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‘You have all been paid to lie’: MSNBC hosts scared they might be laid off
Donald Trump’s victory was a massive win for a lot of reasons but perhaps one of the biggest is the light it reflected on just how poorly the mainstream media is actually doing.
Now, the hosts who have been spewing left-wing talking points and calling everyone they disagree with “Nazis” for the past eight years are starting to realize they’ve done something horribly wrong — and their livelihoods are now in jeopardy.
“In the last two-plus weeks since the election, it has become obvious that the online media and the alt media, whatever you want to call it, has just completely surpassed the corporate media, and they do not know what to do,” Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” comments.
And it’s not just the election results that have these mainstream hosts shaking in their boots.
In a recent report from the New York Post, it was revealed that MSNBC’s parent company Comcast confirmed a “massive spinoff of its cable properties — with a top executive even suggesting the left-leaning network may be forced to change its name.”
“The new entity could be cut off from the reporting muscle of NBC News,” the article continued, noting that Rachel Maddow, Chris Jansing, Katy Tur, and Joe Scarborough were among those alarmed by the news.
“It could not happen to a more deserving group of people. None of you deserve the attention, you don’t deserve the money, you don’t deserve the fame, or any of it. You have all been paid to lie,” Rubin comments.
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‘Morning Joe’s’ civil sit-down with Trump leaves ‘The View’ hosts FUMING
Like most of the mainstream media, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” hosts, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, called Donald Trump “Hitler” for years.
Now they’re attempting to build a civil relationship with the president-elect, including by sitting down for a meeting with him — and “The View’s” Sunny Hostin could not be less thrilled.
“The bottom line is that America needs a free press that is willing to speak truth to power, right now, more than ever,” Hostin began.
“I think that we have to be very clear-eyed when we think about the president-elect and cover the president-elect, and I don’t think you need to sit down for 90 minutes a Mar a Lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak truth and to be able to cover a story,” she continued.
“So maybe they’re not journalists in the true sense, maybe they’re saying that they’re opinion journalists, but we have to remember that Trump is the guy who ushered in the era of fake news,” she concluded.
Of course, Ana Navarro wholeheartedly agreed.
“I think there’s a lot of people who are probably looking at what Joe and Mika did and find it opportunistic,” she said. “There are people who change their stripes, or maybe their spots, I should say today, depending on who is in power and what benefits them.”
“We don’t know what they’re going to do if he commits abuses of power as president. So, you know, everybody has to live with their decision. Everybody has to look at themselves in the mirror,” she added.
Surprisingly, Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” agrees.
“Yes, I’ve been saying you people have to look at yourselves in the mirror. I don’t think you’re quite there yet, Ana, although the Ozempic is working, but that’s not really what you should be looking in the mirror for,” Rubin says.
“What you should be looking in the mirror for is that your hypocrisy is off the charts. You think people change their stripes to be opportunistic? That’s kind of funny, Ana Navarro, because you used to work when you were a Republican, a conservative, for Marco Rubio, who’s now secretary of state,” he adds.
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Liberals are FURIOUS that these two mainstream news anchors just met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
MSNBC’s audience has “dropped by half in the last ten days,” and now it’s probably going to drop even more when viewers learn what two of the network's top hosts did last week.
Joe Scarborough of “Morning Joe” and his co-host and wife, Mika Brzezinski, traveled to Mar-a-Lago for a “personal sit-down with the president-elect” — the man they’ve been calling Hitler for years.
What could possibly inspire such a strange meeting?
Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere discuss the possibilities.
According to Scarborough and Brzezinski, they met with Trump in an effort to “restart communications.”
“We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump's actions and words in the coarsening of the public debate,” Brzezinski said on yesterday’s show. “But for nearly 80 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, and January 6 were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote.”
“Joe and I realized it’s time to do something different,” she added.
“Something different” apparently meant consorting with the fascist enemy who they’ve sworn repeatedly will destroy this country.
Stu proposes an idea: Perhaps they’ve realized the only “rational human thing to do” is to acknowledge that despite pushing the “Donald Trump is a fascist" narrative, the majority of Americans still “voted for him.” Maybe the meeting was their effort to “try and understand” the other side.
Glenn isn’t as optimistic.
They’re “just desperate to hold on,” he says, pointing out that MSNBC is currently up for sale. They’re just “desperate to not lose [their] gig.”
“But why would that help you?” asks Stu.
“There's only two options here: One is the host you love is meeting with Hitler. The other option is they've been lying to you the entire time. Why would you ever watch that show again in either circumstance?” he wonders.
“It will [hurt viewership],” Glenn agrees, “but you are trying to inject logic into this.”
“Is it possible they actually really do believe their rhetoric this whole time, and they think Trump is actually going to pull them off the air and so they're trying to get on his good side to prevent that?” Stu then asks.
“No,” says Glenn. “We honestly thought if we lost, our time would be marked,” but “I never would have gone, ‘You know, I need to see Kamala.”’
“But you’re not a horrible human being, so you’re not understanding their situation exactly,” says Stu.
To hear more of Glenn and Stu’s commentary and get Trump’s comments on his meeting with Joe and Mika, watch the clip above.
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Jon Stewart delivers scorching takedown of Democrats, 'Morning Joe' over their 'cope' with Trump's decisive election victory
Jon Stewart slammed Democrats for their "cope" with the decisive 2024 election victory of President-elect Donald Trump. The liberal talk show host also skewered "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for making a “personal” visit to meet with Trump.
During his Monday monologue on "The Daily Show," Stewart introduced a new segment he called "The Audacity of Cope," where he ridiculed Democrats for attempting to find minor wins after the embarrassing election loss by Vice President Kamala Harris.
'Republicans are playing chess, and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because they glued their balls to their thighs.'
Stewart played a montage of Democrats and liberal talking heads previously comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin. The compilation also showed them warning that Trump is a "threat to Democracy" who would cause “irreversible” damage to the country if elected.
However, Stewart later played a clip of "Morning Joe" co-hosts Scarborough and Brzezinski announcing that they met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week in an effort to reopen the lines of communication for the first time in seven years. As Blaze News reported this week, Brzezinski said the meeting was an effort to "restart communications" with Trump, of whom they have been extremely critical since he was elected in 2016.
"Now, we talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets," Scarborough stated. "We talked about that a good bit. And it's gonna come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show, has watched it over the past year or over the past decade, that we didn't see eye to eye on a lot of issues. And we told him so."
“Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump,” Brzezinski said. “And for those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back, why wouldn’t we?”
Stewart shot back, "Uh, because you said he was Hitler."
Last November, Scarborough compared Trump to Hitler.
Stewart also mocked Democrat politicians for attempting to "cope" with the brutal election loss by highlighting seemingly insignificant achievements.
“I assume now that the Democrats have lost to the greatest threat we’ve ever faced as a nation that they will be forthright in acknowledging, one, the Democrats’ role in this catastrophic defeat and, two, the bleak hellscape we now face,” Stewart said.
Stewart mocked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) for trying to sugarcoat the results of the election by saying that the Democrats managed to "flip three House seats and gain back almost all of those that we had lost in 2022."
Stewart quipped, "Yeah, 'almost' is doing a lot of work in that sentence. 'Yeah, we almost gained back all that we lost.'"
He accused Democrats of trying to "spin" a situation that is "clearly not good news."
"The Daily Show" host announced, “It’s a new dynamic, it is a willful bright-siding, this s**t show that we celebrate in our new segment called 'The Audacity of Cope.'"
Stewart teased progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) for attempting to find glimmers of hope by spotlighting that some of the new Democrats in the House are diverse, including "the first trans member of Congress" and "the youngest member ever elected to the House from New Jersey."
Stewart joked, "Wait till you hear that this record-breaking young phenom from New Jersey is 38 years old! 38 years old! How far are we going with this? 'Oh, in Illinois, we elected a ginger!'"
Stewart added, “Wow, this is going to be the most diverse group of congresspeople to ever get all their legislation blocked. So inspiring!”
The Republicans hold at least 218 seats in the House — the number needed for a majority. Meanwhile, the Democrats hold 212 seats, and there are five seats still undecided.
Stewart continued his scorching takedown of Democrats, “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Republicans are playing chess, and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because they glued their balls to their thighs."
Stewart then lampooned President Joe Biden for dealing with the election loss by visiting the Amazon rain forest and then seemingly wandering off into the jungle. Stewart described Trump’s Cabinet selections as "provocative and unorthodox," including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Rep. Matt Gaetz, and Fox News host Pete Hegseth. The liberal talk show host claimed that Republicans will push through the Cabinet picks with loopholes.
“Democrats are positive that the vaunted constitutional rules of the Senate shall be the guardrail to this madness,” Stewart said of Trump’s Cabinet nominees. "That is our government in a nutshell: The rules say ‘We can stop it.’ The loophole says, 'F*** that!' So what are you left with? The last refuge of losers: the norms.”
“Republicans exploit the loopholes," he noted. "Democrats complain about the norms over and over and over, and it has ghastly consequences.”
Stewart advised Democrats, "You guys be the loophole guys that figure out how to get s**t done, because [Republicans] don’t give a f*** about your norms."
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