MSNBC is garbage. The people who work at MSNBC are garbage. MSNBC is a wholly owned subsidiary of NBC News, which has turned NBC News into garbage. And Comcast is the king of garbage, or the non-binary leadership entity of garbage, so as to not offend anyone. They’re all terrible and hemorrhaging audience like Joe Biden is active brain cells and Kamala Harris is relevance in the modern world.
The latest example of just how awful these creatures are comes to us from their flagship – their mothership, really – Morning Joe. Believe it or not, Morning Joe is the closest thing to a sane show on the network. I realize it lives in a different time zone from reality, but sanity is relative when dealing with the left.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are the mommy and daddy (though probably not in that order, but you never know) for Democrats who never got over the fact that their real parents expected things from them. The rest of the crew – Mike Barnacle, Claire McCaskill, Willie Geist, Al Sharpton, Donnie Deutsch, and whoever else they shake out of their chardonnay slumber early in the morning to round out their throuple or whatever they call in early-morning orgy of lies – are irrelevant in the overall scheme of things, or at least they used to be.
Now that mommy and daddy went to meet with Adolf Hitler Jr. and didn’t try to von Stauffenberg him might lead to an awkward Thanksgiving meal and an excommunication from the left.
Joe and Mika packed up the family truckster and drove the short distance between Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago compound and the home they pretend is New York City down in Florida (for tax and crime purposes, probably, but mention that to them, lest they get upset about it) to meet with the President-Elect.
They’ve known each other for years, were friends for a very long time, but in the fall of 2016 it became a smart business decision for Joe and Mika to pretend they weren’t. They started calling their old friend a racist, sexist, homophobe, which reflected badly on them, to be honest – how did they not notice these horrible traits while paling around with him? Because it was a lie, of course, in service to their audience.
Years of doing that service to their audience has lost the whole of government. But what they lack in electoral success they more than make up for with smugness, so there’s that.
The second husband and third wife (talk about optimism) told their audience, small as it has become, about their “brave” trip to the southern Reichstag Monday morning like they were on a secret mission to a hostile foreign power in the hope of fending off war that had only recently been declassified.
Mika confessed, “Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump. It was the first time we have seen him in seven years.”
Joe added, “We talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets. We talked about that a good bit. And it's going to come as no surprise to anybody [chuckles] who watches this show, who's watched it over the past year or over the past decade, that we didn't see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.”
“What we did agree on was to restart communications,” Mika said, “My father often spoke with world leaders with whom he and the United States profoundly disagreed. That's a task shared by reporters and commentators alike.”
They’re heroes, just ask them.
They are talking about and to the President-Elect of the United States, not some hostile foreign despot. They aren’t ambassadors, they are citizens (much as they seem to hate that now).
Naturally, their audience and fellow travelers were outraged and rebelled. But what they did, while long overdue, was good. Putting aside the fact that no such thing every happens on the right – conservatives are more practical than to scream that the sky is falling every time an election is lost, or waste time updating their “*insert name here* is not my President” tattoo – we are going to have to live together. In a time when their network colleagues are advising family members to disown Trump voting relatives, even their parents, it’s nice that someone is at least pretending to try to be an adult on their side.
Of course, this wink toward semi-sanity would’ve been much better and effective years ago, but their audience wasn’t ready for it then and the whole of MSNBC is nothing if not performance art now. Now, MSNBC is the Frankenstein’s Monster of the Democratic National Committee, turning off voters and forcing the party further and further to the left in a pursuit of the old high from an ever-increasing dose of crazy.
Joe and Mika didn’t do this because they care, they did this because they don’t want to lose their audience and they don’t want to lose their jobs. There are reports that Comcast, the enablers of this years-long assassination porn, is thinking about selling off their cable channels, including (and especially MSNBC). Maybe if George Soros bought them they’d be able to spiral deeper down the rabbit hole, but anyone else will likely demand some sense of normal; heads will roll.
You’d have to be brain damaged to employ the Joy Reids and Larry O’Donnells of the world, and anyone willing to buy a cable network would be more than happy to unburden itself of their “star” who works one day per week for $30 million per year. They’ll happily let Rachel Maddow become CNN’s latest mistake. But a morning show sets the tone, it reels in an audience, much of which will stay with them all day. Joe and Mika want to be that show. It pays well and requires nothing – political punditry, economics and weather forecasting are the only professions for which there are zero consequences for continually being wrong.
They don’t want to lose that gig. If they have to eat a big, steaming plate of post-digested food to keep the millions of dollars they make rolling in, it’s a small price to pay. And it’s only fair that some go back in, since they’d been spewing it out of their mouths for a decade.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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