Stephanie Ruhle to replace Brian Williams on MSNBC

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10. :) Yes, the morning lineup's moving farther right

as the election year heats up for sure.

I suspect, though, that getting Ruhle out is part of that. Her economy/business orientation and refusal to support fact-free (at best) ideological nonsense may lead some to assume she's a lot more conservative than she is economically, and she's definitely liberal socially.

Moving Ruhle to follow liberal Maddow and O'Donnell, serving their more informed, liberal viewers, in the evening frees up the morning slot for some serious election year molding of attitudes in the less liberal morning and daytime viewership.

As MSNBC has done before. The blatant job Joe and Mika and their regulars, and all the other daytime shows, did on Hillary and the rest of the Democratic Party in 2016 should leave no doubt as to what MSNBC is up to now. Viewers have become somewhat more aware and suspicious, and since they've just had to be a bit more subtle with their knifework is all.

I'm guessing we'll see Chuck Todd given more daytime air time again also, even if his ratings are down. In the past few elections he spread his poison all through the day every day, including weekends, so they must think he's good at it.