‘No one wanted to watch’: Ex-Biden mouth flops in MSNBC debut despite Jill Biden assist

Despite having an in-house example to use as a guide, MSNBC has yet to learn a lesson that Netflix appears to be learning in a painful manner, given recent financial reports, that progressive left ideology isn’t quite the commodity it once was.

Symone Sanders’ weekend debut on MSNBC proved to be a flop, according to the ratings, likely leaving network executives befuddled that an obtuse, overbearing, woke bully just isn’t all that appealing to most folks who value their time.

Sanders, the former chief spokesperson and senior advisor for Vice President Kamala Harris, appears to have brought with her the terrible approval ratings of the administration that employed her, according to the New York Post, which cites newly released Nielsen ratings to report that Sanders “tanked in her debut.”

“Sanders drew just 361,000 total viewers for her 4 p.m. show, titled ‘Symone,’ on Saturday. She also managed to attract just 29,000 viewers in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demographic,” the newspaper reported. “The program’s viewership fell well short of Fox News Channel’s ‘Fox News Live,’ which drew 842,000 total viewers, including 163,000 in the 25-54 demographic.”

Adding to the bad news, Sanders featured an interview with first lady Jill Biden in her opening show — you know, the wife of the man who received 81 million votes.

(Video: MSNBC)

“She might have gone one-on-one with First Lady Jill Biden, but no one wanted to watch the Symone Sanders’ much-hyped debut as a cable television anchor,” Radar Online reported.

In an interview last week, Sanders told The Hill that in her new role she was not going to be “a spokesperson for the Biden administration.”

“I had that job already,” she said, adding that she is ready to “tell it like it is” on her weekend MSNBC program.

“I’m going to be honest, and sometimes the honesty means that what I have to say is not what the administration would have to say. And that’s fine, because it’s my show,” Sanders declared.

Her role at MSNBC is just one of a number reflecting a de facto revolving door between the network and the Biden administration.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki will soon leave that role to host a show on MSNBC, and her replacement, Karine Jean-Pierre — who’s in a relationship with CNN correspondent Suzanne Malveaux — was a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC before she took a role with the administration.

“This is all the more interesting because it seems the revolving door between the White House and MSNBC doesn’t seem to bode well for ratings,” a television insider told Radar.

Tom Tillison

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