Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E149: GOP Threatens To Cut Off NBC Access Over Ronna

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A-Block

• We have a curious addition to the NBC/Ronna McDaniel timeline:
  1. Trump and the RNC fire Ronna McDaniel.
  2. NBC hires Ronna McDaniel.
  3. NBC fires Ronna McDaniel.
  4. Trump and the RNC make a martyr OUT of Ronna McDaniel.
  5. RNC threatens NBC over Ronna McDaniel.
• Per Politico the RNC is “weighing whether to restrict NBC’s access to this summer’s convention” … “We are taking a hard look at what this means for NBC’s participation at the convention,” says a spokesperson.
• OK how would limiting NBC’s access to the R-N-C bullshit festival HURT NBC News? What Republicans watch NBC News? They checked out 30 years ago! So why would NBC worry? Maybe because of something Judd Legum dug up at his marvelous site “Popular Information.” Of all the major corporations that vowed after January 6 to never donate to election deniers again, you know which true broadcasting company has breached its promise and donated the MOST to election deniers? Comcast/NBC: $787,500. Coincidence, no doubt.
• Could there be any connection between this and the fact that nobody has made headlines out of the amazing poll shift: Trump and Trump-Leaning Undecideds: 50. Biden and BIDEN-Leaning Undecideds: 50. And that’s in a poll so skewed towards the Republicans (the Harvard-Harris poll) that a Harvard school paper columnist wrote about it: “Harvard Should Break Up With The Harris Poll” because the university is “lending its name to a methodologically flawed poll that often promotes a right-wing political agenda.”
• The 8% undecided lean 61% Biden including 58% of independent undecideds and 41% of Republican undecideds and that is, after all, EXACTLY what the Biden internal metrics told the president’s campaign months ago. Once Trump actually became the GOP nominee the fence-sitters would have their “oh shit” moment and break to Biden. Plus, in the Bloomberg swing states poll that America erupted over when Trump led in seven states, Biden has moved ahead in one, tied in two others, and has improved in three more. Funny that these poll results aren’t as big deal as the pro-thump ones were.

B-Block

• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: So when they call Baltimore’s mayor “The DEI Mayor” what do you think THAT’S a euphemism for? [Answer: the N-word. — P] And after Larry David eviscerates Trump so Charlie Kirk has to attack Larry David and say he’s a “typical kind of New York Woody Allen-type” what do you think THAT’S a euphemism for? [I don’t know … what do jew think?]

Random side note: In looking for the Charlie Kirk/Larry David link, I found a story at Newsweek: “Charlie Kirk Raises Alarm That Donald Trump Could Lose the Election.”

• And when Trump-endorsed Michigan state legislator “Mad” Matt Maddock sees people getting off a plane and onto a bus with a police escort, what do you think he assumes they are? “Illegal invaders,” says the guy with no neck.

And no brains.

C-Block

• FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: A break from this Week of Stupid to the simpler life of a century ago at Ohio State University, when a kid with one eye is asked to draw what he sees when he looks through a microscope. “University Days”