MSN is on a Hillary bash this am...they are trying to manufacture a controversy...

[Sancho]

Steve Kornaki took up yesterday's "criticism" of Hillary requiring everyone to be screened at the Iowa speeches, to this am showing a clip of everyone cheering and then spending 5 minutes with an undocumented report that "Hillary's people" didn't want supporters outside the speeches to talk to reporters.

Exactly what was said or who said it is not mentioned, but the entire panel editorialized about how candidates should run their campaign and how cool it was that Bernie was exciting even though he didn't have a chance to win. Kornaki mentioned that Hillary and Bernie did not critic each other, and that Hillary had a large group outside the arena. He said several times that Bernie could not win.

No mention of the substance of the speeches.

CSPAN had a startup where a lot of Hillary callers were pretty good. They mentioned Hillary's experience, appeal to a broader America, path to citizenship, and intelligence. A few Bernie callers got in with the "economic revolution" meme. One or two Martin callers liked his speech in Iowa.

[msrizzo]

1. Done with Steve Kornacki

And it has nothing to do with the Hillary bashing. That seems to be par for the course with MSNBC these days. But when he has a representative from the EVIL Heartland Institute on his panel not only to bash Hillary, but to front as someone with any cred to tell young progressives what to think....then I'm done with you. Done. May as well have a Koch brother sitting right there next to you eating your donuts. If Hillary hate is causing you to LITERALLY sit down with the devil, then you my friend are the enemy of the people, not Hillary Clinton.

[Control-Z]

6. I'm fed up with a few others over there as well.

I used to like Alex Wagner. Can't stand her anymore. She pushes gossip and conflict.

[George II]

7. Yes, she used to be one of my favorites but all she does now is giggle (NOT a sexist observation)...

....and interrupt if the guest isn't going in her direction.

Now just about the only ones I can stomach on that channel are Thomas Roberts (he sticks pretty much to reporting news), Andrea Mitchell, Chris Mathews, and Melissa Harris-Perry on Sunday mornings. Some of the fill-ins for missing hosts are good too.

[Control-Z]

8. I'm a big Rachael fan. n/t

[msrizzo]

9. Still like Rachel too....

....but more and more lately, she is not enough. That network is falling apart.

[murielm99]

11. What is the Heartland Institute?

[msrizzo]

12. Try this link.

I don't want to send you to the cesspool that is their website, but here is some info about them.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heartland_Institute

[murielm99]

13. Wow.

Thanks. They are not my kind of people.

[Cha]

2. Mahalo for this, Sancho

"CSPAN had a startup where a lot of Hillary callers were pretty good. They mentioned Hillary's experience, appeal to a broader America, path to citizenship, and intelligence. A few Bernie callers got in with the "economic revolution" meme. One or two Martin callers liked his speech in Iowa."

[Iliyah]

3. WTF

[DURHAM D]

4. Steve is and always will be a 2 bit NJ hack.

They hired him because Lawrence O'Donnell insisted on it because he thought Christie would be the Republican nominee. MSNBC wrong again.

[George II]

5. Kornacki is a hack, and has done little or nothing of his own...

...to get his "reputation". He came out of nowhere during the initial Christie bridge scandal, but he essentially used Shawn Broburg's GOOD reporting for the Record and extrapolated on that to become the NJ political "expert".

With all that ridiculous hand waving and gesturing, cutely rolled up sleeves and ruffled hair, I can't stomach him anymore.


Edit - interesting - I see the poster above me used the word "hack" too!!!!!

[restorefreedom]

10. if it makes you feel any better

and i doubt it will, m$nbc is an equal opp basher. they have been on bernie to the point where i will not watch most of them anymore. even the way they speak about some of the r candidates is distasteful. and that is saying something.

i watch ed cuz he is no tpp/no keystone xl
roberts is straight up news and very good
i can take rachel in small doses

that is pretty much it

hope its ok that i jumped into the group for this post. i have seen the deterioration of msn for a while and this caught my eye