Where are they now?
Andrew Sullivan is currently skulking around behind a Substack paywall griping about all the usual, fearmongering about trans people. Half his blog is now apparently spent posting pictures of the views from the windows of various people.
Matthew Dowd is making the rounds complaining how unfair it was that he was fired. A) Yep, and B) Welcome to the American workforce!
MSNBC pundit ousted over Kirk talk says network agreed comments were misconstrued
Matthew Dowd tells Katie Couric ex-employer concurred but ‘it didn’t matter’ and they dismissed him anyway.
The political analyst fired by MSNBC over his Charlie Kirk commentary says his former employer agreed with him that his remarks were being misconstrued as “insensitive” – but said “it didn’t matter” to the network, and they dismissed him anyway.
“I said: ‘I think you guys are making a huge mistake,’” Matthew Dowd said on Katie Couric’s podcast. “I said: ‘You know and I know that’s not anything what I meant. You know it’s been misconstrued’ – and they agreed with that.
“They agreed it had been misconstrued. But they said it didn’t matter. The decision’s been made.”
Mr. Dowd is also trying to claw his way back into the circus by explaining why the media is Teh Sux0r, which, if you know Mr. Dowd's history, is the stuff absurdist comedies are made of:
Political pundit and consultant Matthew Dowd said the media’s “herd mentality” is promoting the feeling that President Donald Trump’s tactics of distraction and disruption are working to fool the public into putting Trump in a better light than he deserves.
Despite Steve Schmidt's repeated, heroic efforts to burn his career to the ground, the grifter in him just keeps trying to resurrect himself from the ashes. This week he scored that coveted 32nd paragraph mention in a New York Times column of which no one made it past the 3rd paragraph.
Would it surprise you to learn that Schmidt is lashing out at [checks notes] Both Sides?
"The ad comes from a new group, the Save America Movement, whose leaders say they want to fight Trump with what they call “counter-propaganda.” Two of its leaders — Mary Corcoran, a former public relations executive and Steve Schmidt, a former top aide to John McCain who co-founded (and later left) the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project — are not currently impressed with either party.
They view Trump’s Republican Party with utter contempt, and fault Democrats for failing to push back effectively..."
But didn't he and his pals already save us all back in [checks notes] 2020 (File This Under Selling Your Birthright for a Mess of Pottage)?
That was the setup.
Here's the punch line.
So far, the group has raised $4 million for their venture, though they hope to use location-targeting technology to spend efficiently...
By now the Alert Reader has noticed that every two bit grifter and refugee from their sinful Republican past has pitched up their own individual revival tents hung with their own, individual "movements" and "causes" banners, each one promising to save Murrican Democracy for the low-low introductory membership price of just $9.95 per month.
But wait! There's more!
If you choose to upgrade to our Platinum Membership level ($250/month or a one-time "Hero of Democracy" donation of $10,000) you will receive early access to their podcasts, access to their Discord and an "I Paid A Shit Ton Of Money To Save Democracy And All I Got Was This Lousy Tee Shirt" tee-shirt.
If I told you that Mark "Helicopter Boy" Halperin had shaved his head, gotten some Iron Cross and Skull tats and had gone undercover with the Proud Boys, for a second would you wonder if maybe it was true? Because the oleaginous Halperin, who was once a ubiquitous presence on the Sunday shows and cable news, has vanished from sight. Where is he now? Lemme throw a couple of headlines at you, then you can guess.
First:
Mark Halperin Tells Megyn Kelly How Charlie Kirk’s Assassination...
And then:
Journalist calls it ‘incredible’ that ABC pulled Kimmel after years of anti-Trump programming
Panelists Mark Halperin (editor and chief of Two Way?) and Byron York (Fox News contributor) join ‘The Ingraham Angle’ to discuss fallout from Charlie Kirk’s assassination and ABC’s decision to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air.
Hilarious that Halps is still demanding to be called a "journalist". And wuzzit Two Way? A YouTube thingie which he co-hosts with Sean "Puffy" Spicer and someone from the Shadow Realm called Daniel Calhoon Turrentine -- a name obviously stolen from the unpublished works of Mark Twain.
The blurb for morning edition of this drivel... well ... the word "grandiose" hardly covers it (for the full effect, this should be read in your head in the voice of the late Ted Knight doing his Super Friends voiceover.)
Every weekday morning, the executives who run America’s television news networks chair a key gathering of their anchors, correspondents and producers to look ahead at the day’s forthcoming events. The meeting offers – for those lucky enough to attend – a fascinating, forward-looking snapshot of the news cycle ahead.
Each weekday morning on 2WAY, the home of conversations like no other, “The Morning Meeting” offers the chance to attend – and participate in – one such meeting...
And since I am a merciful blog host, I shall reprint only the first little bit of the blurb for the evening edition of this drivel:
Join Mark Halperin and some of the leading minds in politics...
But the best headline of all? From an outfit called "ABD Post":
MARK HALPERIN brilliantly breaks down why Disney canceled Jimmy Kimmel...
The "ABD Post" is a pro-Erdoğan Turkish-American website about which you have never heard, and from which you will never hear again.
And finally, a two-fer. In case you were worried that you might have to hold a bake-sale to support Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi, you can stop worrying. They are both are residing comfortably in the reactionary libertarian free-speech terrariums their tech oligarch sugar daddies built for them and their ilk.
From The New Republic:
Tech billionaires and iconoclast journalists suddenly see eye to eye.
...
"Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left", a new book by the journalist Eoin Higgins, is an attempt to understand how a collection of unimaginably wealthy, increasingly angry titans of technology and finance were able to acquire loud allies among journalists who had, until relatively recently, been largely associated with the political left. Higgins previously covered this beat in his work for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and for his own newsletter, The Flashpoint. Some of that work is repurposed here, but the book expands on it, taking a broader look at the sociocultural and political currents that have brought new alignments of writers, audiences, and funders.
His two main subjects are the journalists Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi, although a number of other new-media all-stars and hangers-on make appearances...
And that is the end of the news.
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