Very true.
But will she fit in the building?
Posted on 11/06/2007 12:55:19 PM PST by outfield
The NYTimes' Jacques Steinberg follows up on his story about MSNBC being in "serious discussions" with Rosie O'Donnell about a primetime show on the network.
Rosie would fit the roster, Steinberg writes, because "[T]he cable channel believes there is ratings gold in shows that criticize the [Bush] administration with the same vigor with which Fox News's hosts often champion it." Countdown with Keith Olbermann being the standout.
"Officials at MSNBC emphasize that they never set out to create a liberal version of Fox News," Steinberg writes, quoting NBC SVP Phil Griffin the former Hardball EP who now runs the network. "It happened naturally," said Griffin, "There isn't a dogma we're putting through. There is a 'Go for it.'"
Two notable exceptions to the left is right strategy: MSNBC hosts Tucker Carlson, whose show, Steinberg writes "is in real danger of being canceled" and Joe Scarborough now hosting three hours in the morning.
"I'm just as conservative as I was in 1994, when everyone was calling me a right-wing nut," Scarborough says. "I think the difference is the Republican Party leaders, a lot of them, have run a bloated government, have been corrupt, and have gone a very, very long way from what we were trying to do in 1994. Also, the Republican Party has just been incompetent."
Trump says she’s a tank. Well, I believe him.
Don't know. But, we WILL be able to find out whether it's possible for a lame comic to melt a network.
This has cost me almost a day’s work. When I heard it earlier I started laughing. Haven’t been able to stop since.
Go, Rosie. I can always use a good laugh.
Is MicroSoft pouring any money into this rat hole of a network?
Oh... uh... ha... bwAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAhHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAhAhAhAHAAHAHAHAHHAH!
Yeah, like that's an underserved market niche, OH MY FREAKIN' SIDES!!!
The article doesn’t say she’s been hired, just that they’re talking. Still, it wouldn’t be suprising coming from olbermannville
MSNBC is little more than a tax write-off for GE at this point. They've had a few good demographic rating periods against Fox but are nowhere close to the Fox network's numbers, overall. I don't see how going hard left to attack a president with barely a year left in office is going to enhance MSNBC's ratings, reputation or corporate income. The loony left strikes again.
Good. That just gives me one more big fat reason never to watch that shoddy excuse for a news network. Go FOX!
Tucker Carlson is a closer.
He'd be a hit on Japanese TV, an audience that would appreciate him. After all, the Japanese have elevated suicide to an art.
If they shave her forehead to give her a receding hairline, they trying to copy O'Really.
Tucker cain’t dance, either! LOL!
They were into it bigtime at the begining but have since pulled back a great deal. I’m sure ther’s some at Redmond who would be glad to extricate themselves completely from their
existing ties to the network. I remember reading that MS had divested a huge chunck of involvement wit them a whie ago, but there are still some entanglements left between them.
Remember Sidewalks? :)
These guys just love shooting themselves in the foot. This witch will drag them down even further. What do you want to bet that a good number of people on her show are gay?
Very true.
But will she fit in the building?
And....what will they do in a year when they don’t have the Bush administration to kick around anymore?
Not very substantive planning there, Bucko!
Ah....PMSNBC, the channel that no one watches....
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