There are rumors going around that Fox News liberal hack castoff Shepard Smith might be landing at MSNBC soon. This is what left wing propaganda sites are claiming, as the ratings challenged Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd struggles for ratings. I couldn’t think of a more appropriate place for hack news anchor aka left wing propaganda minister to end up at. Well, maybe CNN. There are also rumblings that Jeff Zucker, the idiot who ran CNN into the ground is after Smith too. If these left wing propaganda networks think Shepard Smith is going to somehow bring them improved ratings then they are really kidding themselves.
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The goal of any reshuffle would be to shed ratings dead weight in the lead-up to the election. Sources at the network cautioned that a new look for the lineup is still up in the air, but brass have been batting around several options.
One of those is new blood in the form of Smith, who abruptly quit Fox late last year after on-air skirmishes with Tucker Carlson and other primetime hosts. Smith has had conversations with MSNBC President Phil Griffin about a potential gig when his non-compete clause expires, although his price tag is expected to be considerable for any interested network.
“It’s unclear what slot he would take, but we’d want him in primetime,” an MSNBC insider told The Daily Beast. “We are well aware [Jeff] Zucker [president of CNN] is also pursuing him, as are a number of the networks.”
At 30 Rock, much of the tinkering is currently focused on the daytime schedule.
With the lackluster performance of Todd’s MTP Daily at 5 p.m.—“a hammock,” as one insider put it, between the robust ratings of Nicolle Wallace’s 4 p.m. show and Ari Melber’s 6 p.m. show—there has been talk of switching Todd to 9 a.m., as Page Six first reported. Under that scenario, the current 9 a.m. anchor, Stephanie Ruhle, could move to 3 p.m., where her financial expertise would mesh well with the market closings.