Don't get it.
Seems to me the underlying idea or strategy would seem to be to build bench strength with a multitude of liberal and progressive voices that can be developed into host material. You can build new stars that way. Strengthen the positioning of our side. Glad Ed is back, in the Monday through Friday slot, getting much more exposure and not relegated to weekends. He's WAY too good and too valuable to be shunted off to the weekends when he's top-tier talent. I wish they'd get rid of that damn "Lockup" crap on the weekends and add the Young Turks back in, and John Fugelsang, and some others - why doesn't Randi Rhodes have a show? Why doesn't Nicole Sandler have a show? She's good enough to sit in for Randi all the time and she's terrific and she deserves more of a spotlight. Why doesn't Stephanie Miller have a show? Give Joy Reid a show - she seems to be warming up in the bullpen already, filling in as host of some of the programs.
When some people try to tell me that MSNBC and Pox Noise are completely equal, I point to the weekends. You've got 24/7 around the clock, weekend-included programming for the wrong-wing. Our channel takes the weekends off. So you're still busy propagandizing at all hours, and we get cheap-ass prison gang reality shows. Where's the equivalence then?
And dare I say it? Yes. I dare. I think Olbermann should come back, too. I miss his voice - not the sound of it so much as what it utters.
THERE. I said it.
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