That weird sobbing sound you hear is from @ChuckTodd

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39. Nothing but a snide, smug putz.

Just another in a continuing series of wholly-owned subsidiaries.

What a disgrace! "Meet the Press" used to be the gold standard of Sunday news/panel shows. The GOLD Standard! Everything was measured against "Meet the Press," the most widely-recognized, respected, and distinguished of those programs. It's a mere shade of its former self. david gregory dealt it a serious blow. chuck todd may be its death knell.

CLEARLY the NBC brass doesn't know what to do about it. The whole thing should be scrapped and redone, or done completely differently. I think Maddow would be GREAT, plus, she'd be the first woman in such a position. I STILL think it would be utter perfection, and big ratings, to put her on Sunday through Thursday - Sunday hosting MTP, then Monday through Thursday with her own show as usual. Then, take her hour on Friday evening, plus the one Lawrence O'Donnell doesn't do on Friday evening, and turn it into a two-hour block of news, satire, and more, hosted by John Fugelsang. Call it "Friday Night Fugelsang"! He's got a funny name you can play with, he's cute, photogenic, and has lots of sex appeal, plus he's young and smart, and VERY quick-witted. And reliably liberal/progressive.

DAYUM I wish they'd do that! I think it'd get them the ratings they dream of, AND WE would be relieved of at least some of that damn cheap-ass "Lockup" crap. Cuz, don't forget, they'd rerun the damn thing as soon at it was over.