Well Dutch it certainly seems the DUmp has a real sadon for M$NBC. As expected with such an important topic there is a proliferation of threads over there bemoaning the wheels coming off the Donkey Cart called M$NBC. In this thread, they invoke the great Scent [smells like a commie to me] Uygur, Truth teller extraordinaire.
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/1017246528marym625 (5,453 posts)
1. K&R +1000
Cenk Uygur speaks the truth.
I wonder what Maddow will do. I remember her from Air America when she did criticize the dems for having no backbone. Maybe she will come back to her roots. But don't know where she could.
What would be wonderful is if all the news was actually news and not leaning anyway but to the truth. Like Al Jazeera America. Like the old CBS, Fred Friendly and Edward R Murrow. But that won't ever happen.
Fla Dem (3,685 posts)
4. I have no problem with MSNBC runing hard news for a couple of hours in the afternoon
Who watches TV in the daytime? I'm sorry for Joy Reid, I liked her. But MSNBC still runs 6 hours of Democratic, left/Progressive TV from 5:00 pm through 11:00 pm; Ed Schultz, The Rev, Chris Matthews, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell. Now we can disagree as to how far center left to far left each host is, but the point is, it's at least a counterpoint to all the far right crap out there.
The worse thing they did was put Scarboro on in the morning. That was death to me.
But if we don't support the team from 5:00 - 11:00 pm, then we have no one to blame but ourselves if we lose MSNBC and the only left leaning commentators on broadcast/cable tv.
But, as we all know, what this really all stems from is Rush Limbaugh's ban on using M$NBC clips on his show and the VRWC.

Yes, DUmmies, it is true, Rush has singlehandedly dealt a death blow to the Left Wing M$NBC programing lineup.

And considering the number of DU posts about Limbaugh ipso facto DU must also make up a large share of Rush's audience thus depriving them from hearing about the lunatics on M$NBC. Yeah, there's the ticket, El Rushbo's one man campaign has killed M$NBC.
