So I get home yesterday and nobody else was there. I turn on MSBNC during Hardball with Chris Matthews. I continue to have on the TV while All-In with Chris Hayes is broadcast and of course, The Rachel Maddow Show* after that. All three of them had the Trump Campaign kick-off event (otherwise known as his 65th rally since winning the electoral college) in the lower right corner of the screen. All three were ignoring it.
At one point, Chris Hayes said that the rally is going on and “we are monitoring it for news.” At no point did they cut away. Neither did Rachel.
I wanted to say Thank You to MSNBC for that decision. It’s hard enough to listen to Trump talk when he is trying to be president. It’s much more nauseating when he is leading a lie-o-rama at his rallys. The way he feeds the audience red meat and how they devour it and kick and yell and demand death to all political opponents and cruelty to people who aren’t white is simply too much to handle. Today, the Washington Post has documented here and here and here the exaggerations, distortions, false attribution and straight out lies of Trump.
So the truth is out there….I just didn’t have to watch it live.
Again, thank you MSNBC.
*[begin rant: I hate that she calls it a “show.” How is news now a show? I mean, yes, it is. But do we have to reinforce the idea that news = entertainment? /end rant]