David Shuster and Rachel Maddow are two journalists at MSNBC that are not scare to break through the talking points of the Right without the fear of the subsequent persistent intellectually dishonest attack they know will follow. That MSNBC would suspend him for doing a side job with CNN may be the correct move from a corporate point of view but a loss of Shuster and probably even Maddow to another network would be devastating to MSNBC. The reality is that their brand of brashness in challenging talking points from a factual point while at the same time entertaining is what has raised MSNBC from the dead.
Huffington Post Danny Shea First Posted: 04- 6-10 09:21 AM
MSNBC has suspended David Shuster — again.
But unlike his 2008 suspension over comments that the Hillary Clinton campaign was "pimping out" Chelsea Clinton, which lasted two weeks, this suspension is an indefinite one.
"David has been suspended indefinitely," an MSNBC spokesperson said Tuesday morning.
It was revealed last week that Shuster had filmed a pilot for CNN; at the time, the network had said he would be "punished appropriately." After getting "ripped a new one" by boss Phil Griffin by phone over the weekend, Shuster met with Griffin in the office Monday.
Shuster also came under fire from the network after a tweet he sent to conservative activist James O’Keefe.
"@JamesOKeefeIII a) you are not a journalist b) the truth is you intended to tap her phones c) it’s a felony d) you will go to prison," he wrote.
The network deemed that tweet "inappropriate" and muzzled him on Twitter soon thereafter.
