In the blockbuster movie scene that is NBC News’ attempts to remain a news organization, the hero just lost his last, dying grasp of the cliff’s edge and fell to his death. The gloves are off, and no one there is pretending to embrace objectivity, fairness or the necessity of opposing views on their “news” networks.
You see, over the weekend, the alleged “journalists’ that work at NBC and MSNBC staged a country club-style revolt as Ronna McDaniel, the recently ousted Chair of one of our two political parties, was hired as a contributor to that network.
The outrage was palpable around the Corposhere. Kirsten Welker (who was lambasted by Vivek Ramaswamy in a primary debate for pushing the “Trump-Russia collusion” hoax for years) was forced to disclose before her interview with McDaniel that the booking was made weeks ago and was intended to be a “news” interview, whatever that means.
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Next, Chuck “Big Lie” Todd, who shows no shame in appearing on the program from which he was fired, delivered a long soliloquy about how wronged Welker had been to be forced to conduct such an interview.
“You got put into an impossible situation, booking this interview.
And then all of a sudden the rug was pulled out from under you, and you find out she’s being paid to show up? It is unfortunate for this program, but I am glad you did the best that you could.”
Indeed. For the host of an alleged news program to have to speak to a major news maker of the past ten years – whose only crime was being Republican – was too much for these two to bear. Tim Russert or Roger Mudd, they are not.
Not to be outdone, MSNBC put out a statement saying that McDaniel would never appear on any MSNBC shows, and of course the sad clown Joe Scarborough & team conducted another boring straw man diatribe about the whole thing. He seems to think his argument gains more meaning by the decibel. Here was Mika Brzezinski, Joe’s wife and sidekick on the program:
“But it should be conservative Republicans, not a person who used her position of power to be an anti-democracy election denier and we hope NBC will reconsider its decision.
It goes without saying that she will not be a guest on ‘Morning Joe’ in her capacity as a paid contributor.
Meanwhile, back in Reality, it is clear that these ridiculously partisan people continue to have no issue making reckless fools of themselves by throwing corporate temper tantrums. Their outrage boils down to Trump Derangement Syndrome of the Second Degree: this awful person, the former Chair of the RNC, supported the RNC’s candidate for President! That’s it. Stir in some “election denying” rhetoric and they are off to the races.
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So, let’s review some of Kristen Welker’s, Chuck Todd’s, Rashida Jones’ (President of MSNBC) Mika Brzezinski’s and Joe Scarborough’s fellow NBC & MSNBC hosts and contributors:
Michael Steele, former RNC Chair just like McDaniel who was ousted from that position for, among other things, numerous gaffes and misstatements about the war in Afghanistan.
Jen Paski, former Biden Press Secretary who threatened “robust anti-trust legislation” for social media companies if they did not censor citizens’ speech when the White House’s flags it for them. She also negotiated her NBC package while still at the White House, creating a huge conflict of interest.
Al Sharpton, former street organizer who said in 1994, “White folks was in the caves while we was building empires,” he said. “We built pyramids before Donald Trump even knew what architecture was. We taught philosophy and astrology [sic] and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”
Lawrence O’Donnell, former aid to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He once said of Ronna McDaniel’s Uncle Mitt Romney, “ Romney comes from a religion that was founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist.”
All of these people are fine for the NBC types because, like respondents at a Catholic Mass, they will repeat anything they are expected to repeat when told.
We could go on and on about the nefarious people in the Corposphere and still not have gotten to the dozens of spooks, spies and FBI politicos that dominate their “expert” panels and deliver the talking points from the Administration and the CIA.
At the end of the day, NBC and MSNBC can of course employ whomever they chose, and their employees can certainly complain vociferously in public about it. We will continue to note and report the lack of any pretense of fairness or balance. Go to these networks to learn Democratic talking points and Deep State propaganda. But don’t count on these companies for the news of the day; even their employees don’t want to hear that.
Justin Weller is the Founder and Editor of The Country and host of the podcast The Country with Justin Weller. Prior to this, he was a general manager and sales leader in startup and big tech firms, interned at Capitol Hill, and was a contributing editor at mxdwn.com. This piece is republished from The Country.
The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Tampa Free Press.
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