MSNBC anchor as ignorant as Al Sharptongue

MSNBC's Katy Tur anchors a weekday political show. In order to be in that position, specifically, anchoring a political show, it's usually good to know things about politics. Tur knows apparently less about politics than foreigners who've passed their citizenship test.

It's questionable as to whether she knows the difference between her elbow and another part of her anatomy.

Sadly, this is the result of someone who was promoted based on popularity as opposed to knowledge. She became famous in 2016 when then-candidate Trump was a meanie to her and the leftist media had a ball with that.

Tur asked her guest whether gerrymandering could be used to break up the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate. The U.S. Senate. Gerrymandering.

Her question: "Is gerrymandering something that would help improve the situation? How does that sort of divide promote consensus in the Senate, or even in the House?" she asked. [Note in the video on that page how she doesn't know the difference between the word 'kerfuffle' and 'conundrum' and is quickly corrected.]

Senate elections have nothing to do with gerrymandering districts--there are no senate districts, there are two senators for each state. Races are state-wide and are not like House districts. That she is ignorant of this as a political journalist is absurd. The fact that she's an anchor and doesn't know this should tell you something about MSNBC.

But this wasn't her first ignorance rodeo.

Last February she claimed George Washington was a “native son of New York.” Washington was a Virginian as most school kids are taught. Maybe she was out that day.

The ditz also claimed falsely during the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that no GOP senator extended a kind or thoughtful word to Christine Blasey Ford to Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford when she testified, and lied before Congress. Many GOP senators had kind words for the lying, crying Ford.

Earlier than that, Tur claimed former Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. That was not true--McCaskill did no such thing.

She even claimed in July 2018 that the “the Republican party decided [in 2016] not to arm Ukraine,” ignoring the fact that the Trump administration signed off on a massive sale of defensive weapons to arm Ukraine against Russian-backed separatists.

And the blunders go on and on, including a lie that there exists no limits to the Second Amendment, and the claim that then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott avoided a meeting with pro-gun activists when, in fact, he was attending a funeral for the victim of a shooting.

This is a woman who has the equivalent knowledge of politics as AOC has of economics, and her "squad" has of the greatness of America.

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Bannon calls it quits soon he splits

Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon has stepped down from Breitbart News, where he had inherited his role as executive chairman of the organization after Andrew Breitbart died.

After President Trump fired him, and he ran a failed campaign for the controversial Roy Moore, he returned to Breitbart, the only job left for him to once again screw up.

His resigning (if that, indeed, was what actually happened) comes amid his caustic remarks he reportedly made about President Trump's son, Donald Jr., describing his as "unpatriotic" and "treasonous," sentiments he shared with Michael Wolff whose gossipy book, "Fire and Fury," revealed this and other statements.

After trying to walk back the Don Jr. remark by claiming he was talking about Paul Manafort, Bannon found himself on the outs with the president. This may be in part due to the fact that he really gave no honest apology to the president, and the other unsavory things he said about President Trump's daughter, Ivanka, reportedly saying that she was as dumb as a brick.

The loser in all this, of course, is Bannon. He is a guy who has no achievements other than riding the coattails of those in power and acting important to the press--in this case, to a hack whose book is filled with misinformation and sheer inaccuracies. 

The fact that Wolff used Bannon as his main source of information is a testament to his poor judgment and lack of journalistic ability. He is a pseudo-journalist. 

In his NBC interview with Katy Tur, Wolff and Tur demonstrate that the media is engaged in confirmation bias--where the person believes the information of the biases he or she already has. Wolff actually said "my evidence is the book. If it makes sense to you, if it strikes a point, if it rings true, it is true."

No! That isn't how journalism works. If it rings true doesn't make it true. Wolff is an idiot and so was Bannon to think he could leak to this idiot and gain political traction.

Bannon's decision to go public was his own undoing and criticizing Trump's policies and his family was as dumb as the brick to which he classified Ivanka's intelligence.

Bannon can forget trying to find insurgent candidates to go up against the GOP establishment in 2018. His revolution is over, especially since Rebekah Mercer, his former wealthy benefactor said she's ending her support of his political efforts.

He's now known as "Sloppy Steve" by President Trump, and the moniker fits him perfectly.

Breitbart CEO Larry Solov said that "Steve is a valued part of our legacy, and we will always be grateful for his contributions, and what he has helped us accomplish." 

But I suspect, because it "rings true," that Solov is glad to have him go.


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