Breaking: David Shuster Suspended Indefinitely From MSNBC (Update)

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by Steve Krakauer | 9:29 am, April 6th, 2010

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Mediaite has learned David Shuster has been suspended from MSNBC, effective immediately.

This comes on the heels of a report Friday he had filmed a pilot for CNN – for which MSNBC said he would be “punished appropriately.” He met with MSNBC President Phil Griffin yesterday afternoon.

An MSNBC spokesperson tells Mediaite: “David has been suspended indefinitely.”

Shuster has been suspended from Twitter as well, after MSNBC deemed his exchange with James O’Keefe inappropriate. He was also suspended for two weeks in 2008 for his “pimped out” comment about Chelsea Clinton. With his contract up at the end of 2010, we’ll see if Shuster ever returns to the MSNBC line-up.

An interesting wrinkle to this is Shuster has a new executive producer, Gresham Streigel, who came over from Fox News and Glenn Beck earlier this year. MSNBC confirms Streigel remains EP of both hours.

We’ve also inquired if there will be a temporary replacement for the two hours Shuster used to anchor.

> Update: Today the anchors will be Contessa Brewer at 10amET and Ed Schultz again at 3pmET. This is, however, not the permanent line-up.

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The Real Royal King

Understandable.
writer

Now MSNBC will have no one to speak for the left.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Josh-Kim/1431811538 Josh Kim

“Now MSNBC will have no one to speak for the left.”

Are you mentally retarded? MSNBC still has Mika Brezinski, Ed Schulz, Contessa Brewer, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Howard Fineman, Rachel Maddow, Dylan Ratigan, Lawrence O’Donnell, etc.
Grammie

Josh Kim says:
April 6, 2010 at 11:42 am

Are you totally devoid of a sense of irony? :)
ex politicalmedia hack

was David “pimping” himself out to MSNBC?
TylerDurdin

Poor david. It’s all over pal.
m

Shuster isn’t leftist. He’s a fighting, straight-down-the-line journalist who calls it when he sees it. Too bad that he’s suspended.
http://www.youtube.com/cmdrgmh cmdrgmh

Ratigan left???? Your nuts. Ratigan is right wing as you can be. He’s fiscal right. He’s said it publicly he’s a republican.
NORBIT Jr.

Did Shuster have to return his BROWN SHIRTS & JACK BOOTS, or did msnbc let him keep them?
http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

Hahahhahaha BROWN SHIRTS AND JACK BOOTS Hahahhaahhahahaa!!!1 Oh man Norbit, you are as FUNNY as the MOVIE that shares your name!!!!!!!!!11
writer

Josh, I was being sarcastic. Duh.
ImNotBlue

m says:
April 6, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Shuster isn’t leftist. He’s a fighting, straight-down-the-line journalist who calls it when he sees it. Too bad that he’s suspended.

“Calls it when he sees it,” must be code for, “spins it positive for his political ideology… and often get’s it 100% wrong.”

Answer me this… if he’s not a “leftist,” why was he allowed to guest host for Olbermann? Remember, KO doesn’t allow people who disagree with him on his show… so I don’t see how he would allow a guest host, who didn’t simply parrot his opinions.
LotusMan

m says:
April 6, 2010 at 1:07 pm

Shuster isn’t leftist. He’s a fighting, straight-down-the-line journalist who calls it when he sees it. Too bad that he’s suspended.

I agree. completely. I like Shuster — he was honest and direct, and had no problem calling out bullshit from others. He was a journalist armed with the facts and he wasn’t afraid to use them. I want to see him back. He was one of the better broadcasters at MSNBC.
AmericanCowboy

No one watches MSNBC anyway. They have lost the respect of most Americans with their partisian reporting. They are nothing but a propaganda machine.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Teri-Szucs/1266148423 Teri Szucs

AmericanCowboy? No! really? How fitting.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Sam-Mayer/1406010667 Sam Mayer

That’s it for me…my TV is going to be taking a nose dive off of my roof when I get home!