Programming notes

*** Thursday’s “Daily Rundown” line-up: DCCC Chairman Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) with Wisconsin takeaways, Arizona expectations and more… U.S. Senate candidate Dan Liljenquist on his upcoming primary against Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)… NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell on the Capitol Hill kerfuffle over recess plans… Latest on Obama vs. Romney with The Washington Post’s Nia-Malika Henderson, former Obama White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki and Republican consultant Phil Musser.

*** Thursday’s “Jansing & Co.” line-up: MSNBC’s Chris Jansing interviews Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Washington Post’s EJ Dionne, USA Today’s Susan Page, Politico’s Roger Simon, former PA Gov. Ed Rendell, and the Las Vegas Sun’s Jon Ralston.

*** Thursday’s “MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts” line-up: MSNBC’S Thomas Roberts talks with DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Karen Finney, Chip Saltsman, the Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut, and Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY).

*** Thursday’s “NOW with Alex Wagner” line-up: Alex Wagner’s guests include the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein, the Associated Press’ Kasie Hunt, the New York Times’ Jodi Kantor, the Nation’s Ari Melber, TIME’s Massimo Calabresi, and RealClearPolitics Washington Editor Carl Cannon.

*** Thursday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell interviews the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), former HHS Sec. Donna Shalala, Author Dan Klaidman and former Ambassador Martin Indyk.

*** Thursday’s “News Nation with Tamron Hall” line-up: MSNBC’s Tamron Hall interviews Newsweek/Daily Beast columnist Zachary Karabell on Bernanke testifying, Time magazine’s Rana Faroohar, and Michael Smerconish.

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MSNBC daily scorecard of its "fair and balanced coverage": 32 to 2...

32 = liberal media talking heads or Dem partisans (same thing)

2= GOP partisans

Hey, at least there are two.... better than Ed Shultz's 237 to 1 balanced coverage of the Wisconsin recall...

    Reply#1 - Thu Jun 7, 2012 10:59 AM EDT

    One of the best lines I have heard lately was from a retired shop foreman at the old Republic Steel Plant in Cleveland, Ohio when a young black kid was being laid off.

    The black kid said to the shop foreman,

    "You're firing me because I'm black!"

    The foreman thought a moment and said,
    "No, we hired you because you were black. We're
    firing you because you are useless."

    Sounds like a possible slogan for the 2012 election!

    We Elected You Because You're Black, We're Voting You Out Because You're Useless.

    • 2 votes
    Reply#2 - Thu Jun 7, 2012 11:43 AM EDT

    You may consider this joke clever, but I consider it bigoted - and the only person who would be fired was the foreman for making a racist remark like that.

    • 1 vote
    #2.1 - Thu Jun 7, 2012 12:01 PM EDT
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    ursula - you have white liberal guilt, I do not! Obama offering "hope and change" and being black has propelled him beyond his merits.

    • 1 vote
    Reply#3 - Thu Jun 7, 2012 12:04 PM EDT

    Subject: Only in America ---Top Ten

    10) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich
    at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.

    9) Only in America could people claim that the government still
    discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President,
    a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is
    black. 12% of the population is black.

    8) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible
    for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury
    Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means
    Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher
    taxes.

    7) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of
    Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims
    might be harmed by the backlash.

    6) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become
    American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens
    of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting
    anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American
    citizens.

    5) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the
    budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as
    "extremists."

    4) Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to
    cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

    3) Only in America could people demand the government investigate
    whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas
    went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company
    (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes
    (Nike).

    2) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from
    the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion
    dollars more than it has per year for total spending of $7 million PER
    MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.

    1) Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income
    taxes be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't
    pay any income taxes at all.

    • 3 votes
    Reply#4 - Thu Jun 7, 2012 12:06 PM EDT
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