Damn Liberal Media! MSNBC's Krystal Ball applauds Jon Stewart's decision to "Stop Hurting America."

[Miles Archer]

Just had her little op/ed at the end of "The Cycle."

Played Jon's "Crossfire" clip (which I re-posted here yesterday) and said "Maybe it's time for him to take his own advice."

Said that he taught a new generation of Liberals to be cynical, negative, and pessimistic.

Said we need to think more happy thoughts.

Said he probably didn't know he was hurting anyone with his behavior but now we have more Independent young people than ever before, and they have pretty much screwed the pooch when it comes to getting involved in the political process because it's still a two party system.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. partly cloudy advice.

but it deserves to be pelted.

Reality, not Jon, created cynicism, negativity, and pessimism.

[nruthie]

2. Of course people are cynical!

The politicians have taught us to be cynical, negative, and pessimistic. Jon Stewart doesn't make this crap up. I would have expected something a wee bit more intelligent from Krystal Ball. What a little Pollyanna she is.

[Vinca]

3. I heard her little spiel and it made me want to barf.

If you can't laugh at the idiots on the right via the likes of Jon Stewart, you'll go crazy. The man should be on the Obamacare provider list for his contribution to mental health. If Krystal wants to hold hands and sing kumbayah with Steve King, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and the rest of the loonies, she's welcome to but leave the rest of us out of it.

[Politicalboi]

4. Take The Cycle off the air

Krystal Ball And stop hurting America. Take Mrs. Greenspan with you.

[still_one]

5. Can't handle the truth Crystal? Maybe you should find another line of work

[daredtowork]

6. When did MSNBC become The New Fox? nt

[Miles Archer]

8. There was an article recently about that

The article was about "Morning Joe" but it's become a little more widespread than just that one show.

What’s Morning Joe’s Solution To Plummeting Ratings? Book More Republican Guests



http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/05/morning-joes-solution-plummeting-ratings-book-republican-guests.html

It is no secret that MSNBC’s Morning Joe is hemorrhaging viewers. Over the past few months, the morning program has seen its audience bail in droves, seemingly heading over to CNN’s New Day, which has passed Morning Joe in both total viewers and the key 25-54 demographic. On Tuesday, Nielsen Media Research revealed that Monday’s program only attracted 56,000 viewers between 25 and 54 and 284,000 viewers overall. This was far behind New Day, which pulled in an audience of 125,000 from the 25-54 demo and a total of 341,000 viewers.

This news came on the heels of the disaster that was the much-hyped yet DOA Friday night broadcast. The network attempted to use co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough to help ‘hype’ up the Super Bowl, which NBC was airing. Despite the promise of a Katy Perry appearance, Morning Joe at Night feel completely on its face. Given both the 8 and 9 PM slots that are typically occupied by Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow, Mika and Joe were trounced by CNN, drawing nearly half as many viewers as Anderson Cooper in both slots. For context, the ratings-challenged Hayes beat Cooper by over 100,000 on Monday night while Maddow drew more than 400,000 viewers than CNN.

With it becoming painfully obvious that people are tired of the program, its format and (most of all) its hosts, the show decided to shake things up a bit Thursday. What exactly did they do to appeal to a younger demographic? They booked old, white, male Republicans, that’s what they did! Early on in the show, they brought on 78-year-old Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to complain about President Obama and convince everyone that endless war against ISIS is the way to go.

[daredtowork]

10. Huh. How is that working out for them? nt

[Bigmack]

7. She'd better pray Jon doesn't focus on her....

.... she could be looking at a pile of intestines - hers - lying at her feet.

Jon has been known to eviscerate fools.

[RedCappedBandit]

9. That's fucking hilarious

In other words she is yet another anti-intellectual afraid of anyone who understands the need to question authority.

[tanyev]

11. She might want to wait until he's actually gone to start flinging poo.

[Cha]

12. What!? That's a stupid take on Jon Stewart.. thanks for nothing KB.. you're usually way smarter

than that.

She needs to be heard from.

[greatlaurel]

13. Mrs.Dariyanani is a right wing tool.She pushes Wall Street propaganda while claiming to be a liberal

Wall Street hates Jon Stewart, as does Ms. Ball/Mrs.Dariyanani. That diatribe sounded like some high school mean girl who thinks she may have been insulted for saying something stupid. Chrystal Ball is a selfish ninny who has no clue how flyover people have been harmed by the Wall Street policies that have made Mrs. Dariyanani and her husband very rich people.

That was one of the most ridiculous spiels I have heard in quite a while. Blaming Jon Stewart for the people being cynical is absurd. People have been cynical about their government the first time a group of people got together in the plains of Africa and tried to plan a village.

I agree Mrs. Dariyanani and Mrs. Greenburg need to go back to gossiping with their Wall Street pals and stop pretending to be journalists.

[randys1]

14. She just lost ANY and ALL Credibility as a journalist or liberal, or adult for that matter.

[Release The Hounds]

15. Unlike those on Fox News and hate radio

They never taught anyone to be 'cynical, negative, and pessimistic'.