Alert listener G. brought this to my attention this morning.
Ever since Mark Halperin was cast into media perdition for being a creepy sex past, it's been painfully clear that the very ippy tippy top of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's to-do list is has been "Get Mark Halperin back on network teevee".
Whether this is because Halperin keeps showing up on the ScarBinski's doorstep, curled into the fetal position and wailing like a banshee with kidney stones...or whether making sure that no Media Insider Club member is ever left bereft of a place at the table is a duty that must be undertaken, no matter how distasteful it may be, for the good order of the Club, is an open question.
What we can know is that on too many occasions to be a coincidence, ScarBinski has gone out of their way to wedge Halperin onto MSNBC air, either in person, by proxy or -- as happened today -- by repeating his name over and over again, as if summoning Beetlejuice.
Today, no less than four times. "Halperin writes", "Halperin's newsletter", etc.
Nothing to report, really, except members of the mainstream media remain immune from consequences. Everyone knows it. That's how the Club operates, which is why no one with knowledge of how exactly the Club works has ever spilled the beans about how Club works.
Which may be why it is clearly very important to A.M. cable news' cringiest power couple that no effort should be spared in helping Halperin tunnel out of purgatory.
This is the kind of thing that makes me laugh about the idea of cancel culture. If Mark Halperin's sexual harassment isn't enough to actually get you cancelled, what would be?
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ReplyDelete-- the elite, turning into uwu smol beans any time they face one iota that might conceivably live down the street from a whiff of something that could potentially develop into a consequence
To answer Jim's question, public gomorry might do it, once the brain-blasting horror of learning wherein "gomorry" actually consists had passed and the people responsible for imposing cancellation recovered such advanced brain skills as color vision and bowel control.
Maybe we need a more Paris, 1793 vibe...
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