I just saw something I never saw before

[Stinky The Clown]

Last edited Tue Oct 22, 2019, 04:53 PM - Edit history (1)

On MSNBC, Chris Jansen was speaking with Eddie Glaude, Jr about the lynching comment from Trump and now Lindsey Graham.

She was visibly, obviously, and righteously angry. She rhetorically asked Glaude, Jr. when we wills top normalizing this sort of language and imagery.

GOOD FOR HER.

We need MORE angry media people.

Edited to add:
Her name is Chris Jansing. My autocorrect changed it to Jansen, which is wrong.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. I was also impressed with what Eddie said...

(Paraphrasing) "They (right wingers) walk over our dead."

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Idiots saw Clarence Thomas successfully use the "high-tech lynching" meme and he's a

Republican, so there you go.

They just keep pushing the envelope.

[gibraltar72]

3. Had flashbacks to the 50s and 60s

when Rich white guys were snatched from their homes and hung from trees. That was a truly frightening era.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Oh yes, I lived through that horrible time.

(Is the sarcasm thingie needed?)

[2naSalit]

6. Wasn't that the whole

"thing" about the Bowling Green massacre?

[CaptYossarian]

14. The good news about that was when they were hung upside down,

the cash in their pockets emptied, thus not needing the piñata stick.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. I saw that happen to Chris Hayes a few weeks ago.

He’s been kickin ass and takin names ever since.

All In!

[bucolic_frolic]

7. We are turning the tide and winning the battle

Trump is being zinged by the hour, and politicians and even media folks are openly talking about Trump's "crimes".

It can no longer be ignored. Something is in the cards here.

[dewsgirl]

12. It has for damned sure taken them long enough.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. They, whoever they are, had a lot to manage

the unpredictability of MAGAzis for example, and foreign implications, and public opinion, and domestic extremists. So they have given Trump room to 'sour' in office. There are not as many moving parts as even a year or six months ago

[dewsgirl]

15. They are doing a good job now. Thank goodness.

[flibbitygiblets]

8. Privileged white men, howling about the injustice of being held accountable for their crimes

all the while normalizing and watering down the meaning of lynching. Why stop there, why not call it a presidential holocaust?

[dalton99a]

10. +1. He will upgrade presidential harassment to presidential holocaust pretty soon

[dalton99a]

9. Another day, another proof that Trump will stop at nothing.

[EveHammond13]

11. I usually read her as a little too right for me -- glad to see this

[yuiyoshida]

16. abso-fucking-lutely!

[lillypaddle]

17. Chris Jansing is a jewel

As far as I'm concerned, she could replace Hallie Jackson and Stephanie Ruhle in a minute and I'd be more than fine with it.

ETA: Stinky, maybe you could correct her name so that everyone knows who she is.

[Danascot]

18. It's Chris Jansing

She was with our local TV news early in her career. At the time she was using her maiden name, Chris Kapostasy. I saw her live a couple of times when she was covering stories I had some minor involvement with.

I always take notice when her name crops up because I knew of her from then. She's smart, she knows what questions to ask and isn't afraid to ask them. Plus she has the requisite good looks for a TV news personality. To me she's a local person who's gone on to bigger things in her career and does them well.