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gab13by13

(21,333 posts)
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 08:35 AM Nov 2021

Who should replace Rachel next year?

Reported she is leaving next year. My choice is Mehdi Hasan. He is the closest person to Rachel's style, a truth teller.

Other people who have been thrown out there to replace Rachel means I have 1 less cable news hour to watch. Get the list of possibilities being thrown out there; Joe Scum or Mika, Both siderism's Ari Melber, Michelle Wallace but she wants to spend nights with her kids.

I am pretty sure that msnbc will turn further to the right than it already is.

I guess Keith Olbermann is out of the question?

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Who should replace Rachel next year? (Original Post) gab13by13 Nov 2021 OP
Al Franken FoxNewsSucks Nov 2021 #1
She Just Signed A Massive Contract Me. Nov 2021 #2
I know she did, gab13by13 Nov 2021 #5
Her massive contract includes ending her nightly show in early 2022 Fiendish Thingy Nov 2021 #6
Aaah Me. Nov 2021 #22
Gawd not Mehdi. we can do it Nov 2021 #3
+1 2naSalit Nov 2021 #20
+1 nt PunkinPi Nov 2021 #25
Brian Williams -- oh, wait. nt Earth-shine Nov 2021 #4
Hasan is a bare knuckled interviewer, but his style (not ideology) is too similar to Piers Morgan Fiendish Thingy Nov 2021 #7
I don't see any similarities between Mehdi and Piers, gab13by13 Nov 2021 #10
Psaki, Psaki, Psaki! lark Nov 2021 #13
I think Jen Psaki could easily pick up the mantel if she were so inclined. hlthe2b Nov 2021 #18
It's certainly my wish! n/t lark Nov 2021 #19
Ken Jennings underpants Nov 2021 #8
......... bdamomma Nov 2021 #9
Ha! lark Nov 2021 #14
Rachel Maddow changed the world for the better. lindysalsagal Nov 2021 #11
Alicia Menendez colsohlibgal Nov 2021 #12
Yep, I would love to see my news crush get a more prominent role SKKY Nov 2021 #23
Give it to Velshi. He deserves it. nt Colgate 64 Nov 2021 #15
Franken or Olbermann. (nt) Paladin Nov 2021 #16
Keith has a terrible reputation at every network that he's worked at. themaguffin Nov 2021 #17
Who is Michelle Wallace? Towlie Nov 2021 #21
I do not like Medi. Demsrule86 Nov 2021 #24

Fiendish Thingy

(15,606 posts)
6. Her massive contract includes ending her nightly show in early 2022
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 09:30 AM
Nov 2021

She’s going to do elections and “Special Reports”, kind of like the Richard Engel programs MSNBC shows on Sunday evenings.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
22. Aaah
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 12:12 PM
Nov 2021

loks like they're changing the entire line-up. Don't know that I'll be sticking around. Not many of their on -airs compel me these days.

Fiendish Thingy

(15,606 posts)
7. Hasan is a bare knuckled interviewer, but his style (not ideology) is too similar to Piers Morgan
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 09:35 AM
Nov 2021

There only a few at MSNBC who can match Rachel’s intellect:
Chris Hayes
Ali Velshi
Jonathan Capehart
Perhaps Joy Reid

None of them can draw her ratings.

Someone who will be available in early 2022 but not often mentioned, is Jen Psaki.

gab13by13

(21,333 posts)
10. I don't see any similarities between Mehdi and Piers,
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 09:56 AM
Nov 2021

Ali Velshi is closer to Piers.

Sorry but Capehart is good but back when he was on his buddy Chris Matthews show he brought out a newspaper with Bernie Sanders picture on it showing how he fought for housing for minorities back in his college days. Capehart insisted on Matthews show that the picture of Bernie was not him, that Bernie was lying. The picture in the paper was Bernie fighting for housing for minorities but I never saw an apology from Capehart. Ever since that episode I have no time for Capehart.

lark

(23,099 posts)
13. Psaki, Psaki, Psaki!
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 10:34 AM
Nov 2021

Oh how awesome that would be, just don't know if she would entertain the idea of doing a nightly show?

hlthe2b

(102,251 posts)
18. I think Jen Psaki could easily pick up the mantel if she were so inclined.
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 11:01 AM
Nov 2021

She has a lot in common with Rachel's manner and quick wit--as well as a previous WH spokesperson, Nicole Wallace.

Towlie

(5,324 posts)
21. Who is Michelle Wallace?
Fri Nov 12, 2021, 12:03 PM
Nov 2021

 
?

... or did you mean Nicolle Wallace but you got her confused with Michelle Goldberg?

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