Despite evidence to the way-contrary, the T-Rump continues to lie his fat-ass off about the election, screaming into the void of Fox News and his cult of lie-lovers — Maria Bartiromo interviewed/showcased the T-Rump this morning on her Sunday Morning Futures show, which left no doubt to the phony-as-a-three-dollar-bill future.
In the 45-minute bullshit session, the T-Rump whined about in actuality were ‘mail-in‘ votes as “…they call them dumps, big massive dumps in Michigan, in Pennsylvania, and all over,” but led nowhere (h/t Digby):
Sometimes they have to flush five, six times. https://t.co/Vlg07tFu3d
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 29, 2020
Bartiromo got reamed by other media folk for her slanted, ass-kissing mediocrity:
“Let’s be clear,” CNN contributor Amanda Carpenter tweeted. “Maria Bartiromo is not interviewing the President (right now). She is providing him a free platform to feed his base talking points uncontested. … This is propaganda.”
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“This was not hardball. It wasn’t even softball. It was t-ball,” CNN Reliable Sources anchor Brian Stelter said on air Sunday morning.
CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy later called Bartiromo a “propagandist,” likening her to conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones.Journalist Yashar Ali, a contributor to New York Magazine and HuffPost, remarked on Twitter that the interview was “filled with so many lies and so much misinformation. Probably more than any interview during his presidency.”
He noted that Bartiromo “let him go unchecked on America’s number one cable network. It’s practically a monologue.”“Trump is lying about the election on Fox Business and Maria Bartiromo is letting him lie,” wrote MSNBC senior producer Kyle Griffin.
“Maria Bartiromo went from being the first journalist to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock exchange to one of the last notable TV hosts still indulging Trump in his conspiracy theories to overturn the election,” wrote Business Insider politics reporter Jake Lahut.
It’s the Bartiromo types that give the T-Rump his ‘platform‘ to fuck-over the election, and strain democracy to the fabric of its fragile being. I’ve gotten to the point where I just can’t stomach watching the T-Rump for any length of time, allowing myself small doses via clips from other sources.
Too much face time forces a sick feeling of dumpness…
(Illustration: ‘Donald Trump,’ by Adam Khabibi, found here).