Posted on 11/03/2020 9:57:01 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
There was an interesting moment on Monday as the hosts and guest on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” were discussing the coverage of the election. Willie Geist raised the possibility that President Trump could declare victory on election night before all the votes have been counted. Joe Scarborough responded that NBC would simply make a Twitter-like determination and not carry the speech. It would not be treated as obvious news but rather “disinformation” . . . regardless of what has transpired on election day.
What is ironic is the Geist had just slammed Trump for making plans to send in lawyers “no matter what happens.” Without missing a beat, Scarborough then announced that no matter what happens on the election (like a surprise victory), Trump’s speech would be blocked for NBC viewers.
“We’ll be doing coverage on Peacock and we can assure you if Trump declares victory we’ll say, don’t take the feed. It’s not going to happen. We won’t be part of any disinformation campaign, we’ll be doing election coverage until midnight or whenever is over.”
The point tracked a statement from Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon who declared that “[u]nder no scenario will Donald Trump be declared a victor on election night, and that’s fundamentally how we want to approach tomorrow.” I can understand the mathematical point but the Biden campaign does not make such decision. Moreover, this appears only a bar on a Trump victory speech. Some Democrats like James Carville are predicting that they will know by 10 pm. I would find it difficult to see a scenario where an election night victory could be declared but we do not know what will occur today in terms of any surges or landslide. More importantly, the issue raised on Morning Joe goes to the coverage not the claims...
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And yet they are owned by NBC which does have a broadcasting license
no worries! I wouldn’t of been watching it on your BS fake news channel anyway!
the left tries this EVERY time a Republican is elected to ruin the inaugural parties for the Republicans
So thirty people won’t hear the speech!!!
I hope Oregon goes for Trump.
It would be gold to see the shock, horror and dismay the the eyes of these LMSM twits and it was called.
Who is this guy? Should I know?
That’s just it… They don’t plan to ever stop counting the ballots
Nobody would see it on that channel anyway!
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Yes they would - most of Killer Joe’s audience consists of North Korean Generals.
They’ve already got their whacko audience fired-up and cranked to 11 on the claim that “TrumpHitler is GOIN’ DOWN!” How do they now back down from that without losing all credibility with the only audience they have?
It has to be “Biden actually won but Trump stole it from him”. For business reasons if nothing else.
Put them on mute.
Watch the body language.
If it looks like their gay lover just died, you know what that means!
O credibility. SMH.
MSNBC would lose the little ratings they have by airing a Trump speech. Its viewers just want to watch a lib fantasy world.
They cover the news??
You are reading what I am reading.
They know it is not going to go well for Slow Joe
How can I block them?
“We will not air any Trump victory speeches Tuesday night.”
Fine by me. We won’t be watching your show and we never have. Victory will probably be achieved by early afternoon instead of evening, so it’s fine.
I’ll go with the short lived Most Wanted on DVD.
Ol’ Joe has acquired some clairvoyance. He already knows Trump is winning, and wants to exhibit his gentleman statesmanship by throwing a hissy fit and wetting his BVDs.
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