The college TV station in the small town where I grew up used to hold an annual telethon in early December. Great cause, nearly unwatchable programming.
The telethon in its heyday was a 36-hour marathon of tone-deaf Christmas carolers, hippie unicyclists, discordant high school rock bands, quilting demonstrations, saccharine children’s numbers from the local dance studio, and lots of awkward interviews with telethon sponsors conducted by sweaty university Communications majors in ill-fitting tuxedos and evening gowns. At 3:30 a.m., literally anyone and anything could end up on local cable access — including my own discordant high school band.
In many ways, MSNBC is like a never-ending campus station telethon. It’s unwatchable with no redeeming value. It’s only cause: Giving air time to a cavalcade of fire-breathing leftists, the next more crazy than the last. All shouting into the same small echo chamber of viewers who consume the cable “news” channel’s hatred for Donald Trump the same way bent-needle junkies take their drug: deep in their veins.
Robert De Niro, like the leftist network he loves, has Trump Derangement smack pulsating through his veins and brain 24-7. So, that makes him qualified to talk politics on MSNBC.
‘Those People’
The Academy Award winner joined the gang at The Weekend Sunday night to share his tinfoil hat thoughts on President Trump, the shutdown, and the “No Kings” protests populated by people who say they are all-in on representative democracy — at least until someone they don’t like gets elected.
The guy who has spent most of his life working in the Hollywood bubble and living in the New York bubble lamented that the rubes in “fly-over country” aren’t tuned in to leftist propaganda peddlers like MSNBC. De Niro acknowledged that he was not reaching “those people” on the liberal cable channel. Who’s he calling those people? The 77.3 million Americans who voted for Trump in an electoral butt whooping of the Democrat Party’s unqualified stand-in candidate for a senile old man and his autopen.
Speaking of senile:
“They’re used to seeing Trump do his stuff and they talk and they listen,” De Niro said of the MAGA movement. “And that’s the truth to them because they don’t listen to anything else. Somewhere way out in the Midwest somewhere, out west, in certain places, rural places, that’s the truth because he [Trump] gets the airtime more.”
What kind of airtime is the president getting?
In the first 100 days of his second term, the three major broadcast news channels pounded Trump and his administration with 92 percent negative coverage, according to media tracker NewsBusters. The networks, by contrast, delivered mostly positive coverage (59%) about Joe Biden and his administration over the four years the Democrat was in the White House, NewsBusters reports. The coverage hasn’t gotten any fairer for Trump.
De Niro believes “we” — leftist lunatics like him — “need more airtime” to “push against” Trump and “those people” who voted for him. If only … the actor sighed.
“I wish, you can’t do this in some ways (big sigh), if the news media could find ways to kind of ignore or tamp down nonsense from Trump, it’s just total nonsense,” De Niro told his MSNBC pals.
The “news media,” the corporate clowns who have buried whatever journalistic integrity they once had in a shallow grave, do nothing but “tamp down” news that doesn’t fit into their narrative. That tamping, by the way, is what the U.S. government did to facts and opposing viewpoints on everything from the state of our elections to a mass hysteria pandemic during Biden’s reign. Have a “No Kings” rally for that — the slaughter of the truth over four long years under Democrat control.
‘They Have to be More Afraid’
De Niro spent much of his time on MSNBC doing what he has done best in his mob movies: promoting violence. If Republicans don’t stop following Trump and start fearing the Marxist mob, they better look out, he warned.
“Politicians are either going to realize, you face the wrath of Trump or the wrath of the people,” the old Jacobin declared. “They have to be more afraid of the people and realize this is not good.”
The “people,” or the minority of Americans backing the far left’s insurrection, have to keep fighting because, according to the movie star, Trump will not leave the White House when his second term is over. He “set it up,” De Niro said, with adviser Stephen Miller, whom the actor calls the “Goebbels (or Gebbles, as he pronounced Nazi Germany propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’ name) of the cabinet” and a “Nazi.” Miller is Jewish.
De Niro’s heroes? New York Communist mayoral candidate Zohran Kwame Mamdani, whom De Niro called “Humdani.” He’s not quite sure who he’s going to vote for in next month’s election, but De Niro believes Mamdani “means well.” He likes California Gov. Gavin Newsom and a litany of Democrats born without a conscience or who lost theirs in the political wars.
“I like [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries .. [Sen. Chuck] Schumer, Adam Schiff, I mean they’re all great, strong, I like what [New York Attorney General] Leticia James is doing. She’s saying, ‘This is it. I will not be taken down by this person. I’m not afraid of him.’ And God bless her for that,” the octogenarian celebrity said. James, who used her office to go after Trump, is facing felony charges in a real estate case.
De Niro said a lot of things during the long and painful MSNBC interview. Mostly he spoke in broken sentences and repeatedly interrupted his hosts in one rant after the other. I regret having watched this time-filler.
I wanted to tell Bob De Niro what the principal and academic decathlon judge from the 1995 Adam Sandler comedy Billy Madison disgustedly said to the main character: “What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
De Niro on MSNBC made me long for 3:30 a.m. college telethon programming.
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