{"id":89595,"date":"2022-01-30T23:20:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T07:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=89595"},"modified":"2022-01-30T23:20:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T07:20:49","slug":"the-ms-in-msnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/01\/30\/the-ms-in-msnbc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ms. in MSNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>MSNBC <\/em>was in a pickle.&nbsp; The network had to find someone to take over for <strong>Brian Williams<\/strong>, who departed in December.&nbsp; One of the more surprising candidates was defrocked <em>CNN <\/em>personality, <strong>Chris Cuomo <\/strong>\u2013 who I would enjoy seeing defrocked.&nbsp; <em>MSNBC <\/em>even met with Cuomo to discuss the possibilities.&nbsp; However, there was a big hurdle to clear \u2013 and that hurdle is named <strong>Rachel Maddow<\/strong>.&nbsp; I\u2019m told that Maddow \u2013 who puts the \u201cMs.\u201d in <em>MSNBC <\/em>\u2013 was less than eager to be associated with Cuomo on any level, and made her displeasure known.&nbsp; If they were seriously considering Cuomo, that crushed his chances.&nbsp; Williams\u2019 slot will be filled by <strong>Stephanie Ruhle<\/strong>.&nbsp; And so it goes\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC was in a pickle.&nbsp; The network had to find someone to take over for Brian Williams, who departed in December.&nbsp; One of the more surprising candidates was defrocked CNN personality, Chris Cuomo \u2013 who I would enjoy seeing defrocked.&nbsp; MSNBC even met with Cuomo to discuss the possibilities.&nbsp; However, there was a big hurdle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89596,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89595\/revisions\/89596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}