Tucker Carlson stays; his staff goes.

[Eric J in MN]

Also, there may be yet another format.

Media Bistro's TV Newser:

Staffers on MSNBC's Tucker are facing layoffs as production responsibilites are consolidated with the cable net's other afternoon production teams.

However, Tucker Carlson isn't losing his show. "We have found some efficiencies in how we staff our late afternoon programs," a spokesperson says. "Tucker will continue to host our 4 and 6pm hours, where he's achieving impressive growth in our audience."

The affected staffers were informed yesterday, a tipster says. They are being encouraged to consider other opportunities. Another tipster says the show format may change, but that hasn't been confirmed...

[Botany]

1. Hint to MSNBC it is not the staff that is the problem

Tucker is a right wing suck up and the majority of this country is
not on board with his ideas.

[tridim]

3. He's whiny too. n/t

[orleans]

21. hint to msnbc: lose those right wing bitches while you're at it

such as nora o'donnell, kelly, and probably a couple others i can't think of right now. (nora, just having read her right-wing email talking points asked: "and where IS nancy pelosi now" before the election. what a fucking asshole. the only thing i'm really able to stand is olbermann--and i love his show, but the rest of that network is really beginning to SUCK!)

[Marr]

2. It's amazing how untalented you can be and still have a show- so long as you

have the "right" opinions... so to speak.

[KoKo]

17. Agree...amazing isn't it. In Tucker's Case...cute looks that appeal to the

needed "Demographic" to entice the advertisers...and the correct opinion. Although it seems that "Conservative Opinion" kinda bit the dust in this last election. I guess the MSM just hasn't caught up to the fact that TIMES ARE A'CHANGING. Their marketing is suffering from "cut backs," too. :eyes:

[tsuki]

4. Since his research seems to be a trip to the fax machine,

why does he need a staff.

[Ian David]

14. And most of his news tips end with the phrase...

"Forward this message to ten people you love."

[graywarrior]

5. Fucking little dweeb.

[KoKo]

18. Dammit, Greywarrior! I've missed those quivering duck parts.....

even though they give this animal rights person the quivers.

Good to see you back...even with that poor imprisoned ducky. ....It's the webbed feet quivering that give me the willies....:D

[kerry-is-my-prez]

6. He's already run 2 shows down to the ground already.

One of them - Crossfire had been around for many years too.

[Minnesota_Lib]

7. Maybe he can find a producer to teach him how to pronounce "Minneapolis" correctly

He pronounced it "Mindianapolis" (kind of a combination of Minneapolis and Indianapolis LOL) tonight. I heard him do it last week as well.

Funny thing is that in a former job I had to speak with fellow employees who worked out of a Florida office and like 50% of them said Mindianapolis too. I thought I would never hear that again until Tucker said it last week. LOL

[baldguy]

8. He has a staff?

I thought he pulled his material out of his ass.

[Richard Steele]

15. 4 hairdressers, 3 makeup artists, a manicurist, a dry cleaner, and 2 fluffers.

All of whom had nothing to do with his pulling material
out of his ass.

[Ian David]

9. Rita Cosby, Charlie Rangel and Harvey Fierstein, Jr. to host MS-NBC Show

Their first guest:


Chewbacca

[Poiuyt]

12. LOL!

Excuse me while I go listen to the soothing sounds of my fingernails across a blackboard

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. Tucker is a joke

Conservatives won't watch him because he's too wimpy

Liberals won't watch him because he's a Neo-con suck-up

Moderates won't watch him because he's too whiny and boring

Where's this growth coming from?

[Ian David]

13. Some people say he wears the bow-tie because he's into autoerotic asphyxiation. n/t

[SoCalDem]

19. and Tucker was born in San Francisco

:rofl:

[pretzel4gore]

11. fukkin rich kid's rich kid's rich kid!

carlson's father was oldbush's ambassador to some damn place. He was also chairman of the CPB (corporation/public broadcasting, which controls PBS, for 5 long years!) these freaks are freaks going on many generations...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-full-disclosure-tucke_b_16530.html

[stillcool]

16. another one of those...

entitlement programs?

[txindy]

20. "...impressive growth in our audience." Yeah, if you count the knots on their heads.

Trying to beat themselves unconscious against the nearest wall so as not to watch BowTieBoy does make their foreheads grow impressively larger - temporarily, at least. :banghead:

I can't watch that twit or I'd have the overwhelming urge to yell at the TV, And that's before he even opens his mouth.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

22. replace his ass with sam seder

or rachel maddow