With the exception of the despicable alt rightist bigot Sean "Heil" Hannity on Fux "News," there's no one in the world of cable that's more responsible for the rise of sociopathic misogynist Donald "Rump" Trump than the cozy couple on "Morning Joke", Joe "Squint" Scarborough and Mika "Meat Puppet" Brzezinski. * The estimable Matt Taibbi chronicled their lapdog loyalty to Rump last February in Rolling Stone, providing Rump with millions of dollars worth of airtime while either tossing soft ball questions to him or flattering his out-of-control ego. And that was just up to February.
It's been satisfying watching these two celebrity hacks backpedaling from their earlier fluffing of Rump's candidacy over the past year, and falsely claiming that they had nothing to do with promoting his candidacy. On their show last week, neocon chickenhawk William "Wee Willie" Kristol brought up Squint's and Meat Puppet's fawning accommodation of Rump for months, which caused the couple to go ballistic on Wee Willie for sharing that obvious news. This morning, Meat Puppet was flying solo on the program but was reliably echoing her partner Squint, and hypocritically blamed Rethug hacks Ben Ginsberg and Michael Steele for not speaking up against Rump earlier. Steele managed to get out a brief rejoinder that she & Squint said lots of nice things about Rump before Meat Puppet cut him off. Recall that as late as mid-September, Squint and Meat Puppet were trying to patch things up with Rump after a summer chill set into their symbiotic relationship.
The abject failure of these two hacks to see Rump with clear eyes from the beginning (birtherism? what's that?) won't be concealed by their attempts to rewrite history. The Rethuglican / New Confederate / Stupid / Shooters Party will have their own reckoning after the election, and so too should Rump's enablers in the media. We won't let them -- or MSNBC -- off the hook.
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* Thanks to Charles Pierce, Esquire.com, for the monikers.
(photo: From the author of "Know Your Value," a flirty Meat Puppet shows her partner her value; Vanity Fair photo)
