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oldtime dfl_er

(6,931 posts)
1. No, I don't
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 05:05 PM
Jan 2017

feel one bit sorry for her. She's doing exactly what she wants - making millions of dollars precisely because she can attract that kind of attention.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
2. She did take considerable risk at FOX bashing Trump. In fact, she bashed Trump harder than
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 05:11 PM
Jan 2017

some on other networks.

She will now be known as a Lying Liberal _______ to Trump supporters, and a right wing _______ to liberals.

Fla Dem

(23,671 posts)
3. I'll wait to pass judgement. She may have had a "Come to Jesus" moment and saw how bad the right
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 05:17 PM
Jan 2017

really is. If she asks hard questions and demands straight answer, especially from the RW I'll be ok with that.

But if MSNBC expected her to bring her followers from FOX, that's not going to happen. They aren't there just for her, they've got Hannity, O'Reilly and the rest of the scum to keep the RW'ers entranced.

LisaM

(27,811 posts)
9. This is how I feel. If she's really changed....
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 05:32 PM
Jan 2017

I'll give her credit for it - and that's going to mean changed on a lot of things, not just that she got chased from Fox because she didn't like Ailes or Trump (I seem to recall, for example, she once said that Santa Claus should be white).

She'll need to win me over, but I don't mind giving credit if there's been actual change and if she proves to be a good journalist. If.

DeminPennswoods

(15,286 posts)
12. Happened to David Brock
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 05:43 PM
Jan 2017

going from right wing hit man to running Media Matters and to David Horowitz from socialist to raving wingnut.

Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)
5. She made her bed, no sympathy here.
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 05:19 PM
Jan 2017

“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life."
Dorothy L. Sayers...

Pretty much includes everyone at faux news.

2naSalit

(86,622 posts)
10. Instead, feel kind of sorry for
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 05:37 PM
Jan 2017

Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Chris Hayes and Lawrence O'Donnell for having contracts which may be hard to break when things even worse at their workplace... not that it wasn't already racing down the slope to irrelevance for over a year now.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
15. She's made a lot of money from being a vandal to public discourse...
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 08:21 PM
Jan 2017

Just think how someone with her background -- Law school grad and at least 9 years in practice -- acted like a dimwit who needed to Google what 'czar' meant. Like she didn't know, and at least theoretically her job as a journalist would be to ecxplain its context in US government shorthand.

No, she toed the Murdoch line of inFOXicating their viewers. She spent her media career prepping people to eat up horseshit like it was chocolate. As a warm-up act for the Kremlin Don Show.

If she actually changes her tune, great! But feel sorry for her getting shit from the wing nuts for no longer instantly toeing the Conservatively Correct line? Naw. She built that.

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