Today we close our show with an announcement from @chucktodd:
"While today is not my final show, this will be my final summer here at Meet the Press. … I am really proud of what this team and I have built over the last decade." pic.twitter.com/sgeUcNR3C5
The good news is that Chuck Todd is leaving NBC’s Meet the Press after nine painful years. The bad news is that he will still be hosting the show for the rest of the summer.
In September, Kristen Welker, NBC News’ co-chief White House correspondent, will take over the show. And we wish her the best of luck.
Hopefully, she will be better than Todd. But, then again, he set the bar low.
2023 has been a good year for TV News. First, Fox News Channel fired Tucker Carlson. Then, that same day, CNN parted ways with Don Lemon. And today, Todd joins them on the unemployment line.
And that makes me ponder, who is next? So many awful candidates need to be shown the door.
Yesterday, I was scrolling through Twitter, and I saw Marsha Warfield posted about something called Gooch Grease. I am pretty worldly, but I never heard the phrase before.
So what is Gooch Grease? It is a columniation of lint (I am assuming from whatever amount of toilet paper he actually used), sweat, and dried up pieces of feces between a man’s butt and balls. It is so bad for some men that they are using women’s maxi pads to keep it under control.
How do I know this? Because Fox 26’sIsiah Carey did a nearly seven-minute segment on it for his show The Isiah Factor Uncensored.
The producers made him bring on a panel of two men and two women to discuss the topic. And they shockingly said yes, and talked about it.
I worked in hard news for six years, and I never had to do a story like that. But boy, do I wish I did! If I could vote for them to get the regional Emmys for this segment, I would. Carey deserves all the awards for doing this!
And now that he made it a thing, please let The View do this. I would love to hear Whoopi Goldberg’s take on it. And then I want to see Anderson Cooper giggle his way through the report. His show will forever be tainted. Pun totally intended!
When it comes to Marsha Warfield, I don’t know what word to put before you for sharing this. Part of me wants to thank her for the enlightenment. But the other part wants to curse her because this is filed under things I really didn’t need to know.
Chelsea Ambriz was doing the weather live on WTVJ in Miami when she got scared that she was going to get attacked by a bird. And that is really funny.
Why would I say such an awful thing? Because she was in the studio in Miramar, and the scary pigeon was on Miami Beach, miles away from her location.
But then again, if you are concentrating on the calm beach and all of a sudden you see a huge bird careening towards you, you go to scream words that are going to get you in trouble with the FTC.
However, she didn’t say any curse words. How? I don’t know. Because everyone I worked with in Miami would’ve. But that was a long time ago!
Today is a great day for journalism and an awful day for Tucker Carlon and Don Lemon. That is because both of them have “parted ways” from their news networks today. Poor whiny babies.
Carlson was first: “FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.
“Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.”
Although, we don’t know why he “parted ways” so drastically after 14 years. It is assumed that this is because of Fox News’s settlement last week with Dominion Voting Systems over the network suggesting that Dominion rigged the machines for Joe Biden to win. Carlson spread the lie, even though texts seemed to show that he didn’t believe what he was saying on the air.
Just when we started to come down from Cloud 9, Lemon took to social media to announce his firing. “I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN. I am stunned. After 17 years at CNN I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network. It is clear that there are some larger issues at play,” he wrote. “With that said, I want to thank my colleagues and the many teams I have worked with for an incredible run. They are the most talented journalists in the business, and I wish them all the best.”
2023 has not been a good year for him. He has had many claims made about being sexist, agist, and abusive to his fellow coworkers. It sounds like their investigation is over, and that is why his career at the network is done.
I would tell the men not to let the door hit them on the way out. However, neither one will be allowed back in the building to say goodbye.
So to quote a stewardess, “Buh bye! Buh bye! Buh bye!”
Hoda Kotb and Al Roker definitely earned their payday today from Today.
That is because the weatherman asked the television audience if they wanted to see him eat a Payday bar, and they said “absolutely.” Since he wasn’t going to do it by himself, he asked his co-anchor to do it with him. So, they each put their mouth on one end of the candy bar and bit down.
And it reminded us of that sweet moment from Lady and the Tramp when they share a string of spaghetti.
You have to love live television because you never know what is going to happen.
