Trump power-tweets against the media

President Trump went on Twitter Thursday morning and power-tweeted against the "totally dishonest" media, Axios reported.

Now it's important to know that Axios' Chairman Andy Lack is on the board of directors of Axios, so you can expect a left-leaning, media-friendly take on the matter, which is why they described Trump's tweeting as 'raging' against the media. Specifically, he lashed out at the heads of NBC and CNN, and then went on "turning his ire to 'fake books.'"

Axios wrote: "For Trump, it's not just "Fake News" anymore--he's waging a war on fake everything."

Regarding CNN he tweeted:

"The hatred and extreme bias of me...has clouded their thinking and made them unable to function."

He then tweeted abut CNN President Jeff Zucker:

"Little Jeff Z has done a terrible job, his ratings suck, AT&T should fire him to save credibility!"

On NBC he tweeted:

"What's going on at @CNN is happening...at other networks - with @NBCNews being the worst."

On Andy Lack, NBC News Chairperson he posted:

"Andy Lack(y) is about to be fired (?) for incompetence, and much worse."

He also accused NBC News anchor Lester Holt of "fudging my tape" of the May 2017 interview where Trump pinned his firing of former FBI Director James Comey on "this Russia thing."

On Thursday he tweeted that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner "had NOTHING to do with the so called 'pushing out' of Don McGahn. The Fake News Media...love to portray chaos in the White House."

Partly because it's true, and partly because they will do anything to discredit President Trump, a reality TV genius.

President Trump attacked Google overtly on Tuesday. He said that they are "RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD." He told Axios' Mike Allen that Big Tech is "trying to silence a very large part of the country," and said Facebook and Twitter are not to be trusted.

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NBC up to their lips in it

One can imagine how nauseous the executives are at NBC over the blitzkrieg firing of Matt Lauer, their number one star. But in the midst of this comes mounting pressure on Comcast, the parent company, to launch an investigation into whether NBC's top executives knew about Lauer's sexual misconduct and harassment with women. And if they knew about it, when did they know?

NBC News Chairman Andy Lack and Noah Oppenheim, his deputy, have been close to Lauer for many years, and both spent most of their careers at NBC.

However, NBC said, "We can say unequivocally, that, prior to Monday night, current NBC News management was never made aware of any complaints about Matt Lauer's conduct."

Yeah, sure.

The statement isn't being believed by industry observers amid a slew of press accounts saying repeated complaints about the sleazeball were ignored by executives more worried about pleasing Lauer than doing the right thing. In fact, it's known that the "Today" show was a sex-charged "boys club" filled with lewd comments and mistreatment of women.

"It seems that those at the top of the NBC food chain have really dug themselves into a hole. A lot is still unknown, but it could be a lose-lose situation for Lack and Oppenheim," Mediate columnist Joey Wulfsohn said.

He went on: "Either they continue their lack of transparency, which only feeds into the narrative that there was complicity among NBC management; or they reveal the truth, which may also prove complicity among NBC management."

Now there are three scandals in which Lack and Oppenheim have kept quiet about, yet promised transparency. Who knew about Matt Lauer? What about Ronan Farrow's story that would have outed Harvey Weinstein as a sexual predator--when did these two clowns spike the story? And why did NBC do nothing for all those years over the "Access Hollywood" tape in which Donald Trump and future "Today" co-host Bill Bush made disgusting comments about women and grabbing them by their genitalia?

The network said they were investigating all three scandals and would be transparent but alas . . . crickets.

Now it's beginning to appear as if all three scandals could be linked.

Regarding Lauer, Lois Boynton, a journalism professor and media ethics expert at the University of North Carolina, said that from an ethics perspective, 'there is a concern about a conflict of interest since the two execs are friends" with Lauer.

Everyone knows that Lack is a close personal friend with the disgraced anchor and it was Lack who promoted Lauer to co-host "Today" when Lack was president of NBC News in the 1990s. They have also vacationed together, but never to "Lolita Island" with Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein.

Oppenheim also has close ties to Lauer and he spent most of his career at NBC since graduating from college. He was senior producer at "Today" for several years and worked closely with Lauer both in the office and on the road.

The close relationships of the executives likely made it impossible for them to keep Lauer in check.

The Variety reporters who broke the story on Lauer, Elizabeth Wagmeister and Ramin Setoodeh, essentially told Fox News' Tucker Carlson on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Thursday that Lack and Oppenheim were lying to cover up knowing about widespread sexual corruption of the studios at '30 Rock'.

Setoodeh feels "it's a fair question to ask as a journalist" why Lack and Oppenheim have remained silent and failed to publicly clarify what they knew and when they knew it.

"As two reporters who have been covering this story pretty aggressively, we would like to interview either of them," Setoodeh told Carlson.

Andy Lack first claimed that a complaint he received Monday night resulted in Lauer's firing, and said it was the first complaint regarding his [Lauer's] behavior "in the over 20 years he's been at NBC News."

Then NBC had to clarify the statement and issued another stating that "prior to Monday night, current NBC News management was never made aware of any complaints about Matt Lauer's conduct."

Yeah, sure.

Setoodeh said it was curious that the word "current" was in the network's statement about which managers knew about Lauer's sexual misconduct. He also explained that NBC staffers told him that the term "current" is being defined in a "very narrow circle" and "there are people who work at the 'Today' show, staffers, producers, anchors--current and previous anchors--of the 'Today' show who were aware there had been complaints about Matt Lauer's alleged conduct toward women."

Also on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Melissa Francis said that a friend of hers had been sexually assaulted by an NBC executive when she was at the network.

"People are really shocked right now," Wagmeister said. "They're waiting for answers."

Now we have to sit and wait to see if Comcast executives step in to staunch the bleeding.

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Matt Lauer fired: the latest sexual misconduct allegation

Matt Lauer is the latest  person to be fired for sexual misconduct and it happened in conjunction with the lighting of the huge Christmas tree outside the NBC studios. 

"Today" show co-host Matt Lauer was fired Wednesday due to inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace. The executives of the show heard the  allegations two days ago and the news was announced by Savannah Guthrie, who was joined by Hoda Kotb to announce the stunning news.

"This is a sad morning here at 'Today' and at NNC News," Ms. Guthrie said and then read a note from BC News Chairman Andy Lack.

"Dear colleagues, on Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer," Lack's statement read. "It represented, after serious review, a clear violation of our company's standards. As a result, we've decided to terminate his employment."

According to the statement, this was the first complaint against Lauer "in over 20 years he's been at NBC News." 

"We were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident," the statement added.

Guthrie tweeted:

"I'm heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own stories to tell." --Savannah Guthrie

Lack went on to bloviate that NBC's "highest priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected, and to ensure that any actions that run counter to our core values are met with consequences, no matter who the offender. We are deeply saddened by this turn of events."

The bigger questions are: will Lack be the next one on the chopping block? What about Chris Matthews? Al Roker? Lester Holt?

Who's next?

An emotional Guthrie lamented "we just learned this moments ago" adding that the "Today" team is "devastated and we are still processing all of this."

"All we can say is that we are heartbroken. I'm heartbroken for Matt. He is my dear, dear friend and my partner and he is beloved by many, many people here. And I'm heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own stories to tell."

How can you be heartbroken for the victim and the alleged perpetrator? Is anyone heartbroken for Harvey Weinstein? 

NBC will be covering the story in the coming days "and will share more details," said Guthrie.

During the 8 a.m. hour, Stephanie Gosk told viewers that Lauer's alleged victim complained about Lauer's inappropriate behavior throughout 2014, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

The New York Post cited a source about an incident that occurred during NBC's coverage  or the 2016 Olympics in Rio. The details are unconfirmed.

President Trump tweeted:

Wow, Matt Lauer was just fired from NBC for "inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace." But when will the top executives at NBC & Comcast be fired for putting out so much Fake News. Check out Andy Lack's past!

He forgot to use a question mark after 'Fake News' but at least he remembered his signature exclamation mark!

Lauer, 59, will no longer rake in $20 million a year that extended to 2018. This leaves George Stephanopoulos as the only remaining anchor of the three major network morning shows.

The way things are going, women are going to rule the world and old white men are going to be in chains.

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MSNBC getting 'too white Conservative'

Self-loathing white progressives and progressives of color are extremely angry with MSNBC's recent programming changes. In fact, they came up with a petition of 175,000 signatures threatening a "backlash" if the network doesn't do things their way.

The network has apparently shifted to hiring center right staff and a few diehard libtards are petitioning that the network go back to the progressive reporting that's in their safe zone.

The recent petition, hosted on Cretin Credo Action, urges network executives to "Stop the white conservative hiring spree at MSNBC." [Because they're afraid of hearing any opposing point of view].

The petition/warning goes like this: "NBC had troubling ties to Trump during the presidential campaign and gave the racist sexual predator a national platform. Now MSNBC, too, is tilting to the right. We need to let NBC executives know that there will be a sharp backlash if MSNBC becomes another platform for right-wing hate."

The petition's author expressed frustration with "progressive shows . . . skyrocketing" in ratings, conservatives, or those with a history on right-leaning networks such as Fox News,  George Will, Hugh Hewitt, and Greta Van Susteren. 

Obviously, the petition's author is intolerant of different points of view and believes that he can make million dollar business decisions for a network whose ratings had gone into the toilet until recently.

Last month, a protest was scheduled to march on NBC headquarters after reports that Lawrence "Comrade" O'Donnell's contract might not be extended. 

A petition posted on Change.org to save comrade O'Donnell's job received 16,000 signatures, about the same number of people that generally sit on the roof of an India train. 

In spite of the petition, the network announced earlier this month that O'Donnell will remain at MSNBC to spout his Communist tripe.

Other rumors about MSNBC president Phil Griffin (no relation to Kathy Airhead Griffin) claimed that he would be getting canned this month, but that information was as reliable as Hillary Clinton's testimony about her email server. Griffin signed a multi-year contract last month, possibly because he is the guy who built up the prime time lineup of the network.

This new petition, however, sets its sights on NBC President Andy Lack, who has supposedly behind the programming changes.

Tamron Hall

The petition reads: " . . . Lack has pushed out Black and Brown talent including Melissa Harris Perry, Alex Wagner, Touré Neblett, Dorian Warren, Michael Eric Dyson, Adam Howard, Jamil Smith, José Diaz-Balart and Tamron Hall. In fact, Lack has a history of replacing Black on-air personalities wherever he goes," the author alleges.

But perhaps the canning of Melissa Harris Perry was justified certainly, News Busters believes she was a loose cannon.

Alex Wagner left MSNBC to join The Atlantic as senior editor, not because she was fired.

Touré was fired because of what he tweeted about Holocaust survivors as noted in an article by Mediaite. MSNBC apparently doesn't suffer racists of any stripe.

Interestingly, Tamron Hall was not fired but left on her own even after she was asked to stay.

Michael Eric Dyson my have gone too far with the network after he compared police to ISIS.

An article by TV Newser reported that Diaz-Balart was a victim of upward mobility. He didn't get fired but left the network to join NBC Nightly News Saturday edition as part of a rotating cast of anchors.

So the "push out" by MSNBC wasn't really a push out at all. 

No company should be forced to retain a person who can injure their reputation. And if a person leaves to enhance their career, the company should be allowed to replace that individual with whom they believe best suits that position, and not base it on the melanin in their skin, or from where they or their family originates. 

Those who so carefully focus on racial issues, who are the racial "bean counters" in all facets of social life, are more likely to be racists than those they accuse of racism.



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MSNBC may dump O'Donnell and Griffin

According to Heat Street the far left-leaning MSNBC may be getting rid of communist-leaning Lawrence O'Donnell and the President of the company Phil Griffin as their contracts are ending and they haven't been renewed.

The replacement? 

Brian "Even My Chin Leans Right" Williams--the guy who's been shot at, saw dead bodies floating down the street and the buddy of the big cheese, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack.

According to Heat Street, Lack may be looking to rehabilitate his buddy Williams and take credit for MSNBC's recent successes, which are at least partially due to the firing of Bill O'Reilly over at Fox News. 

O'Donnell, not a communist when it comes to his own salary, threw a tantrum on the air Wednesday tweeting á la Trump, "Contract expires June 4," and then said he will "let you know where you can watch me June 6 if it's not MSNBC. I'm sorry this situation has become public." 

If he's sorry, why then did he go public with it?

On Thursday, he confirmed to a fan that he tweeted that he wants to stay at MSNBC with "the best team mates [in this case, comrades] on TV."

If Lack rids the network of leftist O'Donnell, Heat Street says that it'll be the latest move by the elderly executive to "torpedo MSNBC's progressive hosts in favor of conservative or middle-of-the-road programming."

While O'Donnell may not be Lack's fav, many progressive snowflakes are expressing their support for O'Donnell on social media. They even used a petition calling for O'Donnell to keep his job while ridding the country of Trump's. The petition has garnered practically all of the viewership of the network--all 14,000 viewers signed.

Griffin, whose head may also be on the chopping block, has strong support from Rachel Maddow the annoying pseudo intellectual lesbian.

Conservatives ought to be crossing their fingers that Williams gets O'Donnell's slot. People see him as a phony and a self-promoting moron. But beyond that, liberals like that about him.

All we can do now is wait until June and hope for change.


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Earpieces banned after Lauer used one on Hillary

The Commission on Presidential Debates will allow presidential debate moderators to wear earpieces if they choose, but only the executive producer of the commission will be the person at the other end of the wire.

Thus, executive producers from each news organization will be denied editorial control and the earpieces will be used mostly to keep track of timing.

Now Lester Holt, Martha Raddatz, Anderson Cooper and Chris Wallace won't have to deal with questions being fed to them by their respective bosses in the upcoming presidential debates, as was the case with Matt Lauer when he moderated the "Commander in Chief Forum" between Clinton and Trump on September 7th.

Lauer wore an earpiece in that debate and it left many people, particularly Hillary Clinton fans, complaining about Lauer's interviewing skills and judgment. 

The "disastrous performance" was largely due to NBC News chief Andy Lack pushing Lauer to press Clinton on the email scandal. How dare they question the honesty and integrity of Hillary Clinton.

According to one NBC representative, it was the executive producer, not Lack, who was directing Lauer during the interview. "Andy was not in [Lauer's]ear. It's totally untrue. The fact of the matter is he would never be in the ear of any host during a program--it would be way too distracting," the rep said. He claimed that Lack was in the control room giving feedback during the interview, but didn't speak directly to Lauer.

Lauer took all the blame and New Yorkers, liberals mostly, expressed their desire to have the host shocked with a cattle prod, tarred and feathered and spit upon by all Hillary supporters. 

"Death is too good for that scum," one woman who wished to remain anonymous said. "He is a sexist, misogynistic, vile, disgusting crap weasel of a host and he deserves to be banned from television, radio and Facebook. I hate him so much I could spit. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him . . . " and she kept saying that until the interviewer's mic was turned off.

Lauer took the week off  after the interview and has lost all credibility with liberals who believed he was too hard on Clinton and much too easy on Trump. They're not used to the liberal mainstream media doing that and it was clearly a shock to their systems.

An investigation will be underway to see whether Lauer turns out to be a registered Republican.

Holt, on the other hand, will host the next NBC debate between the two most detestable party nominees in the history of the United States. The debate will be on Monday, September 26th at 9 p.m. Following that will be the second debate on October 9th, hosted by Raddatz and Cooper, and the final debate on October 19th, on Fox News, hosted by Chris Wallace.

If Donald Trump can put his ego aside for the 90 minutes, he stands a good chance to win.

If.


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