*MSNBC is making some changes in it’s daytime lineup.
Actually, it’s taking advantage of the fact that host Dylan Rattigan is leaving and has decided to try something new. It’s replacing Rattigan with “The Cycle.” Journalist and outspoken pop culture commentator Touré will be one of the hosts.
Besides Touré , the program will feature conservative commentator S.E. Cupp, author and pundit Touré, Salon writer Steve Kornacki and former Congressional candidate Krystal Ball. All were previously contributors to the network. The show launches on Monday at 3 PM, according to the Huffington Post.
The outlines of the show were previously reported by Politico and TVNewser.
The four hosts and Steve Friedman, executive producer of “The Cycle,” spoke to The Huffington Post about the show on Thursday afternoon.
Friedman said that plans for the new show began two or three months ago, when Ratigan told MSNBC executives he was thinking of leaving.
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“The Cycle” will be an ensemble show; all four hosts will appear every day, with each one taking turns facilitating the discussion. If that sounds like a certain 5 PM Fox News show, the team behind “The Cycle” is well aware of it. In an interview on Thursday, Cupp, Kornacki, Touré and Ball all jokingly pretended not to know what “The Five” is, and Friedman flatly rejected the notion that his new show was derivative.
“When ‘The Five’ started, did you go and ask them if they were doing ‘The View’?” he asked. “When ‘The View’ started, did you ask them if they were doing the ‘Today’ show?”
“The concept of an ensemble show is extraordinarily old,” Touré added.
Read/learn more at Huffington Post.
S.E. Cupp reminded me of a teenager when she jumped all over Toure’ at his comment that many remarks re the President were racist. She doesn’t know because she comes from a non-racist part of the country. As a really old white woman born & raised in Texas, who had sense enough to leave at 21, I know. After living in Manhattan and being soo proud of L.B.J. passing the Civil Rights Act, I hoped that racism was over. It seemed so in New York. Then the southern states turned Republican. That’s when it happened, Cupp. Before that, all southern states were Democrats from the Civil War. What does that tell you? I did return to Texas years later & found to my horror that the “n” word was alive & well, spoken by the white man. As much as I do have a deep feeling of affection for my home state, I left again. Cupp, what did Sununnu mean when he called Obama “lazy”? What do you think “shucking & jiving” mean in context with President Obama? General Colin Powell & I remember very well when such words were at their height of popularity. Probably still are in certain parts of the country. I bet that Toure” knows. So, S.E. Cupp, just because YOU don’t know something doesn’t mean it isn’t so. In this case, unfortunately.