General Discussion

...is that Dead Intern Joe has long had an ear at corporate, and thus undue influence over the network as a whole. (For example, he pressed upper management into instituting a quiet blacklist of people who were no longer allowed to appear on other hosts' shows -- Markos, to name just one.) DIJ deciding to kiss the ring (or certain body part) of TSF may well be a sign that MSNBC will be pivoting away from their current ideological stance.