MSNBC somehow getting dumber

[Ragnar]

Just wow.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLz6jhSHZps]MSNBC's Touré: Red-State Senators in 'Gerrymandered' District - YouTube[/ame]


Via Hot Air...

Toure: Let?s face it, red-state Senate Dems criticize ObamaCare because we live in a gerrymandered world « Hot Air

So we’re left with this guy, who, after listing a bunch of Democratic senators, mused about the challenges of governing in a “gerrymandered world.” People are goofing on him on Twitter because, of course, gerrymandering is a House phenomenon, not a Senate one. The “gerrymander lines” for a senator are the, um, state borders.

Here’s what I want to know, though: What was he trying to say? The point he’s making, as I understand it, is basically the opposite of the criticism that’s usually made about gerrymandering. He seems to be saying that red-state Dems have no choice but to push a mildly conservative critique of O-Care since, after all, they do come from red states. If you’re a Democrat who wants to get reelected by a mostly Republican electorate, you’ve got to pander to voters in the other party a little. The knock on gerrymandering, though, is that you never have to pander to the other party. By drawing district lines irregularly to aggregate a huge majority of voters who are either Democrats or Republicans, you’re guaranteeing that the House member they elect only needs to appeal to that majority.

That’s (allegedly) one of the sources of gridlock in the House: You don’t see many swing votes in the middle because most reps come from districts where there’s already a solid majority from one party or the other, which forces them to do their party base’s bidding. Landrieu, Begich, et al. are in the opposite situation. They wish they were gerrymandered somehow so that they could go face-first into the tank for ObamaCare and never worry about paying a price for it. So … what on earth is Toure talking about? Dude?

"Dude?" indeed. WTH?

 

[Amelia]

Touré is babbling.

 

[whitehall]

They aren't any dumber than they were a year or five or ten or twenty years ago. They are desperate left wing political hacks who are confused about the fact that Americans are smarter than they were during the good old days when Cronkite was the "most trusted man in America".

 

[Amelia]

The brilliant Bill Maher made that mistake too minutes after calling Americans "morons" and "complete idiots" and saying "the people don't know anything".

Maher Calls Americans 'Morons' Moments Before Blaming Senate Weapons Ban Failure on Gerrymandering | MRCTV

 

[Ragnar]

The brilliant Bill Maher made that mistake too minutes after calling Americans "morons" and "complete idiots" and saying "the people don't know anything".

Maher Calls Americans 'Morons' Moments Before Blaming Senate Weapons Ban Failure on Gerrymandering | MRCTV

Nice link.

 

[blastoff]

Don't think it's possible to get too dumb in programming when your audience is a giant cesspool of low information voters. Dumber just makes it easier for them to try to understand.

 

[Ragnar]

Update...

MSNBC getting smarter?


Alec Baldwin: My MSNBC Show Might Not Return

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The morning after MSNBC announced a two-week suspension of Alec Baldwin's late night show, the actor has expressed uncertainty if the program will return at all.

 

[mmmjvpssm]

MSNBC speaks the truth, God bless them

 

[mmmjvpssm]

Don't think it's possible to get too dumb in programming when your audience is a giant cesspool of low information voters. Dumber just makes it easier for them to try to understand.

This thread is about MSNBC, not Faux Noise

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

MSNBC speaks the truth, God bless them

Thanks for revealing to us all what an intellectual midget you are, not that it would have taken long to figure that out, I'm sure.

 

[JohnL.Burke]

Toure isn't an analyst. He's a propagandist. His only rhetorical arsenal consists of factual errors and race baiting.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

MSNBC somehow getting dumber

Not possible.