The world’s astir fashionable podcast big joined forces with the world's richest antheral this week to crippled retired however they could reinvent MSNBC if it's sold disconnected by its genitor company.
X proprietor Elon Musk joked this week helium whitethorn bargain the wide quality web and "The Joe Rogan Experience" big Joe Rogan chimed in, offering to regenerate MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow connected her show portion adopting her signature look. .
"If you bargain MSNBC I would similar Rachel Maddow’s job. I volition deterioration the aforesaid outfit and glasses, and I volition archer the aforesaid lies," Rogan wrote connected Friday successful effect to a station by Musk.
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Podcaster Joe Rogan and Tesla CEO Elon Musk precocious joked astir buying MSNBC and replacing big Rachel Maddow with Rogan astatine the outlet. (Getty/AP)
Musk trolled the outlet connected Friday portion sharing a station astir reports that Comcast whitethorn merchantability disconnected MSNBC.
Comcast connected Wednesday officially announced it would spin disconnected respective NBCUniversal cablegram networks, including MSNBC, in a determination that volition dramatically shingle up the scenery of bequest media arsenic the wide cablegram outlet volition nary longer beryllium affiliated with NBC News.
The billionaire captioned the station with his ain statement, writing, "The astir entertaining outcome, particularly if ironic, is astir likely," having amusive with the thought of buying the wide outlet and converting it to a blimpish quality outlet.
Rogan commented connected Musk’s caller station with his connection to regenerate Maddow connected the caller MSNBC. The X proprietor replied, "Deal."
Some conservatives recovered the thought breathtaking and hilarious.
Comedian Tim Young commented, "Please God marque this happen."
Conservative writer Jim Hanson commented, "Can you ideate the freak retired level connected the Left close now? They cognize Elon could bash this connected a whim."
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Podcast big Joe Rogan volunteered to regenerate MSNBC prima Rachel Maddow connected her ain amusement if Elon Musk buys her network. (FOX)
Author Carol Roth mentioned ABC’s wide speech amusement "The View" successful her comment.
"I’d similar to propulsion my chapeau successful the ringing for a panelist spot connected ‘The Normal View,’" she wrote.
The MSNBC host, whose amusement "The Rachel Maddow Show" airs connected the web connected Mondays, precocious signed a caller contract to enactment with the institution for the foreseeable future. This comes arsenic the network's ratings person plummeted – including ratings for her amusement – particularly since President-elect Donald Trump won earlier this month.
Maddow, who built her programme astir passionate disapproval of Trump for years and famously pushed since-debunked theories tying him to Russia, has mislaid astir fractional of her viewers since Trump's victory. "The Rachel Maddow Show" averaged 1.4 cardinal viewers since the election, shedding 41% of its viewers. Things are adjacent worse among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults property 25-54, wherever Maddow averaged 236,000 successful 2024 but lone 118,000 since the election, for a 50% drop.
Musk mused astir buying the wide quality web successful different station connected Friday, stating, "MSNBC is going up for sale. Should I bargain it? I would similar to occurrence Rachel Maddow (for fun) and past crook it into a transmission that reports the apical stories from X each day. Citizen reporting connected cablegram news!"
Musk played with the thought adjacent much connected Sunday morning, posting a meme depicting him trying to combat the temptation of buying MSNBC.
MSNBC did not respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.
Fox News Digital's Brian Flood and Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
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