Mourning Joe with Lemire and Deer-in-the-headlights cohost is
Making a very big deal out of Liz, Cheney‘s “unprecedented“ role as vice chairman of the committee.
I’m sorry, but what is the blazes is the matter with these people? The point of the thrust of the committee was, and these people stated and admit this, that it was nearly all Republicans who were used as witnesses for the prosecution. And so thus, in keeping with this strategy, it was vitally imperative that a Republican be utilized as the chief prosecutor from a logistical standpoint.
There is no question that Adam Schiff or Jamie Raskin could’ve done an excellent job presenting the case, but the fact that it was a conservative Republican with familial political Pedigree made the case more effective in presenting it to that huge nether world of “middle of the road” group. I hold no briefs for this woman or her father, but the one thing that we know about them is they ain’t Russian sympathizers and they aren’t PETTY thieves. (Yes, I know what you’re thinking….)
But back to the program: the last person I’m going to listen to in terms of political predictions, is Jonathan Lemire. He redundantly persistently repeats, and repeats, and repeats, political clichés, and thus his self-aggrandizing political prophecies, which were utterly wrong,( in fact, you could make a lot of money betting against him), are incredibly annoying. I have posted in the past that he prefaced every sentence beginning with the day of inauguration of President Biden, with the phrase “historically, the party in power loses a great number of seats at the midterm elections , and so with that is a given…” and then some bullshit prediction of what was going to happen involving Biden’s likely failures, which was proven entirely wrong time and again. You would think he would learn. But he wrote a book which he and the entirety of the MSNBC crowd promoted like it was a lost volume of Marcel Proust.
I have been watching political programs nonstop since the 1980s, and as primitive and as badly produced as they were in those days, we have to ad not that it was a much higher level of broadcasting. Whereas now the panelist has become the celebrity and the guest is an afterthought and in many cases interchangeable . If you ever watch old TV interviews, the journalist, who really were journalists, in those days, would ask succinct questions with a finite number of words in the sentence ending with a question mark. Now, we get to listen to a dissertation and rehash by the questioner, who apparently feels it is necessary to rehash the entire history of the subject upon which he or she is going to ask the question. It is beyond annoying and I think that if you distill all the verbiage from say a half hour down to substantive Wording you would have maybe 2 1/2 minutes of action. There were some statistic years ago about how much time in a 60 minute football game the action is actually taking place and I don’t recall the number but it was laughable. (That of course is not to minimize the trauma that these players endure for that relatively short period of action, it’s just that if you watch basketball and hockey, the play is virtually continuous while the clock is ticking).
But back to my subject: the story about Liz Cheney is specious: it was a given in the beginning and probably a part of the deal she made to serve on the committee and thus relinquish her House seat. She has other irons in the very hot fire and we should be concerned about her rise as an effective very conservative candidate for high office but for now, we should take a victory and appreciate the result despite the obvious flaws of the Sheriff who brought the bad guy in.
Now we have to win the trials….we can look forward to the Lemire-types stating over and over and over that the defendants are presumed innocent and even if found guilty that the case will be under appeal.
It’s never ending. The motto of the networks should be: today, as every day, we’re running a special on bullshit.
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The “never Trumpers” view Cheney as the hope for resurrecting the GOP. she is running for President and using the committee’s to do it.
Put money on it.
