[demmiblue]

32. Love me some Ali Velshi!

If you get a chance, check out his book:





It was a very enjoyable read! I checked it out of the library, but will probably end up purchasing it.

[BarbD]

40. I own this very interesting book and love it.

Also appreciate his interview of Maria Ressa, the Philippine journalist and author of the fascinating book, "How to Stand up to a Dictator". I highly recommend it.

Lest we forget his weekly "Banned Book Club". Ali Velshi is a gem. Truth to power!

[City Lights]

35. Agreed! He is outstanding! nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. I also like Velshi

[proud patriot]

37. Yep , I as well

[hay rick]

39. Count me in. I'm a Velshi fan boy.

[Trueblue Texan]

41. Same for Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell nt

[bluboid]

42. omg, AGREE!