MSNBC is in total denial and is in risk of losing everything by pouring money into the Donahue show. By focusing on this insane new idea they have of talk shows all day and night on, people get lamed out. They want breaking news all the time. They want investigative pieces. They don't give a shit about Phil. They never really did. He was something for burned out 60's wives to watch in the late 1970's and 1980's.
He barely even has the Nader crowd. You have to apply the old saying of "I was liberal when I was young and became conservative when I got smarter,wiser, and older", this is obviously what happened to Phil's audience. He is boring. He can't connect with anyone but a cult. He is out of touch. He tries to be hip. He fails. He is too biased. He can't spin for his life. He is rude, obnoxious, and he looks like he is on a speedball.
Most of all his worst attribute is he books 3 liberals to 1 opposing view and shuts them up and interrupts them constantly. Bill O'Reilly was right when he said Phil won't make it to the Fall.
These MSNBC execs are trying to pull a rabbitt out of a hat with a hole in the bottom of it. They have filled their anchor desks with some seriously ADD ridden super former local NBC or wherever news hacks who have absolutely NO DELIVERY and are ugly.
The news business is shaping up to belong to 2 organizations. 1. Fox News Channel and 2. CNN. That is it. The networks are so damn stale they make a 2 week old loaf of bread that has sat out on a counter look fresh.
MSNBC will be sold. Watch. It will be sold off to some other corporation who will swear they can do wonders with it. They just can't afford to keep losing the money they are losing.
But where is Bill Gates? You know...the MS in MSNBC?? Where are his brilliant ideas that he spoke of the first day MSNBC went on air? Oh yes...I remember that day well. Where he said MSNBC will be just as popular as CNN in 2004 and maybe even more connected.
Having Phil Donahue is not a step to the future. They are digressing back to the age of television when there was nothing to watch. Which is exactly what people are doing right now with MSNBC. Not watching because there is nothing to watch.
He got smacked down by janet reno... he is happy to be alive.
What Sir Winston said was, "Any man at age 18 that is not a liberal, has no heart. But any man at age 40 that is not a conservative, has no head."