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November 12, 2024
November 11, 2024
WATCH: Token Republican Scott Jennings Makes CNN Watchable Again.
Jennings was a lonely voice of reason earlier this year, when journalists were still insisting President Joe Biden was fit to serve another four years in office. He slammed Democrats for suggesting that, behind the scenes, they’d seen Biden “do cartwheels and handstands while doing trigonometry while solving all the nation’s problems,” even though “nobody believes that” and most Americans could see that the president “could barely walk up the stairs.” He compared Biden to Colonel Sanders: “His face is on the bucket, he doesn’t make the chicken anymore; in fact, he’s not even alive anymore.”
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The Democratic Party’s condescending attitude was a serious problem, Jennings argued. (It was.) He observed that “a lot of men think Democrats care more about dudes who want to become women than dudes who just want to be dudes.”
Jennings deserves enormous credit for making CNN (almost) watchable again. Apart from Donald Trump, he is the best thing that ever happened to the liberal network.
He’s certainly gotten CNN back onto Twitter thanks to his highly clipable soundbites and absolutely unruffled demeanor, and will likely soon host his own show somewhere. But I’m not sure if boosting CNN’s presence on Twitter actually translates into better television rating for the beleaguered news opinion network.
MARCO RUBIO TO BE TRUMP’S SECRETARY OF STATE?
If so, Worst. Hitler. Ever.
Our new Secretary of State will not be anything like Tony Blinken pic.twitter.com/mEWWZM092j
— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) November 12, 2024
Related “You’re Hired!” Follow Along For Daily Wire Live Updates As Trump Builds His White House.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Chris Wallace to Leave CNN.
CNN anchor Chris Wallace announced on Monday that he would leave the network at the end of his contract, citing the growing influence of podcasters such as Joe Rogan and Charlamagne tha God.
Wallace – who joined CNN in January 2022 after nearly 20 years at Fox News – told the Daily Beast he would leave the network at the end of his three-year contract in favor of independent broadcasting.
Describing podcasts and streaming platforms as “where the action seems to be,” Wallace pointed to Rogan and Charlamagne’s influence during the 2024 election, before adding, “I don’t flatter myself to think I will have that sort of reach.”
That’s probably very wise.
Back in December of 2021, when Wallace left Fox News for the soon to be stillborn CNN+ platform, Glenn quoted an Insta-reader who quipped, “Chris Wallace announces he is leaving Fox News to pursue his dream of being viewed by far fewer people.”
To paraphrase legendary rock manager Ian Faith, his appeal may become even more selective post-CNN.
CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE: The Progressive Movement Is Finished.
Did he arrest his political enemies? No. Did he vilify half the country as “existential threats” to democracy? No. Did he weaponize agencies of the U.S. government against its citizens? No. In fact, many say that he was too lenient with spreaders of election denialism, like Hillary Clinton.
The Biden-Harris administration did all of those, plus they spiked inflation and opened the U.S. border, allowing everyone in the world to enter at taxpayer expense. Then they insisted it was either not happening, or if it was happening, it was Trump’s fault.
Much of the Democrat leadership and just about all of the legacy media don’t understand everyone’s desire, Republicans and Democrats alike, to enjoy a higher quality of life. Nobody wants more rules, more restrictions, more censorship, less wealth, less security, and fewer choices in life.
All of the legitimate concerns Democrat voters have over the massive influx of illegal migrants in their communities, the weakening of law enforcement, the tolerance of social disorder, the illogical push toward racial and gender preferences in all walks of life, and the war waged on oil and natural gas in the name of “climate change” have been tossed to the side by Democrat leaders. And these voters are fed up.
Just because the Democrats and legacy media push narratives to support their Progressive values and force-feed them down the throats of the public does not mean voters are going to comply. They’re now finding this out in real time.
As mentioned, it was a wild ride for the past twenty-plus years. Harris has gone down in flames. Let’s hope that the Progressive movement goes with her.
They’re not planning to, at least for now: Progressive Democrats push to take over party leadership.
Progressive Democrats are pushing to take over the party leadership as in-fighting breaks out following Kamala Harris’s election defeat.
Left-wingers are hoping to install Ben Wikler, the Wisconsin Democratic chairman, to take over the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and swing it away from the current centrist leadership ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Pramila Jayapal, who leads the Democrats’ progressive faction in Congress, has said she would “love to see somebody” who is “like a Ben Wikler”, Politico reports.
Her intervention may mean Left-wing Democrats swing behind Mr Wikler, who is seen as an effective fundraiser and has been credited with reviving his party’s fortunes in Wisconsin, if he launches a bid for the position.
It comes as Democrats battle over how to rebuild their party following Donald Trump’s election victory on Tuesday night.
Different factions of the party are openly feuding with each other in the aftermath of Ms Harris’s defeat, amid claims that the vice-president failed to appeal to working-class voters.
Bernie Sanders, the veteran Vermont senator, has argued that the next Democratic campaign should be based on a more Left-wing economic message.
Real Bidenomics has never been tried!
UNEXPECTEDLY! Apple quietly discontinuing flagship $3,500 Vision Pro headset due to lackluster sales.
Apple has made a quiet, tactical retreat from augmented and virtual reality, scaling back production of its $3,500 Vision Pro headset.
One employee at Chinese manufacturer Luxshare — which is under contract to perform the final assembly for Vision Pro — revealed that the tech giant informed them that manufacturing of the product may need to ‘wind down’ by November’s end.
Luxshare, according to this source, has already cut assembly rates in half: putting together about 1,000 Vision Pro units/day, down from a high of 2,000 units/day.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, however, has put on a brave face, saying that the $3,500 AR-goggles simply are ‘not a mass-market product.’
‘Right now, it’s an early-adopter product,’ Cook said late last month, in a sprawling interview.
‘People who want to have tomorrow’s technology today—that’s who it’s for. Fortunately, there’s enough people who are in that camp that it’s exciting.’
In fact, industry analysts at Counterpoint Research estimate that Apple only sold around 370,000 of its Vision Pro headsets in the first three quarters of 2024, figures dwarfed by the millions of cheaper Quest headsets sold by its rival Meta.
And with the holiday season fast approaching, their analysts see no signs of improvement, predicting only 50,000 or so more Vision Pro’s will be sold this year.
Based on my initial take on the product, and, much like Google glasses before them, how uncool they made a wearer look, I can’t say I’m at all shocked by this news.
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Enough with the Star Wars Announcements! (Video.)
SPIRIT AIRLINES FLIGHT FROM FLORIDA HIT BY GUNFIRE WHILE TRYING TO LAND IN HAITI:
A Spirit Airlines flight out of Florida was struck by gunfire on Monday while making a landing in Port-au-Prince in Haiti on Monday.
A spokesperson for the airline told Fox News Digital Spirit flight 951 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was diverted to Santiago, Dominican Republic, where it landed safely after being hit by gunfire.
After arriving in the Dominican Republic, an inspection found evidence of damage to the aircraft that was consistent with gunfire.
Conan O’Brien assures me that this story is the proverbial “fake news:”
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Jimmy Kimmel Ratings Soar After Debuting New Segment Where He Stands There All Sad And Cries Like A Wuss.
This is likely straight-up reportage, based on the news from last week: MSNBC Celebrates Beating CNN in Election Night Ratings (Guess Why So Many Were Watching).
STEPHEN MILLER: Kamala Harris ran the Fyre Festival of campaigns.
As it turns out, not all of those celebrity “activists” appeared with Kamala Harris because they believed in her or were doing their civic duty by getting engaged. They charged fees — and some were astronomical. Harris made elaborate promises to her crowds about celebrity performances. Crowds were brought in with the promise of seeing Beyoncé perform, only to leave disappointed. It was all a financial ruse, much like the infamous Fyre Festival of 2017. For the uninitiated, Fyre Festival was sold as a high-end island music festival and was promoted on Instagram by celebrities such as Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid. Attendees were promised luxurious accommodations, airline transportation to and from the island and expensive food and alcohol. What followed, however, was mass confusion, unfulfilled promises, stranded and hungry people and vendors left unpaid. The lead promoter went to prison on fraud charges.
As it turns out, the Harris campaign wasn’t run much differently. As reported in the Washington Examiner, the Harris campaign spent upwards of six figures to build a custom set for her appearance on the Call Me Daddy podcast, which only netted about 800,000 downloads. Meanwhile, Donald Trump appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast — and his interview has got more than 47 million views on YouTube.
There were seven swing-state concerts that involved high-priced performers — Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Jon Bon Jovi, Ricky Martin and more — who seemingly ended up costing the Harris campaign more than $20 million on event production alone, and reportedly even more on paying the celebrities to appear. Even Oprah Winfrey charged the campaign $1 million to show up. The campaign went so far into debt that the campaign was reportedly forced to scrap Canadian Nineties indie-pop singer Alanis Morissette to save money. The pop concert campaign strategy is said to have been the brainchild of former Obama advisors on the campaign.
You can do rock concerts as a campaign strategy when your candidate has rock star chops, of the level that (the composite character of) Barack Obama had on the stump during his 2008 campaign. But Kamala’s campaign was a textbook example of what happens when a bunch of Obama advisors go to work for a candidate who isn’t him and attempt to run the same playbook.
Obama also benefited from a very different news cycle: until the massive subprime mortgage meltdown tanked the stock market on September 29, 2008, the economy wasn’t an ongoing horror story in the news; inflation was under control, unemployment was low in the first half of the year, and on the surface, the stock market was performing relatively well (until it wasn’t). A recurring headline in the summer of 2008 at Instapundit was “Dude, where’s my recession?” It eventually arrived — and how — but until it did, Obama campaigned in a much more forgiving environment among potential voters, before Milton Friedman wasn’t running the show anymore, to only slightly paraphrase the unintentional warning by Joe Biden in 2019 on what he was about to unleash on the unsuspecting American middle class.
BLUEANON BLAME GAME! ‘Scapegoat’ George Clooney to ‘Step Back from Politics.’
“George Clooney feels he is being used as a ‘scapegoat’ in the furious blame game over who could have cost Kamala Harris the election – and will now take a step back from politics,” reports the Daily Mail.
Clooney “threw his support behind Harris after penning a blistering op-ed on why Joe Biden would cost the Democrats the win if he didn’t abandon his campaign,” the report continues, adding, “but it still wasn’t enough to prevent a historic victory for Donald Trump.”
“Clooney has since been criticized by Democrats for his influence during the election, with some claiming Harris’ loss was his fault.”
To be fair, it could have been far worse, according to former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau: Biden’s internal polling had Trump winning 400 electoral votes, ex-Obama official claims: ‘Catastrophic mistake.’
To be fair, Ed Morrissey files Favreau’s statement as “Too Fun to Check.” “[C]olor me very skeptical on this claim, at least until Favreau produces the data. Team Kamala has begun spinning like a top to blame Biden for the loss in order to preserve her potential as a candidate down the road, and this looks like a political myth in the making. ”
Meanwhile, Variety, when not being obsessed with getting Ezra Miller’s pronouns correct, is big mad at everyone in flyover country! Stop Blaming ‘Celebrity Endorsements’ for Kamala Harris’ Loss: We Need to Hear From Artists Now More Than Ever.
In the end, it’s not just about newbie registrations or political conversions — it’s about inspiration for the already committed, too, and salve. Those who already knew who they were going to vote for don’t cherish the memory of hearing Isbell sing “Hope the High Road,” Springsteen do “Land of Hope and Dreams” or Gaga perform “God Bless America” any less for the electoral loss. And in the wake of the national defeat, there’s a sense of feeling less alone and ready to move forward even in some of the tweets that have gone out. Watching Eilish dedicate “Your Power” to disheartened women the night after the election is re-heartening. Even having Bette Midler tweet out a lengthy, trenchant H.L. Mencken quote — basically, as gallows humor — can feel a little healing, even if it’s a big Hollywood celebrity and not your personal BFF sending it through.
Whether it has any effect or not, everyone has to answer the question for themslves, if not their children: “What did you do in the war, daddy?” Imagine feeling — as Bruce Springsteen did — that “Donald Trump is the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime,” and then stifling that because of what the New York Post or the twits on Elon Musk’s platform might write.
I agree! In fact, going forward, the left should take inspiration from this 2016 Onion headline:
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: TikTok astrologers are convinced this election isn’t over.
SEMAFOR: The old media grapples with its new limits.
When Semafor asked what new CEO Mark Thompson thought the election’s results said about the reach and impact of legacy news media, a CNN spokesperson pointed Semafor to several memos the network chief sent out over the last year. In them, Thompson said that “to succeed, we must abandon our preconceptions of the limits of what CNN can be and follow the audience to where they are now and where they will be in the years to come. We will still stand for the same things — video-led breaking news, delivered as it happens with honesty and insight — but with greater flexibility about the how and multiple new forms of monetization to complement existing revenues.” The network’s position is that legacy media will die if it doesn’t transform to meet these audiences.
It isn’t just a problem of reach or distribution. To some media executives, it’s a sign that the quality of news offered to Americans is not satisfying them, a view that Axios founder Jim VandeHei described as “gut-check time for traditional media.”
“The verdict is not debatable: Half the country thinks traditional media is biased and often useless,” he said. “They feel reporters treat Republicans like a crime beat and Democrats like friends in need. I don’t think this is usually the case, but it happens enough to give critics pause.”
It sure does — note that this Semafor column shares a byline between Maxi Tani – and former(?) Journolister Dave Weigel.
Also, note that old media is also grappling with how to break the Mobius Loop it’s trapped itself in for the past twenty years:
‘MANAGING STRESS DURING CHANGE:’ Biden-Harris State Department Holds Therapy Session After Trump Win.
The Biden-Harris State Department organized an in-house therapy session for employees early Friday following Donald Trump’s election victory, four sources with knowledge of the meeting told the Washington Free Beacon.
“Managing stress during change,” read an internal State Department email sent across the agency that encouraged employees to attend a one-hour session in which they could discuss their feelings about Tuesday’s election results. The department’s Employee Consultation Services in the Bureau of Medical Services hosted the session, according to a copy of the email notice described by sources to the Free Beacon.
“Change is a constant in our lives, but it can often bring about stress and uncertainty,” the email said. “Join us for an insightful webinar where we delve into effective stress management techniques to help you navigate these challenging times. This session will provide tips and practical strategies for managing stress and maintaining your well being.”
The session was led by a licensed clinical provider. A second one is scheduled for Nov. 13, according to the email notice.
The State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, which oversees American diplomacy in the war-torn Middle East, also held a group discussion Friday with assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs Barbara Leaf and acting undersecretary for political affairs John Bass, according to three sources briefed on the matter.
One source described the meeting as a “cry session” over Trump’s victory, which is likely to usher in wholesale change at Foggy Bottom. Officials in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs have been working for months to sanction the Jewish government and withhold critical arms shipments, alleging Israel is not doing enough to provide humanitarian aid in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. They are said to have discussed the difficulty of Trump’s victory and urged employees to share their feelings in private settings.
“For four years, within the rank and file, there has been an over emphasis on people’s feelings, often with a college campus-like fervor, rather than the work of advancing America’s interests,” one U.S. official with knowledge of the meetings told the Free Beacon.
“This meeting was hopefully the last gasp of that,” the source said, adding that there is “lots to unf—k” at the State Department after four years of the Biden-Harris administration.
If the State Department is having a therapy session after a presidential election, there sure is.
TRUMP OFFERS ELISE STEFANIK U.N. AMBASSADORSHIP:
President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly offered Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) the position of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
“I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations,” Trump said in a statement. “Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter.”
Stefanik, who is the chair of the House Republican Conference, made noise earlier this year when her intense questioning during hearings on anti-Semitism on college campuses forced two Ivy League presidents to resign their posts.
As Roger Kimball wrote last December: The disgraceful, ducking, diving, dodging college presidents.
It was a clarifying moment, wasn’t it? The presidents of MIT, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania testifying for the House Education Committee about the wave of rabid antisemitism on their campuses. Representative Elise Stefanik of New York asked the same question of UPenn’s Liz Magill, MIT’s Sally Kornbluth and Harvard’s Claudine Gay. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your campus’s rule of conduct, yes or no? That was the question.
You might think it was a pretty simple question. Stefanik, exhibiting a mixture of incredulity and barely contained rage, stressed: “This should be be the easiest question to answer,” as one president after the next emitted a pained I-can’t-believe-this-unenlightened-pol-is-asking-me-me-the-president-of-Harvard/MIT/Penn-this-stupid-question.” Each in turn reverted to a script they must have worked out with their handlers/lawyers. “It all depends on the context.”
“Context.” It was the weasel word of the moment. We’re all champions of free speech, don’t you know, so we wouldn’t dream of intruding upon our flock’s exercise of that sacrosanct right in pursuit of their dream of self-congratulatory moral perfection — unless, of course, that dream involves some prohibited attitude, criticizing St. Anthony Fauci, for example, or St. George Floyd, or, heaven forfend, supporting Donald Trump or expressing skepticism about the 2020 election or January 6. Then, of course, it’s open-season on “free expression.”
I almost felt sorry for those three women. Almost. There they were, emanating the self-righteous demeanor they had perfected over years, and, bang, an angry congresswoman exploded that cheap facade in minutes. The upshot was not obvious to them immediately. But the world’s outrage at those moral pygmies instantly washed over the PR offices of those obscenely rich bastions of self-entitlement. “Uh, oh: the girls really stepped in it this time.” That was the universal reaction.
Back in January, I wrote Mitchell and Webb should update their “Are we the baddies?” sketch, with the other Nazi replying, “Well Fritz, to be honest, it depends on the context.”
I’m looking forward to Stefanik generating similar results from an even more wretched hive of scum and villainy starting next year.
AS ALWAYS, LIFE IN THE 21st CENTURY IMITATES WOODY ALLEN’S SLEEPER: Wanna Know How Devastating Kamala’s Loss Really Was for the Left? Just Check Out What Mark Cuban Did-LOL.
To paraphrase the futuristic historian in Sleeper, some of us have a theory that she might once have been a candidate to be President of the United States, but that she performed so horrendously, all records, everything was wiped out about her. There is nothing in history books. There are no pictures on stamps, money, or what people from your century called “social media.”
WHEN YOU’RE A LEFTIST WHO’S LOST MAUREEN DOWD…: Democrats and the Case of Mistaken Identity Politics.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a vulnerable Democrat in a red congressional district in Washington, narrowly held her seat. The 36-year-old mother of a toddler and owner of an auto shop told The Times’s Annie Karni that Democratic condescension has to go. “There’s not one weird trick that’s going to fix the Democratic Party,” she said. “It is going to take parents of young kids, people in rural communities, people in the trades running for office and being taken seriously.”
Representative Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat, said the party needs rebranding. “Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone,” he said. “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”
On CNN, the Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky said that Democrats did not know how to talk to normal Americans.
Addressing Latinos as “Latinx” to be politically correct “makes them think that we don’t even live on the same planet as they do,” she said. “When we are too afraid to say that ‘Hey, college kids, if you’re trashing a campus of Columbia University because you aren’t happy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning, that that is unacceptable.’ But we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we don’t know what to say.”
Kamala, a Democratic lawmaker told me, made the “colossal mistake” of running a billion-dollar campaign with celebrities like Beyoncé when many of the struggling working-class voters she wanted couldn’t even afford a ticket to a Beyoncé concert, much less a down payment on a home.
And Camp Kamala sympathizes; they allegedly couldn’t even afford Alanis Morrissette tickets!
Sources close to the campaign revealed to The Post that the funds spent on these concerts have drained the campaign’s coffers. The campaign’s financial woes were hinted at earlier when they canceled a planned performance by ’90s alt-rock icon Alanis Morissette, reportedly in a bid to save money.
C’mon, you know you want to say it:
Canadian Alanis Morissette had to cancel giving her support to Kamala Harris because the check would not clear.
Isn’t that ironic. pic.twitter.com/Fcvmrq9euy— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) November 10, 2024
But seriously, Dowd’s column is nice, although obviously it would have had far more impact prior to election Tuesday. But when will the Times’ newsroom stop being a permanent Maoist struggle session and start reflecting the worldview of most Americans?
The NFL has fined San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa for sporting a “Make America Great Again” hat during a post-game interview.
Following a 30-24 win over the Dallas Cowboys on October 27, Bosa crashed an interview on NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” where several of his teammates were speaking to network reporter Melissa Stark.
Bosa ran up behind quarterback Brock Purdy, pointed to his white and gold “MAGA” hat, and ran off-screen. The entire incident lasted less than five seconds.
The star player has since been fined $11,255 by the NFL over the political message, reportedly violating league rules. Players are prohibited from displaying personal messages or political messages of any kind on game day, according to NFL rules.
The NFL rulebook states the league “will not grant permission” for any player to wear messages that “relate to political activities or causes, other non-football events, causes or campaigns, or charitable causes or campaigns.”
File that away if the “woke Olympics” start up again next season in the NFL once Trump returns to office.
THERE’S A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN—And I suspect he might just be slightly more effective than Joe Biden’s Border Czar:
JUST IN: Donald Trump announces former ICE director Tom Homan will be his new “Border Czar.”
Here is a previous spat Homan had with AOC.
“I am pleased to announce that the Former
ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration,… pic.twitter.com/acZfsy2WoE— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 11, 2024
JUST NBC THE MELTDOWN! ‘Unhinged’ NBC Reporter Rips Off Daily Wire Story, Nerfs It, Then Self-Immolates On X When Called Out.
The story went viral – and was eventually picked up by NBC News reporter Mirna Alsharif (formerly CNN), who proceeded to not only rip off the report without citing the Daily Wire, she completely nerf’d it — failing to adhere to basic journalistic standards despite all of that information having been reported by DW.
When she was called out for her shitty reporting, Alsharif had a complete meltdown on X — claiming that the Daily Wire wasn’t her source, and hurtling High School insults at reporters.
And while she just deleted her account, we’ve got receipts…
Read the whole thing.
UPDATE: FEMA is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful federal agency I have ever known in my life!
CNN's @abbydphillip: “The only person making an accusation that people are not getting what they’ve asked for is Trump falsely claiming that the administration is withholding resources because of political affiliation. That is just not true.” https://t.co/CAF3sfikCD
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 11, 2024
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: ‘Can You Send Security Up? I Have a Boy Who Has a Trump Hat On.’ California Teacher Loses It on a Student. “Progressives fancy themselves as more evolved, more enlightened people — up until the moment they find someone who doesn’t agree with them.”
OLD AND BUSTED: The October Surprise.
The New Hotness? The November Surprise! California Punishes Voters After Historic Election, Slaps on Massive New Gas Tax.
Gooder and harder, California.
November 10, 2024
QUESTION ASKED:
JIM JORDAN: “The biggest question is, what happened to the 10 Million voters that Joe Biden got but didn't come up for Kamala Harris?”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 10, 2024
From yesterday’s Power Line Week in Pictures:
From Glenn in 2021: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: Worst Election Media Meltdowns: An American ‘Nightmare.’
It’s been a rough few days for the leftist media elites, they have been in anguish ever since Election Day.
The mix of anger and sadness poured out as they called the massive win for Donald Trump and the GOP a “nightmare” and questioned if America had “given up on democracy.” Journalists like Stephanie Ruhle warned that the voters had just “f’d around” and were about to “find out.”
MSNBC’s Joy Reid lectured Latino men: “Y’all voted with….David Duke and against your own sisters.” MSNBC’s Claire McCaskill choked back tears as she worried that America had turned their backs on their “better angels,” by electing Trump.
The following are just a few of the most epic election meltdowns from the leftist media elite:
Earlier today, I wrote, “We Need a Mental Health Check On Millions of American Leftists.” In large part, the madness of individual Dems (particularly the performative stuff on social media) is driven by the freakouts by those who create the media they consume. And while Kamala staffers are having cognitive dissonance over how she flipped on a dime from “Hitler!!!!” to “Well, we’ll get ’em next time,” the media seemingly have no desire to dial back the hatred they displayed in the weeks leading up to the election.