David Gregory To Anchor 6pm Show on MSNBC

[angie_love]

First on TVNewser: NBC News chief White House correspondent David Gregory is being tapped to anchor a new MSNBC program called Race for the White House. Gregory will take over the 6pmET time slot from Tucker Carlson who remains with the network as MSNBC's Senior Campaign Correspondent, reporting for all MSNBC shows.

Gregory, who will continue reporting on the Bush White House and filling in for Matt Lauer on the Today show, will anchor the MSNBC program from NBC's Washington Bureau.


Other changes:
• NBC's Andrea Mitchell becomes the anchor of MSNBC's 1pmET program...

• Live with Dan Abrams re-launches as Verdict with Dan Abrams...

• Countdown with Keith Olbermann will now re-air at 10pmET (it had been re-airing at MidnightET)...

• The Doc Block moves back and adds a third hour. It will now air from 11pmET-2amET...

• Countdown gets a second re-air at 2amET...

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/msnbc/david_gregory_to_anchor_6pm_show_on_msnbc_79388.asp#more



Damn I was hoping for a Rachel Maddow show... Ugh David Gregory....HOW BORING!!!

[MadBadger]

1. I think the Gregory show will be a solid hour of politics.

[leftofcool]

2. Gregory is a Hillary Supporter

A good thing

[MadBadger]

6. funny, I always saw him as a good reporter

meaning neutral.

[DURHAM D]

26. Wrong - have you forgotten some of the earlier post debate shows.

He is in the same Welch/GE circle jerk as Tweety, Brian, and Tim. The only difference is that I am not sure he is northeast Irish catholic Reagan Dem.

[stray cat]

3. Much better than Tucker or Scarbourough or Buchanon

[kstewart33]

4. IMHO, that's good news.

He's a journalist and a good one. Much, much better than Tucker.

[lisa58]

5. Rachel will have her own show by the General Election...

...just a prediction - but she really should.

[demigoddess]

7. Yes, I wanted Rachel Maddow too. She would make a great show, she has

so much information to share. And she speaks so well.

[calico1]

8. Love David Gregory.

Huge improvement over the imbecile Carlson. I am very happy to hear this.

[soleft]

9. What a disappointment

Her radio show is expanding from 6-9 - so her Olberman bookings will probably drop, and by the title it sounds like Abrams show might becoming less political, so we may acutally be seeing a lot less of her.

[Barack_America]

10. Another sign that the neocons are on their way out?

Here's hoping.

[AlinPA]

11. I've seen him dancing with Karl Rove on TV. What the hell was that?

There was a time when he asked hard questions of Bush, but ever since the dance with Rove, he looks like a republican to me.

[NDambi]

14. Are you talking about this video lol he's rockin it out

http://wonkette.com/336213/david-gregory-rocks-out-to-mary-j?autoplay=true

[MadBadger]

15. He didnt exactly have a choice in the matter

but none of that matters to any of you.

[hisownpetard]

23. Wha..? Someone was holding a gun to his head and saying, "Dance!"?

[MadBadger]

27. Kind of. They were at a dinner and the Entertainers went to the NBC table...

and chose him to volunteer in their little skit. In that situation its kind of hard to say no. So he went up there and they told him to dance.

[hisownpetard]

39. Sort of the Republican version of "Dancing with the Stars"...

[hisownpetard]

22. Yeah, that totally turned me off. Can't look at him the same way after seeing him boogey on down

with KKKarl Rove.

[Stephanie]

12. Not bad.

I'll always remember David Gregory for confronting George Bush to defend Helen Thomas.

[NDambi]

13. I like Gregory...check out his moves...in the link

He's rockin' it out...lol...he's got rhythm for sure

http://wonkette.com/336213/david-gregory-rocks-out-to-mary-j?autoplay=true

[Catherine Vincent]

18. I love that!

Look at the moves on him!

[NDambi]

21. ha ha...he was rockin' out wasn't he...lol! I love that video of him and

as much as I like Mary J...I wanted to see more David..lol

[angie_love]

28. He loves him some Mary J Blige!

[Bigleaf]

16. Is Abrams show going back to a legal-based show? I don't like the sound of it.

[RunningFromCongress]

35. Abrams used to feature his father regularly on his original show, which was legal oriented

[mmonk]

17. I was hoping for Rachel as well.

[Not the Only One]

19. What a letdown

These guys who pretend to be impartial and unbiased are not worth watching, because they sound idiotic trying to be fair and balanced, or whatever they feel like they should be so they can also serve as a "journalist" in their day job. They are scared to have it revealed they have a POV.

I like that Matthews and Olbermann just say what they think. I don't have to agree with everything they say, but at least it's more entertaining than this will be.

Too bad it wasn't Maddow or Stephanie Miller or someone else like that.

[maseman]

24. I don't know

I like both Stephanie Miller and Maddow. But I watched Steph on TV the few days she filled in for the recently fired Imus. I was not inpressed at all with her on TV. Radio and TV are two much different beasts.

As for Maddow...I feel the opposite. I think her show, although informative, is boring. It does nothing for me. But if I hear she is going to be on a show I make an appointment to tune-in. She's a great political analyst and has a great TV persona. I think she'd make a great TV host.

[hisownpetard]

25. I was really rooting for Rachel. David Gregory? Feh.

[underpants]

20. Wow Gregory "stretch" and Mrs. Greenspan-hard hitting provocative TV news there

NOT!

You don't get more inside the beltway groupthink than with those two.

[Dinger]

29. Wingnut City : (

:-(

[angie_love]

30. thats what I was thinking...

And with Campbell Brown moving to CNN's 8pm slot, its bad news for democrats. I remember her ripping John Kerry nearly every chance she got in 2004. I expect her to do the same of the dem nominee this year. Although I think Gregory is more fair than Campbell, we'll see.

[elixir]

31. Thank heavens Carlson is gone.

[City Lights]

32. I'm not crazy about David Gregory, but at least it's a step in the

correct direction. I would have much preferred Rachel Maddow. :-(

[Iceburg]

33. Obama doesn't fair well under David's professional scrutiny

In this clip ...
Obama mistakenly refers to David as "Matt"
When David asks Obama about not winning any of the big states, Obama starts off by asserting hew won Michigan (lol)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=f0ckXrbfldY

What is he smokin' tha would cause him to become so unhinged?

[angie_love]

36. wow you think you know him based on one clip? Sheesh do you even get MSNBC in Canada?

Or know who David Gregory is?

[RunningFromCongress]

34. I was really hoping for Rachel & Pat...they make a great team

[bunnies]

37. That sucks. I actually liked watching Tucker.

He's on of the few RWers I can tolerate.

[Irishonly]

38. Good

Somehow I ended up on MSNBC's VIP news panel. All they do is send me surveys and ask for opinions on anchors and reporters and I tell them what I think. I am glad to say that maybe all of the complaints about Tucker paid off. My comments about Mitchell obviously didn't makes a rat's patootie difference.

I like Rachel and hope she will get her own show one day. She would be a great replacement for Tweety. I also like Shuster and I think he has learned not to use slang while reporting. I don't see them getting rid of Tweety any time soon. With all of the complaints about him he should have been gone a long time ago. I don't see Joe enough. I did let them know about his pole dancing comments. I don't care if it was a repuke he made the comments about-it's not appropriate.