From the guest list, the show looked like it was created to have a space where left commentators of various sorts would come on and hash out ideological differences as the US left is in the wilderness post-Bernie. It would be interesting, I thought, to have a show where an ultra like Sean KB from The Antifada could explain Marxist theory on a panel with social democrats and have some kind of discussion.
It turns out that its basically just a radlib version of The Five from Fox News, where they just take turns kicking the tires on the days news.
Does anyone actually want a show like this? It seems like its trying to fill a market that doesn't exist - or maybe existed a few years ago and doesn't today. When I look around, I don't think to myself, "You know who has some understanding of the political struggle we face in this moment? This DSA-backed state legislator from NYC."
Listening to it was deeply unsettling. I don't recommend it.
Yeah, the panels seemed to undermine the whole pipeliney idea. Brie and Virgil with a guest or two might actually be interesting, but apparently they have shit taste in panelists.
Honestly, if the show is going to be interesting, it would require BJG to torpedo her PMC ambitions and I don't think she's up for that.
BJG already torpedod any sort of meaningful PMC ambition when she tweeted Bernie shouldn't have endorsed Biden when he first dropped out.
She easily could've chosen to go down a path that resulted in her own MSNBC show and she did the opposite.
Nah. She can still get hired on campaigns. That's not that big a deal.
I'm just trying to draw a distinction between her and Symone Sanders really.
I saw that edit (professional career -> PMC ambitions), and I think I'm a bit more optimistic than you wrt. how useful she wants to be. It shakes out to the same thing though; the show's doomed already
Yea. Edit was to clarify my point.
She says its like "unfiltered Hear the Bern," which I guess just ends up as Hear the Bern with some cursing. She's basically doing the schtick where politicians think using profanity makes them more relatable lol
I'm still more annoyed she went back to NJR than this show being libby. oh well