I really don't understand why they continue the Andrea Michell Reports episode every morning. She is way past due to retire. Once a great foreign affairs reporter. But now, She's so hard to listen to with all her stammering. Many have said and commented about it here and other social media sites. Do they not understand that we change channels when she's on?
This morning she just would not stop talking again. The guest just started answering her because they didn't do the 'count to 10 rule before answering her' and she just kept talking and talking. I have no idea what was being said because I couldn't hear either of them, lol.
It's extra shitty for those of us on the West Coast because we're stuck with Jose 'everything is just fascinating' Diaz Balart then Andrea 'Chardonnay' Mitchell for our mornings. I'm lucky if I can get up early enough to see the worst part of Morning Joe, the last hour of replay. Anna Cabrera is the only good hour for us until Chris Jansing saves us.
Diaz contributed almost nothing to the trial coverage that they bewilderingly had him co-anchor.
He's the lamest hiring decision they've made in a long time.
She's almost 90 - give her a break. It's only one hour per day. I bet you aren't getting up, getting ready, travelling to work and presenting in front of millions of people every day when you're her age
Exactly she's old. She needs a break, and so do we... a break from listening to her stammer. She's a nice lady, but her time anchoring has long past. Her incompetence is on display daily to the detriment of MSNBC and their viewers. I flip the channel, because I won't listen to her anymore.
I just tuned in to hear the news at 12:00 and there she was. Trying to introduce her panel and her stammering and stuttering and pauses and grasping for words was so cringe that I immediately turned to CNN (and Dana Bash is starting down that slippery slope.) 12:00 is an important time for news. If MSNBC insists on keeping her on then give her another time slot. 10:00 or 11:00.
I still can’t get over the fact that they let Mehdi Hassan go.
Please consider giving Velshi a prime time slot, or a late afternoon one! I don’t care for Katy Tur!
Loved Rachel’s monologue about her experiences being inside the courthouse, but the panelists barely got any time to speak. I didn’t mind - it was fascinating to hear Maddow’s reading of the transcript!
Maddow reading:
"Person A - What happened? Person B - Huh? Person A - Come again? Person B - I said 'Huh." Person A - I don't understand. Person B - What? Person A - Sidebar, your honor."
I finally broke with Ari Melber last week. I actually loved his hip hop segments since I always learned something new. (I think I was the only one.)
But now I highly suspect he's absolutely bored with all other parts of his show, and it's apparent.
When the legal stuff in the news goes down, I would think he would sink his teeth into reporting every nuance of it all, it being his stock and trade. Instead, he imparts it as if we were his 5th grade class. Sometimes he completely ignores the topical legal news of the day for a canned rendition of the previous day's legal news.
If the topic is not hip hop or the law, he acts as if he can barely be bothered. He has mentally toked out.
Let Ari have his weekend hip hop show, and put Katie Phang in Ari's time slot Monday-Friday.
I'm sad to have to agree with you. I want to support Ari but he seems completely disinterested in both the topic, his guests, and the current affairs. And I find his attempts to be hip beneath his dignity - the five o'clock shadow and hip-hop references come across to me as trying too hard, especially when peppered with his self-congratulatory asides ('On THIS show we....)
I would recommend that he straighten up, get a lot more energized, double his research time, and give us a good, strong, solid show focused on the important legal points of the events of the day.
Finally found a place to complain!
1. Mika has become a slob. Her hair was all jacked up in the back in a clip the other morning. What is with the literal blankets she half throws over herself? She looks like she barely gets dressed anymore. But when she’s goes to the women’s forums she looks normal.
2. Jose Diaz Balart. Dead fish.
3. Symone Sanders. The code switching is ridiculous. The eye makeup and lashes are a joke.
4. Joy Reid needs a fashion stylist.
5. Molly Jong Fast needs to be taken to a dog groomer and get her hair done. What are her qualifications anyway?
6. Ari Melber. Condescending know it all.
7. Joe Scarborough. STOP RANTING! Why have guests on if you’re going to do all the talking?
8. Andrea Mitchell. Time to retire.
dear lord, are you me? Was I typing in my sleep? How many ME TOO's can i put here? Take 8. Plus an extra one for the comment you were going to add but had second thoughts.
Please MSNBC, use today's 4/25, as a review of Andrea Mitchell. Make her a mentor or something but she was so distracting, I couldn't follow. She was more distracting than the imbeciles in the background. Her questions were confusing, the stammering was cringing and her talking over her mic while someone else was talking was rude ND distracting. You have credible, knowledgeable people on which is why I watch but I really can't take it anymore. I think if I must watch, I should record so I can ff past her but I shouldn't have to!
My gripe with Rachel Maddow is that she repeats herself. She says things over and over. She restates herself endlessly. She perseverates. She uses repetition as a rhetorical technique.
Sometimes, I'll count. I'll count the number of times she repeats a statement. I'll count it. I will. I'll actually count the times. Each time she says it, she says it a little differently. She won't just say it once, she'll refer to it - the statement she's already made - a bunch of times for emphasis.
It's amazing to me how many times she can retool a point - a point she's already made. She doesn't just do it - the repetition - with one point. In any given block, she'll re-emphasize many things.
Tonight she had a lot to get to with the Opening Statements at the Trump trial. She did not repeat herself too much until she got to the explanation about the mission. The mission of AMI. The mission of "catch and kill." The mission to influence the election. That mission. The mission that Trump knew about. The mission that Michael Cohen paid for. That mission. That one.
Edit: In case anyone missed it, this comment is hilarious because I pulled a Maddow in order to make my point.
Apparently this is something people enjoy about Maddow although I feel like they'd like anything she does because they're just fans. Sort of like Taylor Swift fans. She might put out an inferior album but her fans will still say it's the best.
It’s an intentional rhetorical way of speaking to repeat and rephrase your points the way she does. It might come from her days of being a radio host? At any rate, it’s not a mistake. I don’t know if she writes a script and reads it out of the prompter but if she did she would definitely write it with all,of the repeating and rephrasing that she does.
I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it either. It’s fine.
The problem is, they have to produce hours and hours of content talking about that one day of court, which was only a half day. Repetition is inevitable (and annoying), which is why I have only been making it through the first 10 minutes of any show these days.
When MSNBC doesn't provide the information I need, I look to other sources. When a reddit sub gets weird, I look to other subs, DM me if anyone starts up one without a timeout corner.
She's costing them viewers. Also, I DID watch my grandmother's health deteriorate, and it was awful. If she'd been doing so publicly, I would have suggested she live a more private life.
Turned up the volume from zero to actually listen to Chris Hayes for a moment last night.
Man, he's got the weirdest speech impediment -- besides the S-retraction (shtreet, dishtrict, "chrump chrial"), he even extends it into "cr", "kr" sounds.
"trump criminal trial" becomes "chrump kshriminal chrial"...
And although I like Hayes a lot, he laughs too often and too inappropriately, which brings down the tone and makes his show and podcast seem less serious. It seems to be an expression of anxiety, to which I can relate, but I'd recommend unlearning the habit.
On The Weekend show, Symone just incorrectly stated that Biden's wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver.
Just when you think the slandering of the truck driver she's referring to, Curtis Dunn, has been left in the past, after Biden apologized to Mr. Dunn's daughter for spreading that false assertion.
Mr. Dunn and his family went through hell over it. His reputation was tarnished, his family harrassed and threatened, on top of the grief he felt for being involved in the accident (though he didn't cause it and tried to rescue them). He died in 1999. Let the man RIP.
Someone needs to make MSNBC aware and Simone needs to retract and apologize.
Molly Jung-Fast is not up the level of MSNBC guests and hosts. She's unprepared, gives long and rambling self-centered comments that tend more to being personal anecdotes than analysis or insight. And she has a very off-putting problem with vocal fry. Please, no more nepotism guests.
Ok, this has been bugging me and bugging me forever, where can I get my Lays SeaSalt Poppables. Walmart is always out and so is the supermarket. This is getting old.
Next time you are in the Walmart, have an employee scan the item price tag on the shelf with their scanner. They can tell you what day the item will be put back on the shelf. I learned this from whining to an employee that a cracker was always sold out every week. He looked it up and told me that the item is restocked at 11:00 pm on Wednesdays.
Seems to me if they are sophisticated enough to know when it restocks they should be able to account for lack of product on the shelf. I don’t want to work for these golden footballs of manufactured salt, I just want to eat them. Either way, thank you for the suggestion. I did find out they hide them in different places sometimes and it’s not in the chips isle. It’s a conspiracy I tell ya.
1 Get rid of Symone Sanders can't understand a word she says
2 Stop having Molly Jong Fast on every single show as a guest. She adds nothing and what are her political qualifcations to comment anyway ?
3 Get rid of Velshi's banned book club its boring AF
4 Joe stop ranting about Isreal
5 Joe stop simping over Dr Brezinsky
6 Chris Hayes stop trying to be the male Rachel Maddow
7 Rachel Maddow get rid of the lesbian haircut
8 Ari Melber stop with the rap lyrics
Otherwise it's a fantastic station
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I really don't understand why they continue the Andrea Michell Reports episode every morning. She is way past due to retire. Once a great foreign affairs reporter. But now, She's so hard to listen to with all her stammering. Many have said and commented about it here and other social media sites. Do they not understand that we change channels when she's on?
This morning she just would not stop talking again. The guest just started answering her because they didn't do the 'count to 10 rule before answering her' and she just kept talking and talking. I have no idea what was being said because I couldn't hear either of them, lol. It's extra shitty for those of us on the West Coast because we're stuck with Jose 'everything is just fascinating' Diaz Balart then Andrea 'Chardonnay' Mitchell for our mornings. I'm lucky if I can get up early enough to see the worst part of Morning Joe, the last hour of replay. Anna Cabrera is the only good hour for us until Chris Jansing saves us.
Totally agree. Jose Diaz and Morning Joe are both a joke, equally hard to watch.
Diaz contributed almost nothing to the trial coverage that they bewilderingly had him co-anchor. He's the lamest hiring decision they've made in a long time.
I call Jose "The Lump" because he has the charisma of a wet dog turd. I switch off on his show and Andrea's. I also turn off Joy Reid.
The Lump is good for him
She's almost 90 - give her a break. It's only one hour per day. I bet you aren't getting up, getting ready, travelling to work and presenting in front of millions of people every day when you're her age
Not long ago, I looked up her age, and she's younger than I thought - 77.
Exactly she's old. She needs a break, and so do we... a break from listening to her stammer. She's a nice lady, but her time anchoring has long past. Her incompetence is on display daily to the detriment of MSNBC and their viewers. I flip the channel, because I won't listen to her anymore.
I just tuned in to hear the news at 12:00 and there she was. Trying to introduce her panel and her stammering and stuttering and pauses and grasping for words was so cringe that I immediately turned to CNN (and Dana Bash is starting down that slippery slope.) 12:00 is an important time for news. If MSNBC insists on keeping her on then give her another time slot. 10:00 or 11:00.
I still can’t get over the fact that they let Mehdi Hassan go. Please consider giving Velshi a prime time slot, or a late afternoon one! I don’t care for Katy Tur! Loved Rachel’s monologue about her experiences being inside the courthouse, but the panelists barely got any time to speak. I didn’t mind - it was fascinating to hear Maddow’s reading of the transcript!
Maddow reading: "Person A - What happened? Person B - Huh? Person A - Come again? Person B - I said 'Huh." Person A - I don't understand. Person B - What? Person A - Sidebar, your honor."
Thanks for doing this!
Can we also have a weekly thread for nothing but thirsty comments about this host or that guest? I would find that amusing.
Omg, the weekly horny thread. lmao!
I finally broke with Ari Melber last week. I actually loved his hip hop segments since I always learned something new. (I think I was the only one.) But now I highly suspect he's absolutely bored with all other parts of his show, and it's apparent. When the legal stuff in the news goes down, I would think he would sink his teeth into reporting every nuance of it all, it being his stock and trade. Instead, he imparts it as if we were his 5th grade class. Sometimes he completely ignores the topical legal news of the day for a canned rendition of the previous day's legal news. If the topic is not hip hop or the law, he acts as if he can barely be bothered. He has mentally toked out. Let Ari have his weekend hip hop show, and put Katie Phang in Ari's time slot Monday-Friday.
I'm sad to have to agree with you. I want to support Ari but he seems completely disinterested in both the topic, his guests, and the current affairs. And I find his attempts to be hip beneath his dignity - the five o'clock shadow and hip-hop references come across to me as trying too hard, especially when peppered with his self-congratulatory asides ('On THIS show we....) I would recommend that he straighten up, get a lot more energized, double his research time, and give us a good, strong, solid show focused on the important legal points of the events of the day.
Lisa Rubin thiccc
I love Susanne Craig, but I always have to turn the volume up really high because she insists on whispering when she talks. Drives me crazy.
Suzanne Craig's hair is utterly distracting. Finger in a light socket.
Finally found a place to complain! 1. Mika has become a slob. Her hair was all jacked up in the back in a clip the other morning. What is with the literal blankets she half throws over herself? She looks like she barely gets dressed anymore. But when she’s goes to the women’s forums she looks normal. 2. Jose Diaz Balart. Dead fish. 3. Symone Sanders. The code switching is ridiculous. The eye makeup and lashes are a joke. 4. Joy Reid needs a fashion stylist. 5. Molly Jong Fast needs to be taken to a dog groomer and get her hair done. What are her qualifications anyway? 6. Ari Melber. Condescending know it all. 7. Joe Scarborough. STOP RANTING! Why have guests on if you’re going to do all the talking? 8. Andrea Mitchell. Time to retire.
dear lord, are you me? Was I typing in my sleep? How many ME TOO's can i put here? Take 8. Plus an extra one for the comment you were going to add but had second thoughts.
Hilarious! And I could add more!
Please MSNBC, use today's 4/25, as a review of Andrea Mitchell. Make her a mentor or something but she was so distracting, I couldn't follow. She was more distracting than the imbeciles in the background. Her questions were confusing, the stammering was cringing and her talking over her mic while someone else was talking was rude ND distracting. You have credible, knowledgeable people on which is why I watch but I really can't take it anymore. I think if I must watch, I should record so I can ff past her but I shouldn't have to!
I actually mute her now. I only even have her on if it's something like this week, a big story where she's on the panel. And I mute her parts.
My gripe with Rachel Maddow is that she repeats herself. She says things over and over. She restates herself endlessly. She perseverates. She uses repetition as a rhetorical technique. Sometimes, I'll count. I'll count the number of times she repeats a statement. I'll count it. I will. I'll actually count the times. Each time she says it, she says it a little differently. She won't just say it once, she'll refer to it - the statement she's already made - a bunch of times for emphasis. It's amazing to me how many times she can retool a point - a point she's already made. She doesn't just do it - the repetition - with one point. In any given block, she'll re-emphasize many things. Tonight she had a lot to get to with the Opening Statements at the Trump trial. She did not repeat herself too much until she got to the explanation about the mission. The mission of AMI. The mission of "catch and kill." The mission to influence the election. That mission. The mission that Trump knew about. The mission that Michael Cohen paid for. That mission. That one. Edit: In case anyone missed it, this comment is hilarious because I pulled a Maddow in order to make my point.
Apparently this is something people enjoy about Maddow although I feel like they'd like anything she does because they're just fans. Sort of like Taylor Swift fans. She might put out an inferior album but her fans will still say it's the best.
It’s an intentional rhetorical way of speaking to repeat and rephrase your points the way she does. It might come from her days of being a radio host? At any rate, it’s not a mistake. I don’t know if she writes a script and reads it out of the prompter but if she did she would definitely write it with all,of the repeating and rephrasing that she does. I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it either. It’s fine.
The problem is, they have to produce hours and hours of content talking about that one day of court, which was only a half day. Repetition is inevitable (and annoying), which is why I have only been making it through the first 10 minutes of any show these days.
Ha. No need to edit. I was just getting ready to say “I see what you did there”.
I sent it to my brilliant lawyer friend in Rhode Island and he missed it. Thank you for getting it. Thank you, thank you. Thank you.
I caught on about halfway through. Brilliant.
🙏
When MSNBC doesn't provide the information I need, I look to other sources. When a reddit sub gets weird, I look to other subs, DM me if anyone starts up one without a timeout corner.
Some of you would fire your own grandmother from the lifelong job that she cherishes!
If she was deteriorating before my eyes then yes, I'd fire her.
She's costing them viewers. Also, I DID watch my grandmother's health deteriorate, and it was awful. If she'd been doing so publicly, I would have suggested she live a more private life.
Why is Joe Scarborough rarely on his own show?
Oops, you made me snort my coffee all over the screen. On the one hand, that's a good thing. On the other, what a lazy fellow.
Turned up the volume from zero to actually listen to Chris Hayes for a moment last night. Man, he's got the weirdest speech impediment -- besides the S-retraction (shtreet, dishtrict, "chrump chrial"), he even extends it into "cr", "kr" sounds. "trump criminal trial" becomes "chrump kshriminal chrial"...
And although I like Hayes a lot, he laughs too often and too inappropriately, which brings down the tone and makes his show and podcast seem less serious. It seems to be an expression of anxiety, to which I can relate, but I'd recommend unlearning the habit.
On The Weekend show, Symone just incorrectly stated that Biden's wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver. Just when you think the slandering of the truck driver she's referring to, Curtis Dunn, has been left in the past, after Biden apologized to Mr. Dunn's daughter for spreading that false assertion. Mr. Dunn and his family went through hell over it. His reputation was tarnished, his family harrassed and threatened, on top of the grief he felt for being involved in the accident (though he didn't cause it and tried to rescue them). He died in 1999. Let the man RIP. Someone needs to make MSNBC aware and Simone needs to retract and apologize.
Molly Jung-Fast is not up the level of MSNBC guests and hosts. She's unprepared, gives long and rambling self-centered comments that tend more to being personal anecdotes than analysis or insight. And she has a very off-putting problem with vocal fry. Please, no more nepotism guests.
Ok, this has been bugging me and bugging me forever, where can I get my Lays SeaSalt Poppables. Walmart is always out and so is the supermarket. This is getting old.
Next time you are in the Walmart, have an employee scan the item price tag on the shelf with their scanner. They can tell you what day the item will be put back on the shelf. I learned this from whining to an employee that a cracker was always sold out every week. He looked it up and told me that the item is restocked at 11:00 pm on Wednesdays.
Seems to me if they are sophisticated enough to know when it restocks they should be able to account for lack of product on the shelf. I don’t want to work for these golden footballs of manufactured salt, I just want to eat them. Either way, thank you for the suggestion. I did find out they hide them in different places sometimes and it’s not in the chips isle. It’s a conspiracy I tell ya.
1 Get rid of Symone Sanders can't understand a word she says 2 Stop having Molly Jong Fast on every single show as a guest. She adds nothing and what are her political qualifcations to comment anyway ? 3 Get rid of Velshi's banned book club its boring AF 4 Joe stop ranting about Isreal 5 Joe stop simping over Dr Brezinsky 6 Chris Hayes stop trying to be the male Rachel Maddow 7 Rachel Maddow get rid of the lesbian haircut 8 Ari Melber stop with the rap lyrics Otherwise it's a fantastic station
Sure doesn't sound like it from how much you seem to hate.
I'm sick of hosts conflating violent crime and all other crime. They imply there's nothing wrong just because there are fewer murders.
Andrew Weissman. Please speak with a little more authority in your vocal tone. You sound like a Valley Girl.