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I can work with much of that...

Joy: still find her highly suspect in terms of the homophobic blog posts and claims that she was 'hacked'. Wigs are irrelevant. Fangirling over black panther complete with 'wakanda forever' poses repeatedly was cringe. And there were black female correspondents/analysts on the payroll who deserved her show much more than she did in terms of talent and presence

Claire: Failed moderate dem politician. Don't care about her desserts. Comes off likeable, but if she were a dem politician in the 1990s, she wouldn't have spoken a word in support of same-sex marriage or fought against the 'War on Drugs' mass incarceration of poor people and PoC non-violent drug offenders

Rachel: I like her, but can only handle watching her in occasional doses.

Lemire: Ken-doll-shaped meatbag, probably propelled from an upper-class family into being stuffed into a suit and trained to talk into a camera (much like Anderson Cooper is a ken-doll-shaped meatbag, but propelled from an ultra-wealthy family into being stuffed into a suit and trained to talk into a camera)

JoeScar: Don't get me started. But yes, he's a bloviator.

Lawrence O'Donnell: I think he pretty much radiates 'off-air, I'm a huge asshole'; but I do like him on-air. He's like a milder Chris Matthews whom I felt the same way about.

Nicolle Wallace: I don't forgive her at all, ever, for her complicity in the crimes of the Bush administration. She was an enabler of mass casualties of unnecessary war and helped degrade standards of what constitutes torture and war crime. That being said, I find her extremely likeable on-air. But she's still not forgiven for actively aiding actual atrocities. I don't care what her hair looks like.

Ari: Rap occasionally, not frequently. There's a tipping point in frequency at which it moves from being flavorful and cute to being pandering and cringeworthy. I generally like him, but just check yourself before you wreck yourself.

Brian: Phony as hell. Comes off phony as hell. Also, overly worshipful of every single guest, takes like a full minute listing every title and accomplishment of every guest, practically like he's in breathless awe. Puta, you're not playing submissive in an S&M scenario here, move on to the interview.

Mika: A lower-rich version of Anderson Cooper. She would be mid-management at a regional paper-supply company if it weren't for her family.

[Bonus] Smerconish: Has all of my hate. Seems like he's a libertarian who graduated with a econ degree after buying his term papers online and having his parents pay for a boatload of tutors and standardized test prep courses, and then hosted a college radio politics talk show, and then should have settled into working at a car dealership and posting on r/cryptocurrency and complaining about 'identity politics'

*Note: My criticism of these hosts mentioning working at a car dealership or paper company are not meant to demean the value of people in those occupations. Work that produces value deserves respect. Those criticisms reflect my opinion that these people do not hold unique talent that uniquely qualifies them for the positions that they hold.