Rick Kaplan Says “The Situation” Is “Full Of Opinion & Full Of Biases On All Sides”

Sixteen months after arriving at MSNBC, Rick Kaplan is watching the premiere of his first primetime program. It’s a very big night — some insiders expect Kaplan will rise or fall depending, in part, on the fates and fortunes of the show. The normally media-shy president talked to the Associated Press about what “The Situation With Tucker Carlson” is and isn’t:

“What we have on the air is not a right-wing program or a left-wing program or even a middle-of-the-road program. We think that we have a program that’s full of opinion and full of biases on all sides. I think that’s really the key. You want to leave it with the viewers to make their own determinations.”

>Carlson and Kaplan are an “odd couple,” David Bauder notes.

> Kaplan to USA Today: “Wearing a bow tie is a statement…Almost an act of defiance.”