Why the Hell Is MSNBC Airing Live Donald Trump Rallies?
You could write a Harry Potter-sized book series on how the media has been screwing the pooch lately, and devote several volumes just to the handling of the Donald Trump campaign, but for the sake of space, please just answer me this: why would a news network devote almost an hour of weeknight prime time to airing a live Donald Trump campaign event?
That network is MSNBC, and they’ve actually been doing this for quite some time, but Monday night was a last straw of sorts. For the past few months, they’ve put Trump rallies on the air sporadically, usually on a Friday night, and usually consisting of standard Trump fare: readings of his poll numbers, insults of his rivals, and the occasional heckler. These were also all screwings of the pooch, but mostly because it was lazy and of poor news value.
What the network did Monday night, though, was both lazy and of harmful news value, and motivated by a desperate greed to compete. This wasn’t killing time on a Friday night. On the heels of Trump’s declaration that we should ban all Muslims from coming into the United States, the only reason to carry that rally live was in hopes that when Trump eventually said something awful, it would happen on MSNBC first.
I’m not one of these whiny people who says we shouldn’t cover Trump, or sanctimoniously put him in the entertainment section. I’m in the news business, I get the need to cover Donald Trump. In fact, that’s exactly what I wish MSNBC had done, instead of just pointing their camera at him and letting him rip.
For most of Monday night’s Hardball broadcast, viewers were treated to the unfiltered ugliness of Donald Trump, never even breaking for a commercial, and not even cutting in when it looked like Trump’s crowd was about to lynch their own reporter, Katy Tur:
It’s one thing to criticize someone’s reporting, but to physically single her out in a hostile, jeering crowd begged for some sort of intervention.
Instead, Chris Matthews and company just let it roll, and so MSNBC’s audience was also left with…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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Red Eye Robot December 8th, 2015 at 12:45
Why is MSNBC airing live Donald Trump rallies? Because nobody was watching when the non stop Hillary Adulation show they ran the other 23&1/2 hours of the day.
MyDogsAreSmarterThanYou December 8th, 2015 at 13:38
Hey Gary, how’s it going?
rg9rts December 8th, 2015 at 15:00
How’s it hangin Gary LMAO
granpa.usthai December 8th, 2015 at 12:53
because they want to hide the truth about this little scaredy cat fuehrerina wuss that’s too damn chickensh*t to wear a cheap Chinese made US Flag lapel pin when in Dubai?
raypc800 December 8th, 2015 at 12:57
Because MSNBC upper management support the GOP and Chris Wallace wants to keep his paycheck. That simple folks.
rg9rts December 8th, 2015 at 15:00
Chris Wallace works for another network….FAUX
allison1050 December 8th, 2015 at 13:04
Personally, I don’t care since I no longer have a teevee.
MyDogsAreSmarterThanYou December 8th, 2015 at 13:39
Because “liberal media.”
Because MSNBC is f*cking joke.
Because MSNBC has reporters go into active crime scenes and air innocent people’s personal identifying details on live TV.
Gindy51 December 8th, 2015 at 14:42
Follow the money. They got paid to do it.
rg9rts December 8th, 2015 at 14:58
Out Foxing FAUX silly
maggie December 8th, 2015 at 16:53
train wrecks are ratings catchers…if it bleeds it leads and Trump is right wing nut job crazy at it’s best…;)
KillAllTheRednecks . December 9th, 2015 at 00:56
NBC really seems to be in bed with Trump. First the guest host thing on SNL and now this. I wonder what sort of “reward” the NBC bigshots are arranged to get for this propaganda if Trump becomes President?
bpollen December 9th, 2015 at 02:00
This network employs Joe Scarborough. There is no depth to which they will not sink.
robert December 9th, 2015 at 03:37
NBC and trump go way back tommy
amongoose December 9th, 2015 at 12:54
“Follow the money”, there are big bucks in advertising when he appears.
Money trumps convictions it seems with another greedy capitalist corporation.