We cats used to watch a lot of MSNBC. Heck, it was only thanks to "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" that we were able to get through the second Bush Administration. For years, our cable boxes were set to tune directly into the channel whenever we turned them on.
But we've been watching less and less lately. The rise, fall, and re-emergence of Benedict Donald has revealed cable news for what it really is: a corporate enterprise that strives for eyeballs, clicks and likes by feeding viewers' anxiety instead of informing them — even in the face of Trump-inspired threats to democracy. MSNBC is no exception. All their talking heads and hosts — except perhaps Lawrence O'Donnell — are complicit. Even those who rail against Trump today were eager enablers eight and nine years ago. (Looking at you, Joe and Mika.)
Now, we and the network are done. NBC News has hired Ronna Romney McDaniel as an on-air commentator. Boy, are we glad we're not Jen Psaki, Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace or Symone Sanders, and have to share a set with this person. (Then again, they'll probably meekly go along, because they're all part of the wink-wink-anxiety-pumping operation that lands them their giant paychecks in the first place.)
The woman who's in charge of NBC's political coverage (and whom we shall not name because she doesn't deserve it) can try to dress up the appointment as providing "an insider's perspective," and all the other silly stuff you say when you hire a normal person to join the team. But Ronna Romney helped Benedict Donald try to overturn the 2020 election. She tried to cancel our votes. We won't be watching.
Why don't they just go back to airing Trump's "shows" without fact-checking, and allow him to call into "Morning Joe" and spew garbage for 30 minutes? So long, NBC. We cats HISS, hack up multiple hairballs and dump our dirty litter boxes over Ronna Romney's head.
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