so who will Phil Griffin get rid of next?

[provis99]

I think Matthews will always have a job, but I bet Ed Schulz or Lawrence O'Donnell are next on the chopping block.

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

1. Rachel will be next

She's a Lesbian Vampire, ya know?

[EFerrari]

5. But she does sensible intellectual drag which varies with invisibility.

Ed. He's got a big target on him.

[Major Hogwash]

2. Kathy

His illegitimate daughter.

What?

LOL

[rurallib]

3. Sometimes Tweety knows not what he says.

But I think he is looked on as harmless.
Ed on the other hand can really get ripping and knows what he is saying.
But my nominee is Cenk Uyger who can really fling it.
Rachel is too nice and too smart. She can tell people to go to hell and they say thanks.

[regnaD kciN]

4. Ed, most likely...

...from all accounts, he seems to have more of an "independent" attitude toward his bosses than even KO. I think Rachel saved her job with her "it's wonderful we have these standards, as it proves we're better than Fox" commentary.

[DemocracyInaction]

6. If this is a calculated firing

..then Rachel will be next. The Repub establishment detests her. One point: everyone keeps saying this is in preparation for ComCast take over. But, why wouldn't MSNBC just wait for that and let ComCast do the easing out the door? I noticed that the guy they had Friday night said how he was on indefinite suspension but we are all waiting for his return???? I don't think he would say that since he doesn't have any secure job with the network and wouldn't want to offend the "bosses". He was definitely reading the script they had for him.

[theaocp]

7. They'll take Ed next

Meanwhile, they'll let Rachel whither on the vine, with a Olbermann-less rudder to reduce her audience, so they'll have an excuse to fire her. Throughout all this, they'll be trying to neuter Cenk, but that'll be decidedly on the menu of, "What not going to be happening." Cenk'll tell 'em which orifice they will be fucking themselves with and go back to Rebel Headquarters. Hear me now and quote me later. Tweety and Ratigan will play ball. Just my $.02.

[JoePhilly]

12. Would not surprise me if Cenk and Ratigan survive .... for a while ...

They are both centrists on most economic issues.

The GOP is currently trying to down play their social conservatism, and play UP the fiscal. Cenk and Ratigan both generally support that model, with some deviation, but not enough to make the bosses scream.

The GOP is suppressing the social stuff where it can ... at least publically ... in an attempt to get moderate Republicans and Dems to "join" them on the economic front.

After that passes, we'll learn that every GOP candidate is a social conservative too, and their agenda will pop to the top. And only then will Cenk and Ratigan be tossed aside.

Rachel will last too, but mainly so that the far right can point at her (lesbian) as an evil doer in the "liberal media".

Tweety will fall in line just like the weather-vane that he is.

Ed might survive for a while because he too is relatively moderate.

Laurence will be targeted for sure.

[theaocp]

13. Good point on Rachel

She could be M$NBC's version of Colmes, but with a functioning spine. We'll see. My take, as a loyal TYT Army member since 2006, is that Cenk will bring the heat until they tell him to fuck off. He won't bend, let alone break. That's the amount of faith I have in the guy. I don't trust Ratigan to bring an ultimate amount of stink about anything, unless it's about an economic issue. I just don't think he cares about anything else. Ed COULD change to keep the slot, but we'll see. When the cards are all the table, one thing'll be for sure: Tweety will be there. The Vanilla Weather Vane will go where the wind blows, fer sure!

[JoePhilly]

15. I hear you ...

I've been following TYT for a while. I picked up Rachel, Mike Malloy, Randi, and most of the others way back in the early Air America days with Al Franken too.

I remember Rachel as part of a very early morning Air America crew.

I also know that Cenk voted for Bush in 2000. He's sorry now. And the Iraq war was critical in helping move him left by 2004. I think he'll hold his social views, fight Christocracy, and ride the middle on fiscal stuff.

And I am with you on Tweety. He's always been a weather-vane, and his leg tingles are quite fickle ... if I recall, he GUSHED when Bush landed on the aircraft carrier to declare "Mission Accomplished" ... claiming "we are all neocons now!!"

He's a sad clown.

[Bluzmann57]

8. Olbermann hasn't been fired

He has been suspended. There is a difference. Just because a person is suspended from his or her job doesn't mean they are gone. So please do not jump to hasty conclusions.

[JI7]

10. isn't David Shuster still on Suspended Status ?

[DemocracyInaction]

11. They made Shuster disappear in April or so

and when I checked in like August he still was on suspension but apparently ON the payroll.

[jmowreader]

9. I think Rachel and Ed will be the next two to go

The corporate masters at all the networks are looking at the election results and thinking, "OMG! We have to go further to the right!"

In Fox News' case, about the only thing they could do to go further to the right is hire Klansmen. And if they did, people would still watch that shit.

But in the case of MSNBC, look to see Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz all receive pink slips.

[digitaln3rd]

14. Probably

Whoever breaks the rules, like Olbermann.

If he would have just simply disclosed this information, everything would have been avoided.