MSNBC is goddamned unwatchable. (Edit to add) at the moment.

[Puglover]

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Andrea Greenfuckingspan. Chuckles and Monkeyface. Not a goddamned whisper of 538 just the blather about it's a neck and neck race with juicy bits "Romney Passion" thrown in. And of course they had to throw in a clip of Christie saying he would vote for WilLIARd. I am so done with the main stream media. I guess I had some stupid idea that MSNBC had a somewhat liberal tilt. Bullshit. It's as bad as CNN. Aside from Al,Rachel,Ed and Lawrence it sucks.

End rant.

[spockeye]

1. And Chris and Melissa. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. And the reverend talking of blocking the vote

[Puglover]

22. True.

[earthside]

3. What do you want?

I'm watching Al now; I just watched some of Matthews ... I'll probably watch him next hour.

You get Ed, Rachel and Lawrence tonight ... that's five hours of progressive/Democratic tilt broadcasting.

I have yet to hear a word that Rmoney is going to win.

What do you want? Egg in your beer?

[chillfactor]

19. agreed..I avoid the right-winger baggers like Joe, Todd, and Andrea.....

other than that..I like the other programs...Tamron Hall and John Roberts during the day take no shit from anyone....and from Rev. Al in the programming is great...Chris gets a little ditzy sometimes but he has had some great revelations on his program as well...

[Puglover]

24. Yeah I want egg in my beer.

[trublu992]

4. Stopped

watching after Keith left. I can't deal with the lies and mass efforts to push the corporate agenda those a**holes have been team Romney since day one its unbelievable how the media constantly tries to brain wash the public into supporting their greed. I get what Noam Chomsky was talking about when he said that billions of dollars are spent to keep the public voting against it's own interests.

[roguevalley]

10. you haven't watched for years and yet you know what the shows are saying.

[trublu992]

47. WELL

its not hard to figure what they are saying I was empathizing in that knowing how bad they are I don't watch

[sabrina 1]

48. You don't need to watch to know what they are saying. I haven't watched

the MSM except for entertainment purposes since 2004 when I could no longer be sure I might not become violent listening to them treat Bush as if he really was president, also the fear of possibly seeing him by accident.

But I know what they are saying. There are no independent journalists on the MSM so how could we expect any real reporting, on Issues eg. I am willing to bet that Issues are not part of the discussion, other than when they relate to the 'horse race'.

No in depth taking apart of the lies about Social Security and the Deficit etc, no investigative journalism regarding our so-called 'War on Terror', or the loss of our Civil Liberties etc. So who needs to watch it when nothing ever changes, not even the talking heads? They use 'safe' people to discuss elections who won't cross any lines. It's boring aside from anything else.

[mucifer]

5. did Christie recently say he'd vote rmoney? I missed that.

[lunatica]

11. He did. In his usual in your face fashion to the Republicans

But he did say he was voting for Romney.

[jillan]

6. I know!!! I've had it on most of the day as I work around the house.

Unbelievable bullshit.

Keep checking C-Span - they are showing rallies all day, and 1/2 of the rallies are the Prez or VP

[MrScorpio]

7. It's Sunday, I'm watching Football

Later, I'm watching HBO, Showtime and The Walking Dead

Sunday is not for politics.

[HipChick]

9. Agree...Verizon Fios is working like madman to resolve my cable outage..

since 9am this morning...

[NYFlip]

45. Mine's out too

Do you live in Manhattan ?

[Control-Z]

13. Don't forget the Bin Laden

movie/special. I have that and Walking Dead set to record.

[MrScorpio]

28. Thanks for reminding me, I just set the DVR to record it. nt

[lunatica]

15. How ironic that watching The Walking Dead

would be so much more relaxing than watching MSNBC. LOL! I can't miss The Walking Dead!! Elections shmelections!

[Cha]

8. I guess Mourdoch scared Christie afterall.

[salinen]

12. No shit

what a bipolar network

[liberalmuse]

14. Everytime I see one of these threads....

I'm so glad I'm saving $120 a month after cutting off cable. I'm a spaz as it is. Watching the clueless MSM during this election would definitely do me in. I don't know how you guys do it, especially those of you who watch "Faux".

[Jennicut]

16. We also have Toure and Krystal Ball.

Steve Kornacki is not too bad. Martin Barshir who has grown on me a lot. And countless regular guests like Eugene Robinson and Richard Wolff and so many others I can't name. Only Andrea Mitchell and Chuckie and Joe Scar are all that bad to me. MSNBC as a whole is quite watchable. And I wish Ezra Klein had his own show.

[Raine]

17. Yeah V Pres Biden on Hardball was "unwatchable" and

Al talking about voter suppression, totally "goddamned unwatchable" Oh well, your loss.

[cynatnite]

18. Alex Wagner used 538's numbers earlier today...

I'll keep watching the shows on that network I enjoy most. It's far from unwatchable.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

49. I do the same...

And Alex Wagner is a joy to watch. She still needs some polishing, but she will get there.

[Capt.Rocky300]

20. Who is "Monkeyface"?

[Puglover]

27. David Gregory.

[Snotcicles]

39. He does look Simian. nt

[Evergreen Emerald]

41. I think he looks like the cartoon grinch, seriously...his smile looks like the grinch! N/t

[Honeycombe8]

21. If you only want to hear cheerleaders, Charlie Sheen can put you in touch, I think.

But if you want news, CNN and MSNBC are both pretty good. I flip between them. As for me, I don't want to hear just rah-rah. I want to hear a balance, with teh real news about the left (which right now is that Obama is leading in almost all the battleground states, and has been for a looooong time).

[Puglover]

34. If I only want to hear cheerleaders?

Let me clarify. Right wing spin is not "teh real news" If you think Rachel is "rah rah" you aren't listening.

[aaaaaa5a]

23. I have never understood why people think MSNBC is a liberal network.

The truth is they are a centralist to just right of center news organization that has 5 shows (Bashir, Sharpton, Ed, Maddow and O'Donnell) that lean left. The other 19 hours of their newscast is not left leaning at all. And the 5 hours of liberal talk shows are nearly equalized with the 3 hours (in a very suitable prime time morning news slot) of Morning Joe!

So if a +2 hours of liberal news programing over the course of a day from a 24 hour news channel makes them a wildly liberal network, I don't know what else to say? And I am not even counting Chuck Todd's show which is 1 hour long and moves to the right by the minute.


You compare MSNBC's programing to FOX and its not even close.

[Third Doctor]

35. That is what I usually say

when I'm discussing how right wing Fox is. RWers always allude to MSNBC as if it is as liberal as Fox is conservative and that's simply not the truth. I really wish I had Current TV.

[A HERETIC I AM]

25. ::::let's see here.....where is it?.....::::

Ahh yes...there it is.

"Trash Thread"

Click.

[Puglover]

30. Bless your heart.

[Shankapotomus]

26. What about Chris Hayes? n/t

[Puglover]

33. I forgot him.

And I love the guy.

[Bucky]

29. While I'm a little more tolerant of other peoples' views than you, I sympathize.

Try watch Cenk & the Young Turks instead. That's real journalism.

[Puglover]

32. I am watching Current more and more.

[spanone]

31. they start each day with THREE HOURS OF SCARBOROUGH

[and-justice-for-all]

36. Al,Rachel,Ed and Lawrence...that all I watch.

I never bother with anything else.

[CheapShotArtist]

37. All networks should just give the facts about the polls without the horse race spin.

I don't give a flying fuck how close they want to pretend the race is--I just care about the polling and the voting results in each of the 50 states. All this "Romney and Obama are neck-and-neck nationally" shit is getting irritating. They're turning politics into a fucking spectator sport. And whenever they show both of their rallies, they could at least show more of their crowds so that people can get an idea of how close it truly is, because whenever I see pics of Robme stump speeches, there's hardly anybody at his. But Obama's stay packed.

[Merlot]

38. I've been boycotting all shows - even Rachel who I watch regularly

Will continue to do so until election is over.

Haven't decided how to spend election eve - maybe I'll just monitor things through DU. On the one hand, I hate to miss it, but I'm so fed up with the media.

Anyone else have any good plans for election eve?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

43. If you must watch, please watch Current TV

[Merlot]

44. That's a good idea - so they'll have their live coverage like the debates?

I loved Granholm and Fugalsang, hopefully they'll be on board again.

That would be watchable!

[lindysalsagal]

40. But the catheter and aspca commercials more than make up for it....

I can't wait for this to me over.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

42. In my view, even Rachel sucks. Demoralizing the voters, getting chummy with Republican guests.

I turned it off. Turn it all off!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

46. Shame on you people!

Just because Gregory looks like Dr. Zaius doesn't mean you have to rub it in his simian face. You're all just bastard people!

[Indpndnt]

50. Seriously! It's about time someone pointed that out.

Everyone needs to quit insulting Dr. Zaius!