MSNBC wants a rightwinger to replace Imus. FIGURES!!!!

[bigdarryl]

http://multichannel.com/article/CA6446688.html
MSNBC Eyes Scarborough as Possible Imus Replacement - 5/25/2007 9:47:00 AM - Multichannel News

[sandnsea]

1. Imus was a rightwinger

Why would you be surprised he'd be replaced with another rightwinger.

[w4rma]

2. Imus was a moderate. He was fired because he wasn't a right-winger. (nt)

[bigdarryl]

3. But Imus would criticize his own party when they were wrong he's called Cheney a war criminal

[sandnsea]

9. So has Scarborough

So there you go. What he says against Democrats doesn't make up for rare moments of lucidity.

[Warren Stupidity]

21. three seconds of sanity, 3 hours of rightist crap. nt.

[Tellurian]

34. I thought David Gregory was a wrap for Imus's spot?

what happened with him...he declined the invitation?

[bigdarryl]

36. No shit thats the rumor Micheal Smerconish was putting out there

I

[Tellurian]

39. It's the GOP who want MSNBC to replace Imus with a RWinger..

makes more sense.

[sandnsea]

8. Actually, Imus was a dolt

worse than an idiot. In any event, he was fired because he's a racist sexist pig and had incident after incident of being unable to control himself.

He was not a moderate, he was the typical rural white "independent" male who loves himself and loathes everybody not like him, particularly Democrats. If you think it did us any good having him repeat every stupid ass Dem bashing talking point that came along, think again.

It's STILL good he's gone.

[w4rma]

12. Imus actually apologised and tried to change things. Would Rush? Would O'Reily? Would any other

right-winger in big media do that? No. And they wouldn't have to because they haven't gone after the Republican leadership for their failures like Imus did.

Imus was fired for being a moderate instead of a right-winger. The excuse that the corporatists used was that he made a racist "joke".

[sandnsea]

15. By suing them?

Because he was just doing what he was hired to do??? By trying to blame Al Sharpton? By whining about cultural music that has absolutely nothing to do with him?

I'm white. I know how many racists there are in the country. I know what it means to hire someone to "tell the nigger jokes". A lot of people really showed their true colors around here during the Imus fiasco.

[terisan]

10. He seemed to me to be a right wing showman who happened to turn against Bush

after initially voting for him and supporting him.

[1932]

18. He was using his show to promote Guiliani! That's not right-wing?

[Warren Stupidity]

20. Oh nonsense. He was on the right.

Let me guess, you think because he nominally backed Kerry while kicking the crap out of his campaign, that he was a moderate? Or perhaps because he paid lip service to calling the war a mess, while giving Lieberman unrestricted air time to promote the neocon agenda? No moderate. Constant fawning over one rightwing politician after another, constant savaging of everyone even remotely left of the rightist politics the bullshit media system declares to be the 'center'.

[w4rma]

24. Okay. Okay. You guys are right that he is a right-winger. I still say he was fired for his lack of

loyalty to the Republican leadership rather than racism, however.

[The Gunslinger]

42. That part is true, just listen to what Rush gets away with

It's pretty scarry that they consider Imus not right enough.

[The Gunslinger]

41. Bingo

If MSNBC wants something more right then Imus, they might have to dig up Joseph Goebbels or something. He spoke against the war sometimes, but he was totally soft when Cheney was on his show, and his hate for Gore and the Clintons woud alone remove him from being a moderate on my list.

[PresidentObama]

26. Um, rightwingers wouldn't endorse John Kerry.

As Homer Simpson would say "D'OH!"

[sandnsea]

35. Then turn around and trash him for 3 years?

I'd rather he had went ahead and endorsed Bush and not repeated every stupid-ass lie that the right wing spewed about Kerry. Would have done us a hell of a lot more good.

[Tellurian]

40. Imus is a mercenary...If you had the bucks to donate to his charity..

making him look good, he'd throw you a bone! Without his show, he's irrelevant!

Good riddance to bloviating trailer trash.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. The media must be fair and balanced

the Faux way. That means conservative and extreme conservative, didn't you know?

[patricia92243]

7. lol - I'll have to remember that - Fair & balanced = conservative and extremely conservative!!

[patricia92243]

5. Just for arguments sake - if Scarborough were progressive - he is BORING - imho! I tolerate him for

an hour at night when it is a more structured program. Chatting away for hours at a time - he simply cannot do it.

My understanding is MS NBC ratings have gone in the toilet - they will not be able to pull them out by putting Joe in that time-slot.

[Double T]

6. You wouldn't want msnbc to become unfair and imbalanced..........

would you?! It takes 10 rethugs to equal 1 KO.

[asjr]

11. With the exception of Keith Olbermann, msnbc is

increasingly becoming more irrelevant.

[MonkeyFunk]

13. Scarborough's not really much of a right-winger

[sallyseven]

14. I never watched Imus.

I dislike joe scarborough more. That twithead honcho at msnbc prog is and idiot. Dan whats his name. Oh i remember abrams he is useless.

[Olney Blue]

16. NO "MORNING JOE." Please, no.

[1932]

17. Imus spent all his time promoting Guiliani, so it's going to be a wash.

[Inspired]

19. He supported McCain but voted for Kerry in '04. n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

22. He catapulted every rightwing smear against Kerry

while pretending to support him. I have no idea how he actually voted, nor do you.

[1932]

30. The big one I remember was Imus bitching about Kerry's train not stopping at the ranch

and then describing how all the sick kids watched it shoot by.

Lord, he did everything he could to hurt Kerry.

[BluegrassDem]

23. At least Scarborough is not a racist, at least I don't think...

nothing I could tell as of yet would lead me to indicate he's a racist, so he's one better already than Imus, the corpse.

[Warren Stupidity]

25. That's ok he thinks women should be compelled to give birth

even if they would not particularly like to do that. That makes him a bit of an asshat sexist shithead, in my opinion.

We are debating here about which rightwing shithead is worse: Imus or Scarborough. Silly, eh?

[PresidentObama]

27. So we replace someone who supported Kerry in 2004, with a damn rightwinger?

Sheesh.

[alcuno]

28. I've seen each of their replacements in the AM and JS was the best.

When he was on he was really good. I can't believe that he wants to leave Pensacola to get up at 4:00AM.

[AX10]

29. We need to have our own news channel built.

Our wealthy liberals are MIA on this one.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

31. would this mean an opening in scarborough's night time slot?

maybe for rachel maddow, who's supposedly has been courted by msbc?

[Awsi Dooger]

32. Scarborough has been the best of the trial guests so far

I'm up at that hour and have watched portions of everyone they have tried. Scarborough has enough offbeat tendencies to succeed in a format and time slot like that. Plus he can combine enough competence in the serious political interviews. His energy level and decibel level were down but that's been true of everyone, not accustomed to that hour.

Plus if you transfer Scarborough that lends potential to replace him with a progressive at 9 PM, which could benefit MSNBC if they could keep Olbermann's audience for an extra hour.

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[HootieMcBoob]

37. they need someone to compete with all the other right wingers

the suits who run these places are as clueless as can be. just look at your own network numb skull! who has the highest ratings? what's the only show on your network that is competitive with the other networks? Olberman's show! So, then....ummmm you can either choose any number of excellent entertaining progressive hosts or you can stick a needle in your eye and choose some week old same as it ever was right winger. Take your pick.

[illinoisprogressive]

38. They liked scarborough. I saw him in the AM and he really wasn't bad

heresy. But, truthfully he is not one of those evil wingers. He is kinda fun to watch in the morning and not very partisan. I know you guys will kick my ass for that but, he really was not bad.

[beaconess]

43. It's a GREAT idea - there aren't anywhere near enough white men hosting cable sho

Giving another white man that slot will help balance out all of those black people who have their own shows.

:sarcasm: