Chuckles Is Banished

While Joy Reid's star is rising - as it turns out, as I noted in an appendage to my earlier comments on the subject, she's not giving up her weekend show to concentrate more on her weekday show - Chuck Todd's is falling.

Todd got himself in hot water with many NBC viewers when , as the moderator of "Meet The Press," when Trump economic adviser Peter Navarro was on the program and he claimed that Trump's power to issue executive orders to provide economic stimulus over the heard pf Congress was divinely ordained.  (What is he, a Mormon?)  Todd let Navarro's invocation of the Almighty go unchallenged.

Chuckles the Clown is still, alas, the moderator of "Meet The Press," where he continues to be an embarrassment. (Yet this past Sunday, he tried to grill Pete Buttigieg by suggesting that the Democrats offered no clear policy proposals or and agenda at the Democratic convention, though anyone with half a brain - that is, someone other thn Todd - should have been able to figure out the Democrats' agenda by listening to speakers like, well, Biden himself.)  However, in obvious self-absolution, MSNBC has moved Todd's sister cable program "Meet The Press Daily"  from 5 PM Eastern to 1 PM Eastern, when fewer people are watching cable news, and it's expanded Nicolle Wallace's 4 PM Eastern program, "Deadline: White House," to two hours.  I couldn't be more pleased, because while I obviously do not like Chuckles the Clown, Nicolle Wallace is quickly becoming my favorite ex-Republican White House aide.  She knows her stuff.  Chuckles obviously does not.  More power to her.

And I'm also glad to see Hallie Jackson back at 10 AM Eastern.