It's getting harder and harder to tell some MSNBC programming from Fox News. I feel strongly that MSNBC greatly helped Trump get elected by fully covering every speech, every rally, every lie while giving short shrift to Hillary's campaign or constantly repeating unproven accusations. And they're still doing his bidding. At this moment they're covering his speech in Cincinnati, meaning, of course, his reading of someone else's speech about infrastructure: one full of empty promises, false statistics and total lies. Judging from the enthusiastic crowd applause, Trump's toadies managed to round up enough of his delusional fans to make him seem popular as he slides toward impeachment or removal. Filled with deceit, like all his other lying speeches, this one promises to rebuild America with zillions of jobs using nothing but proud America workers and only materials made in the USA. (Like the pipeline he said would use American steel, which turned out to be Russian steel.) Such covered speeches and rallies feature the kind of flattering, uncritical coverage once featured only by such sycophants as Fox and Friends, Megyn Kelly, Greta Van Susteren and other Fox propagandists. Let us hope that MSNBC, in need or ratings, isn't selling out, not when we so depend on such nightly warriors as Chris Mathews, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell, our strongest bulwarks against the tsunami of Trump bullshit.
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