Episode #110 of the Countdown podcast is up. He’s still got his sinus infection, so his “Things I Promised Not To Tell” are repeats. The first half is new, though.
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- (1:35) SPECIAL COMMENT: It is amazing but true: the coverage of the Biden document story by Fox News has been more restrained and responsible than has CNN’s. The desperate attempt to position the Think Tank Papers story as one that — in the words of a CNN commentator — “almost exonerates” Trump, continued last night. The raw numbers are startling: between 5 and 11 PM ET Monday, MSNBC gave the story 14 minutes, Fox News gave it 29 minutes, and CNN gave it 107 MINUTES. Three and a half times as much as Fox! And the worst perpetrator of CNN’s willingness to literally lie to its viewers has been Anderson Cooper. The first words out of his mouth last night were how quote “President Biden’s first public statement on the classified documents uncovered at his former private office” were ‘breaking news.’ I suggested in real time that if Cooper had any remaining self-respect he would quit before his program was over. He didn’t. He doesn’t.
- There is much more than money to what CNN’s new fascist troika — Chris Licht, David Zaslav, and John Malone — is doing.
CHRIS LICHT EATS PASTE!
- This is the Clinton-Lewinsky night-after-night brainwash play: convince America that if Biden is not guilty, Trump is not guilty. And having sold their souls, they will keep pushing this as long as we don’t stop them.
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- (45:12) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL No. 2: My first experience with the ad salesmen who pretend to be cable’s journalistic decision-makers came even before my first MSNBC show in 1997. That’s when the big meeting with the man Microsoft thought shared editorial control of MSNBC was to meet with me, and NBC’s execs were worried about only one thing: how effectively I ignored him.
Well, that’s all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.
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