Lean forward, my ass.
I have stopped watching MSNBC’s convention coverage, and I won’t turn it back on. CSPAN or NPR for me, if I turn on the television at all.
Why?
When you watch the actual videos of the speeches and events, you see the vast majority of Democratic delegates and participants cheering, stomping their feet, and raising rowdy hell in a good way, in support of Hillary Clinton, the nominee. There are scattered boos and chants and heckling from a few knots of assclowns (formerly known as “extremist Bernie supporters”— they don’t get to call themselves Bernie supporters now that their candidate has enthusiastically thrown his support to Clinton, and requested repeatedly that they do so as well). Were they disruptive? Absolutely, but they were a sidebar at their strongest. Sarah Silverman called them “ridiculous” (and got torched on her Facebook page by a horde of vicious assclowns who emulated the worst of Stormfront). Bernie asked them to think about the repercussions of a Trump presidency. But what were the biggest stories from last night?
Powerful and amazing speeches from Sanders, Michelle Obama, Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and more. Huge, full-throated crowd responses. Moving presentations from undocumented immigrants and Latinx activists.
What do you see on MSNBC? Chaos! Division! Disunity! Lengthy analyses of how mad a few assclown delegates are. Interviews with said assclowns. Analyses of said interviews. Interviews with ignorant assclowns outside, who are given plenty of time to tell us how corrupt Hillary is and how they intend to vote for Stein. Breathless speculations about what kind of Chaos! and Disunity! we can expect tonight.
I can’t embed this, but here’s a video from MSNBC featuring a Vermont delegate for Sanders who insisted that Sanders was being disrespected because he was given the closing speech for the night. Idiot.
No more. Fuck off, MSNBC.