![]() ![]() People like Todd and Meghan McCain in my opinion are poisonous to our political process when they are on television. He doesn’t have to be “passionate about the issues.” He should *realize* that “the issues” are matters that affect people’s lives, and not just pawns to be moved around a chess board for the sake of someone winning and someone losing. As a compromise, Savannah Guthrie moderated and Scarborough led the roundtable.” Offsite Link by Anonymous Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum was booked for that week’s show, and letting Scarborough interview a fellow conservative would undercut the franchise’s nonpartisan bona fides. ![]() But the network’s news division protested. In 2012, NBC executives had given Scarborough a shot at guest-hosting Meet the Press in Gregory’s absence, according to sources. And the staff wouldn’t have welcomed him in the moderator’s chair. When Gregory was in the hot seat, some thought Scarborough reached for the knives. “There are times when he would just not even talk to. “He constantly clashes with Phil Griffin,” says a former NBC employee. And inside MSNBC’s New York offices, Scarborough is known as a prima donna who doesn’t respond well to “no.” “ Scarborough, the Republican congressman turned MSNBC talking head and host of Morning Joe, had been after Gregory’s job for years, according to former NBC employees. Here’s an interesting, in-depth report about how Chuck Todd snatched Meet the Press from David Gregory, thanks in great part to Joe Scarborough’s attempts to become the host, which backfired because the Meet the Press staff hated him and refused to work with him. Chris Matthews is really grating, but I often like him anyways because he's like everyone's irish american uncle, reflexively pushy, bombastic, and lacking in self-awareness. Granted, all of these anchors probably emerged from stable, upper-middle and upper class families. I'll tell you who-people for whom the status quo is working, people who aren't bearing the brunt of the suffering caused by that supposedly 'reasonable' middle-ground. white nationalist, war hawk, etc.) Who determines where the continuum of 'Far' and 'Extreme' begin and end. This is why I always try to avoid using terms like 'extremist' or 'far left' or 'far right' and prefer terms that describe the CONTENT of an ideology (e.g. The middle-ground between supporting equal rights for queer people and the agenda of the 'christian right'. People who were never taught to think critically and evaluate their own viewpoints for fallacious logic are people who think that the middle-ground, moderate position is inevitably the more reasonable position.įor instance, the middle-ground between being a full white supremacist and being 0% white supremacist. The middle-ground position on everything is not automatically more 'reasonable', 'sensible', and 'mature'. Whoever said in one of the earlier posts that he's the king of false equivalence is right. Would love to see him replaced, along with Brian Williams. I stopped watching Sunday MTP, because I was so appalled at his guests and the fact that Todd let the rightwingers get away with so much. I'd like to see someone else doing his show.Īgree with much of the negative stuff about Chuck Todd. ![]() I'm also reminded that he lost his anchor position for his arrogance and dishonesty. They flow into Brian Williams' show, where I am constantly reminded of why I end up turning the channel many nights. Maddow and O'Donnell are really the only things I watch much. I don't watch his show a lot but when I have it on, I don't want to turn the channel. He seems to have moved off that, doing interesting things like some live shows. I don't really like listening to all those retread republicans who blew up their own party, and now want to go to work on the democratic party.Īs far as Chris Hayes, much of the criticism I've read on this thread reflects his shows as a Bernie bro prior to and a bit after the 2016 election. It is like a political "The View" where participants get along better. ![]() She also has sort of a posse on her show. She's fine now, but as soon as a dem gets into the white house, she'll pivot back to her real nature. R94, Wallace is very bright and I hated her on Morning Joe during the Obama years. ![]()
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