Posted by Pam Spaulding March 9, 2008 in Uncategorized, Gender Issues, Media
That’s what TVNewser is reporting.
The official announcement, expected tomorrow, will include details about who will replace Tucker at 6pmET as well as other political programming additions. Sources say the network is going to beef up its schedule with more NBC News talent.Alex Blaze of The Bilerico Project is spot-on:In recent days, Jossip, as well as other blogs, ratcheted up the talk that Tucker would be replaced “for a new project.” In its 33-month run, Carlson’s show has had two names, four time slots and multiple formats.
Maybe MSNBC has realized that swinging to the Right to try and shake out Fox News for viewers isn’t a winning strategy. Or maybe they realized that at least half their commentators should accept the reality that white men aren’t oppressed. Or maybe they think that people don’t want to watch a bully wannabe talk about his fun days of beating up fags. Or maybe they got tired of his history of abusing the rules of logic, evidence, and reality.Or how about this gem, questioning Barack Obama’s masculinity for having a book club:
…Carlson recently referred to Obama’s “rhetoric” as “kind of wimpy” and said that Obama “seems like kind of a wuss.” Carlson also said that Obama “sounds like a pothead.”It looks like we’ll still see more of the secure-in-his-masculinity Mr. Carlson on the campaign trail for all you fans out there.During the segment, Carlson discussed the book clubs with Geist, who claimed that “Obama has violated the trust of men everywhere,” and said: “It makes you wonder what he won’t compromise of himself. Are we going to have mani/pedi parties next? You know what I mean?“
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Oh please, oh please, oh please let Rachel Maddow be his replacement!
If Rachel is the replacement I promise I will watch every night, Mr. MSNBC! I’ll even buy whatever stupid products advertise on her show!
Maybe they won’t fire him … maybe they will offer him a “manly” reporting position in Iraq, on the street, without body armor or guard.
Then he can really show what an impressive and brave guy he is … for a few days at least.
I concur with clytemnestra!
Rachel Maddow would be the absolute best!
It would be sad not to be able to listen to her on Air America anymore but maybe she could do both- she’s been busier and busier lately.
Wow, that’s a really flirty pic. Who is Tucker groping in the picture?
BillO will of course cite this as evidence of the “left wing media” conspiring against conservatives, ignoring the fact that many viewers have made it crystal clear that they don’t agree with the viewpoints of these commentators and prefer the views of people like Rachel Maddow, for example.
I’m withe the rest of you. Give it to Rachel Maddow. I love listening to her in the afternoon on the radio.
Just checking– are there currently any carlson/reilly/olbermann style pundits who have their own cable tv show, but are not a white male?
Great moments in television history. John Stewart bashes Tucker for wearing a bow tie. Glad to see this whining frat boy depart MSNBC.
Bananaphone, her name is Elena Grinenko- this was their 3rd season “Dancing with the Stars” promo shot. Tucker was the first to be kicked off- I have no idea if his “chair dance” was captured on You Tube, but it was LAME!!! Emmitt Smith went on to win; I became a DWTS fan because of him.
ringringringring!
Damn, damn, damn- the YouTube clip has expired. Oh, and it was truly one for the ages.
Damn.
“Maybe they won’t fire him … maybe they will offer him a “manly” reporting position in Iraq, on the street, without body armor or guard.
Then he can really show what an impressive and brave guy he is … for a few days at least. “
…which would only work if the camera people shot him from the waist-up. Otherwise we would be able to see the urine stains near his crotch. Maybe he could always wear dark pants?…
Okay, maybe I’m just as bad as Sweet-Tucky-C for saying this … reinforcing the machonormative paradigm … but has anyone else noticed that Tucker Carlson himself is “kind of wimpy” and “seems like kind of a wuss”?
Shit, somebody had to say it.
None spring to mind. The only women I know of on cable news with their own shows right now are Greta van Susteren and Nancy Grace, and I don’t think either of them qualifies as a Carlson/O’Reilly/Olbermann style pundit. And of course, there’s no one who isn’t white on the list.
I actually remarked to Amy the other day that i was surprised by the large number of men and women of color on CNN’s horribly named Ballot Bowl the other night. (I don’t have MSNBC, and would have to get Fox in order to get it–no chance.)
OK, how did Tucker time-jump into the 70s for that picture?
Really, it’s not just the shirt, it’s his hair in all it’s fluffy, feathery glory.
Ugh.
Please please please TVGods, even if it’s not Rachel Maddow, please please please don’t let Tucker catch on somewhere else! He’s had more than enough chances. He sucks and should disappear from the national screen.
I do not have access to Air America and Ms. Madow in that place. I see her mostly on Countdown with KO. The lady is dynamite. I would definitely watch her if she had her own show, anywhere, anytime.
I love watching people that are smarter & brighter than me. Serious.
God, that picture is just hideous. Does the guy do anything but smirk?
Good riddance, Tucker. Maybe he can get a more suitable job - at Fox news, perhaps.
Now if MSNBC would only get rid of Keith Olberman we would really be in business. I used to be a Keith fan, but lately he strikes me as an emtpy-headed, shock “news” person like the folks at Fox news. He is just coming from the left, but the tone and style of attack are similar.
I’m hoping for Joe Rugierro from HGTV!
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy …
I was rooting for Rachel Maddow too, but unfortunately, Tucker’s time slot is going to another white male.
Future Tucker Carlson (feigning outrage): Why don’t people want to hear the truth? That’s all I’m asking. People tell me they want to hear the truth and I give it to them and then my show gets cancelled. See, this is why I had to write this book - so that people would know the liberal agenda is to lie and cheat them of the real information about how this country works. And I can tell this story because I’m not beholden to an ideology. If the liberal media can cancel me, an independent journalist, then they can get rid of ANYONE. It’s time to wake up, America, and start doing something about the putrid remnants of our TV news programming. Even if I hadn’t tried to tell the truth about the boys on the Duke lacrosse team, all this would have happened eventually anyway. The media hates it when people like me tell the truth. They just want to put more kiss-asses like Jon Stewart on the air. Ugh!
good bye Francis !
(i’ve always associated him with that jerk from Peewee’s Big Adventure
Shit, they gave the slot to David Gregory, not Rachel..
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/msnbc/david_gregory_to_anchor_6pm_show_on_msnbc_79388.asp#more
Aaaaw! Gregory is a tool.
Why can’t Rachel Maddow or Lara Logan get pundit shows like the boys?
I assume “what he means” is that reading makes you either gay, or a woman. I couldn’t believe that anyone had actually been dumb enough to say that, but then I remembered the following exchange:
Me (male librarian answering the phone at work): Hello, Plumb Library. How can I help you?
Male caller: Uhh…[Hangs up and immediately calls back]
Me: Hello, Plumb Library. How can I help you?
Caller: Is this the library?
Me: Yes sir. What can I do for you?
Caller: But you’re a guy, right?
Me: Yes sir. They let us work here, now.