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In reply to the discussion: Excellent post by Heather Cox Richardson: Chuck Todd, Turley on impeachment, media / disinformation [View all]calimary
(81,179 posts)Same with Maddow. Shes the anchor of MSNBCs nighttime.
Id replace Chuck Todd.
Id retire Chris Matthews. Enough with the mangled fast talking and misspeaking and blowing peoples names and spit spew. I think hes aging out. While Joy Reid languishes on the weekends. Maybe she should switch with Matthews. Ease him out and let him relax during the week, bring him in to schmooze all the way through convention season. And let him fade after the next election or inauguration.
Id keep him on the MSNBC website, though. Maybe give him special op/ed space for a regular written column. Hed sound good in print and make all his good points and theyd be totally coherent because Id give him a good editor. He could have a closing minute or 90-seconds at the end of Hardball, maybe every Friday, kinda like a David Brinkleys Journal kind of thing for a distinguished elder journalistic statesman in career denouement.
But we need somebody fresh in that slot.
I like Nicolle Wallace but, since shes a Republican, I still dont feel like dropping my guard. She may merely be anti-trump, not against the general 13th-century mindset of the GOP.
I STILL want a two-hour block on Friday nights after the Brian Williams hour. Two hours of satire and topical comedy, some music, and hosted by John Fugelsang. Do another one Saturday evening. And they both repeat.
And Id bring (or try to bring) Keith Olbermann back on Sunday evenings for two hours of the Angry Man thing. And repeat THAT, too. Id like to develop the whole weekend and get rid of that Dateline crap reliving old crimes.