Friday, January 17, 2014

Meet The Press Gives Up


This Sunday, the steward of America's longest-running public interest talks show dredges the Tidal Basin to comes up with the worst possible collection of grifters, intellectual deadbeats and Wall Street hacks to conduct a Very Serious Discussion about the (I kid you not) "Politics of Controversy":
Will ‘Bridgegate’ and Benghazi be political weapons against Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton in 2016? Plus, will new President Obama’s NSA reforms be enough to quiet the government’s critics? Our roundtable weighs in: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, NBC political analyst and former Obama adviser David Axelrod, The Washington Post’s Nia-Malika Henderson and NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell.
Or, as one disreputable hobo once put it:
The Mouse Circus [is] really pushe[ing] the theoretical upper limit of shit-shoveling insults to the memory of Real Journalism...

3 comments:

the cheese eater said...

An infamous anarchist tries to get a large audience to eat a great big both sides shit sandwich. If you can stand slow meandering speech copy the link and hear how Clinton is (in some ways) responsible for Bush the Lessor 's torture regime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=v1nlRFbZvXI#t=2653

Cirze said...

I would call Newt "disgraced" not "former" - and disgraced again and again. As is any news organization that parades him around as a philosopher or historian - let alone a knowledgeable politician.

Anonymous said...

That old media canard, "how will event x be interpreted by our viewers" is so fucking transparent. "will Benghazi be a major issue this campaign? We will devote 22 of 25 minutes this week to exploring this controversial, scandalous issue." Fk!