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“Meet the Press” successor to be named soon

Posted November 26th, 2008 under Headlines Tags: andrea mitchell, chuck todd, david gregory, gwen ifill, meet the press, nbc, tim russert

According to the LA Times, one of the four idiots above will replace Tim Russert as host of Meet the Press…

NBC executives are closing in on a decision about who will take over “Meet the Press,” its venerable Sunday morning political talk show, with the announcement coming possibly on Dec. 7.

According to network sources, that may be Tom Brokaw’s last day on the air as interim moderator of the program, a post he assumed after the sudden death of longtime host Tim Russert in June.

People close to the process said that they did not yet know who would be ultimately named to the job, arguably Washington’s most powerful journalistic perch. The deliberations have been closely guarded by NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker and NBC News President Steve Capus, who have not yet made a decision, said spokeswoman Allison Gollust.

Barring a last-minute surprise, network insiders and television news observers expect the new moderator — or moderators — will be drawn from a short list of candidates that include NBC chief White House correspondent David Gregory, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell and NBC political director Chuck Todd. Dark horses include CBS anchor Katie Couric, whose name was floated in internal discussions, according to two sources, but is apparently not interested.

Veteran ABC anchor Ted Koppel has also been mentioned as a contender. But Koppel, who announced Tuesday that he was leaving his post at Discovery Channel, said he had not spoken with NBC and had little interest in getting into “a weekly grind again.”

Network executives have been wrestling with not only who would be best to lead the 61-year-old show for a coming generation but what format the program should take.

Gwen Ifill wants to give Obama a blow job. Andrea Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan and is your typical liberal yenta. David Gregory is a hack who moved up the chain of NBC by relentlessly bashing Republicans. Chuck Todd, who himself is a big liberal, is the only one of these four with any journalistic credibility to speak of.