"We regret to report that David Gregory will be leaving Meet The Press in order to spend more time with his family." Or perhaps it will be, "David Gregory is leaving Meet The Press in order to pursue other projects."
Those are a couple of polite corporate ways to announce the firing of the Meet The Press host with the terrible ratings. According to the New York Post's Page Six, the replacement of David Gregory could be happening right after the midterm elections. No surprise there given the fact that under Gregory, Meet The Press has fallen to last place in the broadcast television Sunday interview shows. Also not surprising is that NBC is planning on replacing liberal Gregory with equally liberal Chuck Todd or Savannah Guthrie according to the Page Six report:
David Gregory’s time is nearly up at “Meet the Press,” sources told Page Six, and he could be replaced as moderator of the nation’s longest-running TV show soon after the November midterm elections.
While NBC News President Deborah Turness has publicly supported the embattled Gregory, there are serious concerns about the losing battle to turn around the show’s sinking ratings.
Viewership is down a whopping 43 percent compared to when Gregory ascended to the moderator’s chair in December 2008, after the death of Tim Russert. The show finished in third place behind CBS’s “Face the Nation” and ABC’s “This Week” in the second quarter of 2014.
An NBC source said, “The discussion is whether to make a change before or after the midterm elections. Just after the midterms would give the new moderator time to settle in.”
So has NBC News learned its lesson about the hazards of having a predictable liberal as host of Meet The Press? Apparently not:
According to insiders, NBC political director and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd is the rightful heir to Gregory, but he has not been officially offered the job.
Chuck Todd is every bit as predictably liberal as Gregory who recently sounded like he was auditioning for Jay Carney's old spot as White House flack. A laughable example of Todd's liberalism was him wondering aloud if there were any real victims of the IRS scandal.
And if Todd is unavailable, not to worry. NBC is chock full of liberals who are unreluctant to display their bias who could also be tapped for the Meet The Press slot. One of them is Savannah Gutherie:
Other names said to be in the frame include “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie, who comes from a political background but is unlikely to be released from the flagship morning show where she’s hugely popular.
Guthrie is so reliably liberal that she recently blamed Congress but not Obama for the immigration crises at the border.
So all those liberals out there need not worry. An utterly predictable liberal Meet The Press host is sure to be replaced by another predictable Meet The Press host. No matter how much that show's ratings continue to tumble, that losing formula will be strictly adhered to by NBC no matter the cost.
