Thank you, Chuck Todd.
And all those MSNBCers.
With the backlash from all of these NBC employees to the hiring of former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, they have illustrated vividly what is wrong with the so-called mainstream media.
In a blink they have shown exactly why the rise of conservative media, from the long ago beginning with the publication of William F. Buckley’s conservative National Review to, 12 years later, the creation of what would become this very publication by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr —the conservative American Spectator. Eventually, to the decided fury of liberal media, Rupert Murdoch and the late Roger Ailes created television’s Fox News, now joined by Chris Ruddy’s Newsmax (where, full disclosure, I am a contributor) to the Nexstar Media Group’s NewsNation.
The MSNBCers have shown exactly why the arrival of the late Rush Limbaugh in the new phenomenon of talk radio in 1988 proved to be such a massive hit, along with his fellow talkers with names like Sean Hannity (also a Fox host), Glenn Beck, Jesse Kelly, and now Rush’s successors Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Not to mention others of a more local bent in cities across the nation.
Add into this the success in the internet age of all manner of conservative websites, and it is self-evident that there has been a conservative revolution across the media.
And the conduct of Chuck Todd, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and others at MSNBC — not to mention those on other locales in the mainstream media — illustrates exactly why millions of Americans have long since turned their backs on all of them.
As this is written, Mediaite headlines:
MSNBC Dumps Trump’s Live Remarks As He Yet Again Claims Trial is ‘Election Interference’: ‘Arguably Not the Fact’
In other words, conservative arguments on these subjects must be censored. Former President Donald Trump saying something that is “arguably not the fact” means he should be silenced. But one phony story after another on MSNBC about the Trump–Russia collusion hoax? No problem! Let ’er rip!
Over at CNN was another amazing fairy tale. CNN’s Boris Sanchez, amazingly if unsurprisingly, said this about Trump’s comments:
Trump there, laying out a plethora of falsehoods, perhaps the most blatant one, that all of these criminal cases were orchestrated by President [Joe] Biden. There is no evidence to support that.
Hello? No evidence to support that? No less than the New York Times reported in April of 2022 that:
[Attorney General Merrick Garland]’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself. As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted…. And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.
Biden and company are no fools on something like this. They knew that instead of speaking directly to Garland about prosecuting Trump, they should merely advertise that this was Biden’s desire and get that printed in the New York Times. And presto! Mission accomplished! Imagine that!
Not to mention there was this headline from Fox in January of 2024:
Fulton County prosecutor, Fani Willis romantic partner, met with Biden White House twice before charging Trump
Nathan Wade billed Georgia county for meetings in May, November 2022 with White House
What, one must ask, is a mere county prosecutor in Atlanta doing getting not one but two meetings in the White House with Biden staff?
Well … duh.
The bottom line here is quite simple.
As Chuck Todd’s indignant scolding of his own bosses vividly illustrates, not to mention the reports of open rebellion at MSNBC over McDaniel’s hiring, the entire network is not filled to the brim with journalists. The entire network — not to mention the “mainstream media” at large — is filled with left-wing activists masquerading as journalists. And those activists will brook no dissent.
This episode is, in fact, a snapshot of how the liberal media works. Which is exactly why it has been losing audience for years.
Shocking.
Not.
