What do we know about Rita Cosby (new MSNBC host)

[Eric J in MN]

I know she used to be on Fox News, but did she push the right-wing talking points?

[SouthernDem2004]

1. She is a talking head. She will read what is put in front of her. /nt

[Fridays Child]

2. She is not uniformly well liked among the bushbots on the dark side.

Maybe that's a point in her favor. I probably won't watch too much of her new show, though. I don't know what it is but something about her just annoys the hell out of me.

[elare]

7. It's her voice

that annoys me

[AuntiBush]

3. Have You Tried a Google Search?

[dogman]

4. She's appeared opposite Rachel Maddow on Tucker's new show

a couple of times. Boring, not bright, typical RW shill.

[Catholic Sensation]

5. Ron Burgandy in a dress

whatever the teleprompter says in front of her, she says...

"I'm Rita Cosby?"

[AlCzervik]

6. Isn't she more of a it bleeds it leads type of show?

I imagine covering the missing girl in Aruba would be something should stay with.

[UTUSN]

8. Ah, a Rita Thread: Let Me at It!

A couple of years ago, when somebody ranted against her, a DUer said, "Leave Rita alone. I knew her when she was a local reporter and she is SWEET."

With that in mind, I monitored her on Faux for a year or two and here's my take: She is a hustler (in the hard-working sense). She gets out there and beats the bushes (if not the Shrubs). Her territory is the same as Whorealdo's, but with a touch more delicacy. She beats out others on the same stories because she gets on the inside: If she can't "get" the main interviewee (CONDIT or PETERSON), she will get a family member, a neighbor, or the neighbor's dog.

Her thing is to "get" Bad Boys. She pen pal-ed with McVEIGH and BERKOWITZ. She telephone-interviewed MILOSEVIC. She literally pounded the landfill of that Utah wife and the shore of the PETERSON wash-up. Her method? She talks to the culprits on their "good" side. Unlike Whorealdo who screams at Charles MANSON, she approaches her targets as flawed humans who have at least a tiny particle of goodness. If anybody saw Whorealdo "interview" MANSON, you saw him call him a stream of names. Yes, the names are TRUE, but it's not a technique that will yield insight into how the target's mind works.

When Whorealdo defecated, uh, defected, to Faux, he made the obligatory tour of all the Faux circuses, swearing allegiance to his new Wingnut gods. O'LOOFAH said to him, "What to you bring to Faux that we don't already have?" It was true. His show followed Rita's and both of them were usually on the same stories, but Rita was scooping all the "gets".

After his first couple of years, when he was secure enough, he started showing pique. Once both he and COSBY were promo-ing their own circuses on an earlier Faux circus. It was clear that COSBY had the better "gets" on the same story and Whorealdo was FURIOUS. He wouldn't even look at her. She finally reached over and put her hand on his knee, which probably made him MORE furious.

I don't really have a firm take on her Wingnuttiness. Her stuff tended to be more of the tabloid human interest variety more than ideology, but I might be wrong on this part.

[seaglass]

9. Just wanted to say - good work. n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. Lol.

You've channeled Rita Cosby. Who'da thunk it?

:thumbsup:

[DemInDistress]

10. To me she is just

another "Partisan hack" like the other blond witch who pairs with ronald reagan,monica crawley....they rile me up often with their constant defense of the chimpster.The Bush Crime Family is spreading their propagandist to other channels,tucker carlson,found a home at msnbc.Keith Oberman is the only night show i'' watch...

[ObaMania]

12. I find her pushy and aggressive...

.. not being a very attractive talking head, she probably has gone the route of Candy Crowley doing what she has to to get noticed.

I think if she was a wingnut, it was for the FAUX gig. I've seen her at times doing the mandatory FAUX reframing of an argument and cutting people off, but again, I think it was to keep her job.

I'd be interested to see what and how she does on MSRNC.

One question though.. why'd she leave FAUX? Shitcanned?

[oasis]

13. I remember Rita taking verbal abuse from Mike Tyson in an interview

but she hung in there and toughed it out.

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[UTUSN]

15. Farewell Kick n/t