From HuffPo:
What Did ‘Pod Save America’ Expect?
Don’t put professional Republican smear men on your liberal podcast.
Until Wednesday night, at least, Tim Miller was known — if he was known at all outside Beltway circles — as the token Republican pet of Crooked Media, the distributor of the wildly popular “Pod Save America.” Crooked is a podcast group founded by Obama administration alums Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor, and the role of Miller, a former Jeb Bush spokesman, is occasionally to play the heel but mostly to assure liberal listeners that Good Republicans do exist. He has a segment, called “The Cuck Zone,” in which he often criticizes the Trumpier segments of the GOP.
Accepting Miller as a friendly face in liberal circles required a certain transient amnesia about what the Republican Party is and how Miller has served it. The effort of not knowing became a lot harder on Wednesday, when The New York Times published a blockbuster report that, among other unseemly details, revealed that Facebook had hired an opposition research firm to push back against anti-Facebook groups. The campaign exploited the anti-Semitism on the right, encouraging reporters “to explore the financial connections between [George] Soros’s family or philanthropies and groups that were members of Freedom from Facebook.”
The Republican operative behind the campaign was none other than Miller...
We at the Professional Left Podcast take no position on the hiring practices of other Liberal podcasts -- especially ones that have gown so huge so quickly they are not even aware of our existence.
I will say that when we began The Professional Left we considered hiring one of those jocular Republican "former" smear-merchant for, y'know, balance. Which, I am told, is so important in these trying times! But of course, back when when we started our little podcast in the middle of Middle America nine years ago, none of our Brand New Never Trump Bestest Buddies were in any way "former" anything. They were just Republicans. Exactly the same sleazy, Republican tub thumpers they have been for decades. Out there, getting paid to do active harm to our country and only too happy to slander us Libtards stupid or crazy or alarmist or traitors.
And then boom! Overnight they all simultaneously discovered that there was gold in marketing a fairy tale about how shocked and horrified they were to discover that the Republican Party they had served their entire lives was ... Full of Republicans!!!
Now, of course, those jocular Republican "former" smear-merchant are either waaaaay out of the price range of our little podcast, or have all been too busy promoting their books on Liberal Teevee and on other Liberal podcasts --
-- to return our calls.
Funny old world.
Behold, a Tip Jar!
3 comments:
First,
For selfish reasons I am grateful for the lack of republican life boats on the PRo Left ship.
The days of Hannity and comes proved out to fly cast and hook peoples eyeballs.
As the producers provided more show time to the hannity to drown the Colmes to the point Colmes was not needed to keep the Hannity afloat. Once hannity made it to the piece of floating debris. It was just a matter of hanging on and paddling toward anything. Which ended up paddling not toward shore but lost at open sea. Now just hope no one presses the flush lever.
When it comes to marketing and sales.
specifically those out of the GW Bush , With us or against us" partisanship Motto. Where a ham bone conservative who never served a day or considered it. Found his republican identity so patriotic enough to question actual war veterans of their patriotism because "liberal" something-something.
Take the MSNBC As for Nicole Wallace. She says she wrote spin and other required stuff during her tenure with Bush. That wasn't "lying". How she expects people on her show to come with out talking points. Nicole's spin was just Alternative facts all along.
The same GOP that gave Rushbo the republican House Medal of Honor as the party majority builder. Was and is, the same scum regurgitating slim sucker he has and continues to be. Yet, there he is with his Sandra Fluke wanting to watch her have sex because she takes Birth Control and Dammit, "if Rushbo doesn't believe he pays for her birth control". Nichole will never, ever confront Rushbo with, "his freedom was paid for with the lives of Americans which he himself would never consider doing.
--( As one of those war veterans. What demand(s) am I entitled to of Rushbo as he feels entitled to ms. Fluke????)---
I mean I paid for Rushbo freedoms.
The leach on society drawing it sustenance to preserve its life.Only taking and never giving back or improving matters.
Picture Nichole Wallace bringing back the Keith Olberman "Count Down" shows segment of "Worst Person in the World"
Who might she find as it's winners and runners up?
Rushbo. hannity. Ingraham> McConnell and his abhorrence for deference?
From Sykes to Frum. all promoted and engineered Arc of Anarchy toward the extreme conservatism. No responsibility. No guilt. happy to parlay it into a paycheck.
Now these creatures have positions to now explain to people, how Democratic party should act. "Liberal Pelosi and House crew should =NOT- over reach. Only the GOP is aloowed to do that. How about, Pelosi and liberal House should civilly bipartisanship work with republicans to help republicans carry out their agenda that the people just voted against.......!
You know, Orrin Hatch, paul Ryan were casting obstructive vibes during the Bush Adm while Nicoles was writing her spin for a check.
What was her spin when the Senate passed the Immigration bill to upgrade it and Speaker Boehner refused to put it on the floor for a vote.
There are too many termites and too much termite damage to save that GOP safe haven house.
What is the saying,
"Don't get me started".
I believe this quote is from the congresswoman from across the bay:
"How about never? Does never work for you?"
-Doug in Oakland
I will know much better the sincerity of Never Trumpers when,
When MR. Kellayanne Conway not only forms his legal group to confront Trump Adm illegalities. But also, McConnell and the Ryans of the congress.
Where were these Never Trumpers when Garland was shunned with no deference? When GOP Senate discarded Filabuster for Kavanaugh. A very extreme partisan party hack to put on SCOTUS. After his very mentally unstable performance in his own defense. Or when Wall Street was writing their own tax legislation .
We should all act this way in front of judges everywhere, right?
Apparently it is a winning strategy and it worked for the GOP .
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