You would think that two weeks after Trump’s election and a full two months before his swearing in the left would have calmed down a bit.
You’d be wrong:
Calls for Morning Joe to be boycotted have come from Jen Rubin and Joe and Mika have been attacked by the left for daring to even speak to Trump
Of course if you don’t have all that many viewers will anyone notice if they leave?
And as Comcast is dumping the whole network will anyone care?
Rob Reiner is being attack on Bluesky for apparently not being loyal enough to the left reich.
Rob Reiner is getting dogpiled over in Digital Canada for the crime of… accepting the results of the election and choosing to focus on family and his job. pic.twitter.com/51Jx1kwIcf
They’re eventually going to run out of their own allies to eat but not yet.
Of course the best sign of the left falling apart are people with something to lose both running away from their agenda.
Disney has reportedly decided to shelve an episode of the children’s cartoon series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, apparently over its plot concerning a transgender high school athlete.
Just when maybe Disney thought they’d gotten a handle on their difficult production and its even more difficult star, Zegler went on a rant last week, wishing harm on Donald Trump supporters. “There is a deep sickness in this country,” she wrote on Instagram. “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.”
Then she quickly changed her tune again — likely after some stern words from Disney — claiming, “I would like to sincerely apologize for the election post I shared on my Instagram last week.”
“I let my emotions get the best of me,” she continued. “Hatred and anger have caused us to move further away from peace and understanding, and I am sorry I contributed to the negative discourse.”
When there is money at stake things change.
But the really funny thing of the week was this from the view after going after the Matt Gaetz nomination and Gaetz personally having to put out a disclaimer live on TV.
What’s so great about this is just how much Hostin clearly didn’t want to read it. Watch her facial expressions, which are not subtle in the slightest, and then listen to her struggle to make it through.
Never has a show host wanted to rip the heart out of their producer more than Hostin in that moment. Just before she starts reading the statement, she has some kind of spasm. From there, you can tell she’s doing everything she can to hold it together. Hostin did not want to offer that correction, but even overpaid elites have to play by the rules of the legal system. Well, at least sometimes.
Remember Trump won’t be President for another two months and no votes are going to take place on any of those guys before then. Everything you’re hearing now is just noise.
I’ve got principles, and if you don’t like them, well, I’ve got others
Groucho Marx
There are all kinds of niche markets in the world. We bloggers are a niche market, comic book people are a niche market, Doctor who fans are a niche market, Candle Pin bowlers are a niche market. Model Train people are a niche market. Baseball simulation gamers are a niche market Pinball is a niche market.
And if there is one thing that is true about a niche market is it’s this. Niche markets can only support so many people or producers. If the number of producers exceeds the market eventually they will disappear, even faster if the market contracts which often happens if there is a brief bubble of popularity.
The woke left is a niche market. It seemed larger because most normal people didn’t want to have to deal with that idiocy and found it easier to go along or ignore them. Because it was a loud niche market with some billionaires who had money to burn behind them, they seemed larger than they were but eventually you reach a point where the billionaires don’t want to fund it and the advertising people figure out there are too few eyeballs to be worth the money they are paying. It’s one think to be accepted at parties but the shareholders still want their return.
That’s why you see the retreat of DEI everywhere. Once people stood up to it people realized just how unpopular it was and it had the potential to cost them money companies ran from it like the plague.
And that brings us to Joe and Mika.
It’s quite possible that they actually believed that Trump was going to lose, and lose by a lot and thus continued to play to the niche market their network in general and their show in particular choose to embrace. Sure they and most of the left calling Donald Trump a Nazi had no problem with him for 60+ years but this was a matter of power for the left so after puffing him up in the primaries as a sacrificial lamb they dropped him like a rock when he became a threat to the niche they served.
And so for eight long year they made their living banging the “Trump is Evil” drum.
Then the bottom fell out of the market, the first sign was the Biden debate, the 2nd sign was the Kamala campaign and election day solidified it.
MSNBC kicked ass on rating on Election night because a lot of conservatives turned on the channel to watch them squirm, now that the election is over there simply is not enough of a niche market to keep them paid. So what do you do when you’re a couple in your Sixties and late fifties and the prospect of your television career is looking bad because your niche audience is going away?
Why you break out of that niche.
Yeah this move is going to upset Olberman and Jen Rubin and the Ladies on the view, but it has the potential to bring in eyeballs that normally might not give them a first look let alone a 2nd.
And there is of course always the potential of Trump calling in which would send rating and exposure through the roof.
Those two things may be enough for advertisers to decide to say put and the alternative of doing nothing is not likely to bring in the bucks. They saw the advertisers return to X they know where the dollars and eyeballs are so they are trying to do what is the primary job of TV personalities, attract eyeballs.
Jen, Keith and Jojo it’s not personal, it’s strictly business.
Oh and all that Trump stuff about being Hitler and a dictator?
Morning Joe 5/16/16 discussing Jeffrey Epstein publicly for the 1st time
Prime Minister Jim Hacker:You’ve been briefed by MI5
Sir Arnold Robertson: Indeed Prime Minister
Prime Minister Jim Hacker:Bad Business
Sir Arnold Robertson: Unfortunate
Prime Minister Jim Hacker:Disastrous I’d say
Sir Arnold Robertson: Not disastrous surely, it will never come out.
Prime Minister Jim Hacker:You’ve mean things are only disastrous if people find out about them?
Sir Arnold Robertson: Of course
Yes Prime Minister: One of Us 1986
8 years ago in May the defining moment, at least to me, of the Presidential campaign of 2016 took place when this segment aired on Morning Joe:
I wrote about this at the time and noted the following:
take a look at the video and two things become immediately clear.
Everybody at the Table knows who Jeffery Epstein is, and what the story is
Nobody at the table wanted to talk about it
It’s also worth noting 7 years later that while people keep trying to connect Trump with Epstein today, NOBODY at the table even slightly hinted that there was any connection with Trump & Epstein.
At the time this segment took place MSNBC did something they didn’t usually do, they made copyright claims on this segment and made it very hard to find, but I was a daily Morning Joe viewer so I knew where to find it, albeit with some difficulty.
I can see the NBC reaction now: Nonsense, we’re not censoring the clip at all. The seven minute clip IS available IF you
Go to the Morning Joe site
Hit search taking you to the MSNBC search engine
Search for Donald Trump
Narrow the field to Morning Joe
Narrow the field to May 16th 2016
and sit through all the videos till you find the right one.
And skip ahead to the 12 minute mark on that video.
If you do so you CAN find the clip and watch the Morning Joe panel’s reaction to what Donny Deutsch says
Well Donald Trump won the election and Jeffrey Epstein crimes became public knowledge and the celebs who mixed with him freely because he was a friend of the Clintons were suddenly publicly aghast causing Stephen Green to say:
I’d take their apparent umbrage more seriously had they covered the story with this much energy any time from, say, 2009 to last Friday.
Well Epstein went to jail (where he DIDN’T kill himself) and the fact that everyone with power on the left and media knew and didn’t care until the public found out faded from memory.
🧵🍿 MSNBC's Joe Scarborough initial reaction to last night's #CNNDebate:
“Well, I think I should start by saying, without any apologies, that I love Joe Biden and Jill, and I will gladly debate anybody anytime anyplace, anywhere, over the issue of whether Joe Biden has been the… pic.twitter.com/xoEEZqf0uB
Meanwhile four months ago while all these people were saying Joe Biden was fine to the American people Italian Television was running comedy skits like this about Biden
Bottom line this was all out there and people knew, as Byron York put it:
But it is clear that for years, Democrats at all levels of the party have looked the other way, buried their heads in the sand, and lied to themselves about Biden’s condition. Just in recent weeks, they have nodded their heads in approval when sympathetic journalists attributed troubling video of Biden to Republican “cheapfakes.” They have told themselves the GOP was spreading lies about the president’s condition. This month they looked at Biden standing frozen for two minutes amid a joyous concert and explained it by saying he was never much of a dancer. They deceived themselves.
Then, at about 9:01 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, the self-deception stopped. The CNN debate presented a brutal picture of the president’s condition. Until now, everyone’s comparison of Biden’s vs. Trump’s mental and physical abilities rested on comparing videos of the two men in different situations and at different events. In the debate, they were side by side in real time on a TV split screen. The contrast was unavoidable. Biden looked out of it. Trump looked with it.
Even the farthest left of the farthest left understood what the real scandal was:
Cenk Uygur on being lied to by the left
Bill Akerman who recently had his eyes opened by the left’s embrace of the “death to the Jews Crowd” had a longer thing to say let me excerpt his tweet:
Left wing media have had total and complete access to the president, his staff, and his administration. They all knew, but they told you otherwise. They outright lied to you. When Robert Hur, the special counsel who deposed the president, said that the president was not fit to stand trial and therefore chose not to bring charges, the media described him as a tool of the Republican Party and character assassinated him. When the
@WSJ recently published a several-thousand-word, carefully researched, front page piece on the president’s mental and physical health, it was described by left wing media as outright propaganda. Now consider who has been feeding you propaganda.
Of course he is not up to being president until he is 86 years old. He’s not up to being president right now. The question is, why didn’t everybody already know that?”
The scandal here isn’t that Joe Biden isn’t competent to be president, the scandal here is that all the people in media and government knew for months or even years that this was the case, but carried on as if it was not and let whoever who has been running the country (I’m Betting the Obama team) since his “election” carry on and would have been happy to continue doing so until the events of Thursday evening.
In other words to all those people who lied for years, to paraphrase Sir Arnold, It’s wasn’t disastrous or dangerous for a person who wasn’t compos mentis to be President of the United States, at least in name, until YOU the public found out about it. Then it became a disaster.
Just like Jeffrey Epstein.
UPDATE: Two quotes accidently were merged in the same area fixed
Update 2: Let’s have a poll
Who do you think has been running the United States as @potus now that everybody knows @joebiden couldn't possibly have done it?
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