Will KO lose credibility if he doesn't have Tweety...

[SaveOurDemocracy]

nominated as 1 of his 3 'Worst Person in the Worrrrrrrrrrrld"?

Specifically for his statement this morning on 'Morning Joe' that ... the only reason Hillary is a Presidential candidate, or was able to win 2 NY Senate races, is because Bill 'messed around on her'? I love Keith ... but I would have to question the integrity of that segment if Chris Matthews isn't 1 of the 3.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

1. Feel free to comment ...

especially those who opt for #3

[SaveOurDemocracy]

2. well ... he didn't :o(

I guess it really is more important that 2 guys tried to cash a dead guy's SS check.

[Berry Cool]

3. If you are waiting for Keith to ridicule or denigrate any of his MSNBC colleagues,

no matter how deserving, you will be waiting forever.

He won't do it...at least not in public. He's too much of a team player.

He detested Don Imus...which became clear after Imus got in trouble...and clearly said why. But he never said anything publicly against him until he was gone from MSNBC.

If you don't understand why KO won't knock his colleagues, then maybe you're the kind of person who attacks your coworkers openly on the job. But most people don't...no matter how obnoxious they think someone is. Because bosses tend not to like it much.

[ZinZen]

6. I agree

you have to pay attention to KO's body language and subtle looks at the "unhinged one" to kind of think that KO thinks Tweety's statements are way over the top. I have caught a couple of disapproving or WTF? looks towards loony toons several times. But he will not say anything againist him publicly.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

7. Then maybe he should rename that segment ...

"Worst Persons in the Rest of the Worrrrrrrrrrrrld"

[Hoof Hearted]

9. LOL. Who knows, maybe there's something in his contract about it too.

I haven't been overly thrilled with KO lately but I try not to get too agitated about it. Sometimes I just don't watch him for a while.

[Bryan]

4. No, no more than he's already lost by putting up with him, I guess

Keith seems to place a premium on being a team player with other NBC talent, even when he presumably thinks they suck (which I, craven tool that I am, think is excusable because we need him to hold his position and keep firing at the schmucks on other companies' shows).

More than that, he may be keeping all his criticisms "in the family"; a review of his statements* when Imus was fired may be instructive:

"Was I guilty of maybe not making as big a stink about this as I should have? Yeah. But you don't have free rein to shoot internally. Really, I feel like you don't, and I know, more importantly, and possibly the deciding factor and my primary defense about this is, if I had started to make Don Imus the Worst Person in the World when I first wanted to, which would have been--when did we start Worst Person in the World?--July of 2005--I would probably have done it within the first month at some point, for something he did.

"If I had done that, there would have been a constant battle. I would have been happy to join that battle with him (but) there would have been a constant battle involving the people who work for me--my producers, my staff--who have no business being trotted out. And they would have been mentioned by name on Imus's show. They would have been mentioned by name, there would have been problems involving them internally, there would have been complaints about them. I didn't think I had a right to do that. And I thought had a responsibility to my employers to go along with them, and after the management change about a year ago, I figured there was probably--something was going to happen. And finally, something did. Imus took care of it himself."


*http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x653129

[Loge23]

5. That would be a yes

Just being seen with the idiot Matthews is eroding KO's credibilty in my mind - although not that much.
As for #3, I'm increasingly finding myself becoming one of those voters who will vote for Hillary just as a protest against the viciousness of her detractors - and I'm a DK supporter!

[Kucinich4America]

8. According to what Keith told Bill Moyers a couple weeks ago

His producers will let him say whatever the Hell he wants, as long as he's making them money. For that reason, they might have a problem with him taking a swipe at Tweety (who also makes them money) whether he deserves it or not.