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redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:16 AM Jan 2020

Will not watch MSNBC with Chuck Todd as the lead.

I am an MSNBC person, I enjoy almost all of the people on there except Chuck Todd. I have a true dislike of his reporting. I would have thought they would have had Rachel or Nicole Wallace, heck I would even take Brian Williams over this guy. I guess I need to watch CNN today, damn.

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Will not watch MSNBC with Chuck Todd as the lead. (Original Post) redstatebluegirl Jan 2020 OP
The trial is on C-Span 2 at 1 P. M. pwb Jan 2020 #1
Thanks for the info bdamomma Jan 2020 #10
Not now, it all starts at one. pwb Jan 2020 #11
cspan is where i watch barbtries Jan 2020 #21
Thank you a bunch. Delmette2.0 Jan 2020 #50
Agreed TEB Jan 2020 #2
It's not just Chuck "The Human Test Pattern" Todd. CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #39
With you...100% PCIntern Jan 2020 #3
I agree! Bev54 Jan 2020 #26
I was turned off by Ari Melber when he was on The Cycle. He treated his CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #44
I don't generally watch Ari Bev54 Jan 2020 #53
I often listen to rap...at every f***ing stoplight. CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #54
That's funny. Thx nt PCIntern Jan 2020 #56
It is a true shame evilhime Jan 2020 #45
he's been moved to the 9:00 am slot.... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #4
But they clearly see him as the political lead. redstatebluegirl Jan 2020 #5
Unfortunately that time slot helps set the tone for the day. blm Jan 2020 #6
yeah, but most people are at work or doing other things... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #8
I know - I got used to getting up and watching Stephanie Ruhle at 9AM csziggy Jan 2020 #13
Todd is only on for the first hour. True Blue American Jan 2020 #7
Why couldn't Nicole AND Rachel run the show??? a kennedy Jan 2020 #16
Me either, but I can handle him, I turn the channel with Toddy is on. redstatebluegirl Jan 2020 #17
Neither am I True Blue American Jan 2020 #33
I agree...I turned him off this morning when I saw him. MontanaMama Jan 2020 #9
Brian and Nicolle work well together. JaneQPublic Jan 2020 #15
Have not watched him since Nov, 2016. Nor any others except Maddow for a few minutes. BSdetect Jan 2020 #12
With his skill set, he would be better suited for FOX News Afternoon. kentuck Jan 2020 #14
I don't know if I will have the stomach to watch it because avebury Jan 2020 #18
Andrea Mitchell is harder to listen to, though... Wounded Bear Jan 2020 #19
Oh, God. You hit a nerve. Mitchell is grating. Todd enrages. Eyeball_Kid Jan 2020 #38
I saw Chuck and changed the channel... Sancho Jan 2020 #20
Well... mbusby Jan 2020 #43
I flip from one channel to the next. MSNBC is the Mod squad. YOHABLO Jan 2020 #22
He's just the intro guy. Not the analysis guy. Still, I feel you. ancianita Jan 2020 #23
Yeah, he just sucks. He telegraphs that dumb smirk when he kicks in the bothsiderisms. TheBlackAdder Jan 2020 #24
Chuck is absurd... B Stieg Jan 2020 #25
I made that decision long ago Perseus Jan 2020 #27
I don't watch lsewpershad Jan 2020 #28
I agree with you..... Farmer-Rick Jan 2020 #29
Chuck Sucks ashredux Jan 2020 #30
I feel this is going to be a circus, and Moscow-Mitch and the GOP cowards are intent on making it so Perseus Jan 2020 #31
Chuck is gone MacKasey Jan 2020 #32
Ari is an Attorney. True Blue American Jan 2020 #34
Ah but he did play the french horn. YOHABLO Jan 2020 #35
:) True Blue American Jan 2020 #40
That was tough at first. CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #46
I prefer to get my lies and spin of a news story from those with first hand accounts, not from the.. usaf-vet Jan 2020 #36
Looking on the bright side, Ari Melber actually shaved today FakeNoose Jan 2020 #37
I won't either. He is really bad, the ultimate both-sider. Joy Reid should have his time slot Pepsidog Jan 2020 #41
msnbc only has 3 decent anchors, gab13by13 Jan 2020 #42
Interesting that MSNBC wants to dump Todd from evenings cause people don't watch him and dem4decades Jan 2020 #47
absolutely! Brainstormy Jan 2020 #49
I can't watch him either. Mickju Jan 2020 #48
Thuck Chodd slot Traildogbob Jan 2020 #51
Ya me too tiredtoo Jan 2020 #52
That man is too smarmy for words. When the Articles were carried over... Hekate Jan 2020 #55

pwb

(11,294 posts)
1. The trial is on C-Span 2 at 1 P. M.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:21 AM
Jan 2020

I agree, MSNBC and Chuck Todd wants that election ad money and have an interest in keeping things divided .

bdamomma

(63,931 posts)
10. Thanks for the info
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:36 AM
Jan 2020

So C Span 2 is covering it, is there anything on right now, do they have opening statements or anything like that?

Delmette2.0

(4,174 posts)
50. Thank you a bunch.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 12:15 PM
Jan 2020

I have a doctor appointment at 11 (Mtn time) so now I know I can catch up on the proceedings!

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
39. It's not just Chuck "The Human Test Pattern" Todd.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:38 AM
Jan 2020

It starts at the top with Phil Griffin. The same guy who unloaded Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, and Melissa Harris-Perry, among others.

I'm just too liberal for any cable news network. They have to suck up to conservative advertisers. Money talks--Truth walks. John Lennon said, "Gimme Some Truth".

Bev54

(10,083 posts)
26. I agree!
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:02 AM
Jan 2020

I am not a CNN fan but turned over to Cnn so I don't have to listen to him. He is off now, I think Ari is taking over.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
44. I was turned off by Ari Melber when he was on The Cycle. He treated his
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:48 AM
Jan 2020

co-hosts like crap, always talking down to them and going out of his way to throw in commonly-known Law 101 terms to brag about being a lawyer. He may as well have called them "Dum-Dum" the way The Great Gazoo called Fred and Barney on The Flintstones.

The Cycle was a less than perfect show itself. There was way too much fluff and celebrity filler on what is supposed to be a politically-minded network.

Bev54

(10,083 posts)
53. I don't generally watch Ari
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 12:35 PM
Jan 2020

I like him on particular legal issues but his show is going down hill with him putting on GOP talking point has beens, and is enraptured by Rap singers who frankly are entitled to their own opinion but I am not interested in hearing from them. He should be hosting a variety show because he seems to be a little star struck with his rap friends.

evilhime

(326 posts)
45. It is a true shame
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:50 AM
Jan 2020

Tim Russert picked him and I bet poor Tim is turning in his grave at what he has become.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
5. But they clearly see him as the political lead.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:31 AM
Jan 2020

I won't put up with that, he is just not a good reporter or interviewer.

getagrip_already

(14,906 posts)
8. yeah, but most people are at work or doing other things...
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:35 AM
Jan 2020

I work remotely, so I can have a tee-vee on in the background if I want (usually not - I usually listen to kagro in the morning), but people with real lives don't get to watch at 9:00 am. Morning joe actually has the best morning slot. People get up and turn on the tube while getting ready.

Yes, I know, there are off shift workers. But it's not a time slot many would be watching. They sleep then.

csziggy

(34,139 posts)
13. I know - I got used to getting up and watching Stephanie Ruhle at 9AM
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:44 AM
Jan 2020

She is more conservative than I like but at least she tried to be impartial in her reporting. Any earlier, Joe Scarborough and his gang would piss me off. I guess I will sleep in to 10 AM now or not watch news in the morning.

True Blue American

(17,995 posts)
7. Todd is only on for the first hour.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:33 AM
Jan 2020

He is slowly being relegated to the dust bin.

Nicole and Brian are running the show.

MontanaMama

(23,364 posts)
9. I agree...I turned him off this morning when I saw him.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:36 AM
Jan 2020

I believe that Brian Williams and Nicolle Wallace are coming on later. That’s what MSNBC was advertising last night.

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
15. Brian and Nicolle work well together.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:46 AM
Jan 2020

They clearly like and respect each other and can manage to anchor the coverage together without stepping on each other's comments or getting into on-air spats (thinking of major meltdowns between Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews many moons ago).

Maybe Chuck Todd can team up with his best buddy, Hugh Hewitt, but on a different channel.

BSdetect

(8,999 posts)
12. Have not watched him since Nov, 2016. Nor any others except Maddow for a few minutes.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:41 AM
Jan 2020

They are all shitheads.

avebury

(10,952 posts)
18. I don't know if I will have the stomach to watch it because
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:53 AM
Jan 2020

Moscow Mitch is intent on running it as a sham trial.

Wounded Bear

(58,755 posts)
19. Andrea Mitchell is harder to listen to, though...
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 10:54 AM
Jan 2020

my teeth start grinding trying to listen to her finish a compound sentence.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,435 posts)
38. Oh, God. You hit a nerve. Mitchell is grating. Todd enrages.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:32 AM
Jan 2020

Watch Mitchell ridicule HRC for her criticism of Sanders-- not because she favors Sanders, but because she hates Clinton. Mitchell can't be unbiased. He was one of the major players who drummed HRC out of an election win. And Todd? An empty suit. Nothing more.

B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
25. Chuck is absurd...
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:02 AM
Jan 2020

He clearly thinks "bothsiderism" is journalism, and the guests he favors (two too many from AEI!) make him unwatchable for me, also!

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
27. I made that decision long ago
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:03 AM
Jan 2020

I see chuck's face and I switch the channel. I cannot understand why MSNBC puts him everywhere, don't they know they guy is not well liked by the public?

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
31. I feel this is going to be a circus, and Moscow-Mitch and the GOP cowards are intent on making it so
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:11 AM
Jan 2020

I stopped watching everything a couple of days ago, we are at a point where these crooks don't care about showing to the world what traitors they are, how corrupt they are, and any criticism or discussion about "how history will judge them" are null conversations, they don't care, dead people don't read history or anything else and what they leave behind is of no concern to them, their children will have to defend themselves, that is their inheritance.

They, GOP, are dead already, dead inside, they have stopped caring for their reputations, and many of them don't have many years to go, when they go they won't care, there is no one to judgement that they would care about once they are buried or cremated, they are dead, they can't hear, see, so who cares what they say about them, they already know what will be written about them, the biggest traitors this country has ever had, even Benedict Arnold could not have topped what this people are doing.

I will wait for the results, I hope I am pleasantly surprised, but I actually have reached a point where my personal lack of ability to change things has turned into anxiety, and that is not healthy.

usaf-vet

(6,221 posts)
36. I prefer to get my lies and spin of a news story from those with first hand accounts, not from the..
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:22 AM
Jan 2020

.... likes of Chuck Toad.

MSNBC you need to do better than to let Todd spin the story his way.

FakeNoose

(32,833 posts)
37. Looking on the bright side, Ari Melber actually shaved today
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:25 AM
Jan 2020

I almost didn't recognize him. It must be his New Year's resolution to shave more often.


gab13by13

(21,447 posts)
42. msnbc only has 3 decent anchors,
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 11:45 AM
Jan 2020

the rest will push the right wing narrative. Not talking about weekend anchors. MSNBC helped elect Trump just like cnn and Fox and cbs and abc.

The fix is in, the narrative coming out of this "trial" will be that House Democrats didn't do their jobs. Wait and see if I am right.

dem4decades

(11,308 posts)
47. Interesting that MSNBC wants to dump Todd from evenings cause people don't watch him and
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 12:01 PM
Jan 2020

still try to shove him down our throats.

Todd and Matthews can pack their bags and head off to the horizon.

Mickju

(1,805 posts)
48. I can't watch him either.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 12:07 PM
Jan 2020

I always stop watching if he is on the screen. He is totally incompetent. I can't even imagine why anybody at NBC thought he was even barely competent.

Traildogbob

(8,844 posts)
51. Thuck Chodd slot
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 12:29 PM
Jan 2020

He needs to be on the late late prison shows slot. Soon he will have a whole lot of republican's he can giggle with and slam dems from their cells. "Locked UP" with Thuck Chodd and the GOP. Special episodes with former Fox News Putin Puppets.

Hekate

(90,895 posts)
55. That man is too smarmy for words. When the Articles were carried over...
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 01:25 PM
Jan 2020

...in a modest procession of the principals, he complained repeatedly about the "ritual" and the "pomp" and how it looked made-up and how the American People were going to think it was a waste of time to watch.

I said to the tv screen, "Chuck, shut up. You have at least two Catholics on that panel who could explain to you the importance of ritual."

But did he listen to anyone? No, he had some kind of bug up his butt about it.

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