I was switching back and forth between a program on the development of some of our most amazing recon aircraft and MSNBC. Kasie Hunt has been doing her Sunday Night show from the Capitol. During that time she’s has a couple of guests with her offering “analysis” — a gal from Politico (Rachael Bade) who is clearly conservative leaning and John Boehner’s former Chief of Staff (Michael Steel) who of course has been bloviating about how the GOP was oh so honorable in its intentions and actions r.e. the shutdown in 2013 (basically — the GOP caused the shutdown to try and force the repeal of the ACA) and that the Democrats are soooooo out of line and wrongheaded for causing this shutdown.
No mention of the fact that last Friday night even if cloture had taken place McConnell didn’t have the votes from his own side to pass the CR!
Btw, by about 8:40pm I quit switching channels and kept MSNBC on full time.
Moving on, once again the bullshit crocodile tears about the troops not getting paid was trotted out and Hunt agreed with them! No pushback at all.
So she’s given over her show to conservative guests to lay every bit of blame for this shutdown on Democrats. No meaningful discussion about the fact that CHIP & DACA have been languishing for months, and the GOP having had the ability to pass CHIP renewal all along. NO discussion about the possibility (a fact as far as I’m concerned) that the GOP has been cynically and for the families affected cruelly holding back on it — so they could use it as a bargaining tool sometime down the road. Like this past week when they gave Democrats on the Hill a Hobson’s Choice — CHIP or DACA. And again, NO discussion about the GOP (via McConnell) refusing to take an easy action that was literally ready to go to ensure the troops keep getting paid. And that McConnell’s refusal to allow Senator McCaskill’s motion to allow the vote on HR1301 was a crass, cynical example of manufacturing a GOP talking point solely to make Democrats look bad.
But if “journalists” refuse to be Journalists as Hunt has been doing the lie McConnell created will be accepted by the public. And by her refusal to have guests to provide perspective from the Democratic Party point of view she’s devoting a couple of hours to giving the GOP free reign to sell their bullshit. And not longer after McConnell spoke she had Mark fucking Meadows on in the chair Bade had been sitting in!
Here’s how I see things. Remember how John Kelly started showing racist tendencies when he was at DHS? Some (and to my great shame I’m one) thought that maybe he wasn’t as bad as the policies he was implementing made him seem, that maybe he was carrying out what he’d been told to do by the White House for the time being, but at some point would start reigning in the worst excesses of this President. However, once Kelly became White House Chief of Staff he revealed his true self — a full on racist, nationalist piece of shit.
As a regular MSNBC viewer I’d not thought that much about Kasie Hunt one way or the other. I’d see her during the day and she seemed to chase down folks from both sides of the aisle covering Congress. Well, I think as of tonight she has done a John Kelly and revealed her true character. Which is that she’s a right wing HACK, and probably hoping to one day parlay her time at MSNBC into a high paying gig at Faux Nooz. Given that she’s not “blonde & blue” she’s living in fantasy land but that will be her problem.
I went on her website before starting this and, more politely than I’ve done here told her off and called her a right wing hack. I also called NBC and got transferred to MSNBC where I left a voicemail (with my full name, email and phone # btw — no conservative style cowardly anonymous complaint from this guy) and called her out that way too. And noted I’d already left a message on her website.
I hope others will let MSNBC and Hunt know that two hours of providing one side (and since it was the GOP the wrong side at that) for two hours of Sunday night prime time coverage of the shutdown is unacceptable and that she should be disciplined by her superiors.
End of rant.