Things have not been looking all that rosy for the legacy media in recent days, and in the wake of President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance’s victory on Election Day. As we recently shared, cable network MSNBC in particular has seen a massive plummet in its ratings.
Comcast, the parent company for MSNBC, possibly in an attempt to stave off the bleeding of its bottom line, also has made noises that it could jettison several of its media properties to new owners.
Then there were signs on Thursday that not only might it not be long before there’s no Joy in Mudville, er, on MSNBC, but host Joy Reid issued one of those self-righteous announcements so common from progressives over the past few days–that she had deleted her X account.
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The problem, or at least one of the problems, that these networks continue to have is the outright insane slurs thrown out like Mardi Gras beads at Republicans by both their shows’ hosts and guests. The GOP presidential nominee and his running mate were attacked nonstop as would-be Nazis and authoritarians set to tear down democracy by Harris-Biden apparatchiks employed by CNN and MSNBC. One would think that the overwhelming win, signifying the American people’s rejection of these slimy tactics, might give them pause.
But there was yet another example broadcast this week on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes,” when Sherrilyn Iffill, a former president of the NAACP and Biden administration lackey, slung this disgusting attack at the character of Trump nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth:
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Apparently, what set off Ifill and those of her progressive ilk was that Hegseth, a veteran and well-known veterans advocate, wrote in his book that he doesn’t support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in the military.
Ifill’s conduct during the interview was so outrageous, an unlikely voice has now spoken out—a former Biden WH aide, Michael LaRosa, who was First Lady Jill Biden’s press secretary. On his X account, he unleashed a dire warning to Democrats and the legacy media about the insanity of continuing to use invective and bombastic character assassination against the other side of the aisle, as a crutch for failing to offer a legitimate agenda Americans can rally around.
It’s somewhat lengthy but worth reading in full. He said:
Warning: coarse language
This s**t has to stop. Opposing DEI initiatives does not make you a white supremacist. Conversations and demonization like this are a big part of the reason we got our a**es kicked.
The answer to extremism is not more extremism. Voices like this on the left are turning the Democratic Party into a joke. We’ve got to knock it off and get serious guests who are going to diagnose politics, not make it worse. Name calling, vilifying, and defaming nominees you oppose, even if there is very good reason to oppose them, represents everything the Democratic Party should be RUNNING away from.
Let’s fight back with a strategy and tactics …. not pointless, defamatory, and juvenile invective. We need to get serious people opining about policy and politics, not one-upping each other or competing for who can make the most provocative insult about a Trump nominee you oppose.
This is especially timely advice, considering the fact that the congressional nomination hearings for Trump’s picks are rushing towards us early in the new year. But while LaRosa’s diagnosis of the problem and prescription of the solution are not wrong, the chances of any of this being picked up and implemented by the machinery running the Democrat Party and its hangers-on in the legacy media are slim to none–and slim just left the building.
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