I've been watching MSNBC exclusively for the last week and let me just say...

[The Backlash Cometh]

Oh My God! Who was the idiot that came up with the brilliant idea of putting Imus in the morning for three hours a day during the nineties! What a waste of a decade. No wonder the right-wingers took over and the internet expanded to fill the void.

But I go off tangent.

About MSNBC. I can tell they have an ear tuned to the internet because their topics and comments are very similar to what I read on DU.

[taterguy]

1. Yes. Imus was responsible for every bad thing that happened in the 90s

Even Hootie and the Blowfish.

What a bastard.

[EFerrari]

2. LOL

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Never cared for the man.

I was even frustrated enough to send an e-mail back then to suggest they replace him with a coffee clutch of women to discuss political issues.

[taterguy]

6. Replacing Hootie with a coffee clatch of women?

The Blowfish were nothing without Hootie.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. How was I to know that Barbara Walters would read my e-mail?

[Trajan]

12. I dont identify with Imus freaks, for some reason ...

I watched and listened may five minutes my whole life, and always moved on ....

Toilet scrubbing .... Dog Poo Picker-upping .... Just about anything was a more pleasurable experience ....

So yes ... I can understand your frustration when someone says something mean about Imus .... Go get'm ...

[EFerrari]

4. Amy's show today will have a segment about Malcolm X

and Manning Marable's biography. It should be excellent should you decide you've done enough time. :)

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. I keep an ear open for it. Thanks.

[lunatica]

7. I don't watch anything else but MSNBC. It's a total waste of time

But I also don't waste my time on Morning Joe either. I watch O'Donnell, Maddow and sometimes Schultz. But if I could only watch one it would be Maddow. My IQ goes up when I watch her.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. It has helped that they're all aware that we're watching and commenting.

Chris Matthews picked it up. The days when a politician could say anything without worry that it will be remembered down the road, are gone. So, it makes the pundits more honest, knowing that if they don't ask the tough questions, we will.

[AC_Mem]

17. Evenings for me are MSNBC

I watch Cenk to Ed - and I feel smarter by the time I go to sleep at night. Especially Rachel!

If I take a break its when Tweety is on, he gets on my nerves when he won't let his guests complete a sentence.

Annette

[geckosfeet]

10. They still have not convinced me that their 'product' is worth paying for.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. I don't think it will replace blogs like DU, but, when you like a babbling

presence for background noise, it works.

[geckosfeet]

13. So does NPR - and it cost's less - it's free if you dont' donate.

[Shagbark Hickory]

14. Their comments are similar to what you read on DU because they have programmed most of DU

into thinking they're on our side when in fact 90% of their day is rebroadcasting fox news and rightwing clips of sara palin, limpballs and the like.

I ceased watching it completely back during the whole Charlie Sheen and the Oscars because not only were they not covering wisconsin or any actual news, their allegedly progressive opinion spewers at night were spewing rightwingish, hypocritical diarrhea and I couldn't take it any longer.

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. Mostly, I would agree with you.

But there was an arc, starting about the time that Obama produced his birth certificate, through the Osama thing, then Ensign and now Newt Gingrich, where there was actually a glimmer of promise.

Of course, next week, they may regress back to Charlie Sheen.

[Shagbark Hickory]

16. Promise? For what? It's supposed to be a news network. I don't really want the bias. I want news.

I've found that I can turn to CCTV or RT, or France 24 and get more news in 10 minutes during a lunch break than they cover in a week on American infotainment channels. Actually, it's news that isn't even covered on American infotainment channels. If I'm in the mood for opinion, that's what Thom Hartmann and Bill Maher is for. If I want entertainment news which is a lot of what msnBS covers, I watch ET. They wrap it all up in 30 minutes, (17 minutes if you skip through the commericals). If I want to watch car chases, which is also a fan favorite on msnBC, I can turn on truTV or ABC or one of those amazing video shows.

And lastly, if I gave a flying shit about what glen beck or sara palin says, I'd turn on fox news.

[Cleita]

18. Are you kidding? Ed Schultz went to Wisconsin and covered

Wisconsin every day for his whole show when it was happening and the other liberal hosts did segments on it.

[Shagbark Hickory]

19. Yeah, that was the only coverage WI got, the so-called "librul" Big Ed, who told everyone to

behave themselves.

The forgotten right-wing past of Ed Schultz
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/14/ed_schultz_right_wing_past

[Cleita]

20. You don't have to tell me he's more conservative

than liberal, but he's always been good on labor and that's what he was covering in Wisconsin and what it was about.

[Shagbark Hickory]

21. A lot of good it did.

But at least everyone behaved and that's what's important.
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