Their Master’s Voice

I had to chuckle when I read the piece by National Review’s media editor Eliana Johnson.

She opens with this sentence: 

“MSNBC, the left-leaning [emphasis mine] cable-news network, has settled on one solution to its recent problems. It now has an executive reviewing scripts before they go on the air. The role, which has fallen to Rich Stockwell, a former executive producer of The Ed Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann who now oversees special projects at the network, was created as several of the network’s hosts have, to the embarrassment of network brass, conducted a master class in political incorrectness. In recent months, Alec Baldwin, Martin Bashir, and, most recently, Melissa Harris-Perry have awkwardly crashed into the trinity of sexual orientation, gender, and race, leading many to wonder if there are any adults in charge at MSNBC.”

“The place for progressives” is in a catastrophic ratings death spiral. The new step of having Rich Stockwell review scripts before they air is an irrefutably pathetic attempt to impose order on the chaos reigning at the network.

Nielsen data shows the network last year posting its lowest prime-time ratings since 2007 both in the coveted 25–54 demographic and in total viewers.  Their ratings are down 29 percent from 2012.

Stockwell, the script reviewer has called Rachel Maddow the crippled cable show’s “quarterback”.  Johnson notes that “from all appearances, the inmates are running the asylum.”  Well, duh.

Johnson continues, “Sources say it is Maddow rather than Phil Griffin who provides MSNBC’s editorial direction, and that she also holds considerable sway over personnel decisions. ‘I know I’m never going to get freakin’ talking points from Phil,’ Maddow told The New Yorker last year. ‘Can you imagine? Like, what would they be?’”

Jordon Charlton over at TV Newser reports that MSNBC is disputing Johnson’s claim that Madcow holds significant power in both network editorial vision and personnel decisions.

“This is categorically false.  I have never had any role in any management decision at MSNBC.  Any source who says otherwise is wrong.”

The “queen” of Rockefeller Plaza is paid millions to spread the progressive gospel, what you and I call the socialist agenda, and repeat the talking points issued to them by the West Wing through the likes of Valerie Jarrett, Denis McDonough, Dan Pfeiffer, David Plouffe, Josh Earnest and Jay Carney.

See also:  Rachel Maddow Is Crazy, Too

Linked, and we thank you, by Cardigan at iOwnTheWorld

Plouffe And The Gang Have Their Heads In The Sand

Oh my.  The Lefties are all wee-wee’d up because the errand boy sent by grocery clerks has a chief White House strategist who went off the rails when he said, “The average American does not view the economy through the prism of GDP or unemployment rates or even monthly jobs numbers.  People won’t vote based on the unemployment rate, they’re going to vote based on: ‘How do I feel about my own situation? Do I believe the president makes decisions based on me and my family?’”

Is David Plouffe right?

Julianna Goldman, writing for Bloomberg, points out that since World War II, no U.S. president has won re-election with a jobless rate above 6 percent, with the exception of Ronald Reagan, who faced 7.2 percent unemployment on Election Day in 1984. The median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg puts the unemployment rate at 8.2 percent in the third quarter of next year.

“Their decision next year will be based upon two things,” Plouffe said. “How do I feel about things right now and then, ultimately, campaigns are always much more about the future and who do I think has got the best idea, the best vision for where to take the country?”

Sixty-eight percent (68%) of voters say the country is heading down the wrong track, showing no change from the previous survey. Since January 2009, pessimism in the nation’s current direction has ranged from 57% to 72% according to the latest Rasmussen polling results.

Plouffe and the gang are delusional and here’s why:  A majority (60%) of the Political Class believes the country is heading in the right direction while a staggering seventy-seven percent (77%) of mainstream voters disagree.  Forty-six percent (46%) say America’s best days are behind her while just 37% say they are ahead of her.

The Rose Garden speech on Friday, July 9^th proves beyond a reasonable doubt that this president and his den of thieves are in desperate need of a clue bat.

No more years please.  If you vote for this clown again you’re not a raaaaacist, you’re a masochist.

Via a thread at Memeorandum.