Listen JoeScum- Don the Con ran for the ReTHUG party

[malaise]

He is no fucking Democrat. Your friends welcomed him with open arms and have and have supported his racist agenda 100%.
Not one has condemned his kidnapping of Latin American children, separating them from their parents and inflicting them with cruel and unusual punishment.

He's yours. That is all

[mindem]

1. Right On

I hate it when he trots out the drumph is a Democrat thing. Drumph ran as a repuke and won as a repuke and the repukes are for drumphs agenda. They own it.

[malaise]

2. And he has no support from Dems

96% of Democrats detest him

[Soxfan58]

3. Whats up with the 4%

[malaise]

4. Margin of error is three percent

so 1% of Dems are idiots

[PatSeg]

31. Or they are republicans

who lied to pollsters about what party they belong to.

[malaise]

32. Even better

[JHB]

14. Trump won more Republican Primary votes than anyone in history

That's the one thing he did Bigly.

Most of the Republican Party went for him full-throttle, and the rest may have grumbled but obediently fell in line.

Trump is the leader, face, and personification of the Republican Party.

[dalton99a]

21. +1

[olegramps]

34. The can't wash their hands enough; out-out damn spot.

Everyone who supported the Republican lies that resulted in thousands of our soldiers being sacrificed in the Iraq war are indelibly stained with bloody hands. This is especially true of the media that has consistently fail the citizens and the Republican administration.

[GWC58]

5. Trump was a "for convenience Democrat."

And Trump, most certainly, has never, ever been a liberal! In 1990 when Trump said the best way to fight the WOD’s was to legalize all drugs. Clearly Trump never meant a word of it. Trump is all Republican, all the time. 😡😈👿☠️

[pdsimdars]

6. I don't get all the attitude for Joe. He amd Mika are BRUTAL on Trump

They are tougher on DT than almost anyone on the left. Joe has left the Rep party because they have gone with Trump.

[shanny]

8. Some of us haven't forgotten

all the free airtime, tongue baths and general suckupitude prior to the election.

[rainin]

13. Tongue baths -- couldn't have said it better. n/t

[Flo Mingo]

10. They're typical of Republicans

They only speak out when things affect them directly. After Trump went after Mika with the face lift comments is when they started singing a different tune. I, for one recall nearly every damn morning, at least one segment was reserved for bashing Hillary. Her emails, emails, emails, emails.

Yeah, they've been tough on Trump but I give them no credit until they acknowledge their own role in getting this baboon elected.

[watoos]

16. Don't be doing that to baboons,

Bill Maher said that Thrump's dad was an orangutan. Trump dropped the law suit so it must be true.

[Flo Mingo]

33. My apologies to baboons everywhere

And also a sad for the devolution of the Orangutan gene pool.

[JHB]

15. Really simple: He and his party have Trump-stink bone-deep in them...

...and he's desperate to wash it off.

Doesn't matter if he says he's a "former" Republican. He'll be back to it the moment Trump isn't center-stage.

[quickesst]

28. At this point I'm pretty sure....

.... that there are members of Democratic Underground who watch Morning Joe with bated breath hoping up on hope they catch that one little mention that can be construed as anti-democratic in order to be able to post about how horrible Joe Scarborough is while Scarborough is spending 90% of his time savaging Trump and the Republicans. As far as Scarborough's past affiliation with the Republican Party, I have found that there are a great number of members here who profess there progressive liberalism, but who in reality, are some of the most unforgiving people around. They may deny it until they're blue in the face, but this is an example of the repetitive rhetoric that proves the point.

[pdsimdars]

42. What you have said is true based on the comments to my post.

They seem to be as block headed and oblivious to reality as those on the right. Somebody once says something to them they don't like and they are dead to them for the rest of eternity. That is not the way good people act. I don't care right or left, good people are not that block headed and unforgiving. Period.

[quickesst]

47. Yep .....

If Joe Scarborough's nitpicking detractors stopped and thought about it for a moment, they would realize that he has done more to bring drump and his gang of hoodlums down than they have even thought about. They should ask themselves a question. What's more effective, an ex-republican who spends 90% of his time excoriating the criminals in the White House, or some anonymous poster on a message board?

[pdsimdars]

48. Exactly . . . . simple, clear thinking and common sense does it every time.

[quickesst]

49. logic and common sense

[Whiskeytide]

7. He was a pretend businessman in NY, so ...

... he pretended to be a democrat because that was who he had to deal with in government interactions.

But he’s really an asshole. Has always been an asshole. It’s hard to be an asshole and a democrat at the same time. It’s possible, and some can pull it off. But its really, really hard.

He won’t work that hard and is not smart enough to pull that off.

[Blue_Adept]

9. Trump really isn't ideological at all. He really is, as Joe says, a day-trader transactional type

He's probably more "Centrist" in a weird way as he runs the gamut on various issues.

But because the business side dominates and the sheer amount of racism, he's far more Republican than anything else.

[Cosmocat]

11. If the show wasn't a sychophant circle jerk someone would have asked him

Well, Joe. Then why did his run as a republican, and not only that, did he win the nomination with the greatest support for a republican nominee in our lives?

Then call his bullshit when he started dissembling.

[malaise]

12. Excellent post

Nicole Wallace is no different

[watoos]

17. Nicole Wallace does a better job,

taking down Trump than Rachel does. Check her out at 4PM. Nicole has publicly admitted on air her failings while working for Shrub. Nicole is sincere, Joe and Mika are not.

[Cosmocat]

23. Agree

She is more derisive of Republicans in one show then Scarborough has been his entire life. His scam is trying to separate quote conservatism unquote from Trump. Wallace doesn't clutch to those pearls.

[watoos]

26. Don't get me wrong,

Rachel is excellent, but she is too cerebral for the average viewer. Rachel goes off on long winding explanations that one has to pay attention to get the point.

Nicole has much better guests and doesn't hesitate to erupt and interrupt any guest who starts to defend Trump. Nicole has apologized on air for her role in the Shrub administration.

Nicole needs to replace Tweety at the 7 PM slot. Tweety, Wolf, and Anderson have to be the lowest IQ news anchors in history.

I don't watch Joe Scum. I'm not saying he killed his intern but the whole story was never told how she died.
Steve Schmidt showed what he is about, a carpetbagger who will work for anyone with cash.

[PatSeg]

35. Yes

I've really been surprised at how much I enjoy Nicole's show and agree with much of what she says. She is very good with her guests and interacts without talking at lightning speed, as if she's not really listening to them (something Joy Reid tends to do). She seems to actually be engaged in the conversation as opposed to "performing". This is especially apparent in how comfortable others seem to be on her program.

I love Rachel, but the redundancy is getting annoying. I frequently fast-forward, as she repeats the same thing several times. Though I still watch her show regularly, I really liked it better in the early days.

[Cosmocat]

38. Yeah

I REALLY respect RM, but the long road she takes to get to the point is very tough for me to take 9 at night, I can't really watch her because it puts me to sleep and if I fall asleep that early I wake up 2 am and can't get back to sleep.

Nicole's show is pure 45/republican haterade, I DVR it and watch it nearly every day.

[PatSeg]

45. You're right

about it being hard to watch at 9 at night. By that time, I'm often on news overload anyway and my mind is wandering. Sometimes she spends 15 to 20 minutes reading court transcripts verbatim. I really zone out then and I get really tired of the sound of her voice.

[Cosmocat]

39. Yep

RM is brilliant, but at 9 at night is too hard to watch and stay awake.

I love Wallace's 45/republican haterade fest.

For the life of me I don't know how Tweety didn't get put out to the woodshed a decade ago.

I won't argue with people who are hating on Schmidt right now, I still want to like him and am hoping it is just him getting a paycheck.

[PatSeg]

46. I don't get it either

about Chris Matthews. MSNBC has so much great talent and Matthews just doesn't cut it. It would be nice if he retired and let someone else take over that time slot.

[world wide wally]

30. Trump is the most divisive, partisan Republican I have ever seen.

He can't answer even one question without taking a swipe at a Democrat.
Presidents have always avoided attacking their predecessors until him.

[Cosmocat]

36. It is surreal

how they spent 8 years losing their minds over BHO and how mean he was to them, and HE was the reason they would not work with them - a man who was SO disciplined and tempered in how he spoke at all times.

Hell, this POS says more crappy shit about REPUBLICANS than every democratic potus we have seen in our lives.

[saidsimplesimon]

18. Joe, Mika and MSNBC gave IT

a platform to spew his garbage. They helped to "make" the monster that defiles our White House. imo

[malaise]

19. Well so did General Electric - after all it is NBC that

gave the Con a place to thrive with the Apprentice. The only thing they got right was the name although given the operations of this kakistocracy, he makes most apprentices look like Einstein.

[saidsimplesimon]

20. Thanks for the reminder

General Electric has its grip on a good chunk of our economy and exerts influences around the globe. The real "evil empire" in corporate dress.

[malaise]

22. I think too many of us forget that media

speak for their owners' interests. The media should never be in the hands of corporations.

Remember though that COMCAST bought out GEto take over NBC.



http://fortune.com/longform/media-company-ownership-consolidation/


Traditional media giants are racing to consolidate in the face of tech industry disruption. Can they retain control of the medium and the message?

Welcome to Hollywood, AT&T. The company that most people associate with mobile phones entered show business in June when a U.S. District Court judge approved its acquisition of Time Warner, giving AT&T command of Warner Bros., HBO, and Turner. (Stay tuned: The Justice Department filed an appeal in July.) A Disney acquisition of 21st Century Fox may follow—that is, if Comcast doesn’t get there first. What prompted this wave of megamergers? Silicon Valley, of course. Netflix has become an entertainment powerhouse; Amazon isn’t far behind. Meanwhile Apple, Facebook, and Google are all dipping their toes in the content pool. Consolidation gives traditional mass media a chance to stave off tech domination. Here’s a look at who controls what—for now.

[saidsimplesimon]

24. Thanks for the link

This should be a separate diary. It is a tutorial worth reading. imo

[watoos]

27. I have been preaching for years that msnbc is not liberal.

MSNBC and CNN at times put a progressive slant to the right wing narratives that pervade cable news.
I have posted this example a dozen times, here's one more; Fox says that Obama beats his wife, CNN says it needs more information, and MSNBC says no he doesn't. The narrative being debated is still about Obama beating his wife.

If cable news were truly unbiased we would have been seeing the impeach Trump narrative a year ago.

Go back in history and look at MSNBC; Phil Donahue was anti-Iraq invasion and Tweety was pro-invasion, they fired Donahue.

Remember the anchors who strayed from the right wing narrative? Donahue, Olbermann, Brashear, Schultz, Uygur, Harris/Perry, Ratigan. All of these anchors were fired not because of poor ratings, but because they all strayed from the right wing narratives.

[shanny]

37. +1

I haven't watched MSNBC for years.

[JHan]

25. If I could give this a 100 recs

[tblue37]

29. Preach, malaise! K&R. nt

[Trumpocalypse]

40. It should be forever noted

that Joe & MEka were the biggest Trump sycophants for most of the election. It was only when Trump refused to give them jobs in his administration that they turned on him.

So this is not about their love of country or even a love to the traditional GOP, it is all about their personal vendetta.

[Hotler]

41. WTF! Joe and Meka wanted jobs in his admin........

I'm going to have to Google that just for juiciness of the story. I have not heard that.

[malaise]

43. First time I'm hearing that

I need hard evidence

[Trumpocalypse]

44. What do you think Trump

Meant in his tweet when he said ‘they wanted to join me’.