if my network hired a former Fox hottie and gave her the anchor spot at NBC while I was the highest rated reporter on cable. I hope she will soon reappear as the new anchor on CBS. Maybe I'm dreaming....

of msm crap and not doing the great work she is doing now.

Especially not after that interview last night

Rachel far out classes Kelly in intelligence and journalism skills. But then, when has competence mattered?

And NBC execs look like fools

This is a protracted illness and I hope she is OK.
I would like it if there are other reasons for her absence that she not participate in our being misled.

It was Thursday night and she came in sick and worked anyway because it was a hot news night. BREAKING NEWS all night!! Said she had seen a doctor and was pumped full of meds and was not responsible for anything she said. Then she has not been back. Called in I think last Thursday night. They keep saying she will be back...soon.

With Flu she would have received Tamiflu, which generally short circuits the virus so you get well pretty quickly. My grandchildren were pretty much ok after 2-3 days. No word of what's wrong, although she sounded stuffed up last week when she phoned in. I am guessing she is at home. No mention of being hospitalized. They gave updates on Lawrence O'Donald after his accident and recovery.

I wish they'd give a little more information so we don't worry. Is it strange to worry about her life? Poisoning?? I need to stop it. I will need a tinfoil hat at this rate! LOL

Thought I may die for two nights then went to the doc.

She is sick. Get over it.

Parainfluenza and metapneumovirus. They're both icky, neither is usually long lasting and neither is often fatal. Both have a tendency to cause laryngitis or bronchitis, as well as the normal aches, pains, fatigue, fever. Neither have vaccines nor any treatment like Tamiflu to shorten duration, because neither is usually life-threatening. Both are known for causing "summer colds" or "summer flu." (I had metapneumo in 2000. I recovered fine, but I was down *hard* for about 10 days. It feels a lot like influenza.)

They've both hit multiple media people based in the NYC area (about half of Slate's podcasters have been sick in the past couple weeks, and a few others on my roster) in the past couple weeks, so my bet is there was an event with a Patient Zero. It happens. When she was on the phone last week, she sounded like her voice was having issues. Voices for some people are the first to go and the last back.

He asked Juy Reid to stick around after anchoring Rachel's show. He sounded like he was joking on the square.

That's another reason they're both pains in the butt -- there's a long lag between exposure and onset of symptoms/contagiousness. Slow burn viruses are harder to prevent because they require people to know exactly where they were and who they were with a week or 10 days ago.

Hey, @Everybody! Go wash your hands!

I'm starting to worry about her. Putin is not a fan. I hope she hasn't been drinking any tea in hotel lobbies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/business/media/msnbc-rachel-maddow-andrew-lack-ratings.html

MEDIA

Led by Rachel Maddow, MSNBC Surges to Unfamiliar Spot: No. 1 in Prime Time

The last time that MSNBC was No. 1 in prime-time cable news, Bill Clinton was president, Madonna led the Billboard charts and “Friends” still ran new episodes on TV.

Seventeen years and a few rebrandings later, the network is back on top — buoyed by a surge of interest in news and the channel’s stable of reliably liberal anchors, like Rachel Maddow, who have found their groove amid a time of intense anxiety for the political left.

The MSNBC resurgence — in May, it beat its rivals for the highest prime-time viewership on weeknights in the critical 25-to-54 age demographic, up an astounding 118 percent from a year earlier — is part of a newly shifting landscape in television news, and within the channel itself.