Consider the curious case of Rachel “Mad Cow” Maddow, MSNBC’s often-wrong, never-in-doubt leftist mouthpiece.
You may recall Maddow pitching – hard – the Trump Russian collusion case night after night years back. When the whole hoax fell apart, Maddow moved on to another attack plan, failing to acknowledge she just might have been wrong.
More recently, Maddow was screaming conflict of interest due to a government plan to buy Tesla vehicles, a plan put in place by Clueless Joe’s regime as these incompetents headed to the exits. Some suggest it was a plant designed to make Trump look bad when it eventually came to the attention of the public. Or maybe, as others suggest, it was just more Biden regime ineptitude.
You make the call.
It is clear that, in the wake of Trump’s re-election, attrition is hitting the leftist LameStream media hard, as talking head after talking head moves on, either voluntarily or with a swift kick in the backside.
They all seem to think they will take their screeds to podcasts and live happily ever after. They might succeed, as long as they are willing to tamp down their lifestyles because podcasting in general is not as lucrative as milking a broadcaster with national reach for an exhorbitant salary.
This self-cleansing likely is rooted in the management finally tiring of being wrong and, more importantly, losing viewership and revenue because of it.
Hell, even Washington Post publisher Jeff Bezos has up and told the editorial page to knock off all the batshit crazy leftist stuff and instead concentrate on personal liberties and free markets. This, predictably, has sent assorted horrified leftists rushing out the door. Mission accomplished, as George W. Bush might have concluded with a banner as a prop.
MSNBC has been among the leftist organizations cleaning house. And there is Maddow, eager to come down on the wrong side of yet another issue.
Maddow is a person critics indicate bears a striking resemblance to Mark Cuban (which is unfair to Cuban). I think more of Ruth Buzzi’s Gladys Ormphby character from the old Laugh-In TV series, the spinster with the dowdy wardrobe and hairnet, always eager to use her massive purse as a weapon on those who offended her.
Ormphby was but an on-air character born in Buzzi’s mind. I’m beginning to think this strident, far-left, caring-for-the-downtrodden Maddow as seen on MSNBC, similarly is for show only.
I mean, Maddow is lamenting the dispatching of former colleague Joy (Less) Reid, whose mission in life in the past seemed to have been to post homophobic slurs on her social media, then deny it was her, blame hackers, and finally claim amnesia, but apologizing just in case she had written it all.
Reid quickly moved on to repeating ad nauseam on her MSNBC show that Trump and his supporters are Nazis, racists and general idiots. No apologies from her on that front, just a trip to the unemployment line.
Because she was a one-note singer, Joy (Less) had a viewing audience that would fit in a telephone booth (if we still had them) or an outhouse (same thing) or a subcompact car (there, something you can visualize).
Reid got the ax and Maddow cried crocodile tears. Maddow painted their bosses as racists, a fitting homage to the playbook of Joy (Less).
Perhaps it was only coincidence that word since has come out that much of Maddow’s staff is being cut, too.
Some have suggested that Maddow, who reportedly makes $25 million a year for, up until recently, doing one whole show a week (she has a future as a federal government bureaucrat) might take a pay cut and have the money redistributed in the interest of saving staff, or even Joy (Less).
Maddow’s silence on that front has been deafening.
Compassion ends at the purse. And even though Maddow needs an Ormphby-sized purse to stash all her loot, she’s not willing to share any to help some coworkers.
Keep on keeping it real, Maddow.
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