Donny Deutsch on MSNBC-- Hurry Home David Shuster
Ad man Donny Deutsch was co-hosting with Tamron Hall on MSNBC's afternoon show Friday, I caught the final few minutes, as I awaited Chris Matthews and Hardball. I know that Deutsch is an important name in the advertising business, and he's a favorite of Matthews--he recently introduced Deutsch as "a genius at communication:" -- but can someone advise Deutsch that he needs to know what's happening in politics before taking that co-anchor's chair?
In reporting the news story that Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng -- she and Obama share a mother but have different fathers; the President's father is from Africa and his sister's father is from Indonesia -- is moving to Washington, Deutch commented on Soetoro-Ng's beauty. He then asked co-host Hall why Ng is so much lighter-skinned than her brother. Hall, ever gracious, patient, and smart, clued him in to their different paternal parentage, and Deutsch did look deeply embarrassed.
Deutsch is substituting for David Shuster this week. I'm uncomfortable with the hyper-partisan Shuster -- I'd prefer that he try harder to keep his strong views to himself -- but at least he reads the newspaper and knows his stuff.
As the Donny/Tamron duo signed off, he thanked her for being such a good "hostess."
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David rocks!
Can't stand Deutch. I work at home and leave MSNBC on all day. Now I have to turn it off because of annoying Donny. If he's just temporary, please let this end soon.
After watching Donny all week on MSNBC, he could be the antidote to Sean Hannity.
I watch Donny Deutsch and I just don't get it. I find him kind of creepy and very much a light weight on everything. I don't know anything about his background and I am not going to generalize, but I'm sure we've all met our share of Donnies in our professional lives. It's just a personality the world could use a lot less of.
On another note, that Tamron Hall is just smokin hot and she's spot on with her work on that show.
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I only watched Donny D one day but I found him to be refreshingly blunt and straightforward. I loved his suggestion to boycott Glenn Beck's show. He read off a list of Beck's sponsors. Good stuff. He strikes me as a guy who speaks his mind, so I'm not surprised that he made a few flubs. I'll take that over a hyper-timid mealy mouth.
Deutsch's motivational book is called "Often Wrong, Never In Doubt"
Deutsch is horrible. He seems to have inherited Sarah Palin's ability for word salads while at the same time giving a bad imitation of Woody Allen.
As for Shuster, I appreciate a little liberal fieriness. But he is just to robotic and doesn't have any of the charisma possessed by Rachel and Keith. Maybe he's compensating for his robotic nature by bringing in some fieriness.
Chris Matthews is just another white, conservative male that is just boring. Sexist, constantly bringing up the religious wedge issues of the '80s and his own religion. I especially love how he discusses issues of abortion with only male panels and constantly asks why taxpayers should have to pay for abortions.
I'd like to see MSNBC mix up its extremely pale, male line-up and add some diversity. Some diversity of color, gender, reporting, and opinions might actually turn MSNBC from mind numbing to something actually interesting and compelling. Ah, but alas, it is owned by big business so no chance of that.
You might want to do some research on Chris Matthews. You've got some stuff really mixed up.
Really? I think I'm pretty much up to snuff on Matthews. What stuff do I have mixed up?
Last Thursday, Shuster treated a guest on Countdown, a political author named Pierce, as abusively as I've ever seen O'Reilly treat any female guest. Mr. Pierce's sin? He pointed out that the MSM encourages fringe beliefs by focussing on them on a daily basis, and turns nonentities into political stars -- case in point, Liz Cheney. Mr. Pierce was calm, polite and had facts to back up his statements. Schuster yelled over him, personally attacked him, and refused to let the name of the author's book be mentioned.
It was unprofessional and uncivil. Hundreds of emails and phone calls were received. Friday -- Richard Wolffe was in the Countdown chair.
I've seen David Shuster do that; I wondered if i was the only one who noticed.
i did not see the episode described above by oregonbird.
Yes Schuster may have gotten himself into trouble. He is his own worst enemy. Mr. Pierce is everything you described. A gentleman (I know nothing of his work). Their exchange was jarring and strange.
It seemed to strip any semblance of impartiality away from Schuster if I were a Fox news fan I would jump up and down and say its true the left are all elite snobs.
I miss the African American woman who used to be on MTV news "Alice Stewart" or something. She was always best at subing Countdown. She even has comic talent. But she also had a baby. So her career suffered. That is when Rachael Madow got her job.
Either way its just T.V.
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I like David, but until he gets a show of his own, ala Keith Olbermann, he will be the equivlent of Russian Roulette as a replacement host.
Richard Wolffe was "in the Countdown chair" not because of the "hundreds of emails and phone calls" but because Schuster's vacation started that day. And I really didn't think he was particularly out of line. He was animated, yes, but I found his argument to be sound.
Someone needs to hand him Obama's Book Dreams of my father so he can get updated
i had never heard of this person prior to his stint filling in for shuster, but i found donny to be arrogant and annoying. not a good combo.
I quite agree!
Is that who that was? I was off from work on Friday and turned off the show about 30 seconds into it because he was so obnoxious.
I don't like Shuster, either. He never has been top-rate, in my opinion. And he believes that all the hype about Whitewater, back in the day, was okay.
"I don't like Shuster, either."
Me neither. I can't stand his voice.
i thought Shuster was best when he was a key reporter for Chris Matthews on Hardball , although he was sometimes sloppy about hiding his biases.
He is probably best known for the suspension over his "pimped out" remark during the 2008 primaries, referring to Hillary's frequent use of Chelsea on the campaign trail. I thought the response from Hillary's campaign, led by Howard Wolfson, was ridiculous and overblown and that Shuster did not deserve the punishment.
Well read on current events....
Not to mention the pig-stupid ignorance about basic genetics. Even if the President and his sister had two parents in common, there's still a very good chance that the shade of their respective complexions would be different. Dominant & recessive genes and inheritability are subjects taught in high school - perhaps Mr. Deutsch was playing hooky that month.
My older brother & I share the same biological parents & he's noticeably darker-skinned than I am. The younger sibling of a good friend of mine, who's also, "bi-racial," recently had twin boys, one of whom looks distinctly African-American while the other has fair skin, blond hair & blue eyes.
It seems like American media figures are the last to learn that, "White," and, "Black," are political terms when applied to human beings - they're not exactly biologically accurate. Next Deutsch or Chris Matthews or Bill O'Reilly will be wondering aloud why the President's skin is brown - after all, he's half, "Black," & half, "White," so shouldn't his skin be grey?
I love David's hyper-partisan personality !!We need anchors that will stand up for what he believe .They do it Faux Noise hourly.,Ar
Agreed, I enjoy David and Tamron. One of the problems with our party (democratic party) is we to often play nice and allow the republicans to talk over us and spew lies. David calls them out when they out right lie. One of the reasons our country is in such a mess is because reporters didn't call out Bush and Cheney and some (Fixed News) went out of their way to back Cheney's war. The only thing David does (and some others) that really bothers me is call President Obama Mr. Obama. I don't believe he is doing it out of disrespect but that is the way I hear it when I hear anyone on tv not call our President by President Obama. Who ever called Bush, Mr. Bush? Even after someone is no longer a President, Gov. Sen., Congressperson they are still called by that title. Everyone should address our President as President Obama.
Tamron is awesome.
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