The departure of Joy Reid from MSNBC, Jimmy Olsen Acosta from CNN, Woodchuck Todd from MSNBC, Norah O’Donnell from CBS and Lester Holt from NBC are ratings driven.
I will climb up on my soapbox at the slightest opportunity:
Robert Smalls was born a slave in 1839. At age 14, His master hired him out to the owner of the steamship Planter in Charleston. In the early morning hours of May 13, 1862, Smalls (aged 22) freed himself, his crew, their families and 4 Confederate harbor defense cannons by commandeering the ship, and sailing it from the Confederate-controlled waters past Fort Sumter to the U.S. blockade that surrounded the harbor. He was later elected to the United States Congress as a Republican.
I have a copy of the official South Carolina Public School state history textbook adopted in 1940. It does not mention Robert Smalls. This brave freedom loving Civil War Era hero should be in Statuary Hall.
Late in his life Democrats used lawfare to end his political career.
You give them way too much credit. AdamS says Frederick Douglass is considered a hero for his work as an abolitionist and advocate for civil rights, and not for his racist views.
The South Carolina Legislature recently established a study committee to erect a memorial to commemorate Robert Smalls accomplishments. The memorial is to be located on Statehouse grounds.
--- Who the hell are Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin? Their ratings combined were beaten by the Cartoon Network re-runs.
--- As for the infamous Tiffany Cross, that rang a bell. That Bull-Connors-banshee was fired in 2022, and went out the door kicking and screaming at the top of her lungs.
(Considering what a caldron of racial hatred MSNBC had turned into, it was altogether improbable that she had become a TOO OBVIOUS member of the Black Ku Klux Klan. However, that was the NBC-Pravda "party line.")
Here's a reminder of who fired her:
Rashida Jones, the Black CEO of MSNBC, who, when she herself "resigned" in January 2025, spun through the revolving 30 Rock west-exit doors out onto Avenue of The Americas faster than Assad fled from Syria.
(My personal pet theory is that the only reason why anyone is hired by NBC is that they'll never run out of people to fire later on if things go plop! The NFL has adopted this "scapegoat" strategy wholesale. At the end of each season, about 26 of the 32 teams' "offensive coordinators" are fired. Defensive coordinators, ditto.)
Personally, I’d like to see the entire MSNBC channel swept into the dustbin of history, and all of its staffing from its “talent” to the waterboys exiled to the land of forgotten fools. It has never amounted to more than a steaming pile of dung in my book.
Someone perceptive on X (Twitter) asked, “Is it just a coincidence that soon after USAID was shut down MSNBC and CNN began laying off the expensive lefties?”
Well, I remember the firing at CNN, MSNBC, and the other legacy networks started not long after November 6th, Election Day. Shutting USAID just sped the firing process.
02/26/25: Excellent point. We found out about AP et al being handed millions of dollars. But not a word so far about CBS-ABC-NBC getting their cut of the USAID slush fund. Or were they simply happy that their broadcasting licenses were safe and sound? ('UNTIL TRUMP!!!")
She is a race baiting, pseudo-Marxist opportunist. Does she believe what she says? Maybe. I have no way of knowing. What I do know is that hate only sells for so long. You can only spew hate for so long before people get tired of the negativity. I guess I should say intelligent people. Dumb people are another story, as the Democrats have shown us for decades.
She's a child of immigrants. She's a millionaire, and was making millions of dollars per year on that terrible show. She had a platform that at one time reached millions of people. She went to Harvard.
In other words, she had every advantage that anybody in America could dream of and all she did was rail upon the country that gave her opportunity. She got canceled. Big deal. TV shows get canceled all the time. Stars move on to a new project. She's an arrogant, childish, selfish person that nobody ever said "no" to before. That's the problem. And that's the problem with a lot of people in this country today. Fix the kid before the kid becomes an entitled adult. Then it's a big mess for everybody.
I learned this weekend that Reid is a Harvard graduate. Joy-Ann M. Lomena(-Reid) was awarded a BA in film studies in 1991. She was in the same wave of female black admissions to the Ivys as Claudine Gray (Stanford ‘92). There I was just going along working and enjoying a family while people were trained to cannonball society. I thought it was just Jesse Jackson taking his shakedown action to the banks. Silly me.
But in modern America, many of the unskilled could get cushy, lucrative, secure jobs with the government. Or start a leftist non-profit and get $2 billion awards from a Greenhouse Gas Fund, like Stacey Abrams and many others did.
Like Michelle Obama got FREE rides on our dimes while our kids cannot afford to go to cheap school and MO and BO parlayed that sad story into millions off our backs...way to go, progressives. thanks.
“Reid said, “When you are in the midst of a crisis, and specifically a crisis of democracy, how do you resist? When fascism isn’t just coming, it’s already here.”
LMAO! The woman is so beyond stupid it defies definition. How she got a show on MSLSD is a The Ninth Wonder of The World. Fascism - to these people - has been redefined as “anyone who disagrees with me” & since Dems are always running against the latest Republican-spawned “Hitler!” it’s the only canard they know.
They are historically - as well as functionally- ignorant.
As much as I hate the race baiting hag, I couldn't watch her even when she's sniveling about being properly fired. She's got a face for radio, but probably has a better chance getting hired to haunt houses.
02/26/25: If Reid had been in the original Friday the 13th series, only the first film would have been made. America would have refused to be exposed to Reid's evil in any planned sequels.
I just have to say, Don's column today is outstanding. This is Don's forte--he has this capability to keep his head above water, gather the many threads of what's been happening, and zero in on the truth--bringing clarity into focus. There has been so much going on in America, for several years we've been reeling with the onslaught. And it has been very much a mental onslaught, as a damaging ideology has been pounding on America; entangling us in it's twisted logic, pretense, and aggressiveness.
So what we have needed to combat this is mental clarity. It seems to take a combination of Intellect, morality, and spiritual grounded-ness to reach mental clarity, and Don is working with all three. There is so much meat in this column, it gave me a moment of crystalline realization, and I know I will be re-reading several times over the next week to really grasp it and let it sink in.
I think this type of column, exposing the "intellectual rot"--to borrow one of Dr. Phil's recent phrases--of the Leftist media, and all of us readers' efforts to think this through and assimilate it, does have an impact on cleansing the intellectual framework of America.
Trumpenfreude. I love this! Now I have a condition to match my daily disease. Pretty soon, we’ll need a twelve-step program to send them all to, as each of them falls prey to the lash of the new King. Kamala’s drunk, Joy has lost hers, (maybe Kamala can find it) and Whoopi’s on the block. And smug little Sir Rachel reigns in racist-land. It’s all so wonderful.
Back during Trump’s first term, Don had a Trumpenfreude list which he updated every time some leftist went after PDT and karma came back to bite him/her. It was glorious. IIRC, there were over 100 items on the list.
After the election last year I posted here asking Don to bring it back. Hope that he does.
If he posts it on Saturday evening, we'll miss his Monday morning report. He can break it down though, a tidbit here a dribble there, Sunday fare until the weather warms up.
Each of the clowns on his list got owned in a special way. It's indeed a grand list.
David it's akin to 🎵take the wings from birds so that they can't fly. Take the oceans roar and just leave just a sigh. Takes a real man to admit he doesn't know something. I salute you.🙋♂️
Then call it Trumpicaricasy because we are talking about specific misfortune tied directly to their decision to mess with Donald Trump. A figurative nuke with a MoA of less than one where in it appears as though they got sunk by their own torpedo.
Or maybe think of it as an unplanned kamakazi attack but their target is unfazed while they are obliterated.
I always liked Trumps style except for a couple of dopey moments and what that man has endured the past several years, he's a saint and a SUPERMAN. He made a comeback like never before seen, a beautiful comeback (Imagine his voice, lol). We are WINNING WINNING WINNING big beautiful Winning!!!!
Jeremy: Then call it Trumpicaricasy. PM:Now you've bastardized my only toy, Jeremy.😤 Hadda see AdamS. Even he had trouble., but after about 20 seconds. he told me.: 'refers to a synergistic effect where the combined effect of two drugs is significantly greater than the sum of their individual effects when used alone' Not sure I understand what you're saying, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.😇
Epicaricasy and schadenfreude are synonyms and can be interchanged. Thus Trumpenfreud and Trumpicaricasy should also be interchangeable. Don's Trumpenfreud list from years ago is a long list of people who took cheap shots, flung insults, and spread lies who then got exposed for their darker sides. This isn't as simple as the moron who passes you, flips you the bird then gets caught speeding. This is the Michael Avenatti, getting tons of press, then being exposed as the magot who was stealing money from his clients and getting disbarred and sent to prison.
So much deeper, so much more satisfying.
It's as if the guy who flipped you off then tee boned a freight train.
02/26/25: I read where The View (TV program) had been moved from the upper West Side down to the gruesome neighborhood of the new thing called "Hudson Square."*** Whoopi and everyone else must have been riled up about that one, because the commute is now a horror. Solution: Cancel the show. 28 years of this garbage is enough.
These liars in the media should be denied access to the White House, Pentagon, and other federal facilities. They live to destroy, not just personal lives, but the American way of life.
I know but it is so entertaining to watch Trump pummel them to and in their faces. They think it earns them a badge of honor to their peers. But to us and history it reveals them as the rabid, evil clowns they are.
The only time I ever see any of these creatures is a clip on Newsmax or Gutfeld which is sufficient. All are losers belonging in a whine cellar with the head cheeses of WEF under lock and key.imho. Poll today truly needs an aota but cat rules. Meanwhile PDJTs crew continue slogging through the muck that is DC with lib judges happy to throw roadblocks everywhere knowing they will not stan d. Carry forth Poca-Man all while laughing at the msm looking ever more pre-kish with tantrums.
Careful, Don, you’ll get the hyenas on the left screeching about how you’re raaaacist using the banana metaphor for Joy Reid, especially during Black History Month.
I remember Limbaugh noting how there was only one script, passed around, and on to the next news-reader. Did I ever tell about the time one of the attorneys I worked for said he'd give me a new ten-dollar bill if I'd quit listening to that show. I listened on my lunch hour, at my desk, and with earphones. That was back when $10 was more than a cheap tip at Olive Garden.
I will climb up on my soapbox at the slightest opportunity:
Robert Smalls was born a slave in 1839. At age 14, His master hired him out to the owner of the steamship Planter in Charleston. In the early morning hours of May 13, 1862, Smalls (aged 22) freed himself, his crew, their families and 4 Confederate harbor defense cannons by commandeering the ship, and sailing it from the Confederate-controlled waters past Fort Sumter to the U.S. blockade that surrounded the harbor. He was later elected to the United States Congress as a Republican.
I have a copy of the official South Carolina Public School state history textbook adopted in 1940. It does not mention Robert Smalls. This brave freedom loving Civil War Era hero should be in Statuary Hall.
Late in his life Democrats used lawfare to end his political career.
The Dems make Frederick Douglass over in their own image too.
You give them way too much credit. AdamS says Frederick Douglass is considered a hero for his work as an abolitionist and advocate for civil rights, and not for his racist views.
Regardless what Adam POS says, Douglass is an American hero- right behind Lincoln in my book.
?? Sorrry I'm slow, but Adam said the same thing, and the dems make him over? FWIW, Adam is not a pos. he's the whole package.
The South Carolina Legislature recently established a study committee to erect a memorial to commemorate Robert Smalls accomplishments. The memorial is to be located on Statehouse grounds.
Hampton is on the State House grounds. Smalls should be in Statuary Hall representing all freedom loving South Carolinians
TM, that was a great story. Thank you.
--- Who the hell are Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin? Their ratings combined were beaten by the Cartoon Network re-runs.
--- As for the infamous Tiffany Cross, that rang a bell. That Bull-Connors-banshee was fired in 2022, and went out the door kicking and screaming at the top of her lungs.
(Considering what a caldron of racial hatred MSNBC had turned into, it was altogether improbable that she had become a TOO OBVIOUS member of the Black Ku Klux Klan. However, that was the NBC-Pravda "party line.")
Here's a reminder of who fired her:
Rashida Jones, the Black CEO of MSNBC, who, when she herself "resigned" in January 2025, spun through the revolving 30 Rock west-exit doors out onto Avenue of The Americas faster than Assad fled from Syria.
The Cross-Jones details:
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/msnbc-tiffany-cross-rashida-jones-firing-view-1235454431/
(My personal pet theory is that the only reason why anyone is hired by NBC is that they'll never run out of people to fire later on if things go plop! The NFL has adopted this "scapegoat" strategy wholesale. At the end of each season, about 26 of the 32 teams' "offensive coordinators" are fired. Defensive coordinators, ditto.)
Cross was nasty just like that Crockett in congress or whatever she is. SMH!
Personally, I’d like to see the entire MSNBC channel swept into the dustbin of history, and all of its staffing from its “talent” to the waterboys exiled to the land of forgotten fools. It has never amounted to more than a steaming pile of dung in my book.
Dung has uses, fertilizer chief amongst them. (P)MSNBC, not so much.
Someone perceptive on X (Twitter) asked, “Is it just a coincidence that soon after USAID was shut down MSNBC and CNN began laying off the expensive lefties?”
Good catch, someone. I'll enjoy that reveal when Elon finds it, and he likely will.
Well, I remember the firing at CNN, MSNBC, and the other legacy networks started not long after November 6th, Election Day. Shutting USAID just sped the firing process.
02/26/25: Excellent point. We found out about AP et al being handed millions of dollars. But not a word so far about CBS-ABC-NBC getting their cut of the USAID slush fund. Or were they simply happy that their broadcasting licenses were safe and sound? ('UNTIL TRUMP!!!")
She is a race baiting, pseudo-Marxist opportunist. Does she believe what she says? Maybe. I have no way of knowing. What I do know is that hate only sells for so long. You can only spew hate for so long before people get tired of the negativity. I guess I should say intelligent people. Dumb people are another story, as the Democrats have shown us for decades.
She's a child of immigrants. She's a millionaire, and was making millions of dollars per year on that terrible show. She had a platform that at one time reached millions of people. She went to Harvard.
In other words, she had every advantage that anybody in America could dream of and all she did was rail upon the country that gave her opportunity. She got canceled. Big deal. TV shows get canceled all the time. Stars move on to a new project. She's an arrogant, childish, selfish person that nobody ever said "no" to before. That's the problem. And that's the problem with a lot of people in this country today. Fix the kid before the kid becomes an entitled adult. Then it's a big mess for everybody.
The winning feels good.
MAGA
02/26/25: Seperated at birth: Joy Reid and Meghan Markel. Poor Prince Harry. He picked the wrong horse.
I learned this weekend that Reid is a Harvard graduate. Joy-Ann M. Lomena(-Reid) was awarded a BA in film studies in 1991. She was in the same wave of female black admissions to the Ivys as Claudine Gray (Stanford ‘92). There I was just going along working and enjoying a family while people were trained to cannonball society. I thought it was just Jesse Jackson taking his shakedown action to the banks. Silly me.
Harvard had bachelor's program in film studies? Must have been the equivalent of basket weaving in my day.
They're called "bachelor's programs" because most of the "students" can't find jobs that pay enough to support spouses.
Funny!
But in modern America, many of the unskilled could get cushy, lucrative, secure jobs with the government. Or start a leftist non-profit and get $2 billion awards from a Greenhouse Gas Fund, like Stacey Abrams and many others did.
Yeah, and Stacey Abrams, Joy Reid, and the coven of "The View" are as unskilled as one gets...
Bam !!
Like Michelle Obama got FREE rides on our dimes while our kids cannot afford to go to cheap school and MO and BO parlayed that sad story into millions off our backs...way to go, progressives. thanks.
😭
“Reid said, “When you are in the midst of a crisis, and specifically a crisis of democracy, how do you resist? When fascism isn’t just coming, it’s already here.”
LMAO! The woman is so beyond stupid it defies definition. How she got a show on MSLSD is a The Ninth Wonder of The World. Fascism - to these people - has been redefined as “anyone who disagrees with me” & since Dems are always running against the latest Republican-spawned “Hitler!” it’s the only canard they know.
They are historically - as well as functionally- ignorant.
Correct! Trump isn't bringing Fascism, he's tearing down their Fascism. Bitches!
As the Who sang, “this is no social crisis, just another tricky day for you. You’ll get through….” Poor Black Kojak.
As much as I hate the race baiting hag, I couldn't watch her even when she's sniveling about being properly fired. She's got a face for radio, but probably has a better chance getting hired to haunt houses.
A face for radio
and a voice for silent movies.
May she be ever silent.
02/26/25: If Reid had been in the original Friday the 13th series, only the first film would have been made. America would have refused to be exposed to Reid's evil in any planned sequels.
I just have to say, Don's column today is outstanding. This is Don's forte--he has this capability to keep his head above water, gather the many threads of what's been happening, and zero in on the truth--bringing clarity into focus. There has been so much going on in America, for several years we've been reeling with the onslaught. And it has been very much a mental onslaught, as a damaging ideology has been pounding on America; entangling us in it's twisted logic, pretense, and aggressiveness.
So what we have needed to combat this is mental clarity. It seems to take a combination of Intellect, morality, and spiritual grounded-ness to reach mental clarity, and Don is working with all three. There is so much meat in this column, it gave me a moment of crystalline realization, and I know I will be re-reading several times over the next week to really grasp it and let it sink in.
I think this type of column, exposing the "intellectual rot"--to borrow one of Dr. Phil's recent phrases--of the Leftist media, and all of us readers' efforts to think this through and assimilate it, does have an impact on cleansing the intellectual framework of America.
Also, he’s funny.
Yes!!! Which we really need too. It lifts our spirits and helps keep things in perspective.
Trumpenfreude. I love this! Now I have a condition to match my daily disease. Pretty soon, we’ll need a twelve-step program to send them all to, as each of them falls prey to the lash of the new King. Kamala’s drunk, Joy has lost hers, (maybe Kamala can find it) and Whoopi’s on the block. And smug little Sir Rachel reigns in racist-land. It’s all so wonderful.
Back during Trump’s first term, Don had a Trumpenfreude list which he updated every time some leftist went after PDT and karma came back to bite him/her. It was glorious. IIRC, there were over 100 items on the list.
After the election last year I posted here asking Don to bring it back. Hope that he does.
If he posts it on Saturday evening, we'll miss his Monday morning report. He can break it down though, a tidbit here a dribble there, Sunday fare until the weather warms up.
Each of the clowns on his list got owned in a special way. It's indeed a grand list.
I prefer epicaricasy ,but that will do.😇
Ok I had to look it up. Thanks for the vocabulary lesson!
Me too.
David it's akin to 🎵take the wings from birds so that they can't fly. Take the oceans roar and just leave just a sigh. Takes a real man to admit he doesn't know something. I salute you.🙋♂️
Then call it Trumpicaricasy because we are talking about specific misfortune tied directly to their decision to mess with Donald Trump. A figurative nuke with a MoA of less than one where in it appears as though they got sunk by their own torpedo.
Or maybe think of it as an unplanned kamakazi attack but their target is unfazed while they are obliterated.
I always liked Trumps style except for a couple of dopey moments and what that man has endured the past several years, he's a saint and a SUPERMAN. He made a comeback like never before seen, a beautiful comeback (Imagine his voice, lol). We are WINNING WINNING WINNING big beautiful Winning!!!!
Jeremy: Then call it Trumpicaricasy. PM:Now you've bastardized my only toy, Jeremy.😤 Hadda see AdamS. Even he had trouble., but after about 20 seconds. he told me.: 'refers to a synergistic effect where the combined effect of two drugs is significantly greater than the sum of their individual effects when used alone' Not sure I understand what you're saying, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.😇
Epicaricasy and schadenfreude are synonyms and can be interchanged. Thus Trumpenfreud and Trumpicaricasy should also be interchangeable. Don's Trumpenfreud list from years ago is a long list of people who took cheap shots, flung insults, and spread lies who then got exposed for their darker sides. This isn't as simple as the moron who passes you, flips you the bird then gets caught speeding. This is the Michael Avenatti, getting tons of press, then being exposed as the magot who was stealing money from his clients and getting disbarred and sent to prison.
So much deeper, so much more satisfying.
It's as if the guy who flipped you off then tee boned a freight train.
🏳️
02/26/25: I read where The View (TV program) had been moved from the upper West Side down to the gruesome neighborhood of the new thing called "Hudson Square."*** Whoopi and everyone else must have been riled up about that one, because the commute is now a horror. Solution: Cancel the show. 28 years of this garbage is enough.
***https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hudson+Square,+New+York,+NY/@40.725897,-74.0120838,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c259f3309603e1:0xafc5cb4a4ec007cd!8m2!3d40.7266108!4d-74.0074328!16s%2Fm%2F09v7x5m?authuser=0&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDIyNC4wIKXMDSoJLDEwMjExNDU1SAFQAw%3D%3D
These liars in the media should be denied access to the White House, Pentagon, and other federal facilities. They live to destroy, not just personal lives, but the American way of life.
I know but it is so entertaining to watch Trump pummel them to and in their faces. They think it earns them a badge of honor to their peers. But to us and history it reveals them as the rabid, evil clowns they are.
Again, only get to choose one. Bummer.
The only time I ever see any of these creatures is a clip on Newsmax or Gutfeld which is sufficient. All are losers belonging in a whine cellar with the head cheeses of WEF under lock and key.imho. Poll today truly needs an aota but cat rules. Meanwhile PDJTs crew continue slogging through the muck that is DC with lib judges happy to throw roadblocks everywhere knowing they will not stan d. Carry forth Poca-Man all while laughing at the msm looking ever more pre-kish with tantrums.
I would like to see a right wing TV news channel that is as 'right wing' as MSNBC is 'left wing', without the lies and accusations.
I want a channel that is as transparent and clear as a Trump speech.
Unfortunately, not even Fox can do that.
Because fox is a left wing channel.
OANN, aka One America makes an effort to be balanced and accurate. Haven't watched them in several years since I ditched cable.
Careful, Don, you’ll get the hyenas on the left screeching about how you’re raaaacist using the banana metaphor for Joy Reid, especially during Black History Month.
Substitute bat guano, usually lower since it's deposited inside a cave and Joy(less) is definitely batshit crazy.
Good point.
Well, it couldn't happen to a nicer person. Or could it? Phyllis was always a hoot and I named my cat after Fang.
I'd leave PMSNBC alone.
Very few watch. The "presenters" they have are over paid and basically read from the same script daily.
Often a bad example is good to have around so you know what to avoid and not do to yourself.
I remember Limbaugh noting how there was only one script, passed around, and on to the next news-reader. Did I ever tell about the time one of the attorneys I worked for said he'd give me a new ten-dollar bill if I'd quit listening to that show. I listened on my lunch hour, at my desk, and with earphones. That was back when $10 was more than a cheap tip at Olive Garden.
On that note, I recently heard an apt moniker for “legacy media” on the Markley, Van Camp, & Robbins show: synchronized media.
The trio of fun and faccccccts,daily ear candy here Liberty.
I just wonder how long I’ll have to listen before I can tell which one is which. Ha! Not that it really matters, I guess.