Stephanie Ruhle to replace Brian Williams on MSNBC

We're looking forward to her take on things.

They could have put in someone worth watching.

MSNBC most mornings for some while. She's lively and energetic, and I hope she keeps her economy orientation at least to some degree in her new time slot.

And regret her loss to the old one. Another hour of Joe and Mika? Fox Lite as the alternative over on CNN? If we didn't know another election was coming up and a lot of Republicans need help getting reelected, this might just be a clue.



I just set the time slot to record again.

She will ask follow up questions.

Then they decided she’d be useful to them as a journalist

in the past, and she's solidly moderate liberal, progressive, decent and honest.

Something good about an economy and business orientation is that, like science and technology, it requires experts to mostly agree on proven facts and what is known. This keeps discussion from sliding off into factional whackoland.

Even halfway honest shows are forced to occupy a fact-based reality far more than those feeding their ideological parts of the political entertainment market. This makes it a very worthwhile grounding counterpoint for understanding events.

What a stupid fucking choice for MSNBC. They are getting the ratings up, so now they're going to throw in a conservative to dilute the message?

Fuck fuck fuck.

scoundrels and fact-free factional nonsense and deceits for what they are as "sneaky." This one from a couple days ago is more...unsneaky than usual, but a lot more illustrative of what people are more likely to criticize in her speaking style.

Link to tweet

The point is, though, that truth, about economics or anything else, is neither liberal or conservative. We need competent people to shine a light for us on what they and other experts know to be true so we can make informed choices. All our positions should be supported by reality, or what are we doing?

And yes, we all know that, just as with other public figures, she sometimes doesn't agree with Senator Sanders' economic statements and feels people need to have more light shown on those issues. She's not been sneaky about it.

Asking politicians who want our vote to provide reliable information to support their claims is a good thing, of course. It helps everyone, including honest politicians get their message across correctly. And if they can't, what are we doing?

As usual a dumb move by MSNBC IMHO...as they move further right...and the audience leaves in droves.

as the election year heats up for sure.

I suspect, though, that getting Ruhle out is part of that. Her economy/business orientation and refusal to support fact-free (at best) ideological nonsense may lead some to assume she's a lot more conservative than she is economically, and she's definitely liberal socially.

Moving Ruhle to follow liberal Maddow and O'Donnell, serving their more informed, liberal viewers, in the evening frees up the morning slot for some serious election year molding of attitudes in the less liberal morning and daytime viewership.

As MSNBC has done before. The blatant job Joe and Mika and their regulars, and all the other daytime shows, did on Hillary and the rest of the Democratic Party in 2016 should leave no doubt as to what MSNBC is up to now. Viewers have become somewhat more aware and suspicious, and since they've just had to be a bit more subtle with their knifework is all.

I'm guessing we'll see Chuck Todd given more daytime air time again also, even if his ratings are down. In the past few elections he spread his poison all through the day every day, including weekends, so they must think he's good at it.

is like hooking oneself up for infusion. I still like the later evening shows, though nothing should be believed on its own. And there's always far more going on than they have time, or are allowed, to cover.

I'm hoping Todd's low ratings mean a lot more people are on to him. They've been bringing a bunch of his sort along, though.

she was fine where she was, or even somewhere in the 4-7 wrap-up hour doing a business / economy focused show. I just don't see her filling the late not slot at all. That said, I have no idea who they could get for that (maybe Shep Smith from CNBC)?

She's too in love with her own voice. And her sophomoric questions on the morning shows are going to be worse after Rachael and Lawrence. To bad they didn't bring in some hard ankle breaker like Martin Bashir or Keith Olbermann

a miserable experience for me. Her constant interruptions to insert her form of "devil's advocacy" come across to me as intensely whiney and much like a child with their constant "but, but, but..." Very damned annoying. At least I won't be tempted to stay up late and/or that is one less podcast I will download. NO THANKS. This isn't a gender issue for me (obviously), but they should have given it to Velshi.

He is completely focused, and evolved far beyond an egocentric approach to broadcasting.

I deeply enjoyed his professional, ethical work any time he was scheduled.

Thank you for speaking up for him.

It goes back to what I've said for years: EVERY SINGLE news network's board of directors is sheer right wing.

And a fish stinks from the head down.

We so look forward to the weekends knowing he's there every wkend morning!! HE IS THE BEST!
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Like, finding someone for the Rachel slot once she steps away from the nightly show.

Makes me even more gratified that I got rid of cable last year. Good riddance.

I think she’ll do a great job. I wish people would give her a chance.

Oh. I’m going to enjoy that. Sorry - she’s my news crush.

I think her show is pretty good in terms of content too.

Her voice and energy are much more suited to a morning show. This late hour needs someone smooth and mellow. She is not that. JMHO.

I have mixed feelings about Stephanie Ruhle.

In general, I like her, mainly because she seems to have a tender heart, and she seems to be quite intelligent.

However, she sometimes leans a bit too far to the right for my tastes. She used to work for an investment bank, and although there is no logical reason why that should bother me, it somehow does.

But she's gone from her 9am spot a lot

Seems to have helped bury that story by making out Justin had left before Trump came in to borrow, which seems in conflict with more recent reporting.

https://www.salon.com/2018/07/02/its-not-about-the-money-donald-trump-anthony-kennedy-and-the-kid-at-deutsche-bank/

He deserves it. So do we.

Gets her off the morning shows, which I do watch, except for her, who I can't stand.

I consider her center left on the mainstream American political spectrum, and she is not as progressive as the rest of the core MSNBC prime time lineup. Given all that, I still respect her. She brings some economic inside expertise to the program lineup which I find useful, even though her perspective is not as critical of the status quo as I would prefer. While I wish she were more of a Robert Reich type, she just isn't. But I trust in her basic humanity and honesty, which is more than I an say about most economic analysts. I've seen her get truly outraged about outrageous business practices that most news commentators simply let slide right past them with barely a comment.

I sorely miss Brian Williams though, and will for a long time to come

She is so annoying. I turn the channel whenever she is on.

If Brian Williams got visibly, emotionally agitated about something I knew to raise the level of my own concern.

Stephanie Ruhle is like a squirrel who found a cocaine stash and always at 11.

Which is not a good fit for 11pm.