WTF???!!! Rachel is falling all over herself,

[COLGATE4]

giving Greta Van Sustern a tongue bath right now on Rachel's show. Is Rachel afraid that she's about to lose her (Rachel's) job given that MSNBC continues its full-bore charge to become another RW source? It's beyond embarrassing to watch Rachel proclaim her undying friendship for Van Sustern with her the best thing that's happened to TV commentary since Edward R. Murrow.

[Mika]

1. Wow.

If I had posted anything close to this, about RM, a month ago I would have been juried right outta here.







edit: gave up on cable nooz a while back.

[putitinD]

2. This maybe MSNBC's attempt to pick up some of the FOX viewers, it could be a good thing.

[Laffy Kat]

20. How could that be a good thing? nt

[dragonlady]

22. Maybe they'd learn a few important facts. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. hope so..we've got to crack the monopoly on info dipshits

hear. Its vital..most Trump supporters think unemployment went up under Obama!!!!

[Chasstev365]

3. SELL OUT!

[tirebiter]

4. She's presenting news clips of Van Sustren

not being RW. Does this upset your preconceptions? Perhaps you oughtta have a learning moment, grasshopper.

[COLGATE4]

6. You should watch the entire segment.

But thanks for your contribution which will be given all the importance it deserves.

[Squinch]

21. Wow. Did you mean that to be a monumentally obnoxious comment or did it just come out that way?

[Cha]

28. lol.. touche

[NCTraveler]

42. I love one upsmanship.

[putitinD]

33. Greta is no worse than Chuck Todd, assuming he is the one to leave.

[Iggo]

47. Good.

Because if she showed only clips of Van Susteren being RW, it'd take all fucking year.

There's only so much time in a Rachel Maddow Show segment.

[bigtree]

5. friendships, political relationships

...you should understand that most of us out here can maintain those and still disagree, still maintain our integrity.

[Alice11111]

7. Ugg. She did the same w Kellyanne Conway

when she was first hired by DT. Matthews gave KC the best hour of smooshing ever right b4 the debate. Yeah, they cried on TV as the results came in, but this kind of stuff is one more reason, of about 20, why we lost.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

18. Uggghh... makes me wanna hurl!

[bdamomma]

8. what the hell is going on

are they going right wing and going to bow down to this POS (tRump). Greta Van Sustern????? WTF? Are we are going full throttle on propaganda??

[sarcasmo]

10. Have been for the last 16 months.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

19. Isn't GVS buddy buddy with that Nazi racist tRump?

[True_Blue]

35. Looks that way

[RKP5637]

53. The parent company is Comcast, totally RW. You can bet NBC/MSNBC get's an agenda to follow. n/t

[sarcasmo]

9. Fox News light, Rachel needs to head on over to the only real news, Vice News.

[Throd 2.0]

11. Maybe she considers a friend.

[COLGATE4]

25. Rachel made it clear a number of times that

Van S. is a friend. I don't watch Rachel to hear about her friends - I watch her for some intelligent analysis. When she starts letting friendship color that it detracts from her value as an analyst and bothers me.

[still_one]

12. I guess you missed it when Rachel was gushing all over about bret baier for apologizing

that he lied about "his sources in the FBI telling him that an indictment was pending against the Clinton Foundation"

She embarrassed herself with that one also.

I am so glad I no longer receive CNN, MSNBC, fox, and CNBC

[napi21]

13. Not sure because I haven't watched Greta for quite a few years, but when did see her, she wasn't a

Hack. I didn't always agree with there but she's a smart cookie. I think Rachel values her as aa friend along with some of the other females who've managed to hit the big time. I think that's what you're seeing in Rachel's enthusiasm. Girls have to stick together ya know.

I'm willing to give her a chance. do want to know if Chuck Todd is going somewhere? Can only run one show a 6 o'clock,

[radical noodle]

16. Chuck is at five, not six

I believe. There's been sort of a vacuum between 6 and 7 when Tweety comes on.

[napi21]

43. You're right. I remembered that later last night. Sorrry. 6-7 is the show with Michael

Smirconish on. Most of the time that slot does seem to be a bit of a fill in, so I guess it will be gone by Monday.

[liberal from boston]

46. MSNBC

I read that Greta will have the 6 PM slot replacing With All Due Respect program.

[putitinD]

30. -+1

[gwheezie]

14. Of it means chuck Todd leaves

So be it

[radical noodle]

15. I want to wait and see what Greta does

I'm not a fan and have thought of her as right wing, but the rest of Rachel's show tonight was great. I am willing to see what happens if Greta doesn't have to answer to the right wing ding-dongs at Fox. I really don't expect much, but I am willing to wait and see before I bash her too much.

BTW, I hope you watched the first part of Rachel's show about The National Enquirer's headlines the last few weeks before the election and now after the election. The lies they told were spectacular and all for the benefit of Trump, not necessarily because they don't like Hillary. Makes me think they'd have made up equally terrible headlines about any Dem candidate. We are going to have to fight this kind of stuff... and get really GOOD at it.

I've recently tried to stick to C-Span for info or PBS, but I do generally like Rachel's show most of the time.

[bocaharv]

27. Natl Enquirer

Believe it or not,the ceo of that rag is named PECKER & he & trumpsky are pals.It was one of the few newspapers to endorse him.My question is .....why don't the Clintons sue like trumpsky who sues everybody except , of course, the women who accused him of sexual depravities who he threatened to sue post election.

[putitinD]

31. the national enquirer knows who reads their rag. anyone who gets their news at the grocery store,

is pretty much already a Drumpf supporter. and a Hillary hater.

[radical noodle]

37. Along with some of the other things that were done at the same time

it might have swayed those on the fence, and there actually were some moderate Republicans considering voting against Trump. I think these attacks were planned and coordinated. Look at the short time between the WikiLeaks leak and when stories came out about #pizzagate and Podesta and his brother kidnapping Madeline McCann... oh, and spirit eating for god's sake. There's too much coincidence for me, but I'm a believer when it comes to Republicans and what they're capable of with their dirty tricks.

[putitinD]

40. without a doubt

[pnwmom]

17. Lesser known factoid about Susteren:

she and her hubby are Scientologists.

So they're weirdos, on top of everything else.

[pkdu]

26. and he was an adviser to Cariboo Barby.

[pnwmom]

29. Yup. They're both idiots. n/t

[radical noodle]

38. Ugh! I try not to judge about religion

but ewwwwwwwwwww

[salin]

60. I knew hubby was, but only learned about her recently.

Maybe that is how she was able to transform from CNN legal analyst to Fox News - you know they learn how to push down all reactions and go into that glazey stone-faced state.

She was decent on CNN - but that was a looong time ago.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. she's been unwatchable for a long time. CNN much

More hard hitting and liberal now. Perhaps more effective. And CNN is on every hotel TV and airport. The masses are seeing it and they are out to get trump for sure.

[orleans]

32. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Wabbajack_]

34. You expect her to criticize the people that sign her paychecks?

Fat chance, she's gonna praise em.

Fuck corporate news

[Skittles]

39. there's space between criticizing and kissing ass

[KittyWampus]

36. So? Don't watch Greta. Problem solved.

[MFM008]

41. Glad she's pleased

But I'm not watching fox shills.

[kstewart33]

44. Give Van Susteren a chance.

Rachel's show gets, by far, the highest ratings of any show on MSNBC. She's not going anywhere.

If Rachel believes VS is legit, I'm ready to give her a chance. IMHO, she's not a Fox babe. But let's see before launching slings and arrows at VS.

[COLGATE4]

45. Why on earth would I want to "give VS a try"

after watching her on Fux for the past 14 years? She's another RW shill, added to turn MSNBC from a vaguely left-of-center network into Fux lite. Scew her.

[Iggo]

48. There's another one. Thanks.

Trash word: VS

[kstewart33]

50. If she's so bad, why did you watch her for 14 years?

I'm willing to give her a chance. No harm in that.

[KittyWampus]

56. I never once watched Greta on FOX.

[melman]

49. I don't get why these people get permanent media jobs

GVS was on CNN, then FOX, never did particularly well ratings-wise at either but still gets hired at MSNBC.

[Bradical79]

55. Nepotism?

Seems like a lot of these people are friends.

[Stellar]

51. I guess she did it for her job at MSNBC....or maybe not. I'm pissed-off!

[COLGATE4]

59. That's my guess. Get's hard to fight with a big dollar salary

regardless of your convictions.

[Lil Missy]

52. she's being objective instead of partisan. And you are exhaggerating.

Having said that, I don't care for Van Sustren. But I have more important things to occupy my thoughts. And for that, I am grateful.

[COLGATE4]

58. I most sincerely and profusely apologize

from distracting your beautiful mind from obviously more important things. Rest assured that all efforts wil be made to see that it doesn't happen again.

[pbmus]

54. The normalization begins..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028436645

[MoonRiver]

57. Haven't watched CNN or M$NBC since 11/9/16, and have no intention of starting again.

But thanks for the reminder of why I should not watch these corporate, right wing sell-outs. Always appreciated.