Even MSNBC’s flagship, “The Rachel Maddow Show,” with a mere 145,000
viewers between 25 and 54, just experienced its worst quarter ever, and
analysts say it is now essentially part of the leftist fringe. Other
prime-time MSNBC shows are suffering a similar fate.
The failure has become impossible to conceal, and even President Obama,
whose agenda have been promoted non-stop on the channel, has been
lovingly ridiculing his most faithful cheerleaders.
“MSNBC
is here. They’re a little overwhelmed,” Obama joked at last year’s
White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. “They’ve never seen an
audience this big before.”
The year before that, Obama comically hit on what numerous sources who
spoke to WND have identified as one of MSNBC’s biggest problems.
“Some
of my former advisers have switched over to the dark side,” the
president joked in 2013. “For example, David Axelrod now works for
MSNBC, which is a nice change of pace since MSNBC used to work for
David Axelrod.”
MSNBC President Phil Griffin [
described
as a “hardcore leftist”],
who in 2011 described the channel as “the place to go for
progressives,” realizes there is a problem. [...] There is even talk of
drastically scaling back MSNBC’s radical left-wing bias.
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