Now that the MSNBC Republican Reputation Rehab Machine has scraped and acid washed and polished Mikey Steele's rep up shiny enough to be given a Saturday show on the network, it now falls to him to extend the same service the next grifter in line: Steve Schmidt.
As I noted just a couple of months ago...
So how does Schmidt do it? Continue to be trusted as a credible ally despite practically screaming that he isn't?
Because, to slightly misquote Ned Beatty in Network, "He's on television dummy."
In case you hadn't noticed, MSNBC has built an entire industry out of rehabilitating the reputations of Republican scoundrels, and all it takes for Schmidt to win his way back into the hearts of credulous Liberals is for Chris Hayes to officially welcome him back, or Joe Scarborough to put him back in the lineup, or Nicole Wallace to put her arm around her old pal Steve and reintroduce him to the audience as one of the good guys.
Which is exactly what I predicted would happen during Schmidt's first fuck-my-principles cash grab back in February of 2019.
Thank you your Honor, and ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I would say that I await your swift and just verdict, but I think we all know exactly what that verdict will be. After taking Howard Schultz for every nickel he can, sooner rather than later Mr, Schmidt will be welcomed back into the loving and lucrative bosom of the Insider's Club.
Because, as I may have mentioned once or twice, the Insider's Club has only two rules:
There's a Club.
You are not in it.
And, right on time, it is exactly what happened eight months later.
And right on time, he's doing it again.
Which is why we...
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And =this= is what they gave Mehdi Hasan the back of the hand for... ~>X[
Seems like grifting heavily off of Howard Schultz is a form of community service, in a leech-like way.
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