From about 3 PM to 11 PM, weekdays, there are some of the most insightful people hosting shows that one could conjure up from the wasteland that is now the American political journalism landscape, award winning journalists, former democratic operatives, and even a token black Christian minister.
Then as the sun rises over most of the American east coast, for 3/4 of the year, another bright and oncoming start raises his voice for a few moments, just to wake us early-risers for our day. That young man is going places, but for the life of me, I cannot remember his name, (hey, I'm old, and don't watch at 5:30 AM except when I can't sleep any longer).
Then BAM 6 AM to 9 AM Morning Joke is on.. with his genuflections to the concept of capitalism, his willingness to cut-off mid-sentence any distinguished guest, and his every fifteen minute reminders that he, too, once held elected office from the reddest parts of northwest Florida. He bores his co-hosts, he banters and argues with the blond and mildly intellectual daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, former S.o S. under Carter.
I always find Morning Joe only one step above ABC's most intellectually-dulling morning show as I eat my breakfast. I switch off the Today Show as soon as they are interviewing the latest mother of quintuplets, or latest almost victim of another serial killer.
But look at how horribly MSNBC wastes the weekend. Starting just after Rachel gets off the air on Friday nights, we are looking at tattooed muscular behemoths working out with weights or throwing feces and urine at prison guards...until 7 AM Saturday, or 8 AM Sunday, when one of the most brilliant analytical minds in America today hosts his brand new two hour show, with some of the finest minds around his table that any news analysis producer could ever assemble.
Chris Hayes should replace Joe Scar Monday through Friday, 6 to nine. He is brillant, and America deserves his brilliance over the tired self-satisfied, failed dullard of a politician that even Florida didn't want anymore.
MSNBC, fire the folks that send us prison and crime show reruns every weekend for over 12 hours. Get rid of Joe scar, he is USELESS as a host, and actually gets in the way of his own influential guests. Fix it, or let that network, with such incredibly intellectually stimulating gems as Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes wither on the MSNBC vine.
It's really a crime that MSNBC is so poorly managed as to allow Morning Joke and dead weekends with criminals to go on and on, year after year.
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