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UTUSN

(70,684 posts)
Thu Mar 9, 2023, 12:52 PM Mar 2023

Willie GEIST seems nice, can explain CARLSON, birds of a feather, was his ex-producer

I remember CARLSON on MSNBC, bubbly, always putting GEIST on camera gushingly. Same background, fathers in the business, fittingly CARLSON's sperm donor in Propaganda (Voice of America). In recent years GEIST has cultivated a nice/objective image.

Willie Geist and Tucker Carlson Trash Rosie O'Donnell and Praise Trump, (January - June 2007)
Let's not forget the type of behaviour that Willie made a name for himself with: disrespecting women and elevating awful men.

https://thehill.com/media/316072-morning-joe-team-praises-tucker-carlsons-success-on-fox/
‘Morning Joe’ team praises Tucker Carlson’s success on Fox
01/25/17

.... “He’s doing really well. His numbers are up. Tucker’s doing well,” said co-host Willie Geist, who started out at MSNBC as a producer for Carlson’s program on the network, which ran from 2005 to 2008. ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Geist#External_links
.... Geist was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of newspaper columnist and broadcast journalist Bill Geist and social worker Jody Geist.[2] Geist is the older brother of Libby Geist Wildes, the Academy Award-winning documentary film producer of O.J.: Made in America and The Last Dance.[5] He is the great-grandson of former Detroit Red Wings star and Hockey Hall of Fame player Herbie Lewis.[6] ....


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Willie GEIST seems nice, can explain CARLSON, birds of a feather, was his ex-producer (Original Post) UTUSN Mar 2023 OP
I never cared for Carlson or Geist. Meadowoak Mar 2023 #1
Kick for exposure Cracklin Charlie Mar 2023 #2
Interestng. I never watched Tuckums whrn he was on MSNBC halfulglas Mar 2023 #3
I always wondered how Geist got where he is montanacowboy Mar 2023 #4

halfulglas

(1,654 posts)
3. Interestng. I never watched Tuckums whrn he was on MSNBC
Thu Mar 9, 2023, 01:19 PM
Mar 2023

Except when flipping channels and never paid much attention to Geist except thinking he was a lightweight, not primetime.

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