The Segment That Made MSNBC Pull the Plug On Donny Deutsch’s Weeklong Anchoring Stint

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Ed Schultz Responds To Hugh Hewitt: Come On My Show & We'll See Who's A Joke!
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messages (truth) and you do so at your own peril. He and Rachel are the only two personalities on TV that speak the truth as far as I can see.

go to a man's home, and hector him. And if that jerk is too chickenshit, to defend his statements, he is a coward.

I WILL say this, when Ed, and any other celebrity fights, and uses polls, and popularity instead of ideas, I want to puke. Hauser is a bore, a jerk bore. I dont care how many listeners he has.

Deutche has been a regular on that program and is very friendly with mika and joe.

gagged

Larry King has to be the GREATEST (fill in the blank) of all time.

After all, he has spent hours interviewing entertainers, athletes, politicians, evangelists , etc. etc.

and trying to impress joe and mika that he is not an ideological liberal.

If Mr. Olbermann's ego is this easily bruised, look out below. Anyway, seems like more bread and circuses. The anger, which the left and right (hate these terms, as they are false paradigms, especially in USA) could both unite around, is the staggering financial rape of the global system by the banks.

According to the rest of the article:

In a reply to an e-mail message from The New York Times, Mr. Olbermann said: “Your account is entirely untrue. Your e-mail is the first I am hearing of any of this. What I know of what happened is this: Phil Griffin phoned me yesterday enraged at what was on that show and I didn’t disagree with him.” Mr. Griffin is the president of MSNBC.

Won't miss him.

I get really tired of these lame comparisons of Keith and Rush, as being opposites. One reports the news, and the other spits out opinions all day. It's like comparing someone throwing ink on fur coats, as the left, and a guy shooting an abortion doctor--I don't fucking think so.

I didn't get why Deutsch used it, except to appear to be balanced. He blew it, IMO.

What in the world does he mean by pundits who pass some sort of "objective" test that gives them the right to speak on television? There is no such objective measure. We each choose to listen to those we who please us subjectively.

Hugh Hewitt has a bunch of crony friends on the right and left that he likes, and he considers himself to be the almighty judge of the inadequacy of everyone else.

I love Rachel, Ed Schultz, and Keith Olbermann. As far as I know (and I am no TV fan, so I don't really watch on TV, just on the internet), Rachel, Schultz and Olbermann are very well informed. They all know where Afghanistan is and they show the public what they know. I'm a very well educated person. In my "objective" opinion, Glenn Beck is poorly informed as are Hannity and O'Reilly. I'll match Hugh Hewitt for objectivity any day. I at least know the difference between fact and opinion. Had to learn that back in my evidence class some years ago.

Here is an online definition of opinion evidence.

Evidence of what the witness thinks, believes, or infers in regard to facts in dispute, as distinguished from personal knowledge of the facts themselves. The rules of evidence ordinarily do not permit witnesses to testify as to opinions or conclusions.

When this type of evidence is expressed by an expert witness, it may be used only if scientific, technical, or specialized knowledge will aid the trier of fact in understanding the evidence or determining a fact in issue. In the event that the witness is not testifying as an expert, the witness's testimony is restricted to opinions or inferences that are rationally based upon his or her perception and are helpful to a clear understanding of the testimony or the determination of a fact in issue.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Opinion+Evidence

It's fun to go through affidavits and declarations and sort out opinion from fact. You would be surprised at how often and how cleverly lawyers present opinion as fact. DU is about opinion. News shows are often about opinion, not fact. That's OK. It's good to hear different opinions. Hugh Hewitt needs to loosen up. He is just worried about losing his job. He would like to take Ed Schultz's job.

About the only subject area where he shows some analytical ability is the advertising industry. I won't miss him in the 3 PM slot. MSNBC has had a real game of musical chairs going in that hour since Shuster's departure: recently Ed Schultz, Deutsch, and now Alex Witt. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing Melissa Francis coming back to do an hour on MSNBC. While I'm not fond of her supply-side and small-government conservative views, she's smart, punchy, quick on her feet, a good interviewer, and certainly has the ability to handle an hour on her own, and I'm sure she'd enjoy working some at MSNBC again, and not just with those miserable money-counters at CNBC, where that old toad Larry Kudlow treats her like his punk daughter on The Call.

he's always angry. He's angry when he NEEDS to be, about really stupid sh*t!

uses sarcasm and humor to skewer people, not hate and anger.

Keith and Ed can take a little criticism. I don't know what MSNBC is all hung up on.

for an anchor to be in...besides that I don't like him anyway and turned off MSNBC when he was on this week. Having Hugh Hewitt on wasn't the brightest thing to do either.

Including Keith in that clip of rightwing bloviaters trying to whip up public anger was wrong. Keith didn't deserve to be lumped in with that crowd. The clip of Beck shows him telling his audience to be angry over something that isn't true while the clip of Keith showed him admonishing the congressman who called the President a liar during the State of the Union Speech. Keith was calling out behavior that used to be considered unthinkable until rightwingers like Limbaugh and Beck started stoking public anger at the government. When Michele Bachman calls the Obama administration a "gangster government" should be called out as extremists and the people who call her out should not be put in the same category and accused of contributing to the coarse dialogue.

Donnie Deutsch was trying to dismiss all this talk by the rightwing as free speech, and while that is true that doesn't mean it shouldn't be examined by the media. There are things being said in this country that have never been accepted and dismissed before and the only difference now is that there is a black president. The hysteria about czars in the White House is an example of the rightwing talkers creating and inflaming a situation that has happened in other administrations without protest. They know they are creating an issue based on fear and lies but they do it anyway to cause damage to a president they didn't want elected.

Donnie Deutsch is part of the problem - he won't call out the lying and scaremongering going on and he is trying to compare legitimate outrage about the lying and scaremongering as part of the problem.

Sure, he maybe "lost control" of the debate for a bit. So what? It happens ALL THE TIME.

Did he insult KO? Holy shit! I think that's sad if that's the issue. KO DOES go over the top sometimes. Yes, even Ed Shultz does. I think beck, limpballs and vannity LIVE over the top. But that's my opinion.

I just don't get it. What was wrong with this segment? hughes can kiss my ass, but he has a point. I appreciate people more like Thom Hartmann, Randy Rhodes, Ron Reagan Jr, Mike Pap, etc...as they can have a debate, and yes, they do show the right just how hypocritical nuts they are. Maybe hughes does the same?...I don't know. I have never heard him, but he "looks like" an ass, so I won't go out of my way to listen to him either.

Sad if his show was pulled for anything in this segment. Just my humble opinion.

MSNBC just blew all credibility they had, They have proven to be the Left's version of FOX, All Cable Systems should take them off the air.

It looked like any other screaming match on TV.

Then Hugh Hewitt shows why Republicans can't make an argument on facts.

Then he was called on it.

What's the problem.

So, that's what was up with Mika and Joe on Morning Joe. They were feeling miffed on behalf of old friend, Donny.

Supposedly hosts at MSNBC aren't supposed to criticize the other hosts. That's why Mika said "Blip, Blip, Blip" today when you knew she was dying to go into a huge conservative rant about Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz. I'm sure at some point Keith would have liked to have Joe in "Worst Persons" as well. What happened to Donny Deutsch is probably why she didn't. And what happened on Morning Joe should have been a warning to Deutsch.

I thought he did a pretty good job taking Hewitt to task!

to a person who researches his topics and tells the truth.

If he can't see the difference, then it is HE who should be compared to the rightwing bloviators.

Never watch him as he's boring. His cheap shot at Keith was an attempt to hang on to the coat tails of someone who is far more popular, by attempting to create a controversy.

Keith should just ignore him. I doubt anyone is going to miss him since apparently he doesn't have much of an audience anyhow.