The priority of reporting by MSNBC?
I was thinking about it last week.
When I am home I watch MSNBC, especially the Ali Velshi hour. But last week I was thinking that it was sexual harassment all the time. And Russia.
I still believe that most people, who are not political junkies, do not keep up with the Russia investigation and on occasion would wonder how this affects their daily life.
As for the sexual assaults, I think that Cokie Roberts, on last Sunday ABC This Week, really nailed it:
ROBERTS: One of the things to keep in mind is in the base even women are suspicious about the sexual harassment claims. And part of the reason for that is that women who are not in fancy white collar jobs often have really awful thing happen to them on the job. They are assaulted. They are raped. They have horrible things happen to them. And so when they hear women say he talked dirty to me, or he came on to me, they think, big deal.
That's not what happened to me, what happened to me is so much worse. And so, there's not that same sense of affinity.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-11-26-17-sen-tim-scott/story?id=51381100
And I've read similar comments on these pages.
Meanwhile, we have our day to day lives affected by many new regulations coming from the White House. Everyone concentrate on what Congress has not been doing - ACA, taxes, immigration - while new regulations do and will affect our lives.
Also, Trump has been appointing many judges, at a faster rate than Bush or Obama
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/1/kevin-newsom-confirmed-senate-trump-outpace-obama-/
So if any of Trump's victims will decide to sue, and the case goes in front of one of these judges, what are her chances? As we've seen earlier this week with the consumer agency, these new judges know where their loyalties are.
This morning I was watching mSNBC as it ended the hour with one host - do not remember her name - ready to conclude her 10:00 am (Eastern) when she had breaking news: McCain was going to support the tax bill.
Great, I thought, Ali Velshi, the best economics commentator on MSNBC, will be interesting.
But, no, it was only Ruhle and she started by... the latest sexual harassment reports.
So I switched to CNN, there, first the speculations that Tillerson will be replaced, and then about McCain. They had Lindsey Graham talking about everything, including N. Korea and the fake Islamic tape. At MSNBC, they were still talking about sexual harassment reports.
I am glad that many women are coming out. And, yes, I agree that it is suspicious that only liberal are being mentioned.
As much as I dislike Keillor, it is only one woman, one incident that he apologizes on the spot and she accept it. And he thought they were still friends.
And I think that Franken should stop apologizing and just deny it. Let it fall in the "he said/she said" category. Except, of course, for that USO photo where his hand are hovering over her breasts, but this was before he ran for office.
But, really, MSNBC, and here, let's keep our eyes on the ball. The Trump administration is changing our lives and laughing at us.
OK, start shooting.
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