I expect to start seeing a lot more of Jen Psaki on MSNBC. They got hurt really bad in the ratings when Rachel Maddow backed off to once a week. They need someone that can get viewers back and Jen is looking like she can pick up some of the slack.


Jen Psaki Calls Out Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott for ‘Politicizing Tragedy’ After Texas Shooting: ‘Continued to Make the NRA Proud’ (Video)

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Andi Ortiz
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Jen Paski took aim at Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Greg Abbott and more Republican lawmakers on Sunday night after the Texas politicians once again offered thoughts and prayers, but no gun reform ideas, to victims of the latest mass shooting at an Allen, Texas, shopping mall.

During the latest episode of “Inside With Jen Psaki” on MSNBC, the former White House press secretary honed in on the idea of politicizing tragedy. But, she noted that those who criticize people for politicizing tragedy — which has included Cruz, Abbott and their Republican colleagues just about every time — are the ones who are actually doing so.

In light of the most recent mass shooting in Texas, Psaki first pulled up a clip of Abbott speaking to an NRA convention held in Texas last year, not long after the horrific shooting in Uvalde that killed 19 children and two adults.



Much like he usually does, Abbott claimed that there are plenty of gun restrictions already in effect that “have not stopped madmen from carrying out evil acts,” so he doesn’t believe further restrictions would help.

“Clearly, Governor Abbott felt pretty good about the gun laws in his state at that time, and boy has he continued to make the NRA proud,” Psaki said. “Texas doesn’t require a person to pass a criminal background check before buying a gun from an unlicensed seller. Texas does not require you to obtain a license before carrying a handgun in public.”

She then turned her ire to Abbott’s congressional colleagues, calling out senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, “not to be outdone,” for their respective responses to the repeated mass shootings in this country. Similar to Abbott, Cornyn and Cruz both argued that gun reform would “infringe the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens” and “doesn’t work.”


“And guess what? They both have sterling A ratings from the NRA to show for it,” Psaki sniped. (In fact, both Cornyn and Cruz have A+ ratings from the NRA, as does Abbott).

Cruz also parroted his usual talking point about politicizing tragedy, at which point Psaki got blunt.

“When families have suffered, when communities are reeling as they are in Allen today, refusing to act to protect the people in your state out of fear of your base of support is politicizing tragedy,” she said. “Refusing to support common sense gun reform measures because you fear losing your A rating with the NRA is politicizing tragedy.”

Then, Psaki turned her address back to her audience.


“So don’t be muzzled by the people who accuse you of politicizing a mass shooting when you call for change,” she said. “They want you to be silent, and they want you to let this slip from the headlines so that they can go back to being comfortable instead of politically courageous.”

You can watch Psaki’s full comments in the video above.



https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jen-psaki-calls-ted-cruz-142052029.html

 

I was impressed with the arguments Prof Tribe laid out. It could work.


Legal expert: Biden could side-step the McCarthy showdown using Constitutional powers

Sarah K. Burris
May 08, 2023



Kevin McCarthy. Joe Biden (McCarthy photo by Gage Skidmore on Flickr/Biden by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)


Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe told MSNBC on Monday that he thinks there might be some wiggle room for President Joe Biden as he tries to keep the United States government afloat amid the debt ceiling limit.

According to host Lawrence O'Donnell: "Whether the Constitution, 'which says the validity of the public debt of the United States shall not be questioned,' overrides the cap on public, legislated by Congress, as they call the debt ceiling. If Congress fails to pass an increase in the debt ceiling to cover the debts already incurred by congressional spending, can the president and the Treasury use the authority of the Constitution to continue to incur more debt to pay the government's bills? Which are bills that were legislated by Congress? Everyone has changed their minds about the debt ceiling."

During the past ten years, the debt ceiling has become weaponized by Republicans. In 2013, they tried to use it to eliminate Obamacare. They used it again to force Democrats to fund Trump's border wall. Critics say it's now being used to eliminate programs passed in Joe Biden's first two years in office that cost money.

There are two possible ways of getting around the Republicans. One is a discharge petition, which has already been an idea plotted out by Democrats in Congress. The other, O'Donnell explained, is for Biden to declare that the Constitution says "when and if the debt ceiling comes into conflict with the Constitution, the president will use the power of the Constitution to override the legislative debt ceiling."

In 2011, Tribe penned a column for the New York Times that advocated against the idea. Now, however, Tribe thinks he could have been wrong.

He explained he hasn't changed his mind about the Constitution or the debt ceiling, but about "the right question to ask" about the powers of the presidency.

"I used to think the right question was whether the president has special power to borrow without congressional permission," Tribe explained. "The answer was no. Does he have power to impose access without congressional permission? The answer is no. Does he have the power of a one-person Supreme Court, who could strike down an act of Congress? The answer is no. But the real question isn't what power does the president have. It is what duties does the president have. Does the president have a duty to execute all of the laws of the United States, the ones that Congress passed telling him to spend money? He does have that duty."

Tribe explained that the question then becomes whether Congress can override the duty of the president "by confronting the president with an impossible choice, by telling the president, look, we have told you we spend this money. You've taken an oath to uphold the Constitution, to enforce all the laws. But we won't let you do it because we've got you over in a barrel. We're not gonna raise the ceiling, which serves no function at all unless you stiff some of the people who are owed money by the United States, maybe veterans, maybe hospitals, maybe Social Security recipients, maybe pension funds, and bondholders."

The president doesn't have the authority to stiff those people because the 14th Amendment says that the public debt of the U.S. "lawfully incurred shall not be questioned."

"So, even if the president is pushed into a corner by Congress and replaces some of the obligations that we have to these various creditors, with IOUs — because there will be — they can't permanently cancel our debts," Tribe continued. "The debt ceiling will still be breached. There is nothing the president can do to avoid that consequence. So, what I suggest that he has to do is simply look the other way. Not pay attention to this impossible thing that Congress has asked him to do. Follow his oath, and enforce all the laws, very much what Lincoln did in 1861 when he had a choice. He could either enforce the law creating habeas corpus, let the Union army get decimated, and let the Union go to pieces, and let all our laws be violated. Or he could temporarily suspend habeas corpus, so that all the laws would not be broken. He chose the latter. The lesser of two evils."

It's that piece of U.S. history that led Tribe to think this was the better option for Biden.

See the full explainer in the video below or at the link here



https://www.rawstory.com/debt-ceiling-constitutional-powers/

 

Why yes, lets not debate or discuss.
Lets fine a way so we can just jam it down America's throats.
Fuck America. We already bought the stock.

 

Cable News Ratings Friday May 5: Maddow Beats Fox News and CNN at 9 P.M.
By Mediaite StaffMay 9th, 2023, 4:28 pm
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow won the 9 p.m. hour on Monday with 2.3 million total viewers.

Maddow topped Fox’s Hannity, which brought in 1.98 million total viewers, and CNN Prime Time’s 431,000 total viewers.


In the key 25-54 age demographic, Maddow scored 210,000 viewers, beating Hannity’s 171,000. CNN came in thrid with 107,000 demo viewers.

While Maddow led MSNBC on Monday, Fox News still scored wins across the board in both total day and prime time averages in both total viewers and the demo.

Here is a full breakdown of Monday’s cable news ratings by show:

https://www.mediaite.com/daily-rati...may-5-maddow-beats-fox-news-and-cnn-at-9-p-m/

 

Must be a slow news day.
Stumbler is spamming us.

 

Hey shooter, why did Fox "news" knowingly spread Trump's election fraud lies? Willingly sowing distrust in our elections by spreading baseless accusations. Talk about the hate and loathing network, eh

 

Jen Psaki Beats Fox News and CNN — Scores Weekend Ratings Win For MSNBC
By Alex GriffingMay 9th, 2023, 1:24 pm
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MSNBC host Jen Psaki, President Joe Biden’s former press secretary, scored a notable weekend win for the network on Sunday as she led cable news at noon in both the key 25-54 age demographic and in total viewers.

Psaki scored 846,000 total viewers to just beat Fox News Live’s Eric Shawn with 841,000 viewers and CNN’s Jake Tapper, who scored 638,000 with a replay airing of State of the Union. Psaki won the demo with 128,000 viewers to CNN’s 113,000, while Fox came in third with 109,000.


The previous Sunday, Psaki came in a close second to Fox with 827,000 total viewers to 829,000 viewers. Fox also won the demo for the last Sunday in April with 115,000 viewers to Psaki’s 107,000. CNN landed third with 73,000 demo viewers and 548,000 total viewers.

Psaki’s show launched in mid-March with strong ratings and solid interest. Her debut, in which Psaki argued for the left to embrace the “woke” label and interviewed New York City Mayor Eric Adams on a subway car, brought in 1.094 million total viewers and 137,000 demo viewers. Fox still won the hour in total viewers despite Psaki raking in more than a million viewers, but she did win the demo and nearly doubled MSNBC’s viewership from the previous hour which saw 572,000 viewers.

Since Psaki’s launch, Fox News Live still leads at noon with an average of 951,000 total viewers and 119,000 demo viewers. Psaki, however, is a very close second with 917,000 total average viewers and 116,000 demo viewers, making for some very rare weekend competition between the two networks. CNN, meanwhile has averaged 548,000 total viewers and 91,000 demo viewers since mid-March in the time slot. Psaki was the only non-Fox News host to win an hour in total viewers, although CNN scored several wins in the demo.

Psaki’s win over Fox is not only notable as it is rare, but also given MSNBC’s struggles in the ratings over the weekend – particularly in the demo. MSNBC averaged 58,000 total day demo viewers on Sunday, landing the network in a solid third place.

CNN led in the total day demo with 91,000 viewers to Fox’s 90,000. In total viewers, Fox was far ahead with 850,000 total day viewers. MSNBC was in second place with 451,000 total day viewers, followed close behind by CNN’s 446,000 total day viewers. MSNBC beat CNN for the second month in a row in April, averaging 490,000 total viewers to CNN’s 425,000.

Here is a full breakdown of Sunday’s cable news ratings by show:

https://www.mediaite.com/news/jen-p...nn-scores-rare-weekend-ratings-win-for-msnbc/

 

‘Trump’s Sexual Abuse Makes The Senator Want To Vote For Him Twice!’ Jen Psaki Amazed By GOP Reaction To Trump Verdict
By Tommy ChristopherMay 14th, 2023, 7:43 pm

MSNBC host and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was amazed by the various GOP reactions to Trump’s sexual abuse verdict, including one senator who said it made him want to vote for Trump twice.

Even after Trump spent almost four solid minutes mocking E. Jean Carroll — whom a jury says Trump sexually abused — at a CNN town hall this week, many prominent Republicans couldn’t bring themselves to speak out.

On Sunday’s edition of MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki, the host ran through some of the “amazing” reactions from Republican senators and others — and concluded by accusing the party of being “okay” with Trump’s actions as a reflection on them:


JEN PSAKI: Ahead of the 2024 election, republicans are doing everything they can to define themselves as the party of family values, like kicking up a moral panic around education, gender, and any discussion of sexuality. But that plan has one big problem, and his name is Donald Trump. On Tuesday, a panel of nine jurors in New York unanimously found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against E. Jean Carroll. The following day, at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, he openly mocked his accuser to the laughter and applause of Republican voters in the audience. It was definitely disturbing, but unfortunately not necessarily surprising. Because why should Republican voters take Trump’s wrongdoing seriously when the party leaders never call him out? Let’s be honest, this shouldn’t be a difficult question. If someone asks you, do you stand by somebody who is found liable for sexual abuse? The answer should be some version of no. But outside of a handful of Republican lawmakers, they have, by and large, pretty much avoided criticizing the former president. Take Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee. He responded to the verdict this week, saying that, quote, Trump has been amazing and his ability to weather these sorts of attacks. Attacks from who? A unanimous jury that found him liable for sexual abuse? Amazing. That’s amazing. Then there’s Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama who said the ruling only makes him want to, quote, vote for Trump twice. You heard that right. Trump’s sexual abuse makes the senator want to vote for him twice. Other Republicans took a defensive approach, responding with the same tired attacks on the integrity of the legal system. Senator Lindsey Graham declared that, quote, The New York legal system is off the rails. While Senator Marco Rubio called both the jury and the case, quote, a joke. I’m not sure what’s a joke to the senator about sexual abuse. Maybe he can explain that to us. But the most common Republican refrain was indifference to a jury finding the de facto leader of their party liable for sexual abuse. Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, brushed off the verdict, saying it’s not, quote, where the American people are focused. Call me crazy, but I think more than a few people out there do care when a candidate has committed sexual abuse. And here’s presidential candidate Nikki Haley just this morning when she was asked if this verdict undermines the party.

NIKKI HALEY: I have always said that anyone that feels like they have been sexually assaulted in any way should come forward and have their voice heard. I also think anyone that’s been accused should be able to defend themselves. I was not on the jury. I am not the judge. I think that both of them had their voices heard. There has been a verdict and there’s been an appeal.

JEN PSAKI: Well, that was a pretty accurate summary of the legal process. I will certainly give her that. But what I didn’t hear was any kind of condemnation of someone who was just found liable for sexual abuse. Look, all of these Republicans are free to say something as simple as this. Donald Trump’s behavior is not what my party stands for. They are free. They have been free to do something about him. But I guess why start now? The problem for them is no matter how hard they try to spin themselves as the party of family values to create fake controversies, that’s hard to do with a straight face, given that the de facto leader of their party has now been branded a sexual abuser.

Watch above via MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki.


https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump...saki-amazed-by-gop-reaction-to-trump-verdict/

 

MSNBC just had a field day with the much awaited Durham report today. The investigation lasted more than years about twice as long as the Mueller investigation.


'Big fat nothing': Mueller prosecutor walks through a fact-check of John Durham's report

Sarah K. Burris
May 15, 2023



Donald Trump, Bill Barr in in Washington, DC on May 22, 2019 (Photo by Jim Watson for AFP)


Former prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, responded to the recently released report from former special counsel John Durham during a conversation with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace Monday.

The host began naming off all of the guilty convictions that Mueller got during his probe.

"Durham's whole thing is predicated on — it's like a rabbit hole conspiracy that suggests that the Trump-Bill Barr paranoia infected his ability to stand back and evaluate whether the probe yielded guilty convictions of people who would have had nothing to do with any of these questions he looked at," said Wallace. "It is a view from so far down the rabbit hole that what needs a scrub, what needs oversight is what Mr. Durham did that repelled his long-time prosecutorial partner, Nora Dannehy and other prosecutors."

Nora Dannehy was a key partner of Durham's who resigned, complaining that the work Durham was doing was all about giving Trump information for political purposes. It all came to a head in what was reported as an "explosive" meeting. She quit shortly after.

Comparing the Durham probe to the Justice Department's 2019 Inspector General report, Weissmann explained that the IG's report was "properly predicated" that there was "no bias." What was at issue was a list of internal FBI rules and policies on investigations, none of which are laws that FBI agents or officers broke.

He also recalled IG Michael Horowitz testifying under oath, and that he was asked about Durham's claims they didn't have enough evidence for an investigation into Trump. Horowitz told Congress that he was shocked by the conclusion "because I spoke to John and his concern was not with respect to opening, it's that he thought it should only be opened as the preliminary" investigation, Weissmann characterized.

"In other words, he agrees that there are enough facts for the FBI to open — but a sort of smaller investigation," said Weissmann. "And this is what the IG said: 'Who cares what they did pursuant to the Mueller investigation what could have been done as part of the smaller investigation?'"

There were no rules broken, even under Durham's standards.

What also surfaced in the Durham probe is Barr's belief that any case could be brought regardless of whether the facts substantiated it. All that mattered was the "story," to Barr. "Oh, that's fine, because he was telling a more important story," he characterized Barr's decision. The problem is that it isn't how the law works, and it's the reason that Durham failed in the end.

He called the Durham probe "lacking substance," while at the same time, the inspector general was doing essentially the same investigation, "you want to talk about a witch hunt or a real waste of resources."

He concluded by saying that if Durham were all about trying to get better policies for the FBI to operate under, it would be one thing. "But this was trying to say there's a big 'there' there when there's no 'there' there. So, the big picture, if you step back, is those people who think, 'Oh, everybody does it. The Democrats do it. The Republicans do it. Everyone is up to no good and shenanigans.' That's just not true. There is a false equivalency because you have an enormous amount of cases that are proved with convictions, where there's a 'there' there. Russia interfered in the 2016 election. They're continuing to interfere. There are people who have gone to jail who were rightfully found guilty. John Durham is a big, fat, nothing."

He noted that it's a lot like the weaponization hearings going on under the GOP's leadership in the House that have also been unable to find anything under President Joe Biden's administration. "They're just falling flat on their face because there is no 'there' there."

Weissmann explained the only questions he has left unanswered are about what Italy told Durham and why they handed him the information and not someone else.

See the full conversation below or at the link here.




https://www.rawstory.com/john-durham-2660261977/

 

Cable News Ratings Monday May 15: Maddow Leads MSNBC to Prime Time Victory Over Fox and CNN
By Mediaite StaffMay 16th, 2023, 4:50 pm
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MSNBC won prime time on Monday night as both Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell topped their time slots. The network beat both Fox News and CNN in total viewers and in the key 25-54 age demographic.

MSNBC brought in 1.86 million average prime time viewers and 188,000 prime time demo viewers. Fox came in second with 1.72 million prime time viewers and 174,000 prime time demo viewers.


CNN landed in third place with 485,000 total average prime time viewers and 117,000 prime time demo viewers.

Fox News still won the day in total viewers and in the total day demo. MSNBC came in second place, while CNN landed in third.

Here is a full breakdown of Monday’s cable news ratings by show:

https://www.mediaite.com/daily-rati...msnbc-to-prime-time-victory-over-fox-and-cnn/

 

Jen Psaki Tears Apart Trump-Defending Republicans Over Rape Verdict

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Ben Blanchet
Sun, May 14, 2023 at 11:00 PM MDT·1 min read


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MSNBC’s Jen Psaki slammed GOP lawmakers who defended former President Donald Trump after a Manhattan jury found him liable for sexual abuse. (Watch below.)

Psaki, a White House press secretary in the Biden administration, named the party’s “one big problem” ahead of 2024: Trump, whose comments about lawsuit plaintiff E. Jean Carroll brought laughter and applause to a CNN town hall on Wednesday.

“It was definitely disturbing, but unfortunately not necessarily surprising,” Psaki said. “Because why should Republican voters take Trump’s wrongdoing seriously when the party leaders never call him out?”

“If someone asks you: ‘Do you stand by somebody who is found liable for sexual abuse?’ the answer should be some version of no. But outside of a handful of Republican lawmakers, they have — by and large — pretty much avoided criticizing the former president.”

Psaki proceeded to knock Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who said the verdict makes him “want to vote for Trump twice,” and Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.).

“You heard that right. Trump’s sexual abuse makes the senator want to vote for him twice,” Psaki said.

The host went on to bash former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for their commentary. She also noted that 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haleysidestepped a question about the verdict.

“What I didn’t hear was any kind of condemnation of someone who was just found liable for sexual abuse,” Psaki said of Haley’s roundabout commentary about the legal process.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/jen-psaki-tears-apart-several-050049694.html

 

Since treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans exist only in their own little fact free plastic bubbles where they are only force fed right wing lies and false propaganda they probably don't even know how serious this lawsuit is so I will help them out. It alleges that Rudy Giuliani told Noelle Dunphy in 2019 that if they lost the election they had a plan to just scream massive voter fraud and get the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans in Congress and red states to overthrow the results and keep Trump in power. It also claims Giuliani and Trump had a business arrangement selling pardons for a million dollars apiece and splitting the money. It also says Giuliani and Trump wee conspiring against Ukraine to hurt Biden far more than anyone knows even after Trump's impeachment for what they did know at the time. And lots lots more.

But there are also a couple other aspects. Dunphy has tape recordings, receipts, and emails. And some of the tape recordings are of Giuliani sexually abusing Dunphy saying things that are too pornographic to be played or even spoken on the cable channels. And the one where Giuliani is telling Dunphy the reason he makes her suck his cock when he is on the speaker phone with rich and powerful people including Trump is because it makes him feel like Bill Clinton is one of the mild ones. And as we all know around here its the porno stuff that is going to grab enough attention to make people look at all the other stuff.

And as a side bar there is also what Special Council Jack Smith really wants is to get someone in Trump's inner circle to flip on him and testify against him. And Giuliani appears to be guilty of money laundering, wire fraud, and income tax evasion. Just about any of those would be a life sentence for Giuliani at his age. And the threat of dying in prison is the sort of thing that can curt a lot of ties.



Lawrence O'Donnell Reveals 'Most Dangerous' 4 Words In Rudy Giuliani Lawsuit

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Ed Mazza
Mon, May 15, 2023 at 11:59 PM MDT


MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said the lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani alleging sexual coercion and millions in unpaid wages contains four words that should alarm the former New York mayor and longtime Donald Trump henchman.

Giuliani has denied the allegations of Noelle Dunphy, who says she worked as a consultant for him from 2019 to 2021.

“The problem, the big problem, for Rudolph Giuliani and his written blanket denial of everything in this 69-page lawsuit filed in Manhattan today is the sentence ‘This conversation was recorded,’” O’Donnell said, noting that the phrase appears “repeatedly.”

The lawsuit details alleged sexual encounters, claims Giuliani offered to get pardons for clients from Trump for $2 million, and says he hid income during a recent divorce.

O’Donnell spelled out what he thinks are the most serious allegations in the lawsuit ― including three that could potentially amount to federal crimes ― as well as what the lawsuit claims was captured on recordings:



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O’Donnell also spoke with Dunphy’s attorney, Justin Kelton:




https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawrence-odonnell-reveals-most-dangerous-055901646.html

 

Lawrence O'Donnell Left Stunned By Revealing Response To Trump Pardon Allegation

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Ed Mazza
Thu, May 18, 2023 at 1:39 AM MDT


Lawrence O’Donnell took a closer look at one of the many serious allegations in a new lawsuit filed against Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and longtime henchman to Donald Trump.

It’s the claim by Noelle Dunphy, a former aide now suing Giuliani for alleged sexual coercion and other claims, that he told her he could arrange for pardons from Trump for $2 million, with himself and the then-president splitting the money.

O’Donnell noted that Bill Barr, who served as attorney general to Trump, gave a rather lukewarm response when asked if he thought that was possible.

“I’m skeptical about that, I don’t think Rudy Giuliani would do that, I hope he wouldn’t, but I don’t know,” Barr said on Fox News.

O’Donnell was stunned.

“I don’t know?” he said. “William Barr knows Rudolph Giuliani well. William Barr knows Donald Trump well. And when asked if those two could have teamed up to sell $2 million pardons and split the money, William Barr’s answer is, ‘I don’t know.’”

O’Donnell said any attorney general not appointed by Trump or Richard Nixon would’ve given “a very, very strong answer.”

But Barr didn’t ― and O’Donnell found that extremely telling, as he explained on “The Last Word” on Wednesday night:

 

I have always liked studying language as in the words we choose and the impact they have. In fact in criminology and psychology there is what they call the labeling theory which actually has a lot of evidence behind it. And simply put it means if we label certain people criminals they can accept the label and become criminals. Or in psychology if parents verbally abuse their children calling them lazy and worthless they will accept those labels and grow up to be lazy and worthless.

So I found this really interesting because I never thought of it. A propaganda tactic of making the opposition use their label to make their lie appear true. Such as Rupert Murdoch naming his right wing false propaganda noise machine "Fox News." His sole intent was to create a lying machine that has nothing to do with "news." But in naming it "Fox News" every time the opposition talks or writes about it the word "news" is in it giving the lie credibility.

And its the same with "Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.." If you just look at what they are doing it is actually Jim Jordan and the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans that are trying to we weaponize the government for their own political gain. And especially to try and keep them and Trump being held to account for the J6 insurrection. But if we use their label it can make the lie appear true. So I will never use that label again.

Fortunately though no matter what Jordan calls his committee he, the committee, and their "investigation" is just a laughable stupid ignorant clown chow that keeps blowing up in their treasonous faces.

Lawrence O’Donnell Reveals Damning Reason He Won't Name Jim Jordan Committee On Air

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Lee Moran
Fri, May 19, 2023 at 3:15 AM MDT


Don’t expect the full name of Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) new House sub-committee to be mentioned on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” anytime soon.

On Thursday, host Lawrence O’Donnell said he won’t refer to the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government— the purported aim of which is to probe the politicization of the FBI and justice department against conservatives — by its official title, because it’s “a lie.”

O’Donnell slammed the creation and naming of the committee by the “rabid, right-wing, election-denying, relentless, Trump-echoing Jim Jordan.”

“When you lie as much as Donald Trump and Jim Jordan, you are going to lie about the new House committee you create and you are going to put the lie right there in the name of the committee,” he said. “That’s why on this program I avoid in every way possible saying the name of that committee because that is Jim Jordan trying to force me to use his words that are a lie in describing the work of that committee.”

“I don’t have that problem with any other congressional committee in history — because committee names were never a lie until now,” O’Donnell added.

O’Donnell later cited late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s (D-N.Y.) concept of “semantic infiltration,” when “you force your opponent to use your language to describe something.”

“That’s why I never want to use the word Fox and the word News next to each other,” the MSNBC anchor added.

Watch the video here:




https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawrence-o-donnell-reveals-damning-091549251.html

 

Rachel Maddow Mocks Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ ‘Bold Leadership’ in Arkansas: ‘Haven’t Exactly Been Cleaning Up’ (Video)

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Benjamin Lindsay
Tue, May 23, 2023 at 2:42 PM MDT




Rachel Maddow on Monday night took a moment to examine the state of the Republican Party — first through the lens of the presumed 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, and second through the lens of other leaders within the party.

Using Arkansas governor and former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as a case study, the MSNBC host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” determined that “they haven’t exactly been cleaning up on big, political-winning issues just in the current news cycle.”

Maddow took particular issue with Huckabee Sanders’ efforts to end school desegregation settlements and minimize the restrictions of child labor laws in her state.

“Don’t worry, Republicans are in control in Arkansas, and they’re on both those big problems,” Maddow said sarcastically.



Beginning her segment Monday night, Maddow gave a brief recap of how Trumpism has influenced the GOP, looking back to the party’s stuttered, underwhelming wins in the midterm elections up through the historic 15 rounds of voting it took for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to eventually claim the title.


“Just looking at how Republicans have done in elections in the era of Donald Trump, having Donald Trump as their standard bearer of their party has been bad for them. It has not been good for them as a party,” Maddow said. “And maybe it’s not fair to only judge them by what their standard bearer has been able to achieve politically. Of course, there are lots of states that are under Republican control. Aside from Donald Trump, how’s it going politically in terms of the national political image for the Republican Party when you look at what’s going on in states run by Republicans? Well, they haven’t exactly been cleaning up on big, political-winning issues just in the current news cycle.”

That’s when Maddow started digging into GOP leadership nationwide, pulling up a Wall Street Journal headline on Huckabee Sanders that read, “Arkansas Seeks to End School Desegregation Settlements.”

“Arkansas? School desegregation? Why does that ring a bell?” Maddow posed rhetorically. “Literally the state of the Little Rock Nine, the state where federal troops had to be used to desegregate the schools by force years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling that said segregation was illegal, that state under Republican leadership from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, now that state is deciding that they’re going to get rid of desegregation orders for all their schools — because surely that’s never been a problem in Arkansas!”


Throwing in some more emphasis on the ways that Huckabee Sanders risks turning back the clock on the rights of her constituents, Maddow then called out the recent moves made against the state’s child labor laws in an effort to make it easier to employ children.

“Who among us in America has not laid awake at night worrying that the big problems, the big problems we need bold leadership to address in this country are the fact that schools can’t be segregated anymore and, ‘Ooh boy do I hate that there are child labor laws,'” Maddow mocked. “Don’t worry, Republicans are in control in Arkansas and they’re on both those big problems.”

Watch the full “Rachel Maddow Show” segment in the video above.


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rachel-maddow-mocks-sarah-huckabee-204256254.html

 

Lawrence O'Donnell Spots New 'Extremely Damning Evidence' Against Trump

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Ed Mazza
Fri, May 26, 2023 at 1:51 AM MDT


MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said Thursday that Donald Trump is getting some “very bad news” with multiple reports that the federal investigation into potential obstruction of justice is nearing its conclusion.

And it’s not looking good for the former president.

O’Donnell pointed to a Washington Post report that prosecutors found evidence that Trump and his team conducted a “dress rehearsal” at Mar-a-Lago for moving the classified documents he was trying to keep.

He summed up what he said could be “extremely damning evidence” reportedly uncovered by investigators:

“Donald Trump is famously way too impatient to rehearse things like speeches, but the evidence seems to indicate that he was so determined to commit the crime of obstruction of justice that he personally directed the dress rehearsal of moving government documents illegally in his possession before the FBI might show up looking for them.”

Obstruction carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, he noted.

O’Donnell also pointed to a Bloomberg report that prosecutors could announce possible charges against the former president in the days or weeks after Memorial Day.

Trump has denied that he did anything wrong. “I took the documents; I’m allowed to,” he said on a CNN town hall earlier this month.

See more from “The Last Word” on Thursday night:




https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawrence-odonnell-spots-extremely-damning-075100381.html

 

Lawrence O'Donnell turned out to be just amazingly accurate in his predictions through the entire debt ceiling debacle. He called just about every move before it was made.

‘Kevin McCarthy Gave Up’: Lawrence O’Donnell Champions House Deal as ‘A Win For Democrats’
By Charlie NashMay 31st, 2023, 10:53 pm

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell celebrated the passing of the House debt ceiling deal on Wednesday as “a win for Democrats” and said House Speaker Kevin McCarthy “gave up.”

“More Democrats supported this bill than Republicans because this was a win for Democrats. That’s what it was,” said O’Donnell on his MSNBC show The Last Word.

One hundred forty-nine House Republicans voted to pass the bill, along with 165 Democrats. 71 Republicans and 46 Democrats opposed the bill.


“The House of Representatives voted not just to raise the debt ceiling, but to actually eliminate the debt ceiling for two years. For the rest of President Biden’s first term. For the rest of this congressional term,” O’Donnell celebrated. “The Democrats will not have to face the debt ceiling again before they face another election.”

O’Donnell noted that the deal’s passing “was not an easy thing to achieve,” however, as “Republicans could have insisted on only a six month extension on the debt ceiling, or one year, so that they could come back one year from now and pound Joe Biden again in a negotiation like this.”

“But Kevin McCarthy gave up because Kevin McCarthy did not want to come back to that room,” O’Donnell suggested. “Kevin McCarthy did not want to be in another highly-pressurized debt ceiling negotiation again, and so Kevin McCarthy gave President Biden two full years on the debt ceiling. That is an outcome that was almost unimaginable even a week ago.”

Despite heavy opposition from the House Freedom Caucus and other House Republicans, McCarthy vowed to get the bill passed.

“We’ll get it done without them, that’s not a problem,” McCarthy said, claiming that “every single one of the members who vote no will miss the opportunity to vote for the largest cut in American history.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/kevin-m...-champions-house-deal-as-a-win-for-democrats/

 

Sometimes, it's fun to take a stroll down memory lane, you know, to see hypocrisy in all it's shining glory.
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Pelosi calls GOP debt limit stance 'irresponsible beyond words' (yahoo.com)

Pelosi calls GOP debt limit stance 'irresponsible beyond words'
Colin Campbell
·Managing Editor
September 26, 2021·3 min read

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday harshly criticized Republican leaders as Washington is again locked in a high-stakes game of brinkmanship over the U.S. debt limit.

"Isn't that irresponsible beyond words?" Pelosi said during an interview on ABC's "This Week."

The U.S. government is poised to run out of money in mid-October, raising the specter of a federal default that could teeter financial markets and cause missed payments on Social Security and military pay.

[See also: Why Congress can’t quit playing chicken with the debt ceiling]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discusses the debt limit in an interview. (Screenshot: Twitter/@ThisWeekABC)
Over the past few decades, Congress has consistently raised or suspended the debt ceiling — which limits the U.S. government's ability to borrow money to pay its bills. During the Trump administration, the debt ceiling was suspended three times.

"We cooperated on three occasions when President Trump was president in order to lift the debt ceiling," Pelosi said Sunday. "Even to have the discussion that it could possibly be in default lowers ... our credit rating."

House Democrats approved a measure last week, via a party-line vote, to both continue funding the government through December and lift the debt limit into December 2022. But that legislation is expected to face a Senate GOP filibuster, which means it will take 10 Republican votes to pass the 50-50 chamber. A government shutdown also looms Oct. 1 if a stopgap funding measure does not pass.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to provide his support, suggesting that Democrats should instead enact the debt measure through the filibuster-proof reconciliation process. McConnell tied his opposition to the massive spending packages that Democrats are hoping to advance this week.

"Let me make something perfectly clear: If they don't need or want our input, they won't get our help. They won't get our help with the debt limit increase that these reckless plans will require," McConnell said on the Senate floor in August.

"The debt ceiling will be raised, as it always should be," McConnell said last week. "But it will be raised by the Democrats."

Top Democrats have rejected using reconciliation to address the debt ceiling, noting that the procedural hurdles of the Byzantine budgetary process could make passing such a measure difficult before the U.S. government faces default. Pelosi also said Sunday that she wants the debt vote to be bipartisan.

"This is beyond a big deal," she said. "So let's hope the Republicans will find — enough of them — find some level of responsibility to our country, to honor what's in the Constitution, that we not question the full faith and credit of the United States of America. They know full well what the consequences are. They preached it when the former president was in office."

 

And the left wing cheers went up from coast to coast.

BREAKING: Chuck Todd to Step Down as Host of Meet the Press, Kristen Welker to Take Over
By Joe DePaoloJun 4th, 2023, 10:21 am

Chuck Todd is stepping down as host of Meet the Press, he announced at the end of his broadcast on Sunday.

After nine years as moderator of the venerable Sunday show, Todd announced he is stepping aside. He will continue with his broadcasts through the summer. After that, Kristen Welker will succeed him as the new moderator.

“It’s been an amazing nearly decade-long run,” Todd said.” I am really proud of what this team and I have built over the last decade. I’ve loved so much of this job, helping to explain America to Washington and explain Washington to America.”


Todd will remain at NBC as chief political analyst.

“The key to the survival of any of these media entities, including here at Meet the Press, is for leaders to not overstay their welcome,” Todd said. “I’d rather leave a little bit too soon than stay a tad too long.”

In a tweet, Welker expressed her gratitude to Todd, and said she is “humbled and grateful” to succeed him.

“Chuck Todd has been a mentor and friend since my first day at NBC News,” Welker wrote. “I’ve learned so much from sitting with him at the anchor desk and simply experiencing his passion for politics. I’m humbled and grateful to take the baton and continue to build on the legacy of Meet the Press.”


https://www.mediaite.com/tv/breakin...f-meet-the-press-kristen-welker-to-take-over/

 

Jen Psaki did the absolutely best job I have seen anyone do on breaking down the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican attacks on the LGBTQ community and proving how its all just a phony sick, disgusting dangerous and very well organized political ploy to try and motivate their low information voters with fear hate and anger. They have to invent an enemy and go on the attack. Even when its never been a problem before.


Jen Psaki Slams Republican’s Anti-LGBTQ ‘Go Woke, Go Broke’ Boycotts: ‘As if the Rainbow’s Going to Bite’ (Video)

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Benjamin Lindsay
Mon, June 5, 2023 at 1:39 PM MDT




In her first episode of Pride month, Jen Psaki zeroed in Sunday on the number of boycotts and the wider social media blowback companies from Target to Kohl’s to Bud Light to the Los Angeles Dodgers are facing for their public support of the LGBTQ community.

“You may have noticed Republicans really like to pitch themselves as the ‘pro-business, anti-cancel culture party — but they have a big carve-out for businesses that openly promote LGBTQ+ rights,” Psaki said, joking that when it comes to Target’s highly contested in-store Pride displays, it’s not “as if the rainbow’s going to bite” you.


The MSNBC host of “Inside With Jen Psaki” opened the segment by breaking down how the above brands are “all facing outrage from the Right for their LGBTQ+ partnerships and merchandise” and that a minority of vocal, Republican shoppers have “melted down over a trans woman receiving a personalized beer can. They nearly lost their minds over the sale of Pride flags on kids’ clothing and the fit of some swimwear. That’s what’s animated these right-wing boycotts. But all of this outrage and these boycotts from the wing of the pro-business party is actually hurting the bottom line for some of these companies — and Fox News can’t get enough of it somehow.”

Psaki then aired a string of Fox News commentators — among them Harris Faulkner, Brian Kilmeade and Laura Ingraham — stoking the fire against the inclusive campaigns, including one commentator saying that stores’ Pride displays make her “afraid to go shopping.”

“My favorite there is the rainbow clothing makes her afraid to go shopping, as if the rainbow’s going to bite her or something,” Psaki said after the Fox News clips play out. “But ‘go woke, go broke’ — that is what you heard over and over again. You know what that means? If you embrace the LGBTQ+ community, we will try to bankrupt you. Guys, I mean, I go to Target just like many of you all the time, and if I see things I don’t wanna buy for myself or my kids, I just walk around, it’s fine. No rainbow flags biting me.”


Psaki then posed that the reason we’re seeing such pushback on Pride campaigns this year over others (Target, for instance, has been running elaborate displays for the better part of a decade, while in 2019 Bud Light sold rainbow beer cans in bars “across the country”) is because it’s a Hail Mary in the “culture war.”

“So why the amplified outrage in this moment? What’s different? It isn’t the businesses, it is the modern-day American Right desperately trying to draw new battle lines in their culture war. They’re searching for them,” she said. “For more than a year, the hard right and its media allies have whipped themselves up into a moral panic to the point now that they are enthusiastically rolling back LGBTQ+ rights and regularly using language like indoctrination, grooming, and sexualization to talk about inclusion and the LGBTQ community. It has become such a race to the bottom to decry diversity, equity and inclusion that they are running out of things to be outraged about — they can’t find them, they’re on a search.”

Watch MSNBC’s “Inside With Jen Psaki” segment in the video above.


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jen-psaki-slams-republican-anti-193902504.html