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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMr. Kornacki, please be quiet. Just stop talking and---go away. Please. nt
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Atticus
(15,124 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Rand Paul and Marco Rubio burp in public. He finds himself to be very interesting. Imagine Chuck Todd on crack.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I dont watch M$NBC so its all pretty meaningless to me.
PatSeg
(47,370 posts)Chuck Todd used to the statistics guy on MSNBC (long time ago) and actually, he was watchable in that capacity. Never should have gotten his own show though. Kornacki is just exhausting. I'm sure the numbers could be very interesting, but his hyper-kinetic presentation is too distracting.
brooklynite
(94,489 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)NJCher
(35,648 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 6, 2020, 11:12 AM - Edit history (1)
During Bridgegate, when we New Jerseyans had our own trump-like bully as governor.
His show at 8 a.m. was a must see and I would get up early to watch it. Chris Christie is persona non grata in nj, in part to his highly accurate reporting.
True Blue American
(17,982 posts)His show came on.UP. But as he moved up the ranks at MSNBC he just became obnoxious.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)I really like watching him on election nights.
csziggy
(34,135 posts)If you don't like him, change the channel. Eventually if enough people do that, the channel will notice a drop in viewership at a particular time.
For example, see the reputed soon to be done shuffle that will move Chuck Todd to 9 AM. Apparently MSNBC noticed that after good numbers from 4-5 PM (Nicolle Wallace), viewership dropped at 5, and then went back up at 6 PM (Ari Melber). So there is talk that Todd will move to the slot following Morning Joe.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jitters-at-msnbc-as-brass-eyes-moving-chuck-todd-and-talks-to-shep-smith
Paladin
(28,246 posts)MSNBC is way the hell overdue for a personnel-shuffling.
dem4decades
(11,282 posts)Paladin
(28,246 posts)He was always irritating, but he used to be a lot more competent. The same, of course, can't be said of Chuck Todd---he ought to be doing weather reports somewhere in South Dakota.
True Blue American
(17,982 posts)But saw him one day this week. He looks awful. Has he been ill?
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,766 posts)and then when they fixed it, he broke it again while on-air and they had to have a guy come back to try to fix it while he was on-camera.
(I remember when he broke his hand last year and was still flailing around with his hand wrapped and splinted)
Cornus
(871 posts)and his analysis of the voting, but I still don't understand what's happening in Iowa. Seems like Bernie has more votes but Pete has more delegates...kind of like the Electoral College.
Yeah.
The irony.
NJCher
(35,648 posts)In his report on Maddow, he said it is possible for Buttigieg's delegates to disappear.
Brian Williams concluded the segment by saying this is an enormously complex situation.
Last I heard, Bernie was up something like 8 delegates.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)to focus on when trying to interpret election data. No one is better than he is at looking at patterns of which unreported precincts can effect the final outcome on an election night. And his post election analysis of what happened why can be illuminating also.
I admit, the horse race aspect of election night reporting is trivial compared to the impact on our society of the choices those elections signify. But on election night I am glued to the screen looking for tea leaves that might indicate how a specific race will turn out because, well, I want to know damn it! And no one is better at sorting through those tea leaves than Kornacki
milestogo
(16,829 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)and direct our eyes to the leading and losing candidates, etc. Steve makes the numbers on his maps balance AND dance on a rope.
For me, if a dry presentation of statistical data puts me to sleep for a few seconds, and when I am jolted back to paying attention, I am lost in the numbers. Steves keeps my attention. His presentations (and great maps) make me want to balance and dance on a rope.
I like Steve. Let's keep him.
Hotler
(11,412 posts)Paladin
(28,246 posts)dajoki
(10,678 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)when he appears.
Polly Hennessey
(6,793 posts)I wonder if he ever has a calm, non-moving moment. He reminds me of the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. Whirling, running, might be late, must hurry, brain ahead of speech. Screech, down the rabbit hole I go.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Turbineguy
(37,313 posts)He enthusiastically analyses statistics.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)Hes got a sense of humor about both himself and the quirks of the supposedly straightforward issue of numbers and statistics. We get to see real time how fragile our supposedly dependable technology can be and its a cautionary tale at the very least.
The rancor over a young man happily working away to give us dependable info against a sea of fast shifting statistics shocks me. It DU seems full of rage these days. Some I get. Some I absolutely dont.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)nolabear
(41,959 posts)Nothing personal. The pile-ons get to me these days.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)They're the sniffiest.
rsdsharp
(9,162 posts)Kornacki flails his arms wildly. He reminds me of a third base coach the Cubs had in 2003-04. His name was Wendell Kim, and he never saw a play where he didn't think a runner could score. He'd wildly swing his arm to signal the runner to keep going to home, where he's get thrown out by 15 feet. The fans took to calling him Wavin' Wendell. He was not my favorite.