If MSNBC went off the air tomorrow, what difference would it make?

[Boom_70]

One of the many observations that Alec Baldwin makes in a
wide ranging diatribe announcing that he is checking out of public
life.

http://www.vulture.com/2014/02/alec-baldwin-good-bye-public-life.html

 

[The Big Ragu]

If Alec Baldwin checked out of public life tomorrow, what difference would it make?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

If Justin Bieber stopped lip-synching, what difference would it make?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

If Alec Baldwin checked out of public life tomorrow, what difference would it make?

Hey, Baldwin is damn entertaining. He'll be out of the public life for slightly longer than Incognito was off Twitter. He can't stay away.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

If all three cable news networks went off the air tomorrow, by Friday America's collective IQ would be up by 15 points. Those things are like sniffing glue.

 

[Vombatus]

I want to sniff Laura Ingraham.

 

[Boom_70]

If all three cable news networks went off the air tomorrow, by Friday America's collective IQ would be up by 15 points. Those things are like sniffing glue.

Agree. They bring nothing to the party. Empty calories.

 

[BNWriter]

Perhaps this should inspire a thread along the lines of "Who Do You Wish Were No Longer Part Of Public Life?"

I have a Looooooooooooooooong list (some of which could be condensed) of people, politicos, celebs, quasi-celebs, etc. I wish would just leave us all alone.

And since this thread asks the question about MSNBC, let me pose this one: If Fox News went off the air tomorrow, what difference would it make?

Try not to get us locked, folks.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

So Baldwin's message was "Hey everybody look at me! Now that you're looking at me I want you to quit looking at me!"

 

[Boom_70]

Perhaps this should inspire a thread along the lines of "Who Do You Wish Were No Longer Part Of Public Life?"

I have a Looooooooooooooooong list (some of which could be condensed) of people, politicos, celebs, quasi-celebs, etc. I wish would just leave us all alone.

And since this thread asks the question about MSNBC, let me pose this one: If Fox News went off the air tomorrow, what difference would it make?

Try not to get us locked, folks.

Gee covered it by saying it would not matter if all 3 networks went off the
air. I agree.

 

[MisterCreosote]

We'd have a lot less geographic confusion, that's for sure.

 

[jr/shotglass]

If Alec Baldwin checked out of public life tomorrow, what difference would it make?

So Baldwin's message was "Hey everybody look at me! Now that you're looking at me I want you to quit looking at me!"

Folks getting butt-hurt because Alec Baldwin has had enough of media bullying? Please.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

If Alec Baldwin checked out of public life tomorrow, what difference would it make?

So Baldwin's message was "Hey everybody look at me! Now that you're looking at me I want you to quit looking at me!"

Folks getting butt-hurt because Alec Baldwin has had enough of media bullying? Please.

Not butt-hurt at all. I just think the "Look at me, I'm leaving" announcements are silly.

 

[Morris816]

I think more people would be sympathetic to Baldwin if he had limited his complaints to people following his wife around and ignoring the fact she has their child in her arms when they start shoving cameras in his face. And he has a valid point about how everyone and their brother now has smartphones with which they use to take pictures and videos of whatever he's doing, to the point it seems he is no longer allowed privacy for even a moment.

The problem is he turned it into a whole rant about himself, to the point nobody will believe him when he says he's done talking about himself.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Here's the thing: Alec Baldwin has always been a blowhard. A blowhard who can act, a charming blowhard, but a blowhard.

Do we forget how enraged he was after the deal with his daughter?

I'm just saying this is nothing that should surprise, it's in line with his MO, and there's every chance he'll jump in front of the camera next chance he gets.

 

[Liut]

I kind of like Joe and Mika in the morning when I do tune in. But, that's not often since I'm watching Imus.
Cannot stand Meadow, but it's her style more than anything else.

Thirded or fourthed what Michael said.

 

[Starman]

The presence of Scarborough on the network in a key decision-making position (he can and does blackball guests from other shows) reveals what a total fraud and charade MSNBC is. His little sidekick ***** Mika needs to buy some kneepads and go join her lover the Two Tons of Fun so she can apply her tongue directly to his flabby fleshy sweaty stinky nutsack rather than only symbolically every morning on teevee.

Scarborough is essentially the real-life counterpart of Will McAvoy. It's something similar to what it would be like if FOX hired Howard Dean to do a morning program (they probably ought to -- he would be a zillion times more fun than the idiots they have in there).

FOX viewers DO NOT WANT to watch a howling lib like Dean on a morning show (or any show for that matter). Why would you ever put him on there? Yet MSNBC has no problems, in fact they appear to relish, shoving Scarborough down the collective throats of their audience who should revile him.

MSNBC is, FAIAP, the political/philosophical equivalent of blackface/Stepin Fetchit skits from movies in the 1930s: the entertainment moguls' idea of what 'those people' look, sound and act like.

As far as Baldwin is concerned I haven't read or heard what he said and I don't care anyway. His MSNBC show failed utterly and spectacularly on its own (lack of) merit. I watched a total of about 45 minutes of it and I had seen enough.

**** 'em all. Shut 'em down.

 

[Alma]

If all three cable news networks went off the air tomorrow, by Friday America's collective IQ would be up by 15 points. Those things are like sniffing glue.

Agree. They bring nothing to the party. Empty calories.

FNC is the media arm by which the GOP is controlled. It's a utility.

 

[cranberry]

If all three cable news networks went off the air tomorrow, by Friday America's collective IQ would be up by 15 points. Those things are like sniffing glue.

Agree. They bring nothing to the party. Empty calories.

FNC is the media arm by which the GOP is controlled. It's a utility.

Exactly. Who else is going to dumb down the Heritage Foundation policy statements?

 

[Tarheel316]

If all three cable news networks went off the air tomorrow, by Friday America's collective IQ would be up by 15 points. Those things are like sniffing glue.

Agree. They bring nothing to the party. Empty calories.

FNC is the media arm by which the GOP is controlled. It's a utility.

I thought the Koch brothers controlled it.