MSNBC FUTURE IN DOUBT

DrudgeReport.com ^ | August 18, 2002

[ForGod'sSake]

...the Liberal-Socialist so-hates the word, "no."

Where's Nancy Reagan when we need her???? May God be with her as she struggles with the deteriorating condition of one of the best we ever had.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Amen!

[pankot]

BWAAAHAAAHAA! Phruity Phil bites the dust.

[1Old Pro]

Dear DISH NETWORK:

When MSNBC fails please give me the Golf channel or something useful as a replacement.

[1Old Pro]

Soledad O'Brien

The wife loves her.

[paulklenk]

I have always, from the beginning, regarded MSNBC as a half-baked network with no clear purpose. It's sort of, "We need something on TV. This is something on TV."

[bribriagain]

"In a related development, PMSNBC announced their new Fall line-up, to include the recently unemployed shock jock, Opie & Anthony at the highly coveted 8:00PM time slot."

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Probably a lot of people would chip in, if they found a thread with "FDR" in the title . . .

I'm sure you're right, but it's sorta "old" news

All it takes to make it new is to point out the obvious fact that RWR was the best president of the twentieth century; liberals have to counter with their idol, FDR--and the topic is fresh.

In one term RWR whipped inflation, got the country going again, and stopped the energy crisis; in his second term he transcended Communism.

In his first two terms FDR floundered around trying to figure out what might cure the Depression, and wringing his hands while Hitler made Germany into the menace which, in concert with the USSR, started WWII. And, be it noted, FDR did nothing to succor the Jews of Europe.

Those who suppose that nobody could have prevented WWII must explain why Roosevelt the Great didn't know in the mid thirties what the hour demanded. Churchill did in fact know. FDR didn't do it, which probably enabled him to win election to a third term--but marks him as less than the statesman the hour demanded.

[Nick Danger]

I do not want MSNBC to die. I want it chipping away at CNN from the left, however ineffectively. Any death of MSNBC will simply strengthen CNN. It's better for us if the two of them split the liberal audience; that way they both lose money (or at least struggle).

I view MSNBC as the Ralph Nader of television networks. Their job is to peel away enough votes on the left side to keep CNN always looking over its left shoulder as it tries to deal with Fox on its right.

It worked on Gore, and it can work here, too.

[ForGod'sSake]

I view MSNBC as the Ralph Nader of television networks. Their job is to peel away enough votes on the left side to keep CNN always looking over its left shoulder as it tries to deal with Fox on its right.

You might have a point there Nick. Divide and conquer? Don't you know the muckity mucks at CNN are having some sleepless nights over their market share loss to FoxNews. However, unless they're doing some creative accounting of their own, CNN doesn't seem to be suffering much on the bottom line, even with some of their sponsors re-negotiating contracts. Odd. Something else at work here?