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PCIntern

(28,387 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 07:56 PM Jan 30

Hey Ari MelbaToast: fuck your "both parties horseshit"

Yeah yeah yeah…you’re very lawyerly. Fuck that shit. These Trump Republicans are planning a nationwide putsch of local and state governments and our absolute right to have our votes counted and you’re jerking us off with your Newspeak “fairness”. You’re not a newsman, you’re a commentator so why don’t you stop with the both-siderism and be more like Edward R Murrow who chucked his reporter hat and decided to help save Democracy in this country.

Remember, if you keep this up, there surely ain’t gonna be no George Clooney type making a film or Broadway show about your heroism in fifty years. You’re gonna just disappear like Edwin Newman, Frank McGee, or Charles Collingwood. Who?? Who???

As Al Pacino said in the film “Heat”: “What are you, a fucking owl?” Straighten up and fly right. You have biblical morality on your side if you want it.

Or you can be a schmuck. Your choice. You can be Ari Melber who assisted America in righting itself or you can be the answer to a trivia question.

My rant is now complete. I’m here all week. Try the veal.

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Hey Ari MelbaToast: fuck your "both parties horseshit" (Original Post) PCIntern Jan 30 OP
I used to watch him, now I don't. I'm much happier. dem4decades Jan 30 #1
I don't like him or his show BonnieJW Jan 30 #11
I watched part of tonight only to hear Don Lemon speak LetMyPeopleVote Jan 30 #2
Did he do a segment on rap SocialDemocrat61 Jan 30 #3
Inexplicably, not tonight that I saw... PCIntern Jan 30 #4
I hate his rap bits iemanja Jan 30 #8
Yep, that's when he lost me. Trueblue Texan Jan 30 #9
I was never really interested... 2naSalit Jan 30 #5
Out of all the MS NOW shows his is and has been the worst. BigmanPigman Jan 30 #6
"What are you, a fucking owl?" IronLionZion Jan 30 #7
Republicans kill 6 people in a bank robbery, Democrats double parked... JHB Jan 30 #10
Excellent. Recommended. PCIntern Jan 31 #12

BonnieJW

(3,124 posts)
11. I don't like him or his show
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 10:42 PM
Jan 30

He used to have rappers on his show and they would discuss the lyrics. Totally boring. I can't believe the network kept him and let Joy Ried go

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,958 posts)
2. I watched part of tonight only to hear Don Lemon speak
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 08:02 PM
Jan 30

I also stopped watching Ari a while back

PCIntern

(28,387 posts)
4. Inexplicably, not tonight that I saw...
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 08:26 PM
Jan 30

And it’s Friday, but I turned it off halfway through. Maybe the audience “got lucky”.

Trueblue Texan

(4,472 posts)
9. Yep, that's when he lost me.
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 10:18 PM
Jan 30

I'd pretty much had enough by that time, but that music segment was the straw.

2naSalit

(102,871 posts)
5. I was never really interested...
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 08:42 PM
Jan 30

In his show and it came on at a bad time for me. I have challenged myself, in the past, to watch his show hoping to see something I might be missing. I never made it through the first ten minutes, hard as I tried.

BigmanPigman

(55,182 posts)
6. Out of all the MS NOW shows his is and has been the worst.
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 09:06 PM
Jan 30

I can't take more than 45 seconds of his pseudo-bro BS. He is SO annoying that I purposely choose to avoid him and his BS. Worst anchor ever, besides Katy!!!!!!!!!!! MS NOW is a shit show.

Bill Maher also falls into this category. I've boycotted him for years. After he had Bari Weiss on and in unison they declared (as the health professionals that they are) that for them "Covid is OVER!!" I boycotted them. Bill is a greedy ass kisser and misogynist...why is he still on TV. Everyone with a triple digit IQ hates him at this point.

Nope, both Bill are Bari are OVER!!!!!

JHB

(38,223 posts)
10. Republicans kill 6 people in a bank robbery, Democrats double parked...
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 10:23 PM
Jan 30

Mainstream/Legacy media: "Both sides violated the law."

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