What is MSNBC going to do?
Their ratings are down. They’re having to cut the salaries of their “stars” going forward. President Donald Trump won the election and blew out their whole narrative against them.
Like their Democratic masters, they have to be at a complete loss as to how to proceed.
Now, I don’t really see them casting to the right, although who knows? If they’re sold ultimately to someone else, they could go back to being a news network and not just a “bash Trump” outlet.
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But they did run a segment on “Morning Joe” where they surprisingly did something I don’t think I’ve ever seen before: admit that Trump was right and illegal immigration did in fact shoot up under Biden. The funniest thing was how regretful host Joe Scarborough seemed about having to say it.
“The border was not Biden’s finest moment, frankly. You can see what happened here. And Trump is not wrong when he talks about how border crossings work quite low. They’re running about 74,000 a month when he left office and they, in fact, did shoot up. Some of it was some things Biden said and some ways that they put a moratorium, for example, on deportations. But in fact, we did get up here almost to 300,000 a month.”
He noted it’s come down some, but it’s still more than it was under Trump. In the meantime, it was “pretty costly.”
My, my. Imagine ever hearing those words on MSNBC and in particular “Morning Joe.”
This was a bit of a hot take: “Some of it was some things Biden said.” Oh, you think? No, some of it was Biden purposely ending the things that worked under Trump immediately when Biden came to office. It isn’t just that it “got worse” — it was directly because of the policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. But I suppose if MSNBC went that far into truth, their heads would explode. The fact that they’re admitting this at all shows how rocked they have been by their narrative.
Plus, let’s be frank: the only reason they’re admitting it now is because Biden is soon to be out the door, and they’re not really going to hurt him anymore. I suppose better late than never. But at this point, they can’t recover any credibility, if that’s what they’re trying to do. They already blew that all away with everything they’re done now for years. It’s just going to infuriate the remaining leftists who might still be watching, and it’s not going to get the people on the right to watch them. So they can try, but it won’t work.
But admitting “Trump is right” must be making them just die inside a little, and that is truly pure gold.
