When will Alison Stewart get her own show on MSNBC?

[ColbertWatcher]

[tridim]

1. I'll answer after the tingle up my leg subsides.

Wow! :loveya:

[ColbertWatcher]

3. You can type and tingle at the same time! n/t

[ProudToBeLiberal]

2. Alison Stewart is great!

I missed her from the days when she guest hosted countdown.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. I do too, what the hell happened?

I thought for sure she'd be getting a time slot of her own!

[bdamomma]

19. Isn't she doing something on NPR.

Good to see her again, I know you guys are.

[ColbertWatcher]

22. Wikip*dia says she's been guesting on NPR and ...

... that she'd been on maternity leave too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Stewart#2007_to_present:_NPR_.26_The_Bryant_Park_Project

But, nothing new.

[annabanana]

4. They should give her Gregory's spot. . PRONTO!

He is such a RW dweeb.

[ColbertWatcher]

13. If MSNBC doesn't give her a show ...

... if CNN wants to get some ratings, they will snag her and have her run up against "Stretch."

[DJ13]

6. She had several long term timeslots during the day that never worked out

I doubt she has the kind of star power to have another try.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Timeslots matter.

She needs a good production staff and a style all her own. I think she'll do fine.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Her shows were low budget and ill concieved. And on in bad time slots.

Shes a star. Make no mistake.

[ColbertWatcher]

17. Thank you. n/t

[Janice325]

16. I respectfully disagree about "star power."

She's miles above Morning Joe, Mika, David Gregory, Andrea Mitchell, Contessa Brewer, what's his name that Rachel replaced, and gone and quite forgotten Rita (Gargles-with-razors)Cosby, and Tucker (bowtie boy)Carlson.

She's almost, but not quite, as good as Keith or Rachel. She's unique and has her own unique brand of snark.

Just my two cents.

[Janice325]

7. Soon, very soon.

When I tuned in to Rachel a couple of minutes late, I was absolutely ecstatic to see Alison back. (Janice does a super-duper happy dance!!! :woohoo::bounce::applause:).

PS I hope Rachel is okay. I do love her, and hope she's okay!

[tridim]

9. She just has some days off.

I don't think she's had a vacation since she started the show?

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Rachel's on an Air America cruise.

She's fine, I'm sure.

:hi:

[MiniMe]

14. She is on the Air America cruise

[Janice325]

18. Whew, thanks Husb2Sparkly and MiniMe for the explanation

about Rachel's cruise. I was worried for a minute.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. Keith took her off of Countdown and had come back early from his appendectomy

because her reporting on OJ as story #5 for 2 days in a row. He was pissed.

I find her adorable but but she gets cutsie for serious interviews.

[ColbertWatcher]

20. When Olbermann is out with an appendectomy, his producers aren't.

They picked the stories for her to read/report.

Just because the executive producer takes a day off, doesn't mean his fill-in becomes executive producer.

The writers wrote the stories the producers approved.

If Olbermann was pissed at anyone, it should have been his producers.

[Berry Cool]

23. He was probably pissed at them all right.

They saw their opportunity and took it. At least one of them has always put the pressure on him to do more frivolous stories to get bigger ratings.

[ColbertWatcher]

24. Oh yeah.

Olbermann was probably pissed at the producers, but not Alison.

[MiniMe]

15. A vast improvement over Arianna

I like Arianna as a guest, but she was really bad as the host.

[ColbertWatcher]

21. She's just not cut out for reading lines. Meh, I like Alison Stewart better too. n/t

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

25. Arianna's sharp, funny and fast off the cuff.

Some folks just aren't cut out to read off teleprompters.