At 9 o’clock on MSNBC before they begin their weekly prison porn, Chris Hayes is having a special report on Baltimore since the Freddie Gray shooting.
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At 9 o’clock on MSNBC before they begin their weekly prison porn, Chris Hayes is having a special report on Baltimore since the Freddie Gray shooting.
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redshirt
Probably could have tweeted that.
NotMax
Hayes in full-on stern-faced, selectively earnest, beat the viewers over the head with the message mode is hardly ever worth the time.
WereBear
I’m considering this another open thread, though the subject of Baltimmore is worth discussion.
khead
No TV in the bedroom where I’m am laying with our latest addition – a six month old male cat we trapped from outside. Thanks to the folks who suggested the Havahart traps a while back.
WereBear
@khead: Awww! I guess he tamed up pretty quick?
schrodinger's cat
@khead: Photos please!
BillinGlendaleCA
@srv: Bush.
khead
@WereBear:
Trapped and snipped Tuesday. Curled up next to me now. On an air mattress even. Getting belly rubs. Just amazing. Sweet boy.
max
At 9 o’clock
I have to go grind meat for an Xmas party. (No. Not that kind of meat. No, damn it, not that kind of meat either. Stop it! or no ice cream for you lot.) So, shit, I could actually turn the TV on and watch… cable TV news.
max
[‘If my brain is destroyed by ten o’clock, please kill me and bury me at a crossroads. With a nice, juicy rare t-bone.’]
Mike in NC
If only MSNBC could combine their prison porn with Joe Scarborough. As in him being worked over by a few burly inmates in the shower room.
Mike in NC
@srv: That old hag has a gay son, which means there just might be a God with a sense of humor.
BillinGlendaleCA
@srv:
That old bat hasn’t kicked the bucket yet?
khead
@schrodinger’s cat:
Will link some in later this weekend because, uh, there are more coming (cats and pics). Gonna trap Coal’s two siblings too but we can’t keep them. So I need to find them homes.
JPL
@srv: What was the answer?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mike in NC: That’d probably be more interesting than the current Morning Joe format.
WereBear
@Mike in NC: Ratings gold!
benw
@max: what kind of ice cream?
BillinGlendaleCA
@srv:
Proof that ‘only the good die young’; probably the young virgin’s blood she drinks each and every morning.
trollhattan
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Bucket-kicking is third on her favorites list, which of course is headed by homo-kicking.
She and Cheney should go hunting.
schrodinger's cat
Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh in Albela Sajan, the upcoming Bajirao Mastani.
Bajirao gets a hero’s welcome when he comes home after a hard fought battle ! Love PC’s lovely Marathi nine yard saree (the modern version of the saree is 6 yards) and her traditional jewelry.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: Accidents happen.
Iowa Old Lady
@srv: Honest to god, those two lines are so nonsensical that I don’t know how anyone responds to them. These folks live in a world of their own.
The Pale Scot
@schrodinger’s cat:
That was cool.
mclaren
MSNBC special: prediction — pure copaganda.
[hand-wringing reporter earnestly eyes the camera] “Oh! Oh! The tragedy! The humanity! If only there were something we could do!”
[black protester] “Stop killing us for no reason!”
[clip of police officer] “It’s dangerous out there. Policing is a dangerous job. Danger. Danger danger danger! Killers! Rapists! Madmen in the streets! Cats and dogs, living together! DANGER DANGER DANGER!”
[clip of sociologist in a university office] “Statistics show that crime has plummeted over the lsat 20 years. Violent crime is now at a record low.”
[clip of police officer] “Death! Mayhem! Drive-by shootings! Mad chainsaw killers in the street! DANGER DANGER DANGER!”
[black protester] “80% of the people who use drugs are white, and 80% of the drug convictions are for black people.”
[clip of police officer] “Serial killers! Torture-murderers! Crazed gunmen! DANGER DANGER DANGER!”
[hand-wringing reporter] “Oh, oh, if only there were something we could do. But the problems are complex, and the solutions difficult, and no one really knows how to solve these intractable problems woven deep into the fabric of America’s society. And this was another kneejerk whitewash special report designed to convince the public that someone actually gives a shit about the bottom 80% of society, so have a good night and a happy holiday!”
mainmata
@srv: That old witch is still around? She must be over 100. Re: Cruz. No one that has been hated by everyone that has ever known him since grade school will ever be VP or in the SCOTUS. He’s only in the Senate because TX reliably has coughed up the worst GOP pols in the last 25 years.
schrodinger's cat
@The Pale Scot: Thanks! I am glad you liked it. I also like the morning raga used, very invigorating.
Felonius Monk
@efgoldman:
Or, in the best of all possible outcomes, no one leaves.
mclaren
PLAIN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ROBERT GATES’ OP-ED
TRANSLATION: Crazed white supremists are raging at our black president and at anyone with the wrong skin color (like Moslems), but I’m going to pretend “both sides do it” because otherwise our grotesquely dysfunctional press won’t print my bullshit.
TRANSLATION: I like this kind of anger. My party, the Republican party, has worked hard to wreck the American government, and now we’re getting our payoff in the form of lunatic white gunmen and stormfront racists supporting us.
TRANSLATION: The next president faces no real problems except problems created by the Republican party. But I don’t want to say that, because it would make me look like the hopeless decerebrated fuckwit I am.
TRANSLATION: Barack Obama made the Republicans look like sick pathetic mongoloid infants because he refused to give in to our blackmail and tantrum tactics. Republicans tried to shut down the government, and Barack made us look like total assholes. This pisses me off, so I’m going to try to convince the next president — probably a Democrat — that he should cave in and grovel before the squalid Republican bullying tactics that have become our party’s hallmark.
As a former defense secretary, I want M*O*N*E*Y. Gimme the M*O*N*E*Y! Hard cash and lots of it! Trillions for shitty weapon systems that don’t work! Trillions for endless unwinnable wars! Fuck the poor, the hell with starving children and the working class, I WANT M*O*N*E*Y!!! So I’m going to conflate FDR, who saved democracy, and the senile sociopath Ronald Reagan, who trashed the U.S. government and set us on a path of unsustainable crazy military spending that’s destroying America today.
TRANSLATION: Please don’t tell anyone that the Global War on Terror is a scam to loot trillions from the government coffers and piss the money away on incompetent intelligence analysts who couldn’t find their asses in a hall of mirrors, inept careerist military officers who care about nothing but getting their promotion ticket punched and retiring with a cushy military penson so they can go to work for defense contractors who build weapons that don’t work, and CIA assassination squads and drone fleets that do nothing but murder weddings parties and innocent women and children. Please don’t tell anyone these tihngs. Please, please, pretty please. I’m begging you. We need candor, but not that kind of candor.
TRANSLATION: Leave the lying to us in the military. We’re the professionals.
TRANSLATION: Kill! Kill! Kill! Invade Iran! Bomb Syria! Blow up Iceland! Send fleets of bombers to Tierra del Fuego! Land troops in Tripoli and send rifle squads to Paris! We’ve got trillions of dollars in non-working weapons and far too many incompetent careerist offers crowding the Pentagon, and dammit, we need to use them or lose them!
TRANSLATION: We need a president who will make the trains run on time.
That Dubya asshole fucked everything up. We in the military had a sweet thing going. We had our snouts in the trough, and motherfucker, it was SUH-WEET! A trillion dollars a year, and no accountability! Yeeeeeeeeeee-ha! Can you say “Hawaiian vacation for two”? Goddamn! And then he screwed it all up with that crazy Iraq invasion and that torture shit and the WMD bullshit. Goddammit, why couldn’t Dubya just have kept the pot boiling, a little pointless war here, a small endless unwinnable police action there, and we’d all have been rolling in dough and happy as pigs in shit. But no, we had to overreach, and now everyone in America is wary of invading other countries. So how in the fuck am I going to afford a new pool and sunroof for my Georgtown mansion? I ask you, how???
TRANSLATION: For the next president, we in the military-industrial complex have got a message for you… [pulls down his zipper] Suck. On. This. Suck real hard, and maybe we’ll support you and you too can retire with that sweet sweet Georgtown mansion and a vacation home in Gstaad, Switzerland. Because in America in 2015, the military-industrial complex runs things, and the president is just some asshole who lives here. So when we stay “you must be a uniter,” that really means “SUCK THIS HARD, MOTHERFUCKER, BECAUSE WE OWN YOU!”
Debbie
After finding that Ohio Planned Parenthood centers in fact did not sell fetal tissue, the Ohio Attorney General has announced that they instead cook (his word) the fetuses before sending them to the landfill. Insanity.
KS in MA
@mainmata:
From your mouth to God’s ear.
max
@mclaren: And this was another kneejerk whitewash special report designed to convince the public that someone actually gives a shit about the bottom 80% of society, so have a good night and a happy holiday!”
It wasn’t bad at all. Hayes spent very little time talking to white people.
max
[‘I turned off the prison porn.’]
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Debbie:
IOW, they cremate them, as is done with all human medical waste.
Debbie
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
It’s the inflammatory word choice that’s pissing me off.
Oatler.
@Mike in NC: “Lockup San Antonio” will be replacing Maddow next year on Fox Lite.
J R in WV
@Debbie:
All medical waste is incinerated, to eliminate the possibility of transmission of disease.
Could a human being be more despicable than this example? no. can not.
parsimon
@max:
Hi Max. As a Baltimorean, I can say that actually the Chris Hayes special report was terrible, filled with dramatic stances on Hayes’ part, and Hayes saying repeatedly to interviewees “Uh-huh, uh-huh”, and just a lot of dramatization, along with clips of MSM network reporting on the unrest .. It did not serve the city particularly well. It was the television version of click-bait.