WTF is wrong with MSNBC? Right now Tweety breaks away from

[COLGATE4]

his program to give Drumpf's 'speech' to an audience in WVa. He's still going on - and on - and on. How much is that free airtime worth? I swear, if it weren't for MSNBC and the rest of the MSM making themselves willing allies of Trump and letting him spew his poison any time he feels like it for free there might well have been another Rethug presumptive nominee. It's sickening.

[underpants]

1. Their product is drama.

[COLGATE4]

3. Yep. 'Horse race'. 'Drama'. Screw the electorate, what

really counts is ratings. Bastards.

[Wellstone ruled]

26. And with Tweeties Spouse

out of her race,let the Kinder-Morgan Business Elitist come forward.

[malaise]

2. It has nothing to do with Tweety

He follows orders - his producer cut his program for Trump - same shit they did with Melissa Harris-Perry. Make a sound and you're out. Go public and you get none of your severance benefits.

And yet - they continue as if nothing is happening - all hacks. They love that fancy lifestyle

[COLGATE4]

13. And Tweety isn't going to rock that boat. He knows which side

of the bread his butter is on. Hacks is too generous a term for them.

[malaise]

16. I'm beginning to understand what KO faced

Glad he isn't there for this - we could use a KO urgently

[COLGATE4]

35. X 1000! Doesn't look like it's going to happen

any time soon.

[Dustlawyer]

28. I have a theory I have been thinking about these last couple of days.

What if they gave Trump all of that air time from start to finish (this part is fact, especially MSNBC) to make him the Republican so they could drive everyone to Hillary to make sure she wins instead of one of the crazy Republicans like Cruz. Trump will play ball with the other Oligarch's and stands to benefit no matter what happens next. They know Hillary has a lot of baggage and might not make it without their thumbs all over the scale.

Just something to chew on to explain all of Trump's coverage. I don't believe they do it just for ratings. The election is more important to the owners of the MSM than a little more ad dollars that a few more viewers would bring. The viewers that just want to see a train wreck say crazy shit!

[COLGATE4]

34. You may have something there. nt

[scscholar]

4. Microsoft loves tRump

They keep proving it over and over again with their TV channel.

[LiberalArkie]

14. No More Microsoft or GE. 100% Comcast

[scscholar]

18. But most of the Microsoft people are still there!

Bill Gates made sure of that. He wants to control the media like the rest of those wealthy people that hate us.

[zeemike]

27. They love him like parents love the boogie man.

He is useful to scare the kiddies in the game of triangulation...the more exposure the better.
And the less they have to talk about real issues or Sanders.

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. I'm watching "The Avengers" again.

[Purveyor]

6. CBSN is covering it wall-to-wall... eom

[hatrack]

7. Same as it ever was . . .

[Wellstone ruled]

8. And so it begins.

Comcast is all in with Trump. Remember,Joe Scab sets the Political Agenda at NBC/MSNBC .

[COLGATE4]

11. I think you're 100% correct.

[Wellstone ruled]

25. Notice about a hour ago,

Joe Scab said he would not back Trumpy. Joe is so full of it,he knows darn well there is not a place for him to go to other than his buddy Griffith and others at Comcast.

[procon]

9. Trump is Sarah Palin v.2.0

Their stage acts are almost identical. They walk to the mic, ham it up for the audience, talk about how wonderful they are, joke about a few democrats, promise the crowd the moon, repeat. Both are charismatic speakers, but neither has anything of substance to talk about. Like Palin, Trump has no coherent policies and cannot speak knowledgeably on any topics vital to the office he seeks, but he can quote any polling data that shows him ahead.

[Shandris]

10. He's broken them. They know that if they anger him, his supporters and he will bury them...

...financially and in ridicule and deny him any opportunity to interview him. The internet exists now; the old Kingmakers are being buried alive before us.

Behold the truth of 'power'. It is only where it is believed to be, and no one believes the media has it anymore. Ergo...it doesn't. This is a universal truth.

It is unfortunate that only Trump managed to demonstrate this principle, but I'll take a crushing of the Kingmakers any day.

[question everything]

12. He did return to his program. But what was funny

he was saying that the next segment would be "tell me something I don't know."

Cut into commercial which was for... something against diarrhea or constipation. There were two people talking I was not listening but the punch line was... "tell me something I don't know." I did hear it and started laughing.

(Don't know if the same commercial is playing at all markets. I know that here most are aimed at seniors who use lots of drugs..)

[pmorlan1]

15. LOL

Welcome to the Sanders supporters world. You should have complained to the Networks when it happened to Sanders and then maybe you could have stopped it before it got to your candidate.

[COLGATE4]

17. Funny. I remember watching Bernie ad nauseam on MSNBC. So much so in fact

that I accused them of trying to maintain the so-called "horse race" for the Democratic nominee in order to boost ratings.

[Lordquinton]

32. You forgot

[oldandhappy]

19. MSNBC gave us Trump the candidate. They still are

all clinton and trump, all the time. Don't watch!!

[spanone]

20. can we beat the gop and the media....?

trump 24/7

[lindysalsagal]

21. You mean, the tRump channel?

Don't watch it.

[Odin2005]

22. Trump has figured out how to play the MSM like a fiddle.

The MSM can't help themselves, they are terminally addicted to sensationalism.

[zentrum]

23. This is why...

…Trump doesn't need to raise a lot of outside money. He gets more free media coverage than any candidate in history.

[Egnever]

24. While I get the Trump fatigue

Is it really doing Trump any favors? Or on the other hand do most people watch it and go
"what an idiot!" ?

Every time I hear him speak without fail I think , This guy is an idiot he has no business being anywhere near the presidency. I certainly can't be the only one .

On need only look at the revolt inside the Republican party to see he is not doing himself any favors even with the republicans.

[valerief]

29. MSNBC jumped the shark ages ago. It's now as worthless as Fox. nt

[pansypoo53219]

30. THE MEDIA WANTS PRESIDENT DRUMPF FOR RATINGS. all WHORES.

BRING BACK THE HORSE!!!!

[ProfessorPlum]

39. Lol. Love the horse

What a great website that was

[DaveT]

31. Even with a huge election year increase

In ratings, msnbc has about a million viewers for Rachel Maddow, it's most watched show. And the average age of its viewers is about 60.

Less than one third of one percent of the country, and somewhere close to ZERO percent of people born since Bill Clinton took office.

Please stop worrying about network "news." It is dying and good riddance.

[vanlassie]

33. This 64 year old watched MSNBC for years.

I stopped completely when they started showing Trump ad nauseum back in early spring. I don't miss those sell outs. And I loved Rachel.

[COLGATE4]

37. I'm not worrying about it. It just irritates the shit out of me.

[DaveT]

38. Agreed about it being irritating

but it can only irritate you if you watch . . . .


Confession -- I peek in from time to time, too, just to get my my fair share of abuse.

[redstateblues]

36. C'mon people-IT'S A SHOW- Trump is an entertainer-They get ratings

and they make more money. TV stopped being a source of news when 24 hour cable came on the scene. Trump is a fucking spectacle-people watch it- it's like a train wreck-I admit it-I watch it for a while-less and less-I'm not proud that I have watched him way more than a sane person would. People here on DU are expecting way more than they should. Cable news is a business.