MSNBC needs to FEEL it. That means no Rachel, ED, or Lawrence viewing

[themaguffin]

They need to see the backlash across the board.

Sorry ANY viewing of ANY program supports MSNBC.

They have Scarborough and Pat fucking Buchanan and they pull this shit.

Not acceptable.

Nothing from MSNBC will be sitting on my DVR until they correct this.

[BeFree]

1. Strike!!

Solidarity. Set up a picket line and make the scabs cross it.

[Nite Owl]

2. Basically what I said in my email

as long as Keith is suspended our viewership is suspended. It isn't MSNBC we follow it's people like Keith.

[otohara]

25. Especially No Recording

Hello Anderson Cooper....Looking forward to watching him, I like him, but always watched MSNBC

[Parker CA]

3. Kick and Rec. They don't get the point if people tune in for the other shows.

[ClassWarrior]

32. How do they know if you're tuning in for the other shows? Are they watching at your windows?

:shrug:

If you don't have a Nielson box, they have no idea what you do.

NGU.

[phleshdef]

4. We need to get Rachel, Ed, Lawrence and even Matthews to feel it.

[denimgirly]

5. Relax..You make it sound as if Keith is gone forever...He is the highest Rated Show on MSNBC.

Consider this jsut a vacation. He'll be back in a week tops.

[themaguffin]

7. Their action can't go unpunished. The fact that he is

their highest rated program (by far) is relevant to the bullshit nature of their action, but watching whatever they air in his place or ANY programming benefits them.

Fuck them. I am not one of the reactionary post kind of guys, but I'm truly pissed and not rewarding MSNBC's ratings.

[leftynyc]

9. So was Phil Donohue

when the canned him. I'm sensing a pattern.

[golddigger]

6. Said the same thing in my email to them.

[AtomicKitten]

8. This thing is a minor dust-up IMO.

It's not so much that Keith donated to candidates, it's that he didn't ask. That makes this more of an infraction than a full-on breech of contract, and a suspension will almost certainly satisfy all parties.

I'll be petitioning MSNBC on Keith's behalf, but I'll be supporting Rachel by continuing to watch her show.

[Greybnk48]

10. I told them that in my email.

P.s. My dad called women's breasts maguffins, so I had a bit of a chuckle at your name.:hi:

[themaguffin]

11. that's funny. never heard that before. i like it being a Hitchcock fan but like your dad's defintion

[Love Bug]

12. A more practical solution would be to boycott whatever replaces him

Why should Ed and Rachel suffer? The ratings for Keith's hour should nose-dive.

Another thing to do would be to contact Keith's sponsors to ask them to put on some pressure. After all, they paid good money for their ads and now they are not going to get the eyeballs they paid for.

[CreekDog]

13. + 1 million

i assume they want to sell ads in Keith's time slot. we can make that more difficult.

hurting Rachel, Ed and Larry is cutting our nose off to spite our face.

[Blue_In_AK]

17. That's the way I see it, too.

[pa28]

23. Your solution is better.

Boycotting Ed and Rachel creates an excuse to purge left leaning opinion from MSNBC. They'll claim liberal talk has no more ratings pull.

[WingDinger]

14. Yeah, lets destroy all of leftie press. Play the same Obama failed me crap.

Let the righties, that lobby to kill big bird and bert, achieve their goals by OUR hands.

[themaguffin]

18. you don't seem to understand

If they take a hit after doing this, they will have no choice but to fix what they did.

[stray cat]

15. I think we should switch to fox or cnn

[JoePhilly]

16. I've indefinitely suspended MSNBC from every TV in my house.

[Patsy Stone]

26. I actually set the Parental Block

So I don't forget and go there by mistake.

[ClassWarrior]

30. Really? Are you a Nielson family, Pats?

NGU.

[Patsy Stone]

33. Nope

I was just feeling sassy. :evilgrin:

:hi:, CW

NGU

[ClassWarrior]

34. You??! Sassy??!

Nawwwwwwww...



:hi:

NGU.

[Patsy Stone]

35. Animated, yet!

LOL

[southernyankeebelle]

19. I with ya. Everyone strike all the MSNBC NEWS SHOWS.

[crazylikafox]

20. forget MSNBC. This is COMCAST. They're the new overlords.

BOYCOTT COMCAST....

I know everyone is not as fortunate, but I have a choice where I live. I can use a dish, go Comcast or Verizon FIOS. I currently have FIOS, but was thinking of going back to Comcast to save some money. Not now. Not ever.

[Phx_Dem]

21. Absolutely. I'm in.

[LatteLibertine]

22. As someone else mentioned

MSNBC have been acquired. Bill-O has been muttering about, "Things changing over there soon."

Lately, that has had me worried for KO, Rachel and Lawrence.

I wish KO all the best.

[enough already 2]

24. I'm done with them

Sorry Rachel, but you're in bed with a bunch of jackals. Get out before they kick you out.

[krawhitham]

27. Unless you have a Nielsen Box it does not matter what you watch

From wiki

There are only 25,000 total American households that participate in the Nielsen daily metered system.<11> The number of U.S. television households as of 2009 is 114,500,000.<12> As a result, the total number of Nielsen homes only amounts to 0.02183% of the total American television households, meaning that 99.97817% of American households have no input at all into what is actually being watched.

[ClassWarrior]

28. Does no good if you don't have a Nielson box. What you SHOULD do is watch and compile a list...

...of sponsors. Then email the sponsors and cc MSNBC, letting them know that you refuse to patronize the sponsors till Keith returns. Tell 'em you're watching their commercials so you can send their names to your friends and encourage them to boycott too.

That will do something. Not watching will do nothing but deprive you if yours isn't a Nielson family.

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

29. Unrec'd, by the way, for foolish, worthless advice.

NGU.

[Doctor_J]

31. I don't see how this will do anything

at all. In the first place, MSRNC viewers are pretty addicted, and won't stop tuning in. Second, how will anyone know? Third, they are not kicking him off because of ratings, but because he's an outspoken Dem whom the GE and Comcast stockholders and their paid-for teabagger Congress don't want to hear from any more.

[DemocraticPilgrim]

36. That would be really unproductive, our only lifeline & we cut it off. A bit unwise. KO would not...

endorse this idea.