Who is this Sam Seder on MSNBC?

[RandySF]

Desperately propping Bernie up in the hope that he can somehow win the nomination.

[Todd79]

1. He's attached to TYT somehow

He can bite me and go take another paddling from Cenk

[Cha]

4. +1!!

[efhmc]

5. First on Air America but he is contentious.

[drray23]

2. I was thinking the same thing.

Somehow, whenever Biden makes headway, pundits pop up to try to make it into a race again. The current meme is that Sanders will reverse the trend in the debate and magically starts having landslides.

[still_one]

10. +++

[BidenBacker]

38. Pretty sure about the only way that Biden could blow this

during the debate would be if he suddenly jumped up, ripped off his pants, and started running around singing "Material Girl" while wearing a pink tutu.

And maybe not even then.

[yardwork]

42. A lot of us would like him even more if he did that!

For instance, I'm delighted that he told that gun humper he was full of shit.

[LiberalFighter]

46. Would he do a good rendition of Material Girl?

[Cha]

3. Like in Florida, Seder?

[rownesheck]

6. He was

on Air America way back when.

[Green Line]

7. He made me change the channel

[relayerbob]

17. LOL me too

[tishaLA]

8. Used to be an Air America host

and since then has done an internet radio show and now, I guess, a podcast. He's as much of a supporter of the junior senator from VT as Chris Hayes, which means every word that comes out of his mouth is essentially an in-kind contribution

[Green Line]

9. Chris Hayes looks really sad tonight

[tishaLA]

14. I joked earlier that he was in the green room

in the fetal position with a sippy cup filled with whatever the cocktail of choice is among aging Brooklyn hipsters--it probably has small batch artisan bitters as an ingredient--frenetically DMing Mehdi Hassan and Jeremy Scahill on twitter.

[Turin_C3PO]

32. Hayes isn't too bad, IMO.

Yes, it’s obvious he’s a Bernie fan but I think he’s a true progressive who will actively support Biden. His show is consistently anti-Trump. He doesn’t remind me of a Bernie Bro at all.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

53. He deserves respect... but because he speaks positively about Bernie, I don't expect he'll get any!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

[msongs]

11. letting us know next debate bernie will talk really really loud and give his stump speech nt

[HarlanPepper]

12. That panel is living in a fucking dream world

Talking about upcoming debates. WTF?

[whathehell]

16. Yeah, eight days ago, they had pretty much written Biden off, too

but keep going..

[democrattotheend]

47. There's a debate scheduled March 15

As far as I have heard it hasn't been canceled.

[HarlanPepper]

48. It should be.

Serves literally no purpose at all.

[StarfishSaver]

13. They need a horserace

March is way too early for them to get to one candidate. What are they going to talk about until the summer?

[Just_Vote_Dem]

33. They could talk about things like affordable housing,

issues affecting the working poor, the elderly...

nah, screw all that...LOOK! SHINY OBJECT OVER THERE!!!!

[StarfishSaver]

40. Nah - that would require some real work

They don't have time to study or research issues. They just want to go on the teevee and talk about what they think.

[dansolo]

35. Maybe they can focus on the shitshow that is the Trump Administration

[yardwork]

43. That is the biggest danger to our democracy.

The media has to have entertainment. It's destroying our democracy. People are kept ignorant, uninformed, and trained to react to the next shiny object.

[wiley]

52. Like Lawrence O'Donell tweeted. They will have nothing to do.

Ratings will go way, way down. That's why they do this horse race thing every time.

[William769]

15. That explains it!

[McKim]

18. It's Called Balanced Coverage

It’s called balanced coverage. Some people actually voted for Sanders so I guess they wanted him covered fairly a little bit, a refreshing change!

[RandySF]

20. And somewhere out there

some college students gets the notion that Bernie still has a chance and donate more money that he/she can ill-afford to part with.

[dalton99a]

21. That's the business model

[StarfishSaver]

41. "Balanced" coverage is overrated

That's what helped give us Trump.

Coverage needs to be fair and objective not balanced. The latter just leads to misleading false equivalence.

[yardwork]

44. "Covered fairly" is giving a platform to uninformed talking heads?

[OnDoutside]

31. Seder went all in on Sanders this cycle.

[grantcart]

22. He used to be somebody

[zak247]

23. Bernie bro

He's one of the YouTube fanatic Bernie bros who are smearing Biden all over the place.

The Young Turks, Kristal Ball, and The hill are bad as Trump in their Biden smears

[radius777]

64. Exactly. They all buy into the 'Biden dementia'

conspiracy theory, ie that voters only support Biden due to electabilty, and that Bernie will 'expose' Biden as the 'demented fool' he is in a one on one debate, thus destroying his electability.

Biden may've lost a few steps, but he's always been good in any one on one debate he's had.. destroyed Palin and Ryan using the classic Joe charm/wit.

[emmaverybo]

24. Bashing Biden to do it. Chris Hayes joining in. Honestly thought he was a Bernie surrogate.

Oh, he is. No wonder.

[Buzz cook]

25. Seder is an intelligent and thoughtful commentator.

Who has gone all in for Sanders.

He's been on MSNBC many times. Pretty sure everyone now belittling him, would agree with most of his non-Biden segments.

[Jane Austin]

28. I really agree with this.

I disagree with Sam on Bernie, but otherwise I generally like his take on things.

[LizBeth]

29. wrong person

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[RandiFan1290]

30. He's not on TYT

Welcome back to DU and please stop spreading misinformation

[LizBeth]

50. You are right. I was thinking about the little wessel with the glasses.

[Todd79]

67. His radio show is a part of the TYT network

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Turks

[ms liberty]

39. This. n/t

[Sunsky]

26. He's in good company with Chris Hayes

I've learned from 2016, not to watch Hayes program during primary season. I feel asleep and woke up to his segment. I didn't watch for more than 5 minutes.

[wyldwolf]

34. I know him from Air America Radio, disastrous experiment in liberal radio

[RandiFan1290]

36. He's no Joe Scarborough!

Right, guys?

[wyldwolf]

37. No, he isn't.

He's more like Mike Malloy, Thom Hartman, etc. Low ratings losers who spent as much time on the radio attacking Democrats as they did Republicans. Maybe more so.

[violasays]

54. Can't agree on MM

Yes, he and his wife and daughter are for Bernie, but Mike risked his podcast tanking in 2016 when he urged his listeners to vote for Hillary. He and Kathy still argue about her protest vote for Bernie in the general. Also, he was one of the first podcasters to advance the idea that there was Russian interference. Even some of the more liberal voices claimed that Hillary lost "fair and square" after the 2016 race.

I liked Sam. I think we can agree to disagree with liberal voices, though.

[RhodeIslandOne]

56. Rachael Maddow and Al Franken were Air America hosts

But please proceed.

[wyldwolf]

58. yes they were

They were supposed to be our answer to Rush Limbaugh. They became the voice of the fringe.

Franken, at one point, was working virtually for free as the network was having massive financial difficulties. He finally left to run for Senate.

Not only was I once I avid listener, I know the founders of the network.

Remember when Mike Malloy was fired for “financial reasons?” Usually in radio, that means the ratings don’t justify the salary. In Air America’s case, however, it is obvious the network was losing money so you’d expect them to cut loose their weakest link.

What we got after a promise to go after Republicans was a host of inexperienced left wingers who often joined Limbaugh, Hannity, and their ilk in attacking the Democratic party.

The one thing that REALLY turned me off to the now-cancelled Unfiltered with Rachel Maddow, as well as several other Air American Radio Shows (like the Mike Malloy show) is how quick they were to criticize Democrats. Now, I don’t feel any Democrat is above criticism - but doing so with literally millions listening won’t do anything to build support for the party and get rid of the GOP. Do you ever hear Limbaugh, Hannity, or Savage trashing the Republican party? Plus, it provided fodder for the rightwingers. Maddow really crossed the line on her last day on Unfiltered when she launched into an anti-Bill Clinton diatribe. With millions listening, she progsplained why he was really a bad president.

Way to go, Rachel! That’s how you convince the fence sitters to vote for Democrats! Unfiltered was cancelled because of low ratings. Now you know why the ratings were low.

But Maddow wasn’t alone in her disdain for anything that isn’t far left simon-pure. Mike Malloy, the Left’s answer to rightwing wacko Mike Savage, believes he is a “traditional Democrat” (no, seriously, he believes that) but, as Wikipedia explains, he has basically withdrawn from the Democratic party and is now making overtures to the Green Party - those swell guys who cost Al Gore the election in 2000.

College-level radio talent. A failed experiment.

And the former owners would tell you the same thing.

I proceeded.

Your welcome.

[RhodeIslandOne]

59. Wow

It's sad that you thought criticizing Bush and the war was "the fringe". But let's be honest, at the time it was. America didn't want to hear any criticism of the Pres because we were at war.

That's why it went under. Bush was untouchable after 9/11. And continued to be so until he finally shit his pants in glorious fashion with Katrina. It's sad you can't admit dumbass America won that battle.

Wow.

But you're right. A fat drug addicted pedo farting into the mike jackoff like Rush is "big league talent". Especially when not regulated to low power AM radio.

Enjoy your revisionist history. We're close to 2004 now.

[wyldwolf]

60. Wow

It's said you think during a time when we were trying to get Bush out of office - which was the stated goal of the network - we were instead treated to daily whinefests on how evil Democrats were. They were 'this' close to advocating third -party runs.

[RhodeIslandOne]

55. What exactly was disasterous about it?

[wyldwolf]

61. Do you not know the history of the network?

Infighting, lawsuits, bankruptcy, low ratings, a charity-loan scandal, contract disputes with affiliates and employees, and a barely six year shelf life.

[RhodeIslandOne]

62. Also low powered radio stations.

While trash like Glenn BecKKK and Mike Gallagher (there's some big league talent remember that idiot???) blew Bush daily on high powered stations run by the same entities.

[wyldwolf]

63. true, but...

... the right wing shows/networks didn't start on high powered stations. They, too, started on low powered AM stations and build an audience by sticking to their purpose: Discrediting and defeating Democrats. To that end, Air America helped them. They were an equal party basher.

It also didn't help that it was yanked off the air in Los Angeles and Chicago due to financial disputes only two weeks after launch.

When the network ended in 2010, NPR's David Folkenflik gave a postmortem and said "MSNBC achieved what Air America didn't. They become a liberal primetime counterpart to the conservatism of Fox News on cable television."

[Jersey Devil]

45. I remember him teamed up on radio with Janeane Garofalo

I never really cared for him but liked Janeane very much. I think he also had a tv show (comedy) for a short time with Sarah Silverman.

[Tarheel_Dem]

49. Perhaps it's my age, but the only time I've ever watched Chris Hayes was as a fill-in for Rachel.

Not a fan.

[Politicub]

51. Haven't heard that name in a long time. He used to have a show on Air America.

Oh, how I miss Air America! XM Progress isn't the same.

[RhodeIslandOne]

57. Or Sirius Left

I just remember that old crab woman in the afternoon who'd call Obama "an asshole" all the time. Because she was a PUMA.

Edit: It was Lynn Samuels.

[rockfordfile]

65. He's a good guy. A democrat. If you were a democrat, you would know this.

[KayF]

66. he's the guy with the glasses in this video