Smerconish thinks ONLY his show works on MSNBC morning

While driving this morning I caught some of Michael Smerconish's radio show. He read an e-mail from one of his Dittoheads. The e-mailer asked when MSNBC is going to hire him full time for the Imus slot because Smerconish got 5 days and "that liberal woman" and Larry Elder only got 2 days. Smerconish did not correct the writer that Stephanie Miller got 3 days. He didn't even say her name. He theorized that only his show works on morning TV but he doesn't think he "will get the call" to host full time. He thinks MSNBC will go "inhouse with a David Gregory type".

Smerconish's bald headed ego could not imagine that Steph turned down hosting 5 days because she wanted to go back to LA or that MSNBC was interested in promoting their Thursday night debate during Steph's week.

But she does not want to do a 6:00 AM EST show from New Jersey ...

My guess is that MNBC will broadcast her radio show from L.A. 9-12 AM EST

Callers overloaded the phone lines @ MSNBC when she was on .... filled up
e mail inboxes too.

Stephanie Miller she sweats all the details to make a good show.

decision to not do the whole 5 days if she was wanted by MS NBC to do it - and if she really wants the job. Sounds like she doesn't. Too bad. I liked her the best of the guest hosts.

Maybe they will try another progressive, but I don't think so. Just what we need - another right-wing show (sarcasm.)

I'm watching BBC in the morning now - of all things!

and had planned her schedule accordingly.

Right now she is playing hard to get and already has a nice home and career in So-Cal.

I just know she talked about returning to LA.

I hear that Jim (Voice Deity) Ward does a lot of voice-over work in LA, so he probably doesn't want to uproot unless they offer them more money than they can refuse. Not sure about Chris, however.

BBC is actually quite good. It's kinda nice to get real news in the morning, and not Paris-Anna Nicole-Idol shit.

I heard they're gonna try out Scarborough (what happened to Lori, there, Joe?), with Tucker's troll, and some other guy who I think they have on a personal appearance contract. They're trying to get Imus-ish guests, too. See--CHEAP. Screw the "new talent" business...they probably gave Smerconish a shot because they already had HIM on a personal appearance contract.

If Joe and Company doesn't work out (I'm not watchin' and don't intend to) don't be surprised if they pull every asshole with a personal appearance contract out of their asses and slap them up against the wall--everyone from Pat Buchanan to Name your Favorite Retired Military Officer...I swear, they fucked up--for a few days of hyper-ratings, they're hoovering crumbs now. They aren't realizing that their haste and excessively harsh judgment has rippled across their morning programming to their evening offerings as well. In time, though, they'll get it.

bent of the American citizenry, witness Olbermann. I would love to see a morning talk-tv show with a Progressive Liberal as the host, Sam Sedar for example. Can you imagine a show with politicals arguing with the host, causing controversy, which would lead to spectacular ratings....people would tune in to see what fireworks would happen next. After all, CNN has that Beck monster, so why shouldn't MSNBC do the same in reverse, except the Progressive host would be telling truth to power. It's not too late to flood MSNBC with emails asking for a lively, spectacularly controversial show: viewerservices@msnbc.com and feedback@msnbc.com

The consumers, the cable TV viewers, aren't the real bosses here--the entire NBC franchise (CNBC, MSNBC and parent NBC) is wholly owned by General Electric (GE...We Bring Good Wars to Life!!!).

It's not "in their interest" to go TOO far left, there's no profit in it. They make "Billions with a B" off the Pentagon; MSNBC barely makes any money at all.

MSNBC serves as just one of several public opinion shapers for GE. They throw the occasional bone to the liberals, who have nowhere else to go, really, lulling them with the likes of Olbermann, just to keep them on the hook, tuned in. After they've watched the one show with an antiwar bent, the unsuspecting viewer will often stay and listen to the other shit they spit, justifying it by saying "Well, at least they have KEITH..." He's the cheese to get them in the trap.

The "Military-Industrial-Media" complex isn't a myth, unfortunately. It's all too real. It's why they dumped Donohue when he had much better ratings than Tweety in the run up to the war...see, Donohue wouldn't follow the "Drumbeats To War" script. In fact, he was engagingly, deliberately, enthusiasticallly CONTRARIAN on the subject, and needed to be shut up.

I've been saying this shit for a long time. This entire article I cite below is an excerpt from a book called War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death , it's lengthy, but worthwhile. Read it, and weep:

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2627

Sometimes a media-owning corporation is itself a significant weapons merchant. In 1991, when my colleague Martin A. Lee and I looked into the stake that one major media-invested company had in the latest war, what we found was sobering: NBC’s owner General Electric designed, manufactured or supplied parts or maintenance for nearly every major weapon system used by the U.S. during the Gulf War—including the Patriot and Tomahawk Cruise missiles, the Stealth bomber, the B-52 bomber, the AWACS plane, and the NAVSTAR spy satellite system. “In other words,” we wrote in Unreliable Sources, “when correspondents and paid consultants on NBC television praised the performance of U.S. weapons, they were extolling equipment made by GE, the corporation that pays their salaries.”

During just one year, 1989, General Electric had received close to $2 billion in military contracts related to systems that ended up being utilized for the Gulf War. Fifteen years later, the company still had a big stake in military spending. In 2004, when the Pentagon released its list of top military contractors for the latest fiscal year, General Electric ranked eighth with $2.8 billion in contracts (Defense Daily International, 2/13/04).

Follow the damned money...!

Wotta joke he is. I was writing threads when he was on the other week and was more repulsed looking at him than listening to him. Between his Farrah Fawcett masturbatory references and his stupid NE Philly accent (I have one so I can say that), he's not gonna make it nationally.

of WWDB. Once he realized that he could never shine Irv's shoes, he went with the flow of the Rush wanna be's. I listen to him every once in a while on the way to work.

There is nothing else but Rush type talkers.

but back in the day it was really entertaining listening to Irv make Rush look like a complete idiot.

picture in the Inquirer every Sunday in the editorial section. He reminds me of the guy that everyone considered to to be a huge jackass when you were in school. Remember when the Inquirer was a decent newspaper?

Now the paper is owned by ultra conservative Brian Tierney - a cross between Rush and Bill Donohue.

Prepare for a snoozefest., then. Gregory has the charm of Droopy.

Stephanie's style is more appropriate for a morning show. here's to crossing my fingers! :)

Smerky was a dud during his audition. It was a bone thrown to Matthew's buddy. Also, Smerky was called in on short order only a couple days after Imus was canned. Even then, the ratings weren't so hot. They sure didn't ask him to stay the extra two days, like they did with Steph Miller.

This dude's got a true "face for radio". His "career" wasn't based on talent or personality, but his ability to suck up to Tweety and Glenn Beck.