They used to simply be annoying, but now they’re so awful that I can barely stand that they exist. I’m talking about Democrats, of course, simply the worst creatures to suck oxygen on the planet. If they don’t make you sick there is something wrong with you.
The “Meet the Press” panel yesterday was a fat liberal guy from Politico, Jonathan Martin, a fat liberal lady from NBC “News,” Yamiche Alcindor, a fit former Democrat Cabinet Secretary, Jeh Johnson, and a pudgy former Republican and current irrelevant blog editor, Stephen Hayes. Along with liberal host Kristen Welker, that was 5 Democrats and one Trump-hater at the “panel of experts.”
I get that TV bookers are lazy, and most programs that call themselves news only interview other employees of their network or parent company, but can’t they do a little better than that?
The answer is they could, but they simply don’t know anyone who disagrees with them. Producers and political employees all hang out together, sleep together, marry and cheat on each other together, but they don’t do it with people they disagree with. If you go to a liberal >media key party – a swingers relic from the 70s where wife swapping happens by everyone tossing their keys into a fishbowl and people have sex with whomever’s car keys they pull from the bowl – everyone would have to go outside to see which Prius the keys they picked actually unlocked, they’re that uniform in everything.
The guests that day were Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and Maryland Governor Wesley Moore. Bessent was talking about the economy, Booker then responded, whined about pretty much everything without facing a single follow-up question or challenge to anything he said by Welker, and Moore took a tongue bath about vaccines. I was embarrassed for Welker.
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It is a skill, of sort, to be as much or a non-entity as Kristen Welker is as host of Meet the Press. You can’t really do it my accident, as you’d accidentally not be worthless every once in a while. But to sit there and pretend vaccines need “protecting” in Maryland because of RFK Jr., I assume you’ve been sniffing glue.
Maybe Welker is dumber than anyone suspects. It would take a special kind of stupid to not know the difference between “mandate” and “voluntary,” or “recommendation” and requirement.” Of course, these are people who think abortion and child genital mutilation are “necessary health care,” so maybe they spent a lot of their childhood eating lead paint.
Booker got engaged (we’ll see how that works out), and Welker used the end of her interview to kiss his ass about it. But the entire interview was of that same tone, it was difficult to know where the “interview” ended and the “just a couple of friends chatting about life” stuff began.
Again, I was embarrassed for her.
The panel discussion went about as well as you’d expect – a jittery, sniffy Martin speaking quickly about how awful President Trump is, a vacant Alcindor agreeing while offering zero interesting insights while looking like she’s thinking about food or a way to claim something, anything, is racist. Johnson trying to be semi-serious while doing his best to keep up with the hackery to ensure a return booking, and Hayes seemingly reminding himself about the money his patrons shovel him and his “business” partner to shelter then from having to get a real job or compete to survive based on merit, a fate worse than death.
I thought Chuck Todd was bad as a host, and he was, but Welker is worse. Not one challenging question for a Democrat in an hour of non-stop talking is a feat that requires a commitment to the craft that makes an actor like Daniel Day-Lewis look like an unprepared piker.
With the demise of cable news as an actual purveyor of news, the Sunday shows are about all that is left for people to see and hear their elected officials challenged on all the bullsh!t. Not >anymore. Republicans will continue to be, Democrats won’t even sniff difficulty and the audience loses.
I’d prefer a host who challenges everyone to the point that they leave the studio swearing they’ll never return. Treating everyone that way ensures an audience and that those butt-hurt politicians have to return. That’s not the show Meet the Press is. It hasn’t been that show since Tim Russert died. Maybe it’s time the show die too.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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