NYT | Now in Living Rooms, the Host Apparent
For clues about who might be next to get a show on MSNBC, viewers need not have looked further than "Countdown" earlier this month. For eight nights beginning just before the Fourth of July, Rachel Maddow, the host of a program on Air America, the liberal talk-radio network, served as a substitute for the vacationing Keith Olbermann. "At some point, I don't know when, she should have a show," said Phil Griffin, hours before he was promoted on Wednesday to president of MSNBC. "She's on the short list. It's a very short list. She's at the top." At the moment every slot at night on MSNBC is taken, with David Gregory at 6 handing off to Chris Matthews at 7, and with Dan Abrams at 9 following Mr. Olbermann at 8. But some shuffling could be in the offing; Mr. Matthews's contract, for example, is up next year.
"At some point, I don't know when, she should have a show," said Phil Griffin, hours before he was promoted on Wednesday to president of MSNBC. "She's on the short list. It's a very short list. She's at the top."
At the moment every slot at night on MSNBC is taken, with David Gregory at 6 handing off to Chris Matthews at 7, and with Dan Abrams at 9 following Mr. Olbermann at 8. But some shuffling could be in the offing; Mr. Matthews's contract, for example, is up next year.
Bye, Tweety. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
But each and every day there's an item or 10 on Kos and other blogs I read about how the majority tradmed just ignore issues involving the GOP and pile in on the Dems. Each and every day. How McCain is never reported honestly, how Bush stuff just gets swept under the carpet. Like how Cusack's film War Inc. is just so 5 years ago cos they know all about that stuff but never told anybody.
One or two voices in the wilderness of cable don't mean squat. Soon as fashions change they'll say we need more GOP voices and she and Keith'll be canned, like Donahoe was. cos we can't have any DFHs on teevee or serious newspapers when it's GOP-time.
Will a donkey do ? Or at least a donkey bell ? I bought one in Bulgaria for $4. keep to the Fen Causeway
Tough to do when Grandpa's admitting he needs to campaign in states Dems haven't won in 44 years, though. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Kinda like the LA Times story that describes mainstream thinking in the US as the wild and wacky "far-left". People are gonna say "but that's me" and identify more with the blogs than the TM.
Or am I just clutching at straws ? keep to the Fen Causeway
The tradmed is losing touch with the American people. I think the economic meltdown has focused the electorate. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
