MSNBC: PLEASE SEND THE FOX TROLL, GRETA, BACK TO FOX!

[nikibatts]

[OneBlueDotBama]

1. No Kidding

Her ratings must really suck.

[eniwetok]

7. unfortunately... they may not...

But this is only for Jan

http://info.msnbc.com/_news/2017/01/31/36810479-january-2017-ratings-msnbc-racks-up-higher-total-viewer-growth-than-cnn-and-fox-news-across-key-dayparts

Here's some news on March

http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/q1-2017-ratings-msnbc-has-best-quarter-ever/324683

[Maraya1969]

35. She is probably just riding the MSNBC high and they don't know how much better they'd be with

someone else.

They should stop settling.

[DK504]

24. Her show sucks that's for sure.

Her and that voice pandering to rethugs that have switched the channel to watch her, I can't believe there are that many of them, and MSNBC hopes some of the rubes will stay on MSNBC and watch THEIR fair and balanced.

[The Wizard]

58. Agree (NT)

[shraby]

2. Yup, they can take Greta out of Fox, but they can't take Fox out of Greta.

[Little Star]

3. They couldn't pay me enough money to watch her.

[MineralMan]

4. I always switch away the moment she appears.

Her show happens to coincide with my CBS local news broadcast, but I'd switch away anyhow. I do not care for her.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Why couldn't they have given that slot

to Joy Reid?

[eniwetok]

6. or Brian Williams!

[Jamaal510]

13. They might as well

have kept Al Sharpton's show on that time if they were ultimately going to give it to GVS.

[NewJeffCT]

17. Not a big fan of Rev Al on TV

he comes up with some great lines, but I would prefer a true journalist like Reid

[Me.]

27. Joy Might NOt Want It

It's a tough slot considering most people watch their local and national news in that time while on Sat. & Sun. she shines

[rpannier]

45. They cold have just put up the test pattern like they did a few decades ago when

going off the air for the night
Would be just as informative and less annoying

[Orsino]

8. I would ask how many paychecks she's taking these days...

...but MSNBC knew exactly who they were hiring. She's now an NBC troll, but still spreading the same FUD.

[titaniumsalute]

9. Hour by hour she has the worst ratings on MCNBS

[CatWoman]

10. I REFUSE to watch her show

[Atman]

11. Her VOICE just screams out Fox "News."

I know it's a sore subject with many here, as it was stated by many that Hillary's voice was shrill and turned people off. This isn't the same, I'm not making that argument. It would be the same if it was Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity; that VOICE is almost like a Fox "News" trademark. I can't un-hear the Fox "News" in her voice.

[Sun shadow]

12. Greta

She sucks. Queen of false equivalency.

[NewJeffCT]

18. Welcome to DU

agree - the first time I saw her on MSNBC not long ago, she was pulling that "Democrats did something like this before, too" spiel... it really pissed me off as I remembered what she was referring to and it was nothing close to equivalent.

[Midnight Writer]

43. She just pulled the equivalency thing tonight. I can't stomach more than a few minutes at a time.

She has a toolbox full of conservative talking points that she can't help but rifle through.

Welcome to DU. Sun Shadow.

[calimary]

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[certainot]

51. ammo - susan rice and benghazi? really? what a piece of shit republican

she references limbaugh and sons susan rice bullshit.

limabaugh (and probably all his wannabes) repeated that rice lied 5 times on benghazi. so susteren repeats it?

some asshole does an anti muslim video and starts riots around the world and then the benghazi attack and rice states the obvious instead of the rw talking points, which sursteren repeats, about terrorism and they say she's lying to protect muslims (obama)

that was all rw talk radio, and mostly still is a result of ignoring rw radio

she sucks and needs to go. msnbc cannot coddle and train her - she's got too many rw talking points going and needs to go.

[calimary]

59. Speaking of the Susan Rice bullshit -

If there's a video clip of Rachel Maddow and her guest, Andrea Mitchell (and I can't believe I'm advocating this), WATCH it.

Tuesday night Rachel played a clip of Andrea Mitchell's interview with Susan Rice earlier in the day. Then she had Mitchell on, in studio, to elaborate. AND THERE'S WHERE THE MONEY WAS.

We always record the Hardball-Brian Williams block for later watching if we miss something that runs live. So we played it back and I took notes. I was actually impressed with something Andrea Mitchell said.

Her point was that if Susan Rice was tracking all these trump people as intensely as the bad guys are insisting, how come she didn't know that Michael Flynn was an unregistered foreign agent on Turkey's payroll? Mitchell said Rice admitted she found that out when the news media did, when she read it in the newspapers. Mitchell said "that surprised me, too." Mitchell said that's proof that Rice couldn't have been "tracking him that closely," because otherwise she would have discovered Flynn's divided loyalties.

I'm no expert here - but seems to me that slams the door on all the GOP's calculated insinuations and accusations, and then locks it.

[raven mad]

14. LOL!

Who?

[Grammy23]

15. She is also rude and talks over other guests when she is on a panel.

Her voice is annoying, true enough; however, it is her superior tone that sends me to the remote. She just drips with sarcasm and a hoity-toity twang that insinuates she is right and her fellow panelists are wrong. Gah.....spare me, Greta.

[LakeArenal]

16. Heck no they won't...

They are doubling down with Megan Kelly going to the Today Show...
NBC taking the ...... seconds from Fox...

[George II]

19. She's horrible, can't believe they gave her the prized 6 PM slot.

[FreepFryer]

21. Almost always turn her off. Often shallow, unimaginative and combative for the wrong reasons. (n/t)

[SoCalDem]

36. me too..

I usually watch something I have recorded..



can't stand her.. her show makes Mia Farrow's boy's show look emmy-worthy

[Left-over]

22. I have absolutely no trust for anyone ever associated with faux noise.

[msdogi]

23. Yes,please!

Everything about her is offensive, MSNBC made a big mistake hiring her

[NurseJackie]

25. Has Greta Van Susteren had a stroke? Or is it just the Joy of Scientology?

Greta Van Susteren is a sever mumbler and syllable-skipper... so she's either lazy, or she's had a stroke, or I don't know what.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

28. Bell's Palsy

causes that slack-face expression

[mickmten]

29. stroke? doubt it...

After she left CNN and before she showed up on Fox, she had significant plastic surgery. I'm thinking that Roger Ailes might have approved of the "improvement", but I think she's had some permanent damage. Do a Google -- http://celebritysurgerynews.com/greta-van-susteren-plastic-surgery/

[MontanaMama]

39. She botox's the crap

out of her forehead. Her face doesn't move an inch. She had an eye lift too. I guess it is personal business to have plastic surgery but since she made it well known in People Magazine etc. it isn't off limits. IMO, she didn't get her money's worth. Yikes. That said, I don't watch her because she's just plain awful and still full-o-faux.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. How somebody with a voice like that could get a job in broadcasting

is beyond me. I wouldn't hire her to do the early morning farm report on Bumfuck Valley's low-power AM radio station. That voice could curdle gin.

[Justice]

34. First Job was covering OJ trial from criminal defense lawyer's perspective

She was a former criminal defense and civil trial lawyer. She taught at Georgetown Law as adjunct faculty member.

Greta was first a legal analyst on CNN - co-hosted "Burden of Proof" with Roger Cossack from 1994 to 2002.

Cossack gave prosecutor perspective, Greta gave defense attorney perspective.

She was very good, very knowledgeable. In her element.

Not sure what happened to her - money, fame, 9/11 - something. She moved to Fox in 2002 and went whacky.

Edited to add - I think when she went beyond talking about legal issues, she was out of her element.

[True Blue American]

52. I loved that show with Roger

When Greta went to Fox she had a complete face lift. She looked nothing like the woman she had been. The lift was horrible and Roger was the star of that show.

I never watched her again,except for a couple of channel switched where I noticed she would ask a question,then interrupt her guest to give her opinion. End of watching.

[YOHABLO]

55. She had an eye job done. It lifted her eyes and it looked good.

Unfortunately it didn't last and her face looks like her old haggard self. She also doesn't have any lips. She has a slit for a mouth. But I guess she has a law degree which makes her far smart than me.

[True Blue American]

60. I agree on the eye job, but her whole face was stretched tight

May have been Botox, but I barely recognized her.

[miyazaki]

42. Well at least if she was on radio you would'nt have to look at her.

[Cary]

30. I have seen her only briefly

I have no desire to watch her. I'm sure she has nothing to say, that I would find useful.

On the other hand (and please hear me out I'm not a troll) I have always in the back of my mind hoped that there would be reasonable Republicans and that they would take their party back towards the center. There used to be liberal Republicans. Our parties are supposed to be coalitions, not ideological fortresses.

I know this has probably gotten me branded as a "corporatist" or "third way" or whatever. At least that's my best guess as to what certain people have or have not slapped on me. Hey, I'm just a loyal Democrat, as far as I know, and I want Democrats to win elections. But be that as it may, I want a big tent and if Greta rejects the FoxPAC tent and can identify better with us then maybe that's useful to us? Either way: 1) voting Democratic, or 2) working within the Republican Party to moderate the current batshit crazy that the Republicans have morphed into... either way works for me.

But that doesn't mean I have to subject myself to the b.s.

[tavernier]

31. She is even worse as guest on a panel.

She speaks out of turn and hogs all the air time with her fauxpinions.

[Justice]

33. Greta was on MTP Sunday, panel talking about how bad things looked for GOP/mid-terms

Greta said this:

"You know though, I agree with the things you're saying, but I think it's early. You know, I still think that it's early. All of those things sound terrible and horrible, but if the G.D.P.'s up around 4% by the time of the midterms, all bets are off, it's a completely different thing. Because now we have money to fund things. So it sounds really horrible if the election were today, but a lot can happen."

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-april-2-2017-n741771

It was shocking because she is a lawyer not an economist. I expected her to weigh in on the legal controversies. But she did not.

Plus this is what Trump is telling people he can do - 4%. Mind you the U.S. economy grew at roughly 2 percent in 2015 and last expanded at a 4 percent annual rate in 2000. So you know who Greta is rooting for.


http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/22/trump-still-thinks-he-can-reach-4-gdp-growth-heres-how-often-that-happens.html

[progressoid]

32. It's all about $$$$

People often mistake MSNBC for a news channel.

[BigmanPigman]

37. I wrote to MSNBC with my opinion and suggestion (bring Keith back and give Joy her nightly spot)

but unless you are an advertiser threatening to pull ads they won't change anything. My opinion of them has remained the same. Every time they seem to redeem themselves they slide back to pre-election BS. Or is it msnBS?

[Mars and Minerva]

47. Now is the time for Keith! His ratings would be through the roof. nt

[Ilsa]

38. She'll be safe working with O'Lielly. Send her "home." nt

[LiberalFighter]

40. I tried a few times watching her. Gave up!

Now, I either find something else or watch reruns.

Since I changed my sleeping habits by going to bed early I watch what I might usually watch at night now in the am. Like Rachel, Last Word, Stephen Colbert.

[oasis]

41. Watching Wretched Greta is a sure cure for insomnia.

[mdbl]

44. why did they hire her anyway?

been trying to figure that one out. Maybe they want to be fair and balanced ROFL.

[RayStar]

46. Back now!

Send her azz back faster than the speed of light please.

[Alice11111]

48. Why, MSNBC, are you trying to insult your base?

Slap. Slap.
We are insulted.
Mission accomplished.
Now, take Greta Van Sewagewoman off, please.

[MarinCoUSA]

49. Only talkling head worse than Nose Job Gretta is Cookie Roberts

Turn her off. I do. Immediately.

[spiderpig]

50. How bad is she?

I scheduled my daily cable update for her time slot, since I knew it wouldn't interrupt anything worth watching.

[Cha]

53. I love this headline!

Thanks, nikibatts!

[Cha]

54. How does it feel to be a pimp for

a fascistrumputin pu**y grabber, GVS-msnbc?

[Honeycombe8]

56. I don't have cable, so don't see her show. But not cool to make fun of her face.

So she had cosmetic surgery in an attempt to be more attractive, like almost everyone on tv and in the movies has done (including males). She's not blessed with beauty. Not cool to make fun of her face or her attempts to look more attractive.

And no, her cosmetic surgery didn't change the way she speaks. I remember her from years ago, before the facelift. She has always spoken that way.

[BainsBane]

57. I've never watched her

I rarely have the TV on at that hour.