Charles Pierce tears MSNBC's Phil Griffin a new one (re: Cheerios tweet apology) [View all]

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"...We wrote yesterday about the storm of fauxtrage that arose over an anonymous MSNBC tweet concerning a new commercial from the Cheerios people. This prompted an ungainly dive from the "liberal" network in the face of the flying howler monkeys. However, yesterday, the surrender became abject. Obvious anagram Reince Priebus, the empty suit in the emptiest job in American politics, threatened to keep every Republican off MSNBC unless heads rolled to his satisfaction. Whereupon Griffin apologized again, and assured Priebus that he had fired the anonymous staffer who'd put up the tweet in the first place and, pretty please, would Priebus allow nutballs like Tim Huelskamp to come on MSNBC again? Flushed with triumph, Priebus pretended once again to be an important person..."

"There is no more powerless person in American politics than Reince Priebus, and few entities more powerless than the Republican National Committee which, last time around, couldn't even keep its primary calendar straight. The power in the Republican party lies now in the vast network of independent organizations funded by the same claque of about 15 plutocrats, and what power does not lie there lies in the elements of organized theocracy. Reince Priebus is a not very convincing marionette who couldn't even get elected to the Wisconsin state senate. What he knows about politics you could put up his ass and have room for a change of clothes. Priebus should have been told to fk off and come back when he shows the ability, in the immortal words of Bob Knight, to lead a whore to bed.

I realize that, unlike Roger Ailes, whose organized slander, pander and propaganda festival never apologizes for anything, and who could give a rat's ass if a Democrat ever entered his studios again, Griffin has the great deadweight of NBC News on his back while he tries to do his job. (I imagine that they've only just now revived Tom Brokaw, the man who invented World War II, and pried him off the fainting couch. and that the Dancin' Master, who still has a job despite this immortal moment, will have a segment on Sunday in which Priebus can flex it up again.) I appreciate the problem. But some poor bastard -- whose identity, I guarantee you, the flying monkeys are at the moment seeking because they need an actual head on the wall -- has lost a job behind this now because Griffin took a ridiculous figure like Reince Priebus seriously. This is like getting held up by mail."

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