MSNBC/MSDNC anchors face huge pay cuts as Comcast severs ties with network

Comcast is finally pulling the plug on MSNBC, the media giant announced this Wednesday. This is tough luck for the overpaid and increasingly out-of-touch anchors who work there (temporarily). MSNBC, along with other cable channels that aren't doing so well, but not Bravo which is all about reality TV, will be turned into a separate company that anyone can buy stock in by the end of next year. This means MSNBC will no longer be part of the supposedly more serious and neutral NBC News, which often shares stories, fact-checking (take that with a grain of salt), and guest commentators with MSNBC. Comcast executives informed MSNBC employees on Wednesday that the channel might lose its name and the iconic peacock logo after this split. Plus, those huge p

The decision hints that Comcast's bigwigs can no longer explain to their investors why they keep paying top dollar to stars like Rachel Maddow, Joe Scarborough, and Joy Reid. Even though MSNBC and other cable channels owned by Comcast still bring in cash, their earnings have dropped a lot lately. That's why the higher-ups and those with money in the company are looking to dump what they call "declining assets." When word got out about the plan on Tuesday, Comcast's stock went up after the market closed. The hosts at MSNBC have done well for themselves, making big bucks by stirring up political fervor for a shrinking crowd of older folks. After this year's election, in prime time, MSNBC only managed to pull in 65,000 viewers aged 25-54, which is less than 10% of their total audience.

"This is sort of a very clear, direct statement by Comcast," Rich Greenfield, cofounder of the research firm LightShed Partners, told CNBC, which, by the way, is also being spun off into the new entity. "They are exiting the cable network business. This is them saying we don’t want to be in this business. This is no longer a growth business. It’s going to be around for a long time, but it’s just no longer a growth business."

After MSNBC and its related channels like USA, E!, and Oprah's Oxygen are spun off into their own company, the new bosses will likely seize the chance to streamline operations by laying off employees and cutting pay. The ridiculous situation where MSNBC anchors rake in millions to talk about extreme topics like Hitler to a shrinking crowd of just tens of thousands in total, and even fewer in the key 25-54 age group, will come to an end. Sure, some of the big names might talk about leaving, but their options are limited. CNN? Forget it. They're already in the process of downsizing too. The days of easy money are over, and frankly, most people in America don't seem too upset about it.

Here's a peek at a few of the outrageous MSNBC anchor salaries that executives at the new, yet-to-be-named media company are likely to cut dramatically:

Rachel Maddow [aka Madcow]

Once MSNBC and other channels like USA, E!, and Oprah's Oxygen become their own separate company, the new leaders will probably jump at the chance to make the business more efficient by letting some people go and drastically reduce salaries. The crazy part where MSNBC hosts get paid big bucks for discussing over-the-top subjects like Hitler to only a few thousand viewers, and even less in the important 25-54 age group, will be over. Sure, some famous hosts might think about quitting, but their choices are slim. CNN? No way. They're already cutting back. The era of making easy money is done, and honestly, most Americans aren't too bothered by it.

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski [aka Mr. and Mrs. Scarborough

They'll say or do just about anything to boost their ratings and promote themselves. This big-shot couple at MSNBC, known for being bullies, sneaky, looking out for themselves, and being total hypocrites, just went to Mar-a-Lago to meet President-elect Trump. Remember, these are the same people who called him a "racist" and "fascist" like Hitler during the election. They probably got a huge pay deal like Rachel Maddow did. Scarborough, in particular, has gotten really out of touch. Scarborough claimed that the current Joe Biden was sharpest ever, which was clearly not true, especially since Biden's debate went so badly it made him quit the 2024 race. Despite once criticizing Al Sharpton for his anti-Semitic remarks, Scarborough often has him on to talk about stuff, even anti-Semitism.

Chris Hayes [aka Rachel Maddow-ish]

Chris Hayes, often referred to by his colleagues as "the male Rachel Maddow" but without her knack for reading from a teleprompter, tries to copy her smug attitude and factual inaccuracies. He's also facing a defamation lawsuit. When Hayes isn't disrespecting the military or advocating for transgender surgeries for kids, he's good at pushing racially charged comments on his show. Recently, he sat there, nodding, while Sherrilyn Ifill, ex-president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, made unsubstantiated claims that Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for Defense Secretary, was a white supremacist. This was too much even for Michael LaRosa, a long-time Democratic strategist and ex-MSNBC producer, who commented, "This stuff has to stop," pointing out that such rhetoric contributed to political losses.

Joy Reid

Joy Reid, who a lot of corporate leaders would probably want to get rid of because she's a political risk, actually got a promotion in 2020. This was even after she tried to say her old blog was "hacked" when people found old posts that were homophobic and anti-Semitic. Since then, her influence at MSNBC, a network that obviously doesn't have a problem with anti-Semitism, has just gotten bigger, but her show has turned into a platform for extreme racial issues and all sorts of wild claims. She brings on so called "experts" who say Republicans are making it impossible for Black people to vote, has accused Republicans of teaching people about "inflation," and recently criticized Latino men for voting for Trump, saying they're betraying their own race and families. None of this is based in reality and is itself racist.

Al Sharpton [aka Sharptongue]

Although Sharpton's official salary isn't high, people argue he's a race baiting idiot and is still getting too much, considering his controversial past. He was behind the 1991 Crown Heights riots, a major anti-Semitic event in America. Yet, the make-believe Reverend still collects a paycheck. The Kamala Harris campaign gave $500,000 to his group, the National Action Network, right before Sharpton had a cozy chat with Harris on his MSNBC show. This group is pretty cozy with MSNBC's head, Rashida Jones, who got a special award from them in 2021 and 2024.

Nicolle Wallace

Nicolle Wallace, who used to work for the Republicans but switched sides when she moved to New York and started getting paid to criticize them, is famous for pushing the narrative around Michael Avenatti, who was later convicted. She's adored by the #Resistance crowd, often having "experts" on her show who compare January 6 to the 9/11 attacks, saying the former was worse. After her 2019 divorce, Wallace started dating Michael Schmidt from the New York Times, who's been on her show a lot. (They're now married.) Schmidt is working on a Netflix show with Noah Oppenheim, the former NBC News president who's been accused of stopping Ronan Farrow from reporting on Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct.

NBC News

NBC News, which will stay under Comcast's wing, is thought to be in trouble by those in the know. There's a chance they'll have to let some people go and lower the huge salaries of their anchors to make up for the money they'll lose from MSNBC and CNBC. The network itself isn't doing so great either. The Today show, their biggest money-maker, has lost a ton of viewers over the years, and Nightly News with Lester Holt, who reportedly makes about $10 million annually, has seen its ratings in the key 25-54 demographic drop by half since 2018. After the split, Comcast might decide to scale down NBC News, which could mean less pay for stars like Holt and Savannah Guthrie, who makes around $18 million for hosting the Today show. Interestingly, Guthrie is married to Michael Feldman, a Democratic strategist who used to work with Al Gore.

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Biden hears the invisible person calling as he gets up and leaves MSNBC interview while still going on

When softball interviews are too difficult for our alleged president to successfully pull off without looking and sounding like a patient on the Alzheimer floor of a nursing home, you know he's in trouble. But when you realize that the viewers who watched the clusterfrack take place in real time would still vote for this decrepit, brain addled man over any Republican for a second term, you know the country is in trouble.

Nicole Wallace, the MSNBC host of "Deadline" was finishing up her powderpuff, wiffle ball interview with Biden when he slowly stood up, got out of his seat, shook her hand, and wandered off stage.

Being the consummate professional that she tries to be, Wallace went for the save. "Mr. President, thank you," she said as he shook her hand.

In a clip, Biden can be seen walking off set behind Wallace as she then looks into the camera previewing her next segment. You can watch the clip here.

“Don’t go anywhere, it’s a very exciting day around here,” Wallace told the audience. “We’ll have reaction and analysis [without any annoying fact checking] to everything we just heard from the president.”

Biden ends his MSNBC interview and just gets up and walks off set while they're still live pic.twitter.com/0NHfeugavE

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire)

Biden, an old 80, had several other clusterfrack moments in the interview, including when he thought he was brilliantly quoting the U.S. Constitution when it was the Declaration of Independence [you know, the thing] that he was quoting when discussing the Supreme Court’s ruling that race-based college admissions are illegal.

"I'm coming, Honey"

“Its value system is different, and its respect for our institutions is different,” Biden said of the Supreme Court. “And in that sense, it’s not as embracing of all, what I think the con—the Constitution says, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their creator.’ It’s the uniqueness of America – we’ve never fully lived up to it, we never walked away from it. And this court seems to say, ‘No, that’s not always the case.’ The idea that there’s no right of privacy in the Constitution, giving states power that we fought a war over in 1960 [sic]. You know, I just think it’s — this is not your father’s Republican Party.”

The quote that Biden said was from the Constitution is from the second paragraph in the Declaration of Independence.

But so what? You can't fault the Big Guy for every little mistake or you'd be viewed as a racist or something.

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Leftist "journalists" shift right on coronavirus as omicron surges

The Three Stooges

As the year 2021 comes to a sputtering close and all our hopes and dreams for a brighter future are, for now, cast aside, the left-side media has finally come to realize that coronavirus is not making an exit anytime soon and once again, they have to adjust their narrative to meet reality.

Two long years have come and gone in which the left defended mandates and lockdown measures; defended kids having to cope with home learning, while businesses either closed down or were heavily restricted and lost income.

Ironically, the left was kinder to big businesses like Costco and the other big box stores than they were to the little guy, even though they always pretend to care so much. They pushed for mandatory masks indoors and in some cases outdoors. Of course, our Pope Fauci wanted limits to family gatherings on the holidays and contradicted himself at every turn to the point that it was his inability to have a cogent message that many people ended up doing the opposite of what he preached.

But the real irony was that none of these measures eradicated covid and the media was once again exposed as the sycophantic leftists that they always show themselves to be. They had to finally admit that COVID-19 is an endemic and it cannot be totally eradicated anytime soon.

The Children's Neverland Network's (CNN) Brian Stelter who hosts the show with the oxymoron title "Reliable Sources," admitted on Dec. 19th that everyone will likely be infected by the omicron virus as it runs rampant through the country.

"The definition of cases is changing," Stelter, who is not gay, pontificated. "With a highly transmissible variant, there are many, many, many cases … With this inevitability about more and more and more cases, what's the better metric to be using? How should we be evaluating the fight against COVID?" This idiot sounds as if he gets paid by the word.

He continued in his soft, almost elegant voice, "Since we're hearing about schools closing again, we collectively took action to protect the elderly in 2020 [not counting former Gov. Cuomo, who killed the elderly in large numbers]. Now, shouldn't we be doing more to protect children by letting them live normal lives? Are we really going to let the kids suffer even more?" 

Stelter had to remove his bald head from his nether regions to finally see the light. Conservatives have been saying exactly the same thing since the Wuhan virus took a plane to JFK and introduced itself to America. Kids don't die from Covid. Kids die significantly more frequently from the flu but since pussy hat wearing weasels like Stelter don't worry about dying from the flu, the left never made a big issue out of what doesn't generally kill them.

But at least he is finally giving the right message. Too bad nobody at airports can hear what he's saying or are too busy boarding to give a rat's butt about what he has to say.

Stelter's fellow "journalist" Chris Cilliza, admitted too that even with the Fauci Ouchie, he could still get the virus. He also showed off online all the self-testing covid kits he bought, rubbing in the faces of the poor who cannot afford the kits.

Androgynous Chris Hayes also came to the same, albeit late conclusion on Wednesday, stating that for the vaccinated, the disease was more like the flu and nothing to freak out over.

"The risk went from something that we hadn’t really dealt with specifically like this before in our lifetimes – we hadn't quite had an illness this infectious and this possible to cause serious illness – to something that does look more like the flu. The flu of course can still be dangerous … but we don't orient our lives around the flu. So that's closer to the level of risk that 200 million Americans … are now dealing with," he said. The "sheer exhaustion" for Americans had altered the "politics of the pandemic," Hayes added.

Two additional far-left media lunatics, Nicole Wallace of MSNBC and Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post, also agreed with the bullet points they were told to express, which is that coronavirus is something we just need to accept. In the video below, watch how Wallace describes herself, not as a journalist, but as a "Fauci groupie." 

The legacy media is a bad joke played on Americans every day.

"You see how difficult this is for this administration. I mean, I'm a Fauci groupie," Wallace said on Monday. "I'm a thrice-vaccinated, mask adherent. I buy KN95 masks by the, you know, caseload. They're in every pocket. I wear them everywhere except when I sit down, and I am certain that this is not a variant I can outrun."

Wallace calls herself a journalist, not an opinion reporter. A "Fauci groupie" is obviously a person who believes everything Dr. Fauci says, and changes their opinion whenever he changes his. That's just stupid and one might even say dangerous under certain circumstances.

And then there is Jennifer Rubin.

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"As we recognize that covid-19 is not a deadly or even severe disease for the vast majority of responsible Americans, we can stop agonizing over ‘cases’ and focus on those who are hospitalized or at risk of dying," Rubin, the make-believe conservative tweeted.

These talking [empty] heads are getting their cues from the alleged President Joe Biden and the federal government. Remember how Biden said he was going to "shut down" the virus. He repeated those words to drive them home and then he may have forgotten he said them later on because he shut down the virus like he drove an 18-wheeler: he didn't do either and he lied about them both.

Even Pope Fauci admitted that the numbers representing children's covid hospitalizations are overblown. Just like Fauci's medical acumen.

If you're anything like me, you're already sick . . . sick and tired of hearing about COVID anymore. 

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