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Like that's gonna fly with the GOP golfing buddies at the top levels of NBC...they want someone who will obsess over Michelle Obama's clothes, over where the kids go to school, over the President's smoking cessation. Ya know, real important shit.
Dave
Viet Vet
Ain't never gonna happen.
No one else measures up to Rachel, whether intellectually,
or in terms of integrity.
I guess that eliminates her, huh?
Odds are it will be a group of rotating hosts (Chuck Todd, David Gregory, etc)
I'd love to see it though. Maddow is one of the best things on cable TV, and some nights her show is better then Keith's.
but Meet The Press would do.
But like someone already posted,
the fatcat GOP crony-buddies who control the networks
would never let it happen.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
I know we're Americans, but please don't confuse "not being the stupidest person in the country" with "being smart". The bar for being smart is - or should be - MUCH higher than that.
My how times have changed...
I never thought Russert nailed people when he could have... i remember an incident with Orrin where the retraction was posted on the MTP website .. that did nothing to correct the original perception... and Im supposed to believe Russert was somehow not biased? Rubbish
Not that it will trickle down--after all, we're gonna have to pay off all that other crap they've been given.
http://cedric-paris2e.blogspot.com/
The only problem might be that fraidy-cat politicians will simply refuse to appear on the show if he's the host. Unlike the U.K., there are enough major news outlets to choose from so U.S. politicians can usually avoid the possibility of a tough interviewer.
I'd think Ted Koppel would be a better choice for Meet the Press. Ted has the stature and gravitas to pull it off and has demonstrated the ability to ask tough questions. He's smart. And he doesn't suffer fools gladly.
Otherwise, Mitchell has clearly demonstrated some moxie about asking difficult questions, although Helen Thomas is the first reporter I think of when I think of a reporter who consistently and fearlessly asks tough, probing questions.
Besides, NBC would never give that seat to a woman, much less a lesbian! Pigs would fly before you would see such a change in Sunday news show marketing.
1. all of the crybaby republicans would freak out and call them a partisan Democrat network. Which they already do, but then it would double.
2. The show would slide in the ratings because they'd have a hard time getting prominent republican guests. If you watch her show, you see very few prominent conservative voices, because she knows her stuff better than anyone else on TV and she challenges their spin with actual facts.
I used to go regularly to Josh Marshall's site. However, since he hosted a Google ad endorsing YES on Prop 8, than later giving a lame excuse for it, some mind-fuck about "editorial integrity", I have boycotted his site and don't see any reason to change that position.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/1/183...
Not because she's a woman, not because she's witty, but precisely because she does her homework. Network news organizations are out of the business of delivering information to people. They don't want people getting information from the tube that would empower them to make autonomous decisions. They crave a fearful dependent viewership, people who are lost in the dark like sheep astray from their flock. Their advertisers and corporate owners would never stand for TV viewers getting an actual handle on how the world works the way it currently does.
But it's nice to fantasize about, I guess.
The Broadcast Networks are "entertainment" vehicles. They don't really do good news shows. Chuck Todd or David Gregory might wind up with Meet the Press but Rachel is waaaaay too savvy and smart for it. Besides I seriously doubt that she would be interested in a straight news show. She's right where she belongs. Can you seriously imagine Rachel without an opinion?
But I fear the die is cast and it's David Gregory. If so, that may free up his daily airtime on MSNBC as I think it would be hard to do a good job on MTP while maintaining a 2-hour show daily. Couple that with the possibility that Tweety (Chris Mathews) may be splitting to run for the Senate in the next year or so and MSNBC may be facing some big changes.
Tom Brokaw could handle the job?