02.29.24
Blue-Anon – MSNBC
I thought fear-mongering and conspiracies were improper…
Kicking off this trifecta of affected thought, Rachel Maddow made a mid-week return to her home network and launched into a wild dose of ranting hysteria. The recent Supreme Court decision to not grant Jack Smith an accelerated trial date proceeding has many at MSNBC acting off-kilter.
Looking at the SCOTUS ruling — that essentially was, “We won’t grant special provisions and just stick with legal standards” – Ms. Maddow launched into a diatribe that says, literally, this will lead to Donald Trump taking office, and since he cannot be tried for crimes as president, he will refuse to vacate the office and remain president in perpetuity – which the Court will then support.
This stands as a rational conclusion on that network.
NEW: Far-left MSNBC host Rachel Maddow works herself into a panic and claims Donald Trump will remain in office for life if elected in 2024.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 29, 2024
I’m convinced MSNBC is actually just an insane asylum.
“When [Supreme Court] inevitably rule that presidents aren't immune from… pic.twitter.com/HTvuWSVYUV
Low Octane Gas Lighting – MSNBC
There is a difference between “Not Legal” and “Not Liking.”
While not nearly as unhinged as Ms. Maddow, her co-worker Chris Hayes was also perturbed by the SCOTUS decision. He was leaning heavily on the Court, stipulating it was acting in direct accordance with Trump’s wishes and looking for a way to rule in his favor. Not indicated in this mewling from Hayes – it was not Trump who took this to the Court, but it was Jack Smith who was pushing for special treatment and having it grant to him an expedited trial date, to have Trump standing trial in the heat of the general election in the hopes of swaying things toward Biden. (Or whomever the Dems choose as a fill-in.)
What you do not hear in all of this complaining from Hayes; any indication the Court ruled against legal standards or behaved in some kind of super-legal fashion.
.@chrislhayes: The SCOTUS order "was a clear unmistakable sign from the MAGA majority of the Trump-created court that they are with him. That they are going to use their power to make sure that he does not face trial in an election year for attempting to end American democracy." pic.twitter.com/fgrrP0tEw0
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) February 29, 2024
Presentation Paradox – MSNBC
Not to be outclassed in the bat-quackery competition…
Was there some kind of hysterical conspiracy contest at MSNBC this week?! Well, with all of the unhinged punditry on display, you just knew the resident tinfoil chapeau goddess herself, Joy Reid, would rise to the occasion. On her TikTok account, Joy was delivering her commentary on the Alabama issue involving Invitro Fertilization embryos being legally declared as people, and this, for some reason, set Joy off on a tangent of unraveling thought, involving immigrants, child labor, slavery, and any other wing-nut theorizing she could conjure.
She begins by saying Republicans scream about too many people (news to me), that they want to get rid of immigrants because there is no room (an argument no one has made), questions why Alabama wants more kids (as if this were a bad idea), posits that this harkens back to the days of slavery (somehow), graduates that to Alabama wanting more kids for slave labor (we were not aware slavery had been made legal there), and that this is done to get rid of the migrants working those jobs. This, of course, means that Ms. Reid must have been quite agreeable to these slave jobs being committed by the illegal immigrants.
Of course, this would mean that were slavery actually legal — as she implies — then companies would want MORE unpaid labor to come here, but then the nefarious nature of slavery would repel those from arriving — all of which means every — single — thing — spoken here is completely and unquestionably bat-crap-crazy.
This — is something to behold.
"The U.S. has a population of 327 million people… why do we need more kids??"
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 26, 2024
Watch the entire clip. MSNBC's Joy Reid is clinically insane. This might be the most deranged rant I've ever seen. pic.twitter.com/mjd7bU2VCW
Hoax & Change – SLATE
Should they maybe have an expert on the subject to speak on this issue? Or, maybe, just someone who has ever seen a gun before?
In a completely unrelated issue, there was another SCOTUS/MSNBC untethered-from-reality moment. Slate contributor Mark Joseph Stern announced he would be appearing as a guest on the network to discuss a ruling in the court on a matter regarding guns. Stern’s summation of things makes us question why he would be invited to discuss guns — or, based on his presentation here — any subject whatsoever.
Going on MSNBC in a few to talk about how Amy Coney Barrett gets to decide whether civilians can legally transform AR-15s into machine guns that fire 800 rounds a minute
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) February 28, 2024
While this sounds like a tremendously awesome weapon, there are some issues, the first being he claims this gun will be able to fire more than 13 rounds a second, which is both physically impossible, incapable of carrying a magazine of that size, and would likely melt after a few seconds of firing.
DNC PR Firm – THE HILL
My, my — where to begin. It is bad enough to try to sell people on the concept that workers being compelled to go do their work at their actual workplace is a bad thing. That this practice will somehow cripple said workplace is asinine. But worse still is trying to deliver this as a sympathetic effort to protect the most reviled government worker — the IRS agent.
What this wizard of an opinionator fails to recognize is that most people see the concept of a “crippled” IRS as a goal worth achieving.
"Republicans would cripple the IRS by forcing its workers back into the office" (@TheHillOpinion) https://t.co/EfxdANYZwJ pic.twitter.com/RlGyzE8a04
— The Hill (@thehill) February 27, 2024
Matching Media Memorandum – VARIOUS OUTLETS
Getting this upset over this anecdote speaks volumes about its authenticity.
We covered how former New York Times writer Adam Rubenstein detailed one of his early days at the paper when he was shamed in cult-like fashion for stating his favorite sandwich was from Chick-Fil-A. After his piece made some ripples in the journalism sphere, there was pushback.
Names like Nikole Hanah-Jones, Alex Griswold, and Bill Grueskin arrived with their doubts. The best was journalist Michael Hobbes wondering if any (other) journalist would contact The Atlantic to challenge them on what he was certain was a fake story.
(For the record, the outlet confirmed it had fact-checked the story and confirmed it with multiple sources, as well as a number of former Times workers confirming they had learned of this event years ago.)
Is anyone going to contact the Atlantic to ask them about the process behind publishing this egregiously fake anecdotehttps://t.co/yvZ9hZ0l78 pic.twitter.com/vLKAXsaOjh
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) February 26, 2024
Atlantic spokeswoman on the Chick-fil-A incident that Nikole Hannah-Jones and many others claimed must have been fabcricated: "the details were confirmed by New York Times employees who had contemporaneous knowledge of the incident in question." pic.twitter.com/KL0cptFB6B
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) February 27, 2024
Democratic Custodial Services – ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
When you actually stoop to the level of enacting the Norm Macdonald joke, that is when you should step back and reassess things.
While most in the press are desperate to avoid the illegal immigration angle of the killer in Georgia who took the life of co-ed Laken Riley, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution went even further. The paper actually looked at this senseless and preventable murder and actually shows concern for how this may reflect on Venezuelans.
surreal https://t.co/HxlUUNjTHb
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 28, 2024
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