Fa-La-La-La-Phooey

As Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified about the abuses of the FISA court by The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer’s Department of Justice and FBI and their “applications” to spy on the Trump campaign, CNN and MSNBC stopped following the hearing after about a half hour.  Both cable outfits refused to cover the opening statement of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham.

The decision did not comport with the endless air time they gave to the impeachment hearings led by “Pencil Neck” Schiff and the morbidly obese Jerry Nadler. 

CNN is not taking the Senate Horowitz hearing live. Unbelievable. A perfect example of how bias works. It’s not just what they cover. It’s what they don’t cover.

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) December 11, 2019

The Horowitz Report provided damning proof of how the FBI wantonly mistreated Donald Trump and it directly contradicted their fake news coverage over the last three years.  The outright bias was not lost on the 2020 Trump campaign:

After airing days & days of Democrat impeachment hearings, FAKE NEWS @CNN and @MSNBC are REFUSING to air @LindseyGrahamSC's opening statement in the Inspector General's report hearing.

They are COVERING UP the truth. They are nothing more than propaganda for the Democrats! pic.twitter.com/i7wyLNPVgl

— Trump War Room (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TrumpWarRoom) December 11, 2019

While MSNBC aired some of Sen. Graham's statement, the network cut away quickly. CNN appears not to have covered his opening statement at all.

Today, WH correspondent for the New York Times and contributor for MSNBC and NBC News, Annie Karni tweeted:

The canceling of the WH media christmas party was a story last year, and now it's just gone and it's not even a thing, like the press briefing and the NYT/WaPo subscriptions.

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) December 11, 2019

Two weeks before Christmas, the White House did not put the “media party” on its  holiday schedule nor did it furnish a reason for the decision.  Instead, members of the media and their families were accommodated with open White House tours to see the holiday decorations.

It wasn’t necessary to state a reason for the decision.  After all, media organizations have made a big show of their contempt for this president for his entire first term.  How preposterous would it be to go to a Christmas party at the White House with the Trumps and act like everything is hunky dory?

So, Ms. Karni complains there’s no opportunity again this year to schmooze with the booze and the finger foods.  There are no more press briefings where her ilk waged war on WH Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and subscriptions to the failing New York Times and Washington Post were canceled by the White House.

Oh, the humanity. 

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

Perhaps MSNBC Should Hire This Guy

Inuyama Shibao is the pup’s name.  He’s a Shiba Inu, an ancient breed indigenous to Japan.

With disgraced NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams making his way to MSNBC after an apology tour in which he laughably confessed he didn’t lie his ego did, I think this fella will boost the ratings for the flailing cable news channel and there will never be any cause for concern that Williams’ soaring fantasies will reemerge.

"How I Met Your Mullah" More Popular Than MSNBC

Unlike Mark Twain, reports of the death of MSNBC have not been greatly exaggerated. Mediaite says so.  Politico says so.  Even Deadline Hollywood says so.

Nope, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke.  More people are watching Al-Jazeera than the Many Stooges of the National Blowhard Channel.

Andrew Lack, the new NBC News Group chairman, hopes to create more news programming and less dour squawking and race-baiting.  So long as the network is closely tied to the administration of The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer it will continue its steep decline.  There’s a hole in the boat and the boat won’t float.

The Corrosive Idiocy Of MSNBC’s Ed Schultz

I don’t watch any of the drivel on MSNBC simply because I don’t want my world darkened by liberal hacks with Permanent Anger Syndrome.

The network has a tiny audience, but MSNBC’s The Ed Show has the lowest ratings demo with a negligible 53,000 viewers. So why am I using my bandwidth to write about this schlub who reminds you of every angry drunk you’ve ever known?

Schultz, like the network that employs him, engages in deceptive editing.  Examples can be seen here, here, here and here.  I’m sure there are scads of other examples, but you get the idea.

While perusing the Intertoobs yesterday, I came across a story that mildly amused me only because I watched the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles along with 21.8 million others on Sunday. During the game, NBC’s cameras panned over to the luxury corporate box where NJ Governor Chris Christie could be seen high-fiving Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones.

Christie has come under fire for being a long-time fan of the Cowboys much to the chagrin of New Jersey residents who feel he should be rooting for the Eagles, Giants or Jets.

Mediaite noticed that Schultz used a photo from one year ago that depicted the RNC Chairman with Christie and Jones in Dallas not Philadelphia.  Schultz, trying to be clever, said that his show’s researchers “noticed what looks like RNC Chair Reince Priebus sitting behind Christie and Jones.  We reached out to the RNC and they told us they thought he was at a dinner in Washington, DC on Sunday night.”

So complete was their effort to deceive that they added a “bug” on the screen that read SUNDAY NIGHT PHILADELPHIA and then, for his mind-numbed viewers, circled Priebus’ face.

When the trickery of MSNBC and the host of The Ed Show was noticed by Sean Spicer, Communications Director for the Republican National Committee, he tweeted this:

Moron @edshow shows pic of @reince fr LAST year @dallascowboys game in DALLAS saying it was Sunday in Philly #TeamEdShow #TwoMinuteDrill
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) December 16, 2014

That message was promptly retweeted by Priebus, but so far, the official Ed Show Twitter account has remained silent on the matter.

It’s only a matter of time before General Motors is forced to recall Schultz as a faulty airbag. 

Apparently MSNBC Anchor Krystal Ball’s Crystal Ball Is In The Shop

Add to the string of debacles at MSNBC the prank call foisted upon the joke of a cable news network by an apparent fan of shock jock Howard Stern.  No, not Baba Booey but a totally fictitious “Staff Sgt. Michael Boyd”.

She breathlessly announced an “exclusive” report from Boyd she said claimed to have witnessed the downing of Malaysia Flight MH17 from the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.  The embassy it should be pointed out is 342 miles (550.28 kilometers) from the site of the crash in Donetsk.

How much longer can parent company Comcast allow embarrassing on-air disasters?  The fact that a microscopic number of Americans trust them to deliver the news accurately should cause Comcast to consider yanking the plug on its entire operation.

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

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Melissa Harris-Perry: No Cocoa Puffs. Just Cuckoo. Period.

Mental illness has become increasingly widespread in the U.S., affecting around one in five American adults every year, according to a survey from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

MSNBC has clearly morphed into a booby hatch for lefty pundits.  Watch as Melissa Harris-Perry goes off the rails and rises from her seat a number of times as she becomes highly agitated in her rant Sunday morning declaring that using the term “Obamacare” is tantamount to invoking the N-word.

This idiot has had repeated on-air meltdowns in the past.  Sunday’s soliloquy provides us with further evidence that she is truly a disturbed individual.  No Cocoa Puffs.  Just cuckoo. Period.

Bumps In The Road

Joe Scarborough took the mainstream media to task for largely ignoring President Obama's "Bumps in the road" comment over recent unrest in the Middle East. Scarborough also lambasted Obama's Middle East policy and his lack of relationships with leaders in that part of the country.

Via MRCTV

Rev. Al “Not So” Sharpton: Comcast And MSNBC’s Clowning Achievement

I hope you’ll pardon my tardiness in addressing the issue of MSNBC’s hiring of Brooklyn’s most notorious shakedown artist, blowhard and 2004 presidential candidate.

If you’re not altogether familiar with Sharpton’s checkered past, The New York Daily News has a fairly decent recapitulation.

Having been criticized for its scarcity of minority hosts for a long time, MSNBC decided that Rev. Al Sharpton would take over the slot held by Cent Uygur who replaced Keith “Bathtub Boy” Olbermann when he was fired  let go in January 2011.

It is clear to this observer that Comcast/NBC did not hire this racist propagandist to satisfy their critics, but rather that he was instrumental in signing an agreement that helped them secure FCC approval for the $30 billion merger.  Read the whole thing over at The Daily Beast.

Sharpton has bombed on the radio shows he’s hosted and he will surely bomb again on MSNBC, especially when he comes up with gaffes like “Resist we much” and “The Statement Department.”

Here’s Jimmy Kimmel’s take on “Not So” Sharpton’s teleprompter fumble: