MSNBC Finally Dumped Mark Halperin, But He's Still Spewing His Twisted MAGA Vision
It’s no secret that Mark Halperin was admitted to Harvard because his father was a high-level DC swamp creature, having worked for Kissinger and Nixon (and later for Clinton and Obama) and because he worked for George Soros and taught at Harvard. If you watched Halperin the Younger as a political analyst on MSNBC you might have thought, “That’s the kind of shallow intellect Harvard turns out these days!?!” He seemed to be determined to be the most pro-Trump mainstream media journalist and eventually was kicked off enough outlets— primarily not because of his shoddy work but because he’s a serial sexual predator— that he washed up at Newsmax where he works now. He also has a blog. Today he bizarrely accused people happy to see Trump indicted of being the reason Trump will win the presidency in 2024. He wrote, “loudly,” he said “You are about to increase the odds that Donald Trump will win another four years in the White House. You could in fact be increasing his chances of winning dramatically, maybe even decisively.” The italics were his.
Still and always the Trump apologist, he then began denouncing his own perceived enemies: “This group is composed of the three legs of the Iron Triangle that enabled Trump’s rise in 2015, powered his victory in 2016, and nearly gave him a second consecutive term in 2020. Democratic political figures, the Dominant Media, and the Blue power structure (Big Tech, Big Labor, Big Academia, Big Hollywood, Big Blue Everything) are about to behave in a manner that is derivative of Trump Derangement Syndrome; is an abrogation of professional responsibility; and is, again, almost certainly going to help Trump win the Republican nomination and maybe the Oval Office. There are so many problematic aspects of the pending behavior of the Iron Triangle that I can’t cover them all.”
Halperin's problem is that he can’t seem to grasp-- and therefor completely discounts-- the magnitude of Trump’s lifelong criminality. The central core of his reporting has always been that Trump is just another normal American president and that his problems are partisan. It’s why Halperin is no longer considered a normal journalist and why he has to work at Newsmax, where he can rave about Hunter Biden’s computer.
The usual outrageous double standard the Dominant Media applies to Republicans and Democrats is on vivid display right now because of the Hunter/James Biden story. I now believe this episode will go down in history as one of the worst performances of the Dominant Media in the last fifty years, and that will be true even if Hunter is not guilty of anything at all— and even if the House Republicans badly overreach. The lack of curiosity on the part of the press here is chilling— and stands in stark contrast to their delighted interest in all things Stormy Daniels and their pro forma conviction of Donald Trump.
I watched a CNN segment the other day in which a panel of reporters expressed passing interest in the Hunter/James story but they spent a lot of the time criticizing House Republicans for dropping the Pelosi-led House’s probes of Donald Trump and his family; suggesting Republicans were making a moral and political mistake by focusing on investigations and not the “real” issues voters care more about; and suggesting Republicans were making an additional political error by going against the public’s clear fatigue with “tit for tat” political warfare. Also, they seemed to set the bar for the House investigation at proving criminality on the part of Joe Biden— or, they suggested, the whole thing was a waste of time. And they chided Chairman Comer for making allegations and hinting darkly at possible wrongdoing not supported by the current facts.
Do I need to even type these words? Adam Schiff & Co. were never for one second held to those standards by the Dominant Media on any of those points as they investigated a Republican president.
Sad: “I know one newsletter is not going to change the behavior of scores of actors— and the entrenched patterns of half a century. But I have to try. Because if the Iron Triangle reacts to what everyone thinks Bragg is going to do the way they are surely about to act, it doesn’t take a genius to know how politically beneficial the coming days will be for Trump— and how alienated, understandably and vividly, so many of our fellow citizens will be. Don’t be gleeful, don’t pretend Bragg has a strong case, and investigate the heck out of that Chinese money.”
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