MSNBC: Their Hosts/ Their Guests

Alex Wagner: incredibly intelligent, incredibly well-informed, monumentally hip in cultural terms and music

Maggie Haberman of Politico: verbally-  unbelievably clear and succinct

Ari Melber: wishes he could be a conservative

Hugo Lindgren: way too intelligent not to remain politically and culturally independent. There
could be no way to pin Lindgren down to any point in any ideology which begins to lose
some authenticity...and most ideologies will eventually do just that.

Chuck Todd: comes up with theories like this: 'The Republican Party is dragging down a warm,
personable, honest guy like Gov. Mitt Romney

Rachel Maddow: strong opinions, often very disrespectful to President Barack Obama.

Lawrence O'Donnell: an impressively aware, secure, and engaged professional

Ed Schultz: one of the greatest advocates for progressive causes in this country as a fierce and tenacious journalistic force. Not surprisingly, his love for his wife actually trumps all. If every
businessman in this country was like Mr. Schultz, the U.S. would never have gone into a recession.

Eric Bates- executive editor at Rolling Stone: Mr. Bates has a clear concise way of explaining the most intricate of enmeshed situations in our politics.

I miss Savannah Guthrie. What a powerfully unassailable intellect she has. When she tackled a subject, I felt instantly informed;  and I understood she was among a select few who could speak clearly to a natural progression of ideas and events leading to a specific precipitous reality.

Chris Hayes- an unbelievably luminous intellect. He doesn't seem to ever need to waste a word.
Hayes is the high priest of Thomas Aquinas thought, discretion, and morality for a new century.
He is Cardinal Hayes of Progressive Intellectual thought.
Had he been pope (not that he considers himself to have a close relationship with religion)  when Galileo presented his theory of the planets relative to our sun, man may have walked on the moon within a few decades of having invented the steam engine.

Ed Schultz could be president. He is a fair-minded businessman who understands the country and
the people who make it hum. He's a consummate professional journalist, and he fights at 100% for
the principles he espouses. He shrinks from nothing. He is the sort of husband who puts his wife
first. He seems to be the dad who treats his adult children as sharing equals. Mr. Schultz is a man for
all seasons then.

No more Keith Olberman- sigh...bummer!

Joy Ann Reid...what an intellect, what a verbally, critically thinking gifted. My, my.

Reverend Al Sharpton: He will always go over the news and analysis  I need, and he can make anyone
understand his interview train of thought. I love it when he is a bit quiet when sitting near a person given
to cleft thought.

Martin Bashir: hilarious. He calls it the way he sees it. He plays rap music. He plays reggae. He plays rock.
His interview style sets up interviewees to laugh at his sharp verbal dressing downs whether they'd like to or
not. I love it.

Perry Bacon: one of the most precise talkers in news today...does he ever waste a word?!

The Cycle: Turae, Krystal Ball, Steve Kornacki, and S.E. Cupp have great interviews with guests who describe the newest most cutting edge concepts. But all aside from S.E. are so cautious about their personal lives they fail to show pride in them. Krystal is better as time goes by. They are all so young. They will evolve.

Tameron Hall is another news person who tells me the things I really want to know. I want to hear the interviews she does with people who have interesting opinons, sometimes opinions she openly challenges
at times, but always with a clear concise point of view.

Craig Melvin, Chris Jansing, Alex Witt, are all very professional in the voluminous amount of material they report.

Thomas Roberts has thoughtful, measured ways of treating thoughtful topics. Also, he's adorable. Just adorable. So some gay men are handsome, intelligent, educated, and adorable. Oh- we knew that. We
also have Steve Kornacki...