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Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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Is Kristen Welker Very Good at Her Job...

...or very bad at her job?

On Sunday, Donald Trump's lies roll over her like the mighty Mississippi, and there was Welker, once again completely (to mix a metaphor) at sea, discovering again (but as if for the first time), that when you giving a lying sociopath a microphone, they're not going to observe all your quaint journalistic niceties. They're going to blow right on past them while you flop around like a fish on the dock.

Here, are a selection of Welker's impotent attempts to corral Trump into admitting that the J6 thugs and traitors he plans to pardon are, in fact thugs and traitors (h/t Crooks and Liars who have the video and entire exchange):

KRISTEN WELKER: Well, you know —

KRISTEN WELKER: But —

KRISTEN WELKER: I just want to —

KRISTEN WELKER: Yeah.

KRISTEN WELKER: Let me just —

KRISTEN WELKER: But let me —

KRISTEN WELKER: Okay. Let’s move on —

NBC hired themselves another Chuck Todd. Another David Gregory. Which answers the question, whether or not Welker is good at her job. The answer is, she's good at the job that NBC hired her to do: sit in that chair and perform an empty Beltway ritual which might, when glanced for a moment from a great distance through very dirty glasses, be mistaken for journalism.

Finally, I see we're back to the legacy media trying to do make-goods on their televised failures by performing another empty Beltway ritual: ex post facto fact-checking.

Fact-checking Trump's interview with 'Meet the Press'

The president-elect discussed the major policy priorities for his second term and made several false, misleading or exaggerated claims along the way.

Which is as useful as going home and yelling into a pillow after the bully has slapped you around and stolen your lunch money. Again.

The Sunday Showz: As useless as a MoveOn petition.

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