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You Are Not Going to Believe This Was Broadcast on MSNBC – But it Was…
theconservativetreehouse.com ^ | 3/6/20 | sundance

Posted on 03/06/2020 1:04:53 AM PST by a little elbow grease

If you’ve ever wondered why it is impossible to have a conversation with modern liberals about politics, this video snippet is a case study in the answer.

MSNBC host Brian Williams and New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay are having a serious discussion about money, politics and Michael Bloomberg’s spending in the primary election. You have to watch it to believe it.

Think about how many people were involved in creating, preparing and producing what you are about to witness. WATCH:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brianwilliams; broadcast; cnbc; imeimeimdp0622; liberals; msnbc; nbc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nobrainscollectively
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To: Maris Crane

Sorry.


81 posted on 03/06/2020 6:57:57 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Thanks for the good laugh. Bombing Pearl Bailey had to be a mess.


82 posted on 03/06/2020 7:58:07 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Heh.


83 posted on 03/06/2020 9:45:04 AM PST by simpson96
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To: wardaddy; Maris Crane; enumerated; thinden; JonPreston; Liz; Alberta's Child; semantic; ...

Another article on this story
Jaw-dropping idiocy from MSNBC News anchor and NYT editorial board member
By Thomas Lifson
The degraded state of the American mainstream media was in full view last night on MSNBC’s The Eleventh Hour, hosted by serial fabulist Brian Williams. Tucker Carlson of Fox News often makes snide remarks about the sheer stupidity of the talking heads that populate cable news, and since he has spent decades working in the business, with a resume that that includes stints at MSNBC and CNN, he may well know whereof he speaks.
But after all, Americans expect vapidity form the TV news readers. Think Ron Burgundy.
However, the New York Times still retains vestiges of its former prestige, even as it has become nothing but a propaganda organ dedicated to the destruction of the Trump presidency. Its editorial employees are expected to be able to compose grammatical sentences, and the members of its editorial board formerly were regarded as thought and opinion leaders for the entire profession of journalism.
No longer.
Anyone who passed primary school math should be able to spot the mind-blowing innumeracy as host Williams and his guest Mara Gay of the New York Times editorial board discussed a tweet from Mekita Rivas, a writer who is a contributor to the feminist journal Bustle. The tweet maintained, “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over.”
“It’s an incredible way of putting it,” Williams said.

“It’s an incredible way of putting it,” Gay said. “It’s true. It’s disturbing.”
I don’t mean to insult readers’ intelligence by pointing out that the math actually works out to a buck fifty-three per person, so they’re all only off by a factor of less than a million.
But keep in mind the number of people at MSNBC that uncritically accepted the tweet and decided that it was worth featuring on the show. Producers, graphic artists, production assistants, and other members of the staff all accepted it, and so did Williams and the person that the New York Times believes is sufficiently intelligent as to be given the honor of shaping public opinion in the name of the Gray Lady.
I know that it is hard to believe, so watch this clip and bemoan the state of elite journalism.
The degraded state of the American mainstream media was in full view last night on MSNBC’s The Eleventh Hour, hosted by serial fabulist Brian Williams. Tucker Carlson of Fox News often makes snide remarks about the sheer stupidity of the talking heads that populate cable news, and since he has spent decades working in the business, with a resume that that includes stints at MSNBC and CNN, he may well know whereof he speaks.
But after all, Americans expect vapidity form the TV news readers. Think Ron Burgundy.
However, the New York Times still retains vestiges of its former prestige, even as it has become nothing but a propaganda organ dedicated to the destruction of the Trump presidency. Its editorial employees are expected to be able to compose grammatical sentences, and the members of its editorial board formerly were regarded as thought and opinion leaders for the entire profession of journalism.
No longer.
Anyone who passed primary school math should be able to spot the mind-blowing innumeracy as host Williams and his guest Mara Gay of the New York Times editorial board discussed a tweet from Mekita Rivas, a writer who is a contributor to the feminist journal Bustle. The tweet maintained, “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over.”
“It’s an incredible way of putting it,” Williams said.

“It’s an incredible way of putting it,” Gay said. “It’s true. It’s disturbing.”
I don’t mean to insult readers’ intelligence by pointing out that the math actually works out to a buck fifty-three per person, so they’re all only off by a factor of less than a million.
But keep in mind the number of people at MSNBC that uncritically accepted the tweet and decided that it was worth featuring on the show. Producers, graphic artists, production assistants, and other members of the staff all accepted it, and so did Williams and the person that the New York Times believes is sufficiently intelligent as to be given the honor of shaping public opinion in the name of the Gray Lady.
I know that it is hard to believe, so watch this clip and bemoan the state of elite journalism.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/03/jawdropping_idiocy_from_msnbc_news_anchor_and_nyt_editorial_board_member.html


84 posted on 03/06/2020 12:47:15 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: Mr. K

To be fair, Williams pointed out the math error, but then Gay, just went on without directly addressing it... about how much money was in politics etc, without addressing the original posts claim was off by 7 decimal places.


85 posted on 03/06/2020 12:50:03 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: a little elbow grease

Wanna to get rich? Ask Brian Williams for two $10s for a $5, over and over.


86 posted on 03/06/2020 12:54:10 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: mewzilla

Elmira NY use to be a great smaller city....now not so much. Last time I drove thru there I couldn’t beieve how run down it had become. Aout 40 minutes from my home town we use to go there and saw it as going to the BIG City! HA!


87 posted on 03/06/2020 1:26:12 PM PST by caww
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To: mewzilla

Elmira NY use to be a great smaller city....now not so much. Last time I drove thru there I couldn’t beieve how run down it had become. Aout 40 minutes from my home town we use to go there and saw it as going to the BIG City! HA!


88 posted on 03/06/2020 1:26:12 PM PST by caww
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To: tired&retired

“ Bloomberg could give every US Citizen a million dollar check and have money left over.”

It could happen, if he were to give the same check to each one of them in turn, tax it away, and then repeat. It’s the Democrat way.


89 posted on 03/06/2020 1:29:39 PM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: a little elbow grease

The MSM should have to cut every one of us a $1M check just for having to put up with their collective stupidity.


90 posted on 03/06/2020 1:31:08 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Dead Corpse

lol


91 posted on 03/06/2020 2:03:12 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: JonPreston
Wanna to get rich? Ask Brian Williams for two $10s for a $5, over and over.

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lol

92 posted on 03/06/2020 2:04:02 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: dp0622

You bad.


93 posted on 03/06/2020 3:56:40 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

Freakin new math..


94 posted on 03/06/2020 5:58:31 PM PST by bitt ("Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin)
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To: tired&retired

I settle for my check for $1.27. I will frame it on my office wall.


95 posted on 03/06/2020 6:11:36 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: tired&retired

.......but shouldn’t Bloomberg include the 150,000,000 Americans killed by guns? Shouldn’t they get some walkin’ around money? That’s the only fair thing to do for them, they can’t help the fact that they all got shot.


96 posted on 03/06/2020 6:22:03 PM PST by RooRoobird20
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To: a little elbow grease; bitt

In the TOP 100 of all time BEST STUFF ON THE INTERNET. HOORAY CTH HOORAY sundance. FABULOUS FReeper post. FABULOUS FReeper ping.

Life, Liberty, LAUGHS and the PURSUIT OF POS SCUMBAGS.


97 posted on 03/06/2020 6:22:28 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

This Brian Willimans? The one who saw the dead body float by his hotel room?

https://news.yahoo.com/brian-williams-unreliable-souces-151412943.html

“Brian Williams’ account of seeing dead body float by hotel during Katrina ‘very suspect,’ commander says”


98 posted on 03/06/2020 9:16:04 PM PST by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm)
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To: bitt; PGalt
"Freakin new math.."

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National Review editor Charles C. W. Cooke wrote that the math is obviously “spectacularly off” but so it’s also very telling.

“This, right here, is why so many left-leaning Americans think that ‘the billionaires’ can pay for everything. It’s why Elizabeth Warren was enthusiastically boosted by the media despite her ridiculous pretense that she could pay for a series of gargantuan initiatives without raising taxes on anyone but the extremely rich,” Cooke wrote.

“It’s why Democrat after Democrat promises not to raise ‘middle class taxes’ while promising programs that require the raising of middle class taxes. How did this bad tweet make it onto TV to be endorsed? Why did Mara Gay agree with it? Why didn’t Brian Williams notice? Because the people involved in this clip thought it was true. This is how they see the world.”

99 posted on 03/07/2020 4:00:34 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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