Did MSNBC specifically say that they were looking for a Progressive/Liberal host for their 10PM slot?  Yes, I know that MSNBC has about 8 consecutive shows a day of either overtly liberal or Left-leaning pundits, so it makes contextual sense.  But there is only so much news from a Liberal point of view that needs to be covered in the course of a day, no?  If MSNBC bills itself as "the place for politics," and then presents exclusively partisan-Left hosts, are they not as guilty as FOX absurdly calling themselves "fair and balanced" while replacing Colmes with...nobody?

Don't get me wrong.  I thought that double-sandwiching Olbermann's show with a new show from Rachel Maddow as the entire cast of their primetime lineup was a giant step too far toward screamingly flagrant bias (more so than even Dan Abrams' terrible show had been).  As it turns out, Maddow's show is excellent and (other than ideologically) quite different from Olbermann's.  (So I was wrong.)  But doubling down and happening to strike gold is still different from..._tripling down_ (as it were) and adding another Liberal voice.  I think that Cenk's show is different from almost everything on television, where (he is correct when he says this) the media is trained to be even-handed rather than honest (CNN essentially does nothing other than this).  So I don't think Cenk's voice, if he is allowed to keep it without restraint (which is a big "if"--Imus was fired for mimicking hiphop lingo in what was obviously a throwaway attempt at irreverent humor, something Cenk does all the time at TYT) would be redundant to the voices of Olbermann or Maddow (or Matthews or others).  But if I am a programming head at MSNBC, I might think:  "You know, I probably have most of the Liberal news analysis viewer market, and I can probably get a larger new audience with an entertaining Conservative host [yes, I'm sure I can find one] than with another progressive.  Especially when I am going up against Van Sustern, who is hardly a magnet for Conservatives looking for red meat (she might be the most liberal host on the entire FOX schedule).

Best of luck, TYT.  But those handicapping your odds should not IMO be restricted to just comparing you to the Stephanie Millers of the world.   There are 150 Conservative talk show hosts who would love to bash Liberals right in the heart of the "lion's den".