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Hall of Famer |
I suppose I had thought of this before, but I hadn't thought of it too much until I saw the question on Andrew Sullivan's blog. Whoever takes over the chair not only has a major task ahead of him or her--replacing the best Sunday morning moderator out there--but also a big responsibility, as Meet the Press is currently #1 in the ratings.
Of the names floating out there, Chuck Todd is probably the odds--on favorite. Someone threw Brokaw's name out there, and I think it would make sense to have him as a bridge to the next person (I don't know if Todd is ready to run the show). The other names I've seen (Andrea Mitchell, Chris Matthews, David Gregory, and Joe Scarborough) don't particularly wow me, even though I like them all as contributors. The problem NBC is going to have is that nobody in the media--with the possible exception of Charlie Rose--seems to have Russert's combination of intellect and a broad range of interests that made him so enjoyable to watch. Dennis Personally, I'd love to see Rose have a MTP kind of show, if only to watch him interrupt four people at once. |
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Skipper of the Lake Erie Booze Patrol Numbers Retired and hangs in the rafters  |
He really was one of a kind IMO.
I was almost in tears Sunday morning. I can't think of anyone who could do it. They'll just have to change format. Brokaw won't come back for long but maybe he coulda. Maybe.... WSS |
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Numbers Retired and hangs in the rafters |
Not a very deep bench, as someone said.
Chuck Todd would be good. I think Jeff Greenfield would be another good pick, though he's not part of the NBC family. I bet they go with Gregory. He'd probably be good, too. He's tough. |
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Hall of Fame Legend |
I think Brokaw as a bridge is the route they will take.
I also think the final moderator doesn't have to be someone in the NBC stable right now. That is the type of job people from other networks would jump at. Behind the scenes, there are NBC exec's and agents talking about people who's contract is nearly up...what sort of buy-outs and non compete clauses may or may not be involved. |
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Hall of Fame Legend |
Daniel Drezner has an interesting suggestion: Christopher Hitchens.
His reasoning: the MTP host must be someone who won't cower when interviewing political bigwigs. And Hitchens has the confidence of a drunk guy getting in a bar fight with a guy twice his size. I think Campbell Brown would be good in the role, but NBC probably wouldn't offer her a big job after she ditched them for CNN. |
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Numbers Retired and hangs in the rafters |
Ha. You want to get Hitchens up on Sunday mornings? Good luck with that.
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Hitchens would be a catastrophe--and I'm a fan of his. Russert was tough; Hitchens is often a bully, interrupts people constantly, and is surprisinly sophomoric at times. Plus--and this might just be a function of his recent travels in support of his books--he has a tendency toward rote repetition: if you watch him in five different debates, he'll say pretty much the same things in all five, make the same ever-so-witty remarks, and once in a great while admit that he might have mis-spoke in the past.
As I said, I enjoy his work, read him all the time, and like watching him give as good as he takes, but his broadsword schtick--he wants his enemies destroyed, even when they're his friends--wouldn't play for more than a month on MTP. Dennis |
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Numbers Retired and hangs in the rafters |
I'd say that pretty much dead on. Dennis, you're on a roll.
He's also got this trick he always uses that infuriates me - mentioning the name of some obscure figure no one has heard of and suggesting that if you knew what he knew about him and his associates you wouldn't be such a moribund Trotskyite. "If you could put yourself in a room with Hassan al-Masrahi and here his designs for the state of Israel and the West I suspect that you'd have a very different view of our current misadventure in Iraq, as you so describe it..." (Takes a shaky sip of his water glass filled with gin.) |
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Numbers Retired and hangs in the rafters |
I have to say, as much as I liked Russert I thought he placed far too big an emphasis on consistency. In just about every interview he was trying to catch a politician in a "You once said this (puts old quote on screen) and now you're saying this (puts new quote on screen)."
It's not that consistency isn't important, but this was his trick and it got pretty old. Or the Hillary Clinton version: "You're saying this. I want you to look at this quote from 1996. (Puts old, contradictory quote on screen.) You know said that? That was your husband! Bill Clinton! Ha-HA! Got you!" I'm hoping whoever takes over will include some of this, but make it more about issues than year-to-year, or decade-to-decade consistency. |
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Hall of Fame Legend |
Russert was much better on his CNBC show. Less of lawyer-Russert interrogating a pol, more of intellectual-Russert discussing history, religion, and recent political trends.
On Hitchens: I'm not a big fan of his, but I wish he had a show. Maybe put P.J. O'Rourke and him on late at night and let them argue while slowly emptying a bottle of scotch. It would be hard to see them through all the cigar smoke, but it'd still be a fun ride. |
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Numbers Retired and hangs in the rafters |
Hitchens loves appearing on TV and in public so much it's almost like he does have a show.
This is a good one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doKkOSMaTk4 I agree, though. I don't always agree with him, but I like that he's out there. |
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Skipper of the Lake Erie Booze Patrol Numbers Retired and hangs in the rafters |
I tend to agree but I think Russert was fair with everybody on the show. He never seemd slanted to me. WSS |
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Numbers Retired and hangs in the rafters |
I'm going to go with Jeff Greenfield. I'd like a sage on that show, and he's one of the few in TV journalism.
Jim Lehrer would be another. Who knows if he'd do it. |
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calfoxwc Numbers Retired and hangs in the rafters |
I'm calling for a Congressional investigation into his death.
It may very well have been high level leftists who resented Russert's fairness in asking legit, tough questions of both sides. Liberal commies hate that, ya know. I suspect Nasty Piglosi. |
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Hall of Fame Legend |
Ha!! I love Hitchens because everytime he appears on TV he looks like this guy:  |
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Numbers Retired and hangs in the rafters |
That made me laugh.
It's probably because he woke up on a park bench. |
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Skipper of the Lake Erie Booze Patrol Numbers Retired and hangs in the rafters |
New face.
A celebrity or an idealogue changes the show. They'll need to beef up the panel. WSS |
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Hall of Fame Legend |
from the NY Post's Page Six gossip column:
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I'm calling BS on the Page Six report. Matthews is smart enough to know that he would be overheard if he were to make a play for the job at the service, and well-connected enough that he could pick up a phone and talk to the people who would need to talk to. Olbermann isn't qualified for the job, and he knows it--for one thing, I'm not sure he's ever had a sustained conversation with someone who disagrees with him.
The Post is a rag with a pretty bad track record when it comes to facts and partisan hackery, so one has to take what it says with a pretty big grain of salt. Dennis |
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NBC has announced that it's Brokaw, at least through the election. I think that's a smart move. That gives them time to evaluate others, and who knows? Maybe Brokaw will decide that he likes the once-a-week format and stay on longer. Brokaw has sufficient gravitas and name recognition that people will still tune in, and if he stays on for a year or two it would give them time to properly groom someone like, say, Chuck Todd by having having him on to increase his face recognition, having him guest-host, that kind of thing.
Dennis |
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