A shill is a person who publicly attempts to constitute, increase or sustain credibility and/or approval of/to an entity without disclosing that they have a relationship with the entity, understating the type, importance or closeness of said relationship or concealing the actual role in which they perform for said entity. -Urban Dictionary
Those of us who have a highly developed sense of déjà vu (and even those of us who do not) are aware that election 2024 is beginning to resemble to a scary degree the 2016 contest in that Dotard drumpf is once again exactly where he belongs – meaning anywhere but in the Oval Office- while powers that be in the fourth estate are marshaling efforts to make it appear that far from being the epic disaster for this nation that he was and wishes to be again, Trump is just another candidate and no worse than any of the others.
Learning exactly zilch from the CNN Trump Town Hall debacle which cost Chris Licht (whom Kieth Olbermann, in a running gag, believes eats paste) his job, NBC has chosen to burden Chuck the much detested Todd’s replacement on Meet the Press, Kristen Welker, with an interview of the Mango-hued Diaper dirtier.
MeidasTouch Network has the skinny on that development:
“Chuck Todd, longtime host of the NBC Sunday show Meet The Press has retired from the show and was replaced by reporter Kristen Welker. What does she choose for her first show as the new host: an interview with Donald Trump.
Many were not sad to see Chuck Todd go as he represented some of the worst of the “both sides” media; frequently interviewing MAGA Republicans and letting them lie on air with little pushback. We had hoped that his replacement with Welker signaled that NBC Sunday prime time was going to try and recapture some sense of journalistic integrity.”
Well as my dear departed mother used to say, “you can hope in one hand and shi* in the other…”:
This man, who just attacked Jack Smith for issuing a protective order, will be given a national platform on Meet the Press this weekend &, worse, the new anchor of MTP referred to him as “MR. PRESIDENT.” Great job, NBC. pic.twitter.com/MIGe4lBuLd
— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) September 15, 2023
Nice job, Kristen, what are you going to call President Biden when you interview him?
I want to know why @MSNBC anchors always called him President Trvmp but call President Biden just Biden.
It’s so bad that they still say President Trvmp and then correct themselves to say Former President Trvmp.
Why IS that, @MSNBC?— Jennifer Devon (@JenniferADevon) September 16, 2023
I am sure there is an innocent explanation, Jenn… or not.
I didn't know threatening witnesses was a campaign strategy.
— Ze'ev Mishpacha (((Alpha Wolf))) 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@TheSylvreWolfe) September 16, 2023
Or protected by the First Amendment…
Not to be outdone in the forced march towards normalization of a fascist Dotard, MeidasTouch reports that the once respectable Washington Post has lied to it’s readers about drumpf’s very public and sometimes behind the scenes machinations to have President Biden impeached by the GOP House majority…
“The Washington Post wrote an inexplicable piece about Trump keeping “distance” from the Biden impeachment inquiry, ignoring all evidence to the contrary.
In a new piece published Saturday morning by Isaac Arnsdorf and Josh Dawsey, the Post headline reads: “Trump keeps distance from impeachment inquiry while assailing Biden.” This, despite all facts to the contrary. The Washington Post, in what reads like a press release from team Trump as they take Trump’s advisers at face value, are deceiving their readers and covering for Trump.
In short, they are blatantly lying and ignoring the irrefutable proof right in front of their face…”
“I guess “IMPEACH the BUM” was a little too subtle for The Washington Post. We at the MeidasTouch Network have a different definition of “distancing” oneself.”
I get that Trump content sells newspapers and antacid commercials but who is going to profit from the wannabe Nazis taking over and deciding that your brand of “News” is just not valuable enough for the Fourth Reich to tolerate, guys?
You are bleeding the subscribers and viewers you’ll really need in the long run with this crap.
RW owned media/Corporate RICH…LOVE the Tax Breaks! Follow the money!
Won’t be getting much as revenue if many people have my attitude about this-f*ck you NBC, there are other places to get news, real news that is, and other stations to watch the rest of the crap that is on tee vee.
Advertisers listen when folks start saying things like “boycott NBC”. We need to start doing that. LOUDLY and often.
Exactly Diane!
ALL the owners and/or top executives at these (and other outlets will follow their “example”) care about is the money THEY will make. That their once venerable outlets are reduced to journalistic rubble isn’t a concern because they will have made their bigly pile of money. It’s really that simple. At heart they are conservatives through-and-through so their attitude will, if Trump wins and takes a wrecking ball to freedom of the press be “I got mine. YOU can fo f**k off.”
Speaking of following the money, whose pockets retrieved the 2 billion dollars from the Saudi’s, courtesy of The warts’ Son-In-Law? Do you think it may have been sent because, Father-Law decided to sell some of his TOP SECRET paper works?
He had opened and spread out bunches of secret papers, there were several empty envelops labeled TOP SECRET, EVEN SCI RATED … Trump would NOT BE THAT STUPID? … Well, lets look at what he has done before and since, ANYTHING THERE that points to Trump’s honesty and a caring attitude about National security, the health and welfare of ANYONE other than himself?
Spin a 50 cent piece and see if it agrees with your estimation … there are tons of speculation, but the odds say he was planning to sell as many of those papers as he could, the main reason he got so bent about giving them up had to be the loss of millions he could have pocketed …
Oh well, Trump is at the scum level now, prison should start very soon before he can botch up more of our Country by triggering his gun nut supporters …
If those boxes in that office near lard-o-lago is what I think they are, he may be selling classified information right now.
WaPo and NBC shill for the mango moron because they did not learn their journalism lessons well especially the part where they’re supposed to IMPARTIAL and the part where they report silly things like factual information. Thing is, if they fuck this up not only will we have an idiot king for life, they’ll ALL be out of a job and out on their asses. Kings have no need for the press. They have sycophants and jesters to tell them all they need to know.