He is blue maga, right down to his parasocial relationship with the TV man. I remember how they complained about Trump watching Fox News all day long. Now they spin it in a positive light for their guy.
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And there were all those fears about how Fox News was wielding a dangerous amount of influence over policy by manipulating Trump's opinions. Yet not a peep about how Biden's views are being shaped by MSNBC.
I can imagine the stuff Biden is hearing. Joe talking to natsec guy...
"How hard should we hit Iran?"
"At this juncture I think a strike in Iran itself leads to unpredictable and unfavorable outcomes."
"But we gotta hit Iran - right? Maybe we gotta wait a while but eventually. Goodness gracious - American prestige in the region is at stake!"
They go to commercial and Biden says to himself "American prestige in the region is at stake. That's true. That's true!" Later that day before he boards his helicopter as the spinning rotors hum - he yells over the noise "American prestige in the region is at stake..."
When the average Morning Joe viewer was born, Biden was already in high school.
Just the president having no conflicts of interest with a favorable propaganda outlet.
This is totally unlike Trump's relationship with Sean Hannity, of course.
Ahh yes Mr. "I'm going to wipe our the Deep State" cozy with a guy who tellingly wears a CIA pin during his broadcasts.
wears a CIA pin during his broadcasts.
Really? I seriously can't tell if you're joking or not. It seems over-the-top. But reality itself now is over-the-top.
He has a CIA tattoo on his forehead
"Jill! Jill!"
From another room - "Hold your horses. I can barely hear you."
"Jill! Jill! Get in here! Get in here now! Joe's talking about strikes!"
"What? I can't hear you!"
"Joe says he's in favor of me bombing more!" He stops yelling for a sec. In a quiet voice just to himself he says: "I love Joe."
Brandon likes to start each morning with hours of takes from a former GOP congressman from Florida? That tracks.
"68? Bunch of whippersnappers who don't even know Corn Pop."
In all seriousness, I bet a pretty big chunk of regular TV watchers in 2024 are boomers who just leave it on all day.
I'm sure a lot of them leave it on but I'd be scared to know what percentage of them actually watch hours upon hours of that shit every day. They are proud to do it and I'm sure they virtue signal about it. It can be part of the lib identity. I once ended up reading some NYT articles about an old fashionista guy who was a typical lib and he watched a ton of MSNBC every day.
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archive.today • Confirm or Deny: André Leon Talley - The New York Times
You watch seven hours a day of MSNBC.
Confirm.
[...]
You don’t like it when Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski dress like twins.
Confirm.
He was interviewed by Maureen Dowd.
My grandmother watches it constantly, it's basically all she talks about when I see her. She's obsessed with MSNBC and CNN.
When Trump was president - I used to hate watch MSNBC. It could be pretty funny. Lawrence O'Donnell might dedicate the first ~15m of his show to being outraged about something trivial. It might go like this "Today, Trump made an objectionable comment previously unthinkable by any American president..." I'd know O'Donnell was talking about tweet because he didn't say "Trump said..." And the tweet would be something like Trump making fun of the media and called reporters "losers".
But the last couple years MSNBC is usually unbearable. Trump's out of office so there's very little that's funny. Day after day they are stuck in a time loop with small variations on endless Biden/dem cheerleading, insanely obsessive Trump following/bashing, plus their continuing confusion about how/why "today's republican party" lost its way.
I sometimes still turn it on at the top of the hour. It's often a waste of time but there are occasional glimpses into the lib mind. The other day a legal expert seemed to be talking out loud to himself to convince not only the audience but himself too that the "conservative justices" might actually side with Colorado and keep Trump off the ballot. As if GOP justices would do that. The network is often in bizarro world.
Yeah, I can tell just from talking to my grandmother. She's now the 
bit that we do where her solution to everything is
She supports Palestine at least, but I have a feeling it could be related to her casual anti-Semitism lol
68 year olds are embryos by brandon standards
That is kind of how I think of people who were born when I was getting out of highschool.
Morning Joe is the most reactionary trash. The hosts are absolutely confident morons. Might as well be joe Rogan.
Do better biden.
what is it with old people and having the TV above the height of a person so they have to fucking look up at it
I was about to type something snarky but I'd actually like to know the answer to that question.
has never been truer
Oh, so Robinette O'Genocide is wearing a mask again? I thought Covid was Joever, Brandon?!v!?!?!n? ?
I had a similar initial reaction, but the photo is from March 10, 2021
he likes his stories
Scarborough who supported the Iraq war till like 2010 and a year into the war demanded a personal apology from those against it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyOEMtHcs10