MSNBC is getting a divorce and it's fantastic

Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourselves for a seismic shakeup in the media world. The liberal bastion known as MSNBC is getting a dramatic rebrand, soon to be dubbed "MS NOW"-- that's "My Source News Opinion World," if you're keeping score. This bombshell dropped on Monday’s "Morning Joe," and let me tell you, it's more than just a name change. It's a corporate divorce that's been brewing for years, and' about to get messy.

For decades, NBC and MSNBC have been joined at the hip, like a power couple in the news game. But Comcast, the parent company, is pulling the plug on this marriage, splitting its NBCUniversal empire. Comcast announced last year it's spinning off its cable networks into a new entity called Versant. That's right, MSNBC, CNBC, USA Network, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and the Golf Channel are all packing their bags and moving out, while NBCUniversal holds onto NBC News, NBC News Now, Telemundo, and Bravo. It's a high-stakes custody battle over brands, talent, and real estate, and the fallout is already raising eyebrows.

Let's talk about the split. MSNBC’'s Rachel 'Mad Cow' Maddow and NBC's Savannah Guthrie are no longer playing for the same team. Once the divorce is finalized by the end of 2025, these two won't even be colleagues under the NBCUniversal umbrella. And the iconic Peacock is getting a makeover at MSNBC, replaced by a new logo: a striped flag in red, white, and blue, but not an American flag because they really don't like America all that much. Goodbye, fashionable fowl; hello, patriotic flair. Meanwhile, CNBC, ever the steady one, keeps its "Consumer News and Business Channel" name intact. No drama there.

Now, let's get to the real estate drama. 

Rockefeller Center, 30 Rock, has been the beating heart of NBC since forever, and MSNBC called it home since its launch in 1996. But in this divorce, NBC gets to keep the house. MSNBC is being evicted, forced to set up shop temporarily on 43rd Street while they hunt for a permanent new home. They're also vacating NBC's D.C. bureau near the Capitol and striking out on their own. 

Talk about a fresh start, or more accurately, a forced one.

NBC and MSNBC have long shared their so called stars, with hosts and correspondents bouncing between the two like it's no big deal. But now, lines are being drawn. NBC is holding onto Steve Kornacki, their data wizard who has been a staple of MSNBC's election nights. Andrea Mitchell, after wrapping her long-running MSNBC show "Andrea Mitchell Reports" in February, is staying with NBC as their chief Washington and foreign affairs correspondent. José Díaz-Balart is out at MSNBC but keeping his gigs anchoring "NBC Nightly News Saturday" and Noticias Telemundo.

Meanwhile, MS NOW (or as Greg Gutfeld referred to them as: "Miserable Sh*t No One Watches") is building its roster, snagging some heavy hitters from NBC. Justice reporters Ken Dilanian and Ryan Reilly, national correspondent Jacob Soboroff, White House correspondent Vaughn Hillyard, and internet reporter Brandy Zadrozny are all jumping ship to MS NOW. MSNBC's current lineup, including Stephanie Ruhle, who's juggled roles as NBC's senior business analyst and host of "The 11th Hour," will stay put through the rebrand. And in a rare win, Willie Geist, the guy who pulls double duty on NBC's "Sunday TODAY" and MSNBC's "Morning Joe," has scored a deal to keep both gigs post-split, according to a source who spoke to Fox News Digital. 

Now that's some serious negotiating power.

But let's not kid ourselves, this isn't just a corporate reshuffle. MSNBC has been on a hiring spree, poaching big names like veteran journalist Carol Leonnig from the struggling Washington Post, because they know they're losing NBC's news-gathering muscle. The question is, can MS NOW stand on its own without the Peacock’s clout? 

And what does this mean for a network that's leaned so heavily on its liberal identity? The name "MS NOW" screams agenda-driven journalism. And don't let that flag fool you: MS NOW is not pivoting to the center.

And if you want to Buy Me A Coffee, I wouldn't stop you--it supports my work and I really appreciate it. But no pressure.

Tweet

MSNBC/MSDNC anchors face huge pay cuts as Comcast severs ties with network

Comcast is finally pulling the plug on MSNBC, the media giant announced this Wednesday. This is tough luck for the overpaid and increasingly out-of-touch anchors who work there (temporarily). MSNBC, along with other cable channels that aren't doing so well, but not Bravo which is all about reality TV, will be turned into a separate company that anyone can buy stock in by the end of next year. This means MSNBC will no longer be part of the supposedly more serious and neutral NBC News, which often shares stories, fact-checking (take that with a grain of salt), and guest commentators with MSNBC. Comcast executives informed MSNBC employees on Wednesday that the channel might lose its name and the iconic peacock logo after this split. Plus, those huge p

The decision hints that Comcast's bigwigs can no longer explain to their investors why they keep paying top dollar to stars like Rachel Maddow, Joe Scarborough, and Joy Reid. Even though MSNBC and other cable channels owned by Comcast still bring in cash, their earnings have dropped a lot lately. That's why the higher-ups and those with money in the company are looking to dump what they call "declining assets." When word got out about the plan on Tuesday, Comcast's stock went up after the market closed. The hosts at MSNBC have done well for themselves, making big bucks by stirring up political fervor for a shrinking crowd of older folks. After this year's election, in prime time, MSNBC only managed to pull in 65,000 viewers aged 25-54, which is less than 10% of their total audience.

"This is sort of a very clear, direct statement by Comcast," Rich Greenfield, cofounder of the research firm LightShed Partners, told CNBC, which, by the way, is also being spun off into the new entity. "They are exiting the cable network business. This is them saying we don’t want to be in this business. This is no longer a growth business. It’s going to be around for a long time, but it’s just no longer a growth business."

After MSNBC and its related channels like USA, E!, and Oprah's Oxygen are spun off into their own company, the new bosses will likely seize the chance to streamline operations by laying off employees and cutting pay. The ridiculous situation where MSNBC anchors rake in millions to talk about extreme topics like Hitler to a shrinking crowd of just tens of thousands in total, and even fewer in the key 25-54 age group, will come to an end. Sure, some of the big names might talk about leaving, but their options are limited. CNN? Forget it. They're already in the process of downsizing too. The days of easy money are over, and frankly, most people in America don't seem too upset about it.

Here's a peek at a few of the outrageous MSNBC anchor salaries that executives at the new, yet-to-be-named media company are likely to cut dramatically:

Rachel Maddow [aka Madcow]

Once MSNBC and other channels like USA, E!, and Oprah's Oxygen become their own separate company, the new leaders will probably jump at the chance to make the business more efficient by letting some people go and drastically reduce salaries. The crazy part where MSNBC hosts get paid big bucks for discussing over-the-top subjects like Hitler to only a few thousand viewers, and even less in the important 25-54 age group, will be over. Sure, some famous hosts might think about quitting, but their choices are slim. CNN? No way. They're already cutting back. The era of making easy money is done, and honestly, most Americans aren't too bothered by it.

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski [aka Mr. and Mrs. Scarborough

They'll say or do just about anything to boost their ratings and promote themselves. This big-shot couple at MSNBC, known for being bullies, sneaky, looking out for themselves, and being total hypocrites, just went to Mar-a-Lago to meet President-elect Trump. Remember, these are the same people who called him a "racist" and "fascist" like Hitler during the election. They probably got a huge pay deal like Rachel Maddow did. Scarborough, in particular, has gotten really out of touch. Scarborough claimed that the current Joe Biden was sharpest ever, which was clearly not true, especially since Biden's debate went so badly it made him quit the 2024 race. Despite once criticizing Al Sharpton for his anti-Semitic remarks, Scarborough often has him on to talk about stuff, even anti-Semitism.

Chris Hayes [aka Rachel Maddow-ish]

Chris Hayes, often referred to by his colleagues as "the male Rachel Maddow" but without her knack for reading from a teleprompter, tries to copy her smug attitude and factual inaccuracies. He's also facing a defamation lawsuit. When Hayes isn't disrespecting the military or advocating for transgender surgeries for kids, he's good at pushing racially charged comments on his show. Recently, he sat there, nodding, while Sherrilyn Ifill, ex-president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, made unsubstantiated claims that Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for Defense Secretary, was a white supremacist. This was too much even for Michael LaRosa, a long-time Democratic strategist and ex-MSNBC producer, who commented, "This stuff has to stop," pointing out that such rhetoric contributed to political losses.

Joy Reid

Joy Reid, who a lot of corporate leaders would probably want to get rid of because she's a political risk, actually got a promotion in 2020. This was even after she tried to say her old blog was "hacked" when people found old posts that were homophobic and anti-Semitic. Since then, her influence at MSNBC, a network that obviously doesn't have a problem with anti-Semitism, has just gotten bigger, but her show has turned into a platform for extreme racial issues and all sorts of wild claims. She brings on so called "experts" who say Republicans are making it impossible for Black people to vote, has accused Republicans of teaching people about "inflation," and recently criticized Latino men for voting for Trump, saying they're betraying their own race and families. None of this is based in reality and is itself racist.

Al Sharpton [aka Sharptongue]

Although Sharpton's official salary isn't high, people argue he's a race baiting idiot and is still getting too much, considering his controversial past. He was behind the 1991 Crown Heights riots, a major anti-Semitic event in America. Yet, the make-believe Reverend still collects a paycheck. The Kamala Harris campaign gave $500,000 to his group, the National Action Network, right before Sharpton had a cozy chat with Harris on his MSNBC show. This group is pretty cozy with MSNBC's head, Rashida Jones, who got a special award from them in 2021 and 2024.

Nicolle Wallace

Nicolle Wallace, who used to work for the Republicans but switched sides when she moved to New York and started getting paid to criticize them, is famous for pushing the narrative around Michael Avenatti, who was later convicted. She's adored by the #Resistance crowd, often having "experts" on her show who compare January 6 to the 9/11 attacks, saying the former was worse. After her 2019 divorce, Wallace started dating Michael Schmidt from the New York Times, who's been on her show a lot. (They're now married.) Schmidt is working on a Netflix show with Noah Oppenheim, the former NBC News president who's been accused of stopping Ronan Farrow from reporting on Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct.

NBC News

NBC News, which will stay under Comcast's wing, is thought to be in trouble by those in the know. There's a chance they'll have to let some people go and lower the huge salaries of their anchors to make up for the money they'll lose from MSNBC and CNBC. The network itself isn't doing so great either. The Today show, their biggest money-maker, has lost a ton of viewers over the years, and Nightly News with Lester Holt, who reportedly makes about $10 million annually, has seen its ratings in the key 25-54 demographic drop by half since 2018. After the split, Comcast might decide to scale down NBC News, which could mean less pay for stars like Holt and Savannah Guthrie, who makes around $18 million for hosting the Today show. Interestingly, Guthrie is married to Michael Feldman, a Democratic strategist who used to work with Al Gore.

Tweet

MSNBC tried to trick their dozen viewers into thinking they were at RNC convention

MSNBC commie chicks Rachel Maddow, Jen Psaki, and Joy Reid lied to their dozen or more viewers. They portrayed themselves as being at the RNC convention while criticizing the GOP and half the country who vote for them, but the truth was that they never even attended the convention. Instead, they used a LED screen to make it look as if they were there. They also use facial expressions to make it look like they have a working cerebral cortex.

They lied to their viewers. There is nothing more disrespectful than to treat your viewers as if they're too stupid to know of the lies. Instead of broadcasting from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as MSNBC hosts pretended to do, they were sitting in their comfy Manhattan headquarters. 

Hosts Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Jen Psaki used a large LED screen to make it look like they were at the Milwaukee RNC when, in reality, they were broadcasting from the comfort of their Manhattan headquarters where they criticized former and next President Trump, and his vice presidential pick, JD Vance (R-OH).

How utterly unethical to try convincing viewers that the hosts were somewhere they were not.

“If news organizations don’t represent where they are clearly, then how is the audience to have faith and confidence in the actual content of the reporting?” former CNN Washington Bureau Chief Frank Sesno told former newspaper, The New York Times.

In MSNBC's case, there is no reason the audience should have faith in what their content is.

Sesno acknowledged that it could seem “frivolous” to make a big deal out of the network not actually being at the RNC but insisted that there is “something profoundly important here.”

“News organizations need to be very careful and very transparent about what they represent and how they represent it,” he said.

“The arrangement — which several veteran television news producers described as unorthodox — has created something of a trompe l’oeil effect. A casual glance at the screen would suggest that MSNBC’s top anchors were covering the convention in person,” the disgraceful Times added.

The outlet noted that MSNBC hosts regularly announce their location at the top of every broadcast hour, such as in New York or at MSNBC headquarters. However, throughout the week, they only mentioned their location a few times over several hours of coverage, hoping their dozens of viewers were getting new rainbow tattoos. 

Tweet

Maddow has a cow over Trump's NH win

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow had a verbal hernia yesterday when it was obvious that former President Donald J. Trump trounced Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire primary. This makes it two-in-a-row for Trump and it makes Maddow nuts, in spite of her not needing much of a push to get over that hump. If mouths could have hernias, hers would be a double.

When Trump gave his victory speech on Tuesday evening, Maddow went into a state of deep depression, like when he won the Iowa caucuses and the far-left network cut him off without allowing their viewer to hear it. [No, not a typo.] 

The communist lesbian cut into the audio feed and began a sweaty "fact-checking" rant.  "This is what makes it hard to take him—his pronouncements—live."

Rather than actually showing an unbiased news report to their viewer, MSNBC has refused to give the former US President "an unfiltered live platform," because they need to censor what they don't want their viewer to see and hear.

"There is a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things," the leftist host said earlier in the month, as the fake news network cut away from the live footage of Trump. Then she lied and said that "[I]t's not out of spite." Well, perhaps it wasn't a lie--it was probably more out of hatred of Trump rather than simple spite. 

Maddow and Joy Reid, who now sports a Trump hairdo,  laughably attempted to characterize Trump as a senile old man in decline, while the characterize Biden as a Mensa maven.

Everything the left says is exactly the opposite of the facts.

Tweet

Rachel Maddow says USA doomed if Trump wins again: she's blowing smoke

It looks like the United States of America was able to sneak past destruction when former President Donald Trump was President Trump. We almost became the Untied States of America and only by incredible luck were we able to make it past the four years of his term. Thankfully, Joe Biden somehow pulled an historical number of votes from his nether regions to defeat him in the last election and win the presidency by a whisker.

At least that's what MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow [aka: Rachel Madcow] thinks. 

Maddow claimed Monday that Trump's re-election pitch is that he will end politics in the country if given the opportunity. 

Evidently, his former term as President proves her point. There were no wars started, the economy was getting into high gear, jobs were plentiful, and our enemies weren't doing enemy things. So Trump's track record somehow scares Maddow because he's Trump.

"Donald Trump is not leading the Republican Party and leading the Republican field of candidates because of his youthful vigor or because of his eloquence. None of that is going on," Maddow told Psaki, the former ginger White House press secretary for President Biden and her current colleague at MSNBC.

Biden, however, is leading the Democratic Party and his leftist colleagues because of his youthful vigor and eloquence, except when he can't walk up a flight of stairs, find his way offstage, or speak two sentences consecutively.

Maddow argued that Trump is increasingly being honest about his dictatorial ambitions to his base, [unlike Biden who never met an executive order he didn't override, or law he didn't uphold as dictator].

"What he's offering is what he both inherently offers and now, more and more, explicitly offers, which is that ‘if you pick me, that’s the end of politics,'" Maddow claimed.

The MSNBC anchor summarized the deal that American voters would get in the scenario that Trump wins the 2024 election and causes, in her view, the collapse of the American political system, because that's the tune the left always whistles to scare the public.

"You won't have to deal with politics anymore. You won't have to deal with contested elections. You won't have to deal with contests or divisions when it comes to power. You'll have a strongman leader, and I'll just do what I want. Won't that be a lot simpler?" Maddow said, paraphrasing Trump's re-election pitch, which she purposely takes out of context.

Doesn't Maddow understand the system of checks and balances and the fact that he was President once before and that didn't happen or even come close to happening? If he wins, he can only serve one term as President and there is no way he, or anyone in that position can become a dictator? 

"That's what he's offering," Maddow falsely claimed. "That strongman model is what the Republican base is enthused about. That sets him apart from every other Republican candidate. And I think that we're naive to think that he's tricking people into picking him and then surprised that he's going to act like a dictator."

"What's he's offering is strongman leadership, the end of politics, the end of elections" and the "sidelining" of major branches of government, like Congress and the Judiciary, Maddow said. "He'll be the man in charge and he'll get it done."

"That's what he's selling and that's what they're very eager to buy," she added, referring to Republican supporters of Trump who the Left gladly demonizes. 

Trump made it clear that he and the GOP are not planning to end democracy.

Trump said in a speech hosted by the New York Young Republican Club that claims that he is a threat to democracy are a "hoax" and a "new idea."

Trump went on to say that Democrats and the media "think the threat to democracy will save Biden from having created the worst inflation in our country's history, a fragile economy, that may soon end in a depression like 1929 … We are very, very close to a depression, the likes of which you have never seen. We owe $36 trillion and this guy has no clue."

All the Democrats have is fear and identity politics because their policies have only made things worse. Just visit California's big cities for starters.

Tweet

‘Journalists’ accused of war crimes—laughed at dead IDF soldier dragged from tank

A pair of Gaza-based Palestinian photojournalists who were with the October 7 Hamasshole massacres of mostly Israeli civilians, including women and children, have committed war crimes, experts reported to the Tazpit Press Service.

“I believe that this is clearly an incidence that would come under and be covered by both the convention that we talked about in the [International Criminal Court], of the Prevention and Prosecution of Genocide, and under the Israeli law regarding the commission of and the prevention of genocide, and its prosecution,” Maurice Hirsch told the outlet. 

Hirsch is the former Director of the Military Prosecution for Judea and Samaria, and is now Director of the Initiative for Palestinian Authority Accountability and Reform in the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, a Jerusalem-based research institute.

He was referring to a recent report by HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog, that found Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa and Ashraf Amra entered Israel to photograph the attacks. This is on par with CNN being told of the early morning SWAT team  arrest of Roger Stone, only the CNN 'journalists' weren't terrorists, only scumcrumpet hacks.

Mostafa and Amra then returned to Khan Yunis and went on Amra’s Instagram Live account and excitedly shared a video of a mob pulling an Israeli soldier out of a tank and urged Palestinians to join the attack.

Like what Rachel Maddow does, that isn't journalism.

“You can go to Khuza’a [an area of southern Gaza near the border]. You park your motorbike there, okay? Or your jeep. And you enter inside. You will return back with a jeep, motorbike or bicycle, or anything,” Mostafa says in the video. Later, he adds, “Advice, whoever can go – go. It is a one-time event that will not happen again.”

Amra replies, “Really, it will not repeat itself.”

They were referring to stealing things from the dead Israelis, like bicycles from dead children, clothing, and household goods that weren't destroyed in the fires Hamas set to destroy Jewish homes.

Mostafa isn't only an anal sphincter, he's also a freelance photographer associated with Reuters. They were only too happy to publish photos of the soldier's lynching by their fellow Hamassholes.

Amra is also a freelancer whose photo of a bulldozer breaking down a section of the Gaza border fence was published with a credit of “Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images.”

“Having been witness to the crimes themselves, and what was going on, and being witness to the genocide, to then be a party to this open public call to go and participate, to invade Israel, that is something which I think is without question part of at least incitement to commit the crime of genocide,” Hirsch told TPS.

He explained that both photographers could be prosecuted in Israel under the Laws of the Prevention of Genocide and its Punishment.

“If they are arrested alive, they could be indicted for a crime which carries a death sentence,” Hirsch explained.

Let's hope they're caught, arrested and executed. Then we can have the last laugh.

Tweet

Rachel Maddow uses Obama-era pics of illegal immigrant children to attack Trump

Rachel Maddow

Rachel "Madcow" Maddow of far-left-nay-Marxist MSNBC borrowed from the Obama administration's photos of immigrant children sleeping on the floor to blame Trump for "deliberately" hurting families. A pair of the key demo photos were definitely the work of the Obama folks.

“In terms of permanent damage done to humans, in terms of the severity of the damage deliberately done to humans, the Trump administration, no matter what else they do, they will never ever get out from the shadow of the fact that they really did, as a policy and a deliberate practice, they really did take little kids away from their moms and dads,” Maddow said as she opened "The Rachel Maddow Show," as Obama-era photos appeared on the screen.

One photo showed an illegal immigrant child, forced by parents to make the long and dangerous journey across the border, lying on the floor, covered over by what appeared to be a mylar blanket at an Arizona facility in 2014. This was practically before golden escalators were invented.

This exact same photo was used by Al Jazeera in 2018 to prove family separation occurred during the Obama administration, too. You can imagine the Democrats will soon say Trump is cozy with Islamic terrorist sympathizers, but don't forget that it was Al Gore that sold them the TV network.

“They outfitted the kids with mylar blankets and a lump of padding that was supposed to qualify as a mattress, and they told them to sleep on the floor,” Madcow said as the Obama-era photo appeared on the screen, never mentioning that fact and allowing her gullible audience to think it was Trump.

Another photo she used to attack Trump was taken the same year as the prior one, when Obama was in office and Trump was on TV firing people. This powerful photo shot through a chain-link fence showed two kids. It was used in a 2014 Los Angeles Times story headlined, “Obama administration acts to ease immigration legal crunch at border.” How thoughtful of the Obama administration to put them there.

MSNBC unapologetically uses propaganda like Michael Moore uses condiments.

This is not an inadvertent mistake by the mainstream media. They have used Obama-era photos to go after Trump in the past and the Associated Press published a fact check when similar images were used.

“THE FACTS: The photos, taken by The Associated Press, were from 2014, during the Obama administration, but were presented by liberal activists as if they showed the effects of Trump’s immigration policy now,” the AP wrote.

Trump, of course, jumped on the chance to hit back. He tweeted:

“Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in steel cages. They thought it was recent pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires,”

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who was vice president in 2014 when the photos were taken, was awarded a “false” by Politifact for claiming the Obama administration didn’t “lock people up in cages.”

A "false" awarded to a Democrat by Politifact is equivalent to 74 "Pinocchios" and 127 "Pants on Fire," by other liberal outlets. Those on the political right refer to it as the Total BullCrap Award."

Fun Fact: Two of the images Maddow presented to MSNBC cretins on Tuesday were part of the evidence Politifact used to prove Biden was wrong.

C'mon, man. You know you want to follow Brain Flushings--it's free and worth every penny. And remember, every time you click on an ad, an angel gets its wings and a liberal sheds a tear.

Tweet

Newsom refuses records request on 'murky' $1 billion mask deal with Communist China

Gov. Gavin "Ken Doll" Newsom, the crummy Democrat from California, refuses to allow a public records request from the Los Angeles Times as the paper seeks details on a protective mask deal from a Chinese car manufacturing company. The deal for the masks tips the scales at nearly $1 billion.

Newsom's office has been criticized over lack of transparency into the taxpayer funded contract for weeks and the latest refusal will likely raise even more suspicions. 

The paper reported that his office has insisted that disclosure into the deal with BYD, which stands for Build Your Dreams, could jeopardize the mask delivery and that might upset the Chinese Communists who are Chinese capitalists when it comes to lining their own pockets.

“Publishing the agreement now — before performance under the contract is complete — would introduce substantial and unnecessary risk to the State’s ability to secure necessary supplies,” Ryan Gronsky, an attorney with the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, wrote to the Times. Because it isn't as if Honeywell or 3M could make U.S. made masks here at home.

Newsom appeared on far-left MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show last month and said that Sacramento had signed a deal to purchase 200 million masks monthly, which was considered to be a big win for the state amid the scramble worldwide for protective gear and more locally, for toilet paper.

“As a nation-state, with the capacity to write a check for hundreds of millions, no billions, of dollars [of other people's money], we’re in a position to do something bold and big,” Newsom told reporters the next day.

State Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D), a budget committee member, said last month details of the BYD deal “are very murky.”

The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services told the paper that the contract does not need to be made public, in spite of the fact that it's not his money but the people in his state that he's spending and they have the right to know where it's going.

A statement said that the agency determined that “all responsive records are exempt from disclosure, including exemptions for records reflecting attorney work product, attorney-client privileged information, or other information exempt from disclosure under federal or state law.”

And with that, Newsom symbolically flipped the bird to all of California and to those in the majority who voted for him, they richly deserved it.

Please consider following this blog, and remember, every time you click on an ad, an angel gets its wings and a dead terrorist gets his virgins.

Tweet

Jane Lynch wants global pandemic briefings banished from TV due to 'orange man bad'

Jane Lynch, an actress best known for reciting other people's words, has words of her own. On Monday, she begged for news organizations to forgo broadcasting news in order to keep President Trump from speaking to the American public and assuage their concerns regarding the global pandemic of the Wuhan coronavirus or COVID-19.

In spite of the vital information being shared by world renown health care experts, Drs. Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, actress Lynch doesn't like what's going on and does not see these briefings that are so important to the American people as worth the time if President Trump is going to be on them and appear presidential. 

“Please stop covering Trump’s briefing/rallies,” pleaded the actress  “Please. Please.”

Lynch was recognized as Power Up's "10 Amazing Lesbian Women in Showbiz" on May 31, 2010. She was married to Lara Embry, a clinical psychologist after meeting at a California fundraiser but divorced a few years later.

Lynch isn't the only person worried about the coronavirus news and public briefings, there are actually so-called news organizations, such as the Contrived News Network (CNN), that refuses to show the entire briefings and even cut away Monday when Trump announced that "My Pillow" CEO and American patriot Mike Lindell will be producing 50,000 N95 masks per day, beginning Friday. 

The good news in these terrible times was just too much for CNN to accept.

The former newspaper, New York Times has floated the idea of networks refusing to air the vital Trump briefings, too, citing “misinformation,” while providing no examples of their claim.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said earlier this month, “I would stop putting those briefings on live TV — not out of spite, but because it’s misinformation.”

But of course, she too gave no example of misinformation to which she alludes, and of course it is out of spite. If it weren't, she wouldn't have had to preempt her statement.

As noted by The Times, anchor Ted Koppel, and his hair, suggested Trump and apparently the medical experts alongside him need to be fact-checked live, unlike former President Barack Obama, who is not as concerned about the pandemic as he is about global warming. Ironically, the earth could use some warming right now and kill the hell out of this coronavirus.

“The question, clearly, is whether his status as president of the United States obliges us to broadcast his every briefing live,” he added. “No. No more so than you at The Times should be obliged to provide your readers with a daily, verbatim account.”

Meanwhile, Lynch has long been critical of President Trump and called him a "bully."

Well, some may agree that Trump's a bully and others may say that he is merely counterpunching because he is constantly being attacked by the media and people who recite other people's words for a living. 

Please consider following this blog, and remember, every time you click on an ad, an angel gets its wings and a terrorist gets his virgins.

Tweet

Maddow: Trump's claim he'd have hospital ships coming to NY and CA 'nonsense'

Watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC is like watching an anti-American propaganda film from Russia. You get a piece of truth and then it gets spun into a piece of something less pleasant.

It's amazing that people actually spend time watching her show, but one has to suppose that some people will watch anything they want to believe and once it's proven to be bull pucks, they find an excuse or interpret it to suit their thinking, even when the claims that are made are as detached from reality as a Daffy Duck cartoon.

Maddow has been doing this since Trump came down the escalator.

On March 20th, Maddow's entire "show" was to create even more discomfort and even panic over the coronavirus. She claimed everything was out of control, hospitals were stripped of all their supply needs, and Trump was sitting around doing nothing about it.

The craziest part of her rant was the claim that President Trump lied about deploying the two hospital ships, USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy, that were to be sent to New York City and California, respectively. She claimed Trump said the ships were going to be deployed the following week but, according to Maddow, they weren't even close to being deployed nor would they be for weeks at the very least. Her words:

"In terms of the happy talk we've had on this front from the federal government, there is no sign that the Navy hospital ships that the president made such a big deal of, the Comfort and the Mercy, there's no sign that they'll be anywhere on-site helping out anywhere in the country for weeks yet. The president said when he announced that those ships would be put into action against the COVID-19 epidemic. He said one of those ships would be operational in New York harbor by next week. That's nonsense. It will not be there next week.”

According to the transcript, she even continued to make the claim later in her act.

"President Trump announced this week that the navy was sending two medical ships, one to New York City, one to the West Coast to help treat patients. He said the ships would be launched over the next week or so depending on need. Wrong. That was also wrong as NBC`s Courtney Kube puts it. Quote, it's anybody's guess when those ships will come in. One of those ships is currently undergoing maintenance. It has no medical personnel on board. The other one is also undergoing maintenance and it lacks a medical crew all together. Remember the president said it will be there next week. It won't be there next week."

And yet on Monday morning riding the gentle waves in New York Harbor, came the USNS Comfort, and arriving in Los Angeles on March 27, the USNS Mercy began treating patients. 

No apologies from MSNBC; no apology from Rachel Madcow.

Because they are not sorry they said that--it was good for the moment.

This is exactly what fake news looks like.

Please consider following this blog, and remember, every time you click on an ad, an angel gets its wings and a terrorist gets his virgins.



Tweet

Cheer Up: Michael Avenatti was arrested

If you're feeling down in the proverbial dumps and nothing seems to be going right this week, cheer up--the feds arrested porn lawyer and CNN hopeful for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Avenatti.

Avenatti was arrested by Internal Revenue Service agents on Tuesday night during a break in a disciplinary hearing in Los Angeles over allegations the high-profile shyster scammed his client out of $840,000.

The arrest went down around 6 p.m. outside the State Bar Court, where the State Bar of California has initiated proceedings against him.

“I can confirm that he was arrested by federal agents," Avenatti's lawyer Dean Steward said. "I anticipate a bail hearing at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Magistrate's Court in Santa Ana. I haven't seen the details of the warrant, but should have it later this evening.“

It isn't certain that CNN has reported this story yet because nobody watches CNN and thus no information was available regarding their garbage reporting.

Avenatti did not return to the court when the hearing resumed possibly because he was indisposed. His attorneys called for a sidebar with the judge and said he would not be able to return due to circumstances related to a criminal matter in Orange County.

The former so-called lawyer for sex performer Stormy Daniels is accused of fraud, cheating on his taxes and lying to investigators. Federal prosecutors allege that he embezzled funds from clients. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, told Fox News that Avenatti was arrested on suspicion of violating his pre-trial release, but specific details were not made clear.

"I do expect him to appear in federal court in Santa Ana tomorrow," he said, adding that documents related to the arrest were under seal.

Hearts are being broken as this is being written. Rachel Maddow, the entire staff at CNN, Chris Matthews--heck, Chrissy is practically in tears now that he and Mikey will not be going for that cup of coffee Matthews suggested.

Avenatti was scheduled to travel to New York on Tuesday night for his criminal trial over his alleged plot to extort $25 million from sports apparel giant Nike.

At least in his mind, nothing he has ever done was anything less than not guilty. Just ask Stormy Daniels how she feels about him. When a porn performer see you as a low-life, well, it doesn't get much lower.

Please consider following this blog, and remember, every time you click on an ad, an angel gets its wings.

Tweet

OANN sues MSNBC's Rachel Maddow for $10 million

One America News Network (OANN) has filed a defamation lawsuit for $10 million against Rachel Maddow of MSNBC.

The conservative network is suing Maddow, Comcast Corporation, MSNBC and NBC Universal for defamation based on the allegation that Maddow "maliciously and recklessly" attacked OANN by suggesting it is a Russian state propaganda outlet, as per the complaint, according to Law and Crime.

Maddow said that OANN “really, literally is Russian propaganda” on “The Rachel Maddow Show” in July.

Maddow’s thoughtless comment was based on an article in the far-left Daily Beast, stating OANN’s Kristian Rouz is a “Russian national on the payroll of the Kremlin’s official propaganda outlet, Sputnik.” 

OANN demanded a retraction from The Daily Beast reporter along with Maddow on July 29.

“This is vile, sensationalistic reporting,” OANN’s lawyer, Skip Miller, said according to a previous press release. “These defamatory statements must be retracted immediately. One America News Network has no connection to the Russian government or any other government — no connection whatsoever, financial or otherwise.”

In fact, if you watch the channel on TV or read their online posts, you'd see a rather conservative as well as a pro-Trump leaning.

Comcast is being sued for refusing to carry OANN as part of its cable programming because the network could go against liberal politics of MSNBC, according to the complaint. The lawsuit also alleges that Maddow and the other defendants were aware that her comment was false, and suggests the statement was intentionally made to hurt OANN because of the network’s conservative views. 

It would also blow MSNBC out of the water in competitive terms if they were granted a cable spot.

OANN’s lawyers gave Maddow and The Daily Beast until Aug. 15 to retract its statements, according to the cease-and-desist requests sent on July 29.

“One America is wholly owned, operated and financed by the Herring family in San Diego,” Miller said according to a statement. “They are as American as apple pie. They are not paid by Russia and have nothing to do with the Russian government.”

“This is a false and malicious libel, and they’re going to answer for it in a court of law.”

MSNBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment and Rachel Maddow was last seen looking androgynous.



Please consider following this blog and feel free to click on the ads on this page. It costs nothing, and may just save your life. Or not. But seriously, please check out the ads as this is my source of generating revenue. And you can also see my blog on the Times of Israel.





Tweet

Krystal Ball says her former MSNBC network 'pushes conspiracy theories' for ratings

Former MSNBC host Krystal Ball slammed her former network last Thursday for pushing "conspiracy theories" regarding President Trump and Russia after the Mueller investigation ended with a fizzle and disappointed them.

Ball was the liberal host of "The Cycle" and now host of "The Hill's Rising," asked after Wednesday's testimony, "How much damage has MSNBC in particular done to the Left?"

She stressed that her critique wasn't a personal attack on her former colleagues, many of whom she still considers friends, but complained that "nearly all of [them] got swept up in the ratings bubble that was feverish Russian conspiracy theories."

"I dare to say, some talent did drink more deeply of the Russia conspiracy waters than others," she said. "Rachel Maddow, you got some explaining to do."

Ball said that the true facts about the extent of the Trump's campaign attempts to work with Russia were "damning" on their own, much like Obama's hot mic moment when he told Russia's President Medved that he would have more flexibility once the 2012 elections were over. "But it does not feel like a damning set of facts when for months MSNBC built segment after segment, show after show on building anticipation for a big reveal when we would learn the true depths of Trump's fealty and direct conspiracy with Putin," she whined.

Ball criticized MSNBC for inviting on proponents of the Russian collusion theory like Jonathan Chait and Louise Mensch, the latter of whom once "reported" that Steve Bannon would receive the death penalty for espionage. "This is not journalism, this is Infowars conspiracy," she said.

MSNBC, along with CNN and the Democratic Party, "set the bar unimaginably high," Ball argued, and as a result Trump's actual scandals seemed ordinary in comparison, as well as the fact that Trump is a known quantity and nothing outrageous he does surprises us anymore. "Now please… can we move the heck on?" she asked.


Please consider following this blog and feel free to click on the ads on this page. It costs nothing, and may just save your life. Or not.




Tweet

First Fourth Event Held in Jerusalem!

This is going to really upset a whole host of leftists who hate President Trump more than they love America. It's going to blow their little minds and make Don Lemon sour, Chris Cuomo dumber and Rachel Maddow mad.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, were guests of U.S. Ambassador David Friedman at a 4th of July party held Tuesday night at the Jerusalem International Convention Center. The two men praised the "new heights" in U.S.-Israeli ties and they praised President Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, much to the chagrin of everyone in the Democratic Party and the mainstream news media.

Ambassador Friedman referred to the event as the “biggest Independence Day party ever.” Rachel Maddow had a cow.

Friedman also underscored the values that Israel and the United States share, while Netanyahu noted that the alliance between the two countries has reached new heights. Netanyahu said that U.S. support for Israel crossed party lines, and must remain bipartisan. By bipartisan he meant that the anti-Semitic Democrats and their apologists should join in on celebrating too.

“A few days ago,” said Netanyahu, “David and Tammy [Friedman] and [U.S. Middle East envoy] Jason Greenblatt and my wife, Sara, went to a place that is the wellspring of our existence. They went to a place that leads from the Siloam pool to Har Habayit [the Temple Mount], where our ancestors celebrated the various festivals of Jerusalem and where the last Jews fighting the Romans, fighting this greatest power on earth, submitted, and where Jewish independence was extinguished.

“Well, we’re back, and we’re back standing for the truth, for our history, for our rights and it’s wonderful to have the greatest power on earth not opposing the Jewish state but supporting the Jewish state. What a twist.”

And speaking of twist, Don Lemon's skivvies got all twisted upon hearing Bibi's [Netanyahu] words. "I can't believe they're thanking Trump," he said. "It's just plain wrong."

That's gotta leave a mark.

If you enjoyed this post, please consider following my blog, but even if you choose not to do so, please check out the sponsors on this page. Happy Fourth of July everyone!

Tweet

NY Times bans reporters from far-Left TV

The New York Times has finally decided to try harder at being "journalistic" and have banned its "reporters" from several TV shows that are obviously partisan: MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell, and Don Lemon of CNN [aka: the Compromised News Network]. 

MSNBC, whose ratings are lower than whale poop, is upset about the new policy, according to anonymous sources at Vanity Fair. This was discovered after a Times reporter cancelled a scheduled appearance on Rachel Maddow's show. Her producer was informed that New York Times reporters are asked not to appear on partisan shows to discuss politics. The ban supposedly extends to Comrade O’Donnell and "The Lemon," as well as Fox news hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity [where the chances of them appearing in the first place is as likely as spotting Bigfoot dancing with Richard Simmons.]

The Times explained to Vanity Fair of a policy in their ethics handbook that says reporters should “avoid strident, theatrical forums that emphasize punditry and reckless opinion-mongering.” New York Times reporters have appeared on Maddow’s show for years, but leadership at the former newspaper finally woke up to the fact that some of these shows have gone off the rails in recent months.

Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet and others at the canary cage liner don’t want their so-called "unbiased" reporters to be associated with the increasingly obvious bias of people like Maddow.  “Their view is that, intentionally or not, it affiliates the Times reporter with a bias,” an anonymous source said.

It’s not clear exactly where The Times is drawing the line for shows that are and are not permissible to bloviate on. Some of their reporters, including hard-left-leaning White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, are paid contributors at the networks and have the same blatant bias as the hosts of the shows they appear on. This does not bode well for The Times.

The guidelines are “inconsistent, incoherent and poorly conceived,” an unnamed source at one of the networks told Vanity Fair, which suggests the guidelines were written by the staff at the former newspaper.

Please consider following Brain Flushings and don't be shy about visiting the ads on these pages. Follow me on Parler.com, my handle is @Heyrobo, or on Twitter--my handle there is: @RobHoey 
Thanks.

Tweet

MSNBC's Maddow has numbers lower than a sunken ship's head

The numbers tell the story--Rachel Maddow the MSNBC prime time anchor has viewership ratings lower than sunken ship heads. [Look up the meaning of a ship's head for more information on the analogy given.] And she is maintaining a trend in which her numbers continue to plummet every month this year.

Maddow’s show has dedicated years and viewer time to intensive coverage surrounding the Mueller investigation. She averaged 2,608,000 viewers per night with 410,000 in the key 25-54 age demographic in May, according to Nielsen Media Research. That's about the same number of New Delhi riders on the roofs of buses in their morning commute.

Maddow's show came in third for cable news behind Fox News prime time hosts Sean "Thirty Million On Food Stamps" Hannity and Tucker Carlson. 

Hannity’s average audience was 3,138,000, with Carlson’s coming in at 2,761,000. The Five and The Ingraham Angle rounded out the top five.

The supercilious silly Maddow hit her peak in January this year, averaging 3.3 million viewers. Then in February, that number dipped to 3.1 million and again to 2.9 million in March. 

Her March coverage included the beginning to the end of the Mueller probe, when his office submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr and the investigation went public. 

Maddow’s numbers continued to circle the bowl. 

In April, her show averaged an audience of 2,630,000 people when Barr released a full and mandatory redacted version of the Mueller report revealing that there was no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with Russian officials to win the 2016 presidential election.

Now she's pushing for the Democrats to poop or get off the pot with impeachment. Why not? It doesn't affect her and could only help her anemic numbers. 

But of course, Nancy "Dancing Hands" Pelosi knows that impeaching a sitting President is political suicide and she has a lot more to lose than Maddow.

Please consider following Brain Flushings and don't be shy about visiting the ads on these pages. Follow me on Parler.com, my handle is @Heyrobo, or on Twitter--my handle there is: @RobHoey 
Thanks.

Tweet

The 'collusion delusion' destroys Rachel Maddow's ratings

MSNBC's biggest loser turns out to be Rachel Maddow [aka Madcow] now that the Russia probe has determined that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Special Counsel Robert Mueller officially concluded his investigation into the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Maddow had seen a rating surge since President Trump took office, offering extensive coverage on the Russia investigation for the past two years with her snarky take on Trump-related gossip she made up off the top of her vacuous head. Her Trump-hating viewers ate that crap up.

However, her viewership has been circling the bowl since Mueller handed his report to the Department of Justice last Friday and the Sunday’s release of Attorney General Bill Barr’s letter summarizing the report that concluded that there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. She even appeared to be crying after the summary came out.

“The Rachel Maddow Show” saw an average 13 percent decrease in viewership comparing her ratings Monday through Wednesday this week versus last week — Maddow lost nearly a whopping 500,000 viewers on Monday’s show following the release of Barr’s letter compared to her previous Monday show. She also saw a 15 percent decrease in the 25-52 demo audience.

This lends hope to the notion that not everyone on the left is too stupid to realize Maddow and the other networks lied to them.

The MSNBC primetime lineup suffered as a whole this week, averaging 2.46 million viewers versus the 2.83 million from last week.

President Trump simply couldn't help himself as he took to Twitter on Thursday morning to mock MSNBC and CNN for their ratings struggle this week.

“Wow, ratings for ‘Morning Joe,’ which were really bad in the first place, just ‘tanked’ with the release of the Mueller report. Likewise, other shows on MSNBC and CNN have gone down by as much as 50%. Just shows, Fake News never wins!” Trump tweeted.

However, Fox News Channel has seen a substantial ratings increase since the findings of the Mueller report summary were made public.

“Hannity” received over 4 million viewers on Monday, which was more than 1 million additional viewers than the previous Monday. Hannity has successfully held onto his momentum, earning 4.3 million viewers on Wednesday night, when he also received a 32 percent increase in the demo from last week.

FNC’s other primetime hosts, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, have also benefited since the Mueller report was issued, averaging a 25 percent increase in viewership during primetime this week. They averaged 3.58 million viewers versus last week’s average of 2.72 million viewers.

Maybe the country is finally getting it, after all. Maybe they understand that the media hate Trump more than they love the country and would like to see him, and thus the nation, fail.

Sad!


I hope you'll follow Brain Flushings and have a few laughs while you get a conservative viewpoint. Politics is the new NFL without the mindless kneeling and this blog will both inform you and hopefully entertain you bigly.






Tweet

MSNBC, CNN staff on suicide watch awaiting Mueller report

The Three Stooges

The following is satirical.

The leftist media from MSNBC and CNN are being closely monitored and are currently on suicide watch now that it has been made clear that the Mueller report will not recommend any further indictments. Adam Schiff is also said to be at wits end and refuses to come out of the bathroom, but it's believed that he's too narcissistic to harm himself.

MSNBC host  Chris Matthews seems to be in the greatest danger and has been heard talking to himself in animated tones saying, "They need to connect the dots. The dots. The damned dots. They aren't connecting them and that's the key, I tell you. And then they'll take him down along with his wife and kids."

The lunatic progressive cable news host was particularly irked that the president wasn’t indicted on obstruction of justice, in spite of the fact that under the law, he actually didn't obstruct justice. But worst of all for Matthews is that Trump never sat down for an interview with the special counsel where he could be tripped up.

“Why was there never an interrogation of this president? We were told for weeks by experts, ‘You cannot deal with an obstruction-of-justice charge or investigation without getting the motive. ... How could they let Trump off the hook?” Matthews whined, as a tear slowly meandered down his very white cheek and found purchase on his quivering lower lip.

“He will not be charged with obstruction of justice or collusion without having to sit down with the Special Counsel Mueller and answer his damn questions. How could that happen? I'm so upset I could spit,” he cried.

Daily Wire Leftist
Tears Tumbler

Matthews' primetime colleague, Rachel Maddow, [aka "Madcow"] was visibly emotional throughout her show which she began by saying she was reporting from Tennessee where she was fishing and turning the fresh water rapids into a salt water stream from her hot, liberal tears.

"A couple of hours ago, or maybe even less than that, I was standing up to my boobs in a trout stream in Tennessee," Madcow told her viewers. "But now it's Mueller time! And so I'm in a studio in the great state of Tennessee. ... To be quite honest, I'd rather see Trump fail than see the nation win. He needs to go."

Later, CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta tearfully said the White House was “quietly celebrating” and that the Trump administration was reacting to Mueller’s report with “a fair amount of glee,” as mucous visibly leaked from his left nostril and he sighed heavily.

“I talked to a Trump campaign adviser earlier this evening who said, ‘This was a great day for America and we won,’” Acosta told “AC360” anchor Anderson Cooper. “That’s how they feel right now. . .  jerks.”

Liberal celebrities also appeared surprised by the sudden end to the investigation.

Outspoken anti-Trump comedian Chelsea Handler took to Twitter on Friday night and told her 8 million followers that she was “sexually attracted” to Robert Mueller as she is with most animate objects.


I hope you'll follow Brain Flushings and have a few laughs while you get a conservative viewpoint. Politics is the new NFL without the mindless kneeling and this blog will both inform you and hopefully entertain you bigly.




Tweet

MSNBC speculates POTUS has STDs, sexual dysfunction

The Mean Streaming Nothing But Communism network (MSNBC) has been running segments this week speculating about President Trump's sex life. They suggest he suffered from "sexual dysfunction" and that he also has a sexually transmitted disease.

Their team of "experts" on sexual dysfunction and perversion, Gwenda Blair, Brian Stelter, Elise Jordan, Mika Brzezinski and Rachel Maddow, think a lot about this issue, as well they should. In fact, that's about all they think about.

Gwenda Blair knows Trump's hair

The first segment ran on Tuesday. The MSNBC panel of geniuses mocked medication the president has reportedly taken in the past and indicated that he may have taken them to deal with "sexual dysfunction," a condition well known to Stelter who loses one follicle of hair every time he abuses himself in the MSNBC washroom.

Gwenda Blair wrote a book about Trump. "Propecia is associated, you know, is used for hair loss [evidently writing better than she, you know, speaks] -- he doesn't want to talk about that. It's also associated--it has a lot of bad side effects, including sexual dysfunction. I think he really doesn't want to talk about that."

And Gwenda Blair doesn't want to talk about her sexual fantasies of Hillary Clinton and whipped cream.

Another segment came and went on Wednesday. 

Mika Brzezinski implied on "Morning Joe" that President Trump is hiding an STD in his medical records. And we all know what a classy broad Brzezinski is because she's capable of spelling her name correctly without having to look in her purse that her guitar-playing fool of a fiancée, Joe Scarborough holds for her.

How would she know that? Medical records are confidential and she's making stuff up because that's what fake news nerds do.

Elise Jordan commented after a comment from MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle, saying, "You leave [the White House] with the political equivalent of an STD, to talk about something that Donald Trump worries about constantly."

"It's something that you just don't get rid of easily," Jordan said, speaking from experience.

Wishes he used Propecia

Then Joe Scarborough began talking rather than singing poorly, when Brzezinski shouted, "Wait a minute! Maybe that's why they raided his doctor's office," referring to Jordan's comments.

Although Brian Stelter wasn't on the show, he still could be heard in the men's room while Maddow was with her girlfriend, Susan Mikula.


Tweet

GOP shooter: "It's time to destroy Trump & Co."

James T. Hodgkinson, 66, wanted to shoot Republicans this morning. He went to the ball field where GOP congressmen were practicing baseball for tomorrow's charity game against the Democrats.

Soon after he confirmed that it was Republican congressmen on the field, he began shooting. Rep. Steve Scalise was shot in the hip and several others were also shot. 

It was only by the bravery of Scalise's armed security, the Capitol Police, that the gunman was stopped and eventually succumbed to his wounds.

It was soon discovered that Hodgkinson's Facebook page had a post on it declaring: " Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co."

The shooter's Facebook page also includes many photos of Sen. Bernie Sanders, a socialist who Hodgkinson strongly supported in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, which brings to mind the question: then why didn't he go after the DNC and Hillary Clinton?

But that's neither here nor there, as they say, when they don't know what to say.

In late August, the shooter wrote: "I want Bernie to Win the White House" and "Bernie is a Progressive, while Hillary is Republican Lite."

When Sanders discovered that Hodgkinson worked for his campaign he said, "I am sickened by this despicable act . . . Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and I condemn this action in the shhtrongist possible terms."

Hodgkinson's Facebook page shows that he was a member of many leftist online groups: The Road To Hell Is Paved With Republicans; Rachel Maddow For President 2020; Sanders For President 2020; Terminate The Republican Party; and Donald Trump is not my President.

The guy was obviously a mental mess.

Thankfully the good guys had guns, this morning and stopped the bad guy with a gun.

Police reports show that Hodgkinson has been involved in gun-related incidents twice before involving law enforcement.

On March 24th, a Belleville man (which is where Hodgkinson resided) called police and reported that he heard about 50 gunshots near his home. The responding officers came across Hodgkinson "in the pine trees." He was carrying an Illinois Firearm Owners ID Card and was advised by police "not to discharge his weapon in the area" because there were homes nearby. He was not arrested and was carrying a hunting rifle.

In 2006, during a family dispute, he was alleged to point a shotgun at a man who told the coops that Hodgkinson hit him in the head with the stock of the shotgun. As the victim fled, Hodgkinson "shot one round" at the man "or in the air." 

He was arrested for domestic battery and aggravated discharge of a weapon. His neighbor describes him as "a short angry bastard."

He also had other arrests for drunk driving, resisting police, and criminal damage to property.

But one cannot blame Bernie Sanders for what this lunatic did--it's totally on him. If you blame the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders or anyone else, you are doing exactly what the Democrats do when the shoe is on the other foot.

Hodgkinson is totally responsible for his own behavior. 

What happened today wasn't due to gun violence--it was due to political violence. Don't listen to the gun control cretins.

Let's pray for Steve Scalise and Matt Mika, both in critical condition.



Tweet