Rachel Maddow to Replace Dan Abrams on MSNBC

I agree as well...

I think Rachel Maddow is the smartest pundit out there...

Not only smartest but knows how to conduct herself in a manner that is informative but in good taste and spirit. Abrams did great work on the Georgia Governor thing but in most shows he is just argumentative which is the trail lawyer part of him I guess.

No one except us political junkies is paying any attention until the debates.

I agree with that. Internet growth means more information junkies of all stripes.

Sally York

Not only smartest but knows how to conduct herself in a manner that is informative but in good taste and spirit.

But dang, someone teach her how to dress herself.

MSNBC, on the heels of Keith Olbermann's disgraceful, strange, and prolonged attack on John McCain the other night in his 'Special Comment'

Yes, shame on Olbermann for exposing McCain's "disgraceful, strange, and prolonged" affair with dirty politics and policies.

Olbermann/Maddox have never claimed to be "fair and balanced"

Olbermann/Maddox have never claimed to be "fair and balanced"

Olbermann refers to his program as "the news hour". How laughable. He doesn't even try to present anything as a straight news story. He shamelessly promoted Obama over Clinton under the guise of 'news', and does the same for Obama vs. McCain. He is a leftist propagandist with a big mouth who is a pompous ass half the time.

"Waa waa waa, Olbermann is the reason Hillary Clinton is a sub-par politician and vindictive, bitter, sore loser who lost her ability to do math after Pennsylvania!!!"

"Waa waa waa, Olbermann is the reason Hillary Clinton is a sub-par politician and vindictive, bitter, sore loser who lost her ability to do math after Pennsylvania!!!"

Please. Olbermann repeated and propagated ever smear about the Clinton's and racism that came down the pipe. His performance during the primaries was disgraceful for someone who claims to be any sort of a newsman. You imagining he and his channel were fair to Clinton is not going to make it so.

Who ever claimed that a TV show had to be fair to an unfair, just-plain-bad politician?

Suck it up, princess. Your girl was a flash in the pan, a terrible debater, a half-assed Democrat to begin with, and if she allows her delegates to @!$%# up this convention, she will bear the title of near-high-treason on her list of failures.

LOL. You are far out of touch with reality.

Obama has failed to realize the main lesson to be learned from the Democratic primaries - he was lucky. Without the undemocratic , unfair caucus results, and the really, really offensive system of proportional delegates, which rewarded Obama favoring districts with extra delegates, the issue would have been in doubt up until the completion of the roll call in Denver. It has always been a peculiar fantasy of Obama and his deluded supporters that he has had some sort of mandate from the Democratic rank and file. As we now see, with Pew Research polling showing that , still, over 15% of Democrats say they WILL NOT vote for Obama, his campaign, and supporters like you, continue to delude themselves. He needs to reach out to Clinton Democrats, not the other way around, if he wants to win.

Oh isn't it a hard life! All those "unfair" caucus results (SO unfair), all that "math" and whatnot, making it statistically impossible for Clinton to do @!$%#-all past Penn. All that "sexism"! Aw, muffin!

OR

Obama is a better candidate.

Occam's razor, little boy. Occam's razor.

Like I said, a lot of Obamans are woefully deluded.

Like I say, you're a crybaby.

I would also hope that she would never allow the likes of Pat Buchanan or anyone else of his ilk to stain the set of her show unless it was to intellectually fillet him like a trout which I'm very confident she is capable of doing.

You seem uninformed. Pat Buchanan is the pet token conservative at MSNBC, for which I assume he is being particularly well paid.

Sorry John, but that was my point. Ms. Maddow knew that Buchanan was a paid actor for MSNBC and therefore a coworker but she didn't let that stop her from doing the right thing. I believe MSNBC has, or had a number of other token conservatives such as Tucker Carlson and Rick Scarborough. How many tokens does it take before they're not stereotyped as token? I really don't much care but what the hell. I'm just a token progressive learning to live in the shadow of the real smart people.

You mean Joe Scarborough?

He's become very moderate as of late.

Your right, it's Joe. Too many Joes as of late Lieberman, Biden ......

Joe Scarborough hasn't become as moderate as he's become reasonable. I don't mourn Abrams passing much but I do think he was a nice guy, just weak. His show was designed to appear objective but it always struck me as more of a gimmick than anything else. Especially the little credibility bakeoff with with Dan as the "decider"

His show was designed to appear objective but it always struck me as more of a gimmick than anything else.

There you go. On MSNBC , objectivity is a gimmick. As I have said before, MSNBC has as much right to become entirely left politically just as Fox has been right politically. Just don't try to tell people the shows are fair or objective. Rachel Maddow is a left ideologue who will now have an hour to portray her presuppositions about the days events.

Along with Olbermann you now have two solid hours of prejudiced left propaganda and spin. Their right, but not honest 'news' programming. Olbermann, ridiculously, still refers to his propaganda fest as "the news hour". What a hoot.

Rachel is to the left and doesn't apologize for it, but she has and does recognize faults with people in government from her side and in the same vain she has given credit when due to those from a different prospective then hers. I find her fair but does see things from the left. I like her she is well spoken and does her home work when it comes to the news.

Jim Lehrer of PBS call his show the "Newshour". Olbermann calls his "Countdown". The problem with FOX is it runs it's r-wing idealogue shows like O'Reilly, and Hannity on FOX "news". MSNBC does not market itself as specifically a news network.

That's why she needed her own show. I think some of her worst work (although still good) was sitting in for KO. Not her format.

Abrams is fairly insightful and objective.

What will I miss? The political analysis, which is missing from Olbermann's, which is too partisan to watch.

please don't confuse me.i just wanted to participate.that's all.

LoL

LOL...

I guess it depends on where you are with Religion and government. This lady is over the top in my opinion and it was her Palin proclamation that God was running the war, putting in the pipe line and other things that God or religion has absolutely nothing to do with. I liked Rachel's show and hope she is on for a long time.