Posted on 11/12/2009 6:24:53 AM PST by nutsonthebus
Last week, we asked whether Fox News was a legitimate news organization. Readers wanted us to ask the same question about MSNBC, so that's this week's poll: Is MSNBC a legitimate news organization?
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Sorry, I boycott anything to do with Dave ever since he made those nasty Palin jokes.
The Morning Joe show on MSNBC is about as legitimate as it gets. I am enjoying it these days. Dylan Ratigan comes next and he is sometimes informative, often fair, but has tunnel vision in his continual railing on corporate communism and casino banking. He is partly right, I guess, but it gets a little old.
From then on throughout the day, MSNBC is a freak show of slobbering, spitting, sputtering buffoons.
So — watch Morning Joe for the hardest, most relevant and germane coverage you’ll get anywhere, all day. Watch Ratigan if you want a populist rant. After that, turn the channel.
I am finding FOX news all fluff all the time these days, until Brit Hume and/or Krauthamer come on. It’s getting pretty bad out there.
CNN, especially Blitzer, are nothing but posers, all the time.
I have probably breached a lot of FR orthodoxy with this post. Hope it’s not too offensive.
As a very long-time and now former viewer of Morning Joe I call BS.
Joe is an anti-Conservative "conservative" and the rest are just tools. Mika can be honest most of the time but she is still the classic north-east liberal elite and has no clue about the real world. Ratigan is a faux-conservative as well. His "conservative" views break down in patterns entirely consistent with the dem talking points of the day.
Joe is a HUGE disappointment. He has gone native at MSNBC.
Who am I to tell you what to call my post? So call it what you want to.
I just find that the only "hard news" that is being broadcast at that hour is Morning Joe. Everything else is 90% what I call "fluff". Morning Joe is serious stuff. Why would you want Joe S. to carry a conservative flag? He just calls em as he sees em. I disagree with his "take" sometimes, but I expect that. He is not a cheerleader. Most others are.
My question for you would be: what show is better in that time slot? Surely not FOX. They are at their sorriest during those two hours. The little boyish clown FOX has on at that time is even stupider than that Howdy Doody Sheppard Smith.
Thankfully Motormouth Ratigan is no longer blathering on CNBC. His soliloquies really slowed the pace on Fast Money.
Because he *self proclaims* to be a conservative. Hypocrisy is something I've had enough of. Joe's changed. Maybe he's more to your liking now which says a lot.
You still haven’t said what is good at that hour. You just want to insult me (without knowing me), which says a lot.
My view was once extremely similar to yours. I watched Morning Joe and not Fox due to fluff.
Over time Morning Joe has lost credibility and Fox has reduced (but not eliminated) the fluff.
Since one must choose from what is actually on I recommend Fox over MSNBC, just as I used to - until last night - recommmend Lou Dobbs over Shep Smith. Now I don't know what I'll watch at 7.
But I am soured a bit by this plug for MSNBC on a blog pimp thread anyway.
Didn’t know it was a blog pimp thread, and didn’t really care.
Thanks for sending back a cogent and reasoned response.
I used to gag and retch even when channel surfing past Morning Joe, like you do now; but that was during the 08 campaign and the 09 early months of o’bamboozler’s tenure. Now, with buyer’s remorse and revulsion setting in even at MSNBC, I have given Morning Joe another look and find it quite refreshing. It’s serious stuff. The other shows seem to be attempting to make me feel all lighthearted in the morning (with monkey and manatee stories), for which I couldn’t care less.
That’s all.
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Is this a trick question?
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