What do you think of MSNBC's new weekend programming?

[CTyankee]

https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/msnbc-the-weekend-new-shows-premiere/

I've been watching Capehart and Daniels with great interest. They are two gay men of color at the helm.

So far, this show is wonderful, at least to me (old, straight female). I have a transitioning grandchild in L.A. so I have a very high level of interest in shows that deal with her issues as well as my granddaughters' and grandson, both in very blue states.

This is a good thing!

[Meadowoak]

1. As a gay man, it might be popular with the LGBTQ population, about

10% but I think it's a turn off to the other 90%. I think we're going down the wrong path. Democracy is on the line, and I'm not sure this is how we save it. Just my opinion.

[senseandsensibility]

8. Don't know much about this show and haven't watched

it, but I'm sure they both cover the news and politics, right? I mean, I don't think it's a LGBTQ themed show is it?

[Meadowoak]

10. Yes, they do cover news and politics, but I think we're

Presenting the wrong image of the democratic party at this time. Not the hill I am willing to die on. And I'm a gay man.

[Emile]

2. Morning Joe Weekend SUCKS!

[SocialDemocrat61]

4. Morning Joe weekday SUCKS!

😉

[milestogo]

3. The morning show seems like a lightweight talk show that exists

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as filler to watch while you're waiting for Ali Velshi.

(old, straight female)

Edit: Primetime Weekend is very good: Ayman Mohyeldin, Catherine Rampell, Antonia Hylton And Elise Jordan

Antonia Hylton is one to watch.

[CTyankee]

6. So far I'm liking this new crop of the Weekend anchors. I can't recall Hylton.

I remember Elise because she's a Yalie. I like it when she's on Morning Joe because he didn't get into Yale Law School and never got over it. In fact, Mika sometimes sticks it to him by saying "Did you go to Yale Law School?" He ignores that question...

[Liberal In Texas]

5. IMHO, the new morning show weekend doesn't hold a candle to the one before it.

The one they moved to weeknight evenings. They had the formula down pat.
For some reason, I just can't get into being interested in their presentation.
The rest of the weekend lineup is pretty good. The best, of course, is Velshi.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Jonathan Capehart is a liar.

He smeared Bernie Sanders in 2016, writing Sanders lied about his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement while at U Chicago in the early 1960s.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/washington-post-doubles-d_b_9238436

[CTyankee]

13. That''s awful. Why did he do that?

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Judged by how well his journalism "career" took off...

Capehart’s smear appears to have been to support the “corporate wing” of the party over the “socialist” Sanders, who has never wavered from his support of what I consider the core of the Democratic Party — using the powers of government to better the lives of all Americans. The late Sen. Paul Wellstone called it, “the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party.” They draw the votes, but seeing how the game runs on money to buy time on the tee vee, not what counts — the money.

[madinmaryland]

9. I don't watch MSNBC or any other news channel on the weekend.

I check DU and WaPo, but tend to watch sports and murder Mysteries with my wife. I just need a break from talking head news stuff.

[CTyankee]

11. Sometimes we just watch concerts on one of our public broadcasting channels.

And I mean classical music and sometimes classical ballet if it is on (which I call "men in tights and women in tutus&quot . Hubby was briefly a classical cello player and we can zone out on the gorgeous music, particularly of the full-on Romantic era but also some string quartets playing Bach. It is wonderful, refreshing and energizing.

[PlanetBev]

12. Three hours of Velshi this morning

Made me very happy. I always learn a lot with him.