So, I know I am not supposed to watch Morning Joe, I know, I know. I even tried to boycott the Joke and MSNBC as a whole for a while a couple of weeks ago, but like car crash onlookers or people who watch videos of horrible industrial accidents, I found myself not being able to look away from the train wreck that is MSNBC's morning panel power hour. And today, boy oh boy were they on fucking fire. Like a tire fire that never puts itself out that is, Joe and his entourage once again spewed forth 16 metric fucktons of pure bullshit this morning. This time, on the topic of New York's ban of hydraulic fracturing. At this point, we should demand that the government regulate the amount of pollution he points out on the air waves, because the smell of rotting right wing talking points is making me gag.
But really, it wasn't Joe or Mika who were in prime form -- it was 3rd banana lackey Mike Barnacle who was in prime form today. It wasn't a long segment, but it sure was a doosey. Their reaction to the ban today was typical MSNBC pro-corporate bullshit -- of course all of them accept the frame that fracking will be great "job creators" for New York state and the democrats are obviously being persuaded by "rich donors" who are "disconnected from the average public" and "look extreme on climate change" to ban fracking in the State of New York.
But that wasn't all...Mike Barnacle made the stunningly genius point "BUT WHAT ABOUT TEH DEMS WHITE MALE PROBLEM?!?!" Basically, his point was that "angry white males" whose wages have stagnated will be angry at dems because of the ban, once again spreading the meme that democrats must bend to the collective anger of the generic white male or else face an electoral defeat not seen since the 1980s. Yes, this is the narrative that the Morning's funniest Joke is now running -- either do EVERYTHING white males (read: republicans) want, or face worse electoral losses than Jimmy Carter.
I am so sick of this perverse relationship between the right leaning media and the democrats. They push and push and push the democrats toward this bipartisany, third way DLC bullshit. When democrats actually act like democrats and do things that a democrat would do, they are called "extreme" and "too liberal" and characterized as losing the "white, middle class, working voter"
Perhaps if all you brilliant stars at Morning Joe actually educated people about why their wages were stagnating, why fat cats on wall street wages have done nothing but gone up in the last 10 years despite the biggest recession since the great depression, and the actual reason why the "average, white" voter is in so much economic pain right now (MEANING ACTUALLY TELL THE TRUTH), the white middle class voter would be angry at the right people.
But, of course, the corporate branded chattering class doesn't want the american people to be angry at the actual culprits, the actual robber barons stealing their wealth and robbing their freedom...oh no! Get angry at democrats for banning fracking and trying to save our planet...
You know, this whole thing is emblematic of a larger problem. Why is it that the democratic party must walk around on eggshells so as to not upset the white male? Why must WE be the ones to sell our principles to get white votes? We aren't the ones fucking the white male over -- look to none other than the Grand Ol' Party and blue dogs for that...you know the democrats who love the bipartisany angry white males crave so much out of democrats. THEY FUCKED YOU OVER. Not us. If you are making under 1,000,000 dollars a year republicans and bluedogs should have lost your vote a long time ago.