Chuck Todd's MTP Daily may be axed

[Gothmog]

Link to tweet

[rurallib]

1. that would give him time to study for his Sunday gig.

But really, NBC needs to recoup some integrity and just fire him period.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Bye Chuckie......It was NICE knowing you???????

[lastlib]

25. It's even nicer knowing you're gettin' dafuq outa that chair!

[brush]

3. Nobody wants to watch him let repugs spew without challenge.

And be smug about it.

[Liberal In Texas]

4. Just change the anchor to somebody decent.

Olberman need a new gig?

[underpants]

6. Olbermann is back at the ESPeN

and doing well

[ProudMNDemocrat]

36. I loved COUNTDOWN....

Keith was instrumental in getting Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell their gigs with MSNBC. The rest of the lineup we have now have been because of Rachel and Lawrence as well.

[StClone]

43. There was nothing finer than one of Keith's eloquent heartfelt rants...

...against the evils in by-gone MSNBC days. He made me feel good.

[BigmanPigman]

56. I loved his "worst person ever" countdown.

[ancianita]

35. Katy Tur

[Wounded Bear]

54. She does a pretty good job filling in for Chuck...

She followed Trump on the campaign trail IIRC. IAE she knows his ass and has heard all the bullshit being spewed by his minions.

She hits back when RWers start gaslighting.

I like her. She could do her own show.

[ancianita]

57. She did have her own show before her pregnancy a year ago. She comes from a family of journalists.

I liked Tur before Wallace joined MSNBC.

She can take Nicole's slot, and thankfully Nicole can take Chuck's.

She's no bullshit, and does consistently challenging follow-up.

I'll be happy to see her back.

[Different Drummer]

58. I'd watch...which I don't do now w/Chuckles as host.

DD

[StarfishSaver]

5. Good

[IADEMO2004]

7. AKA The Music Hour at my house.

[Alpeduez21]

8. Give it to Melissa Harris Perry

Since this dumbass got her fired

[TNNurse]

14. Perfect

[whathehell]

17. I hadn't heard that -- How did he get her fired?

Just curious.

[mahina]

19. +1

She is a great journalist.

Unlike some.

[MontanaMama]

9. The show is weak at best.

I can't switch him off fast enough. Nicolle Wallace's show crushes Chuck's.

[CincyDem]

22. Nicole is great - moves from 4 to 5 EST with a lot of energy...then...

...like the air coming out of a balloon...we get Chuckie. His "If today's Friday that means..." opening bullchit is trite and formulaic. Just sucks the air right out of the car on my drive home.

I call 5-6 my podcast hour for good reason and he can't be gone soon enough.

Then comes Ari and, while weaker than Nicole, he's far better than Chuckie.

Chuck was a poor replacement for Tim Russert as NBC's political director and I only hope that this move weakens his role in influencing the public discourse.

[ToxMarz]

24. Give Nicole a 2 hour time slot

On edit I just read the article and that's what they want to do.

So then I agree!

[calimary]

27. When he comes on, it's time to stroll to the kitchen and make some munchies.

Or check the mail. Or the laundry. Used to be a good time to take the dog for a walk while she was still with us. Or run an errand. Then come back for the late afternoon gang.

Shit - when I think of all the really good, hardworking news people I worked with...

Any of them would have been better at hosting “Meet the Press” than him!!! Hell, even I MIGHT have been able to do it. MAAAAAAAYBEEE...

[gilligan]

37. I stroll

To the kitchen and make a stiff one.

[not fooled]

41. ++++++++

Bland porridge isn't appetizing.

[Scotch-Irish]

71. We all love Ari around here.

Ari and Rachel are our two top favorites.

[TheBlackAdder]

10. Poynter really screwed the pooch when they tried to bail this fucker out with a bullshit award!

.

Poynter nominated Todd the "Media Personality of the Year" and the "gold standard" of Sunday shows.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212807024

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[C_U_L8R]

11. Take that creepy Republican flak with you.

[mcar]

12. Where are they going to put Joshua Johnson?

They just hired him away from NPR.

Also, Yay! Todd is awful.

[Fla Dem]

72. They are booting Ali Velshi from weekday slots and reassigning him

https://pagesix.com/2020/01/02/stephanie-ruhle-lands-big-nbc-business-role-amid-anchor-reshuffle-at-msnbc/

The move comes amid an anchor reshuffle at MSNBC, which included the NBCUniversal-owned cable news outlet moving Ali Velshi — NBC’s business correspondent — to a new morning weekend show at 8 a.m., putting an end to his show with Ruhle, “Velshi & Ruhle” at 1 p.m.

Velshi also gives up his MSNBC 3 p.m. slot, which sources say is likely go to Joshua Johnson, the host of national NPR talk show “1A” who last year signed a deal to become an anchor at MSNBC, where he has been a contributor since 2018.

More at link.

[mcar]

73. Thanks!

[kentuck]

13. Two hours of Nicolle?

YaY!

[OnDoutside]

16. +1

great idea !

[Rollerman]

23. Why would you want to give a Republican MORE time?

Granted, she’s an anti-Trumper, but she worked for McCain in 2008 to try and defeat Obama.
I would like to see a Progressive like Sam Seder get an hour on MSNBC.

[tableturner]

52. Because a lot of people like her show! Seder, a fine reporter, would be a dull show host.

[katmondoo]

15. I can only hope, I cannot stand him.

[mahina]

18. A week or so after he announced he understood he was being used by the right?

Quelle surprise.

Also, good, wxcept that he might have changed the spew.

[Sloumeau]

20. Please, God, let it be so that Chuck Todd is leaving MSNBC.

I cannot get through an entire show with that idiotic, GOP butt-kissing toady. Just get rid of his MTP Daily entirely, and slide everyone after Nicole Wallace and before Ari Melber's The Beat to an hour later. Then Nicole will have two hours. Nicole's show has become awesome. It is usually about 50 minutes of pointing out the latest ways in which the Trump Administration is messing up.

[StarfishSaver]

42. I love that she lets her guests talk and that she actually listens to what they say

[kentuck]

63. She's smart.

I like the way she thinks.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. My opinion

lacking a broad understanding of historical political theory from 1500-2020, and too quick and reflexive to interview with impartiality, which is to say, lacking self-awareness.

I fail to understand why they have to have Washington types in this position. It makes for overlapping social circuitry and an insider's game that becomes balancing two parties in a lopsided way where one party dominates.

[calimary]

26. HE should be axed. Keep the show and get a new host.

Mr. “I just put one side and let ‘em say their piece and then I put the other side on and say their piece and that’s that. I’ve done my job.”

FUCK that!!!

You don’t just fucking sit there! When you hear obvious bullshit, you stop on the spot and dig into that! Do some follow-up questioning, you lazy cocky entitled SOB! You do some damn fucking FACT-CHECKING, dammit!!! You don’t just let the liars sit there and lie for free, with impunity, for Pete’s sake!

Chuck, in YOUR position, as host of such a longtime distinguished marquee Sunday news program AND its weekday companion show, you should be sufficiently up on the news to recognize bullshit when you hear it, especially from republi-CONS. Or your first-class staff should be able to clue you in beforehand or off-camera - assuming you listen to them. How much are they paying you?

If I were running MSNBC, Chuck, you’d become the shoe-shine man in the lobby on the way to the elevator up to the studio.

I’d be tempted to ask Rachel Maddow if she wanted to add the Sunday version to her weekly duties. Or maybe try to steal Jake Tapper or some such.

[Joinfortmill]

28. Does anyone watch his show?

[TruckFump]

31. Some times but only if there is nothing else to watch.

Beats the soaps and daytime talk shoes as well as most re-runs and TV movies on at the same time -- beats them not by much, but I do watch now and then.

[not fooled]

44. AKA the "Household Chores" hour

in my neck of the woods.

[mopinko]

68. in my house it's 'the last chance to get shit done today' hour.

aka- the 'holy shit, it's that late' hour.

[Gothmog]

46. I think that this show is doing poorly in ratings

I like Nicole Wallace and Ari

[gibraltar72]

29. Aww no.

[PWPippinesq]

30. Fingers crossed!

[Evolve Dammit]

32. Great news! His "both-sider"-isms make me want to either vomit or slap him silly

Soooo lame and not at all helpful in reporting FACTS, or anything close to investigative journalism.

[Fiendish Thingy]

33. That must be why he had his recent epiphany

When he admitted he had been a useful idiot for the GOP all these years.

[QED]

34. I think a "Sisters-in-Law" show would be interesting

Maya Wiley, Joyce Vance, Barbara McQuade, Jill Wine-Banks.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. Please give Jennifer Granholm a show!! Or Steve

Schmidt. Someone with savvy and intelligence. Malcolm Nance? Phil Mudd!! Will never forget how he knew it was bullshit when repukes talked about a week's worth of investigation on Kavenaugh.

Then later in same day said FBI can DO it. They can do anything! They will put her in a car and drive the neighborhoods waiting for a recollection. It all didn't happen but he knew what the FBI would have done! If not trumped.

[PatSeg]

39. Oh no, that is so, so sad!

Seriously, I can't understand how it has lasted this long. It is awful. Compared to other shows on MSNBC, it is barely watchable.

[Raven123]

40. How about a show that covers more news. There is a lot going on

[Ilsa]

49. Agreed. They are only covering politics when

other things are happening, too, in science, medicine, etc.

[Raine]

50. Yes, that's what they need

they claimed awhile back they were going to put on a news program but they still haven't done it.

[Hoyt]

51. Great idea.

[trueblue2007]

45. CHUCK TOAD is not msnbc's BIGGEST STAR. he is a rotten puke. NICOLE WALLACE IS AWESOME

give Toads spot to a African American host !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[George II]

47. It/he won't be missed.

[rickford66]

48. Return to the MTP of the 50's & 60's etc

Guest questioned by three real journalists (the Press).

[Susan Calvin]

61. Questioned.

What a novel concept.....

[fwvinson]

53. Get Al Franken

[solara]

55. Yes!!

Al Franken would be awesome in every sense of the word

[Susan Calvin]

60. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nt

[Susan Calvin]

59. Well, he already admitted he doesn't know what his job is,

So there you go.

Although the majority of the press doesn't know what its job is.

[usaf-vet]

62. Not soon enough! He has been useless since day one. Primary example of "Peter Principle"

[stopbush]

64. The first thing NBC needs to do is go back to the multiple press interviewers

that was SOP for MTP back in the day. Get rid of the single host format and bring in three JOURNALISTS - not newsreaders - to pose tough questions to the guests. That would make for an interesting Sunday show.

As far as the daily MTP - let Nicole have a 2-hour slot.

[Elwood P Dowd]

65. +1000 for a 2-hour Nicole show. (nt)

[UniteFightBack]

66. The article says that Wallace would be expanded for 2 hours and I like that idea! nt

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

67. Oh no, no more Danielle Pletka and Peggy Noonan!

I saw Pletka on mtp daily some weeks ago. She seemed like even she didn't believe her own bullshit.

And Peggy -drama queen extraordinaire.

[kairos12]

69. Ratings are down for Bothsiderism. Go figure.

[COLGATE4]

70. Best news I've had all year!