Air America Host Boosts "Centrist" David Shuster for MSNBC Show


Now that Rosie O'Donnell is out of the running as host of a prime time MSNBC show, speculation has started anew about who will be named to host the program. Among the more amusing of these speculations come from Cenk Uygur, host of an Air America morning show. Writing in the Huffington Post on November 7, Uygur scans the field of candidates for the MSNBC slot:

I would love to say that the right person for the job is one of the progressives I know either at Air America or in the liberal blogosphere. And all of these people are incredibly capable and would do a terrific job if given the opportunity (Rachel Maddow, Sam Seder, Thom Hartmann, among many others, come to mind (maybe even a non-hosts like Josh Marshall or Jane Hamsher)).

I'm also tempted to nominate Jack Cafferty as a possibility, even though he is not a progressive, because he has so clearly taken on the Bush administration in a sane and rational way for the last couple of years.

Jack Cafferty is not a progressive (liberal)? That's news to the rest of us but Uygur's comedy goes into high gear when he finally focuses in on his ultimate choice:

But ultimately, I think MSNBC already has their man. MSNBC correspondent, David Shuster. He is obviously bright, completely versed on the facts, up on the news and capable of bringing a centrist, sensible point of view to MSNBC.

He has been terrific the few times he has filled in for other hosts. He's already in house. I would imagine he'll cost a lot less than a big name host like Rosie O'Donnell. It's my belief that he would be a voice of sanity on air and a good fit for the network.

Contrary to Uygur's disingenuously laughable portrayal of David Shuster as a "centrist," we have many examples here on NewsBusters of Shuster's outright liberal bias. One of Shuster's recent liberal antics occurred  when he exploited the name of a fallen American soldier to play a tasteless "gotcha" game with a Republican congresswoman.

Shuster is perhaps best known for his prediction that Karl Rove would be indicted in May 2006. Perhaps his liberal bias caused him to be so hungry for that indictment that he depended on highly questionable sources such as Jason Leopold for that particular "scoop" as John Gibson has suggested.

When a far left Air America talk radio host promotes someone for an MSNBC show, it is wise to note the motivation. And it also wise to scoff loudly when that Air America host tries to sell us on the notion that a demonstrably biased liberal is somehow a "centrist."

 

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.


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[Cafferty] is not a


[Cafferty] is not a progressive, because he has so clearly taken on the Bush
administration in a sane and rational way for the last couple of years.

OMG...Jack Cafferty is too sane??????

Well, that pretty much clears it up for me...."progressives" are insane and irrational.

That caught my eye too MB

Luckily I didn't have any coffee or food in my mouth, it would have been all over my monitor.

Wow, Jack "is Ann Coulter, Bill Bennett, Bill O'Reilly a racist if we take a quote from Media Matters web site and play it on the air out of context just like the did" Cafferty.

This guy makes the dude from Network look sane.

David the Centrist

David is a centrist only if you compare him to people like Joseph Stalin, Tim Robbins, Susan Saradon, Sean Penn, The Drive by Media and last but not least the Democrats.

MSNBC

That's right MSNBC, hire the likes of David Shuster. Do these people actually want to have no viewers except the "liberal" loonies? No wonder their ratings are in the tank.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Cafferty Not Progressive

The reason Cafferty isn't considered a progressive liberal is because he took on Hillary, post-debate debachle. Didn't he criticize her for her archives double-speak? That has to be a disqualifier. 

ConservativeBelle

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Success should be their goal

I am curious to know what an MSNBC presentation to the Board of Directors at GE is like. Typically you carefully analyze your competition particularly your competitor who is the market leader and identify a strategy that will entice their customers to switch over to your product.

FoxNews more closely competes with traditional broadcast stations and is incredibly far ahead of either CNN and even more so over MSNBC. That means that the product MSNBC airs is flawed and is not appealing to over 70% of the audience.

So how can GE Board sit there and allow this to go from bad to worse and not bother to explain to these misguided MSNBC executives to look closer at Fox and try and replicate them.

I actually heard Ann Coulter this morning saying something like that.

 

One can only hope that GE

One can only hope that GE eventually pulls the plug on the drunken wild party that's known as MSNBC...

I agree, "The Wisdom Of"

I agree, "The Wisdom Of" Jack Cafferty is not a progressive.  Neither is David Shyster.  For that matter, neither is Cenk Uygur (who?) nor the other riff-raff that populates Air America.  They are regressives...as in tax you back to the Stone Age regressives.  And just because that gasbag Bill O'Reilly has conceded the term "progressive" to the left doesn't mean anyone else should.