A tale of two networks: MSNBC and CNN [View all]

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So this morning, the Joe SCABS and Mika MOUSE crew had been through some sort of intensive enhanced interrogation and water-boarding. Scabs started off with a painful, attempted impression of CRONKITE calling the Vietnam war off. His delivery was dragged down with mysterious portents of uncertainty about where his paragraphs were going to end up, aching pauses, mournfulness. It took him many minutes to get past how much he loved, respected, and honored President BIDEN, finally to arrive at the opposite end featuring the word “horrible” over and over. Mika MOUSE took over, at first attempting to ameliorate things by saying nobody should panic, only to be cut off by SCABS’s “Nobody is panicking, Mika,” reminiscent of their old pre-courtship days of his verbal and emotional abuse. So they passed the baton to Willie GEIST (formerly F***er CARLSON’s producer, now mainstream), then to the estimable Gene ROBINSON, who toed the line of mournfulness, and finally to the plagiarist BARNICLE, who gloried in his usual attempt to be pretentiously smarmy. They all dutifully mentioned Drumpf’s “LIES” in passing without bothering to delve into the horrible, atrocious, repulsiveness of his J6 coup assault on democracy among much else.

So, curious about what CNN was doing, I found that whoever their anchors are, they were straightforward in noting their observations of problems, but they featured Mitch LANDRIEU, who was totally bright and upbeat, contradicting the “panicking” narrative, saying, “If you’re looking for somebody panicking, you’ve got the wrong Democrat.” Even the execrable RUBIO kept out of it, after they played a medley of his 2016 calling Drumpf “a con man” repeatedly. He claimed “nobody has told” him that he’s on any short list and surprisingly for him barely did any gloating. CNN has been put through the wingnut grinder forever, like how they were called “the CLINTON News Network.” I remember how Wolf and Judy WOODRUFF eventually looked beaten down by the abuse, earning my moniker of what “Tired Liberals” would look like. And, yes, it was torture to hear TAPPER calling Drumpf mostly "President" and only a couple of times "Former President" and that the format didn't allow for ripping down Drumpf's lies - not to mention that a mobster traitor like him has no place even to be considered a candidate.

The issues are all out there and clear cut. What's at stake is the single unthinkable potential of Drumpf's actually winning.

Ah, it is branded on my brain how in 2015 SCABS and MOUSE provided hundreds of hours of free air time to Drumpf and specifically urged him to run and reassured him that he really had a shot at it.