Trump's Twitter targets for today, the WHCD and Michelle Wolf.

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a failure last year, but this year was an embarrassment to everyone associated with it. The filthy “comedian” totally bombed (couldn’t even deliver her lines-much like the Seth Meyers weak performance). Put Dinner to rest, or start over!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2018

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is DEAD as we know it. This was a total disaster and an embarrassment to our great Country and all that it stands for. FAKE NEWS is alive and well and beautifully represented on Saturday night!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2018

I would just first like to point out that if Trump thinks he is hurting Michelle Wolf's career in any way by going after her on Twitter he is dead wrong.

She is launching a new show on Netflix, and she has just gone from a comedian that only a few people know about, to a national figure who is the subject of tweets by the president of the United States.

There is no way this hurts her professionally.

And that goes for the attacks by the conservatives, and some self identified "liberals," as well.

Which by the way are completely without merit.

Courtesy of Vulture:

As soon as Michelle Wolf finished delivering her blistering White House Correspondents’ Dinner roast of the Trump administration and the members of the press that cover it, she was, not surprisingly, criticized for much of what she said. Oddly, however, a lot of that criticism zeroed in on something that Michelle Wolf did not actually say: a joke about Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s appearance.

The two jokes that seemed to irk critics were her Handmaid’s Tale dig — “I have to say I’m a little starstruck. I love you as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid’s Tale” — and the aforementioned line about Sanders’s smoky eye, which went like this: “I actually really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful. She burns facts, and then she uses the ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.”

Somehow this was misconstrued to be an attack on Huckabee Sander's appearance, which it clearly was not.

In stead it was an attack on her honesty, which, let's face it, was more than appropriate.

However both conservatives and some in the media spouted their faux outrage all over Twitter.

That @PressSec sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out, on national television, was impressive.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 29, 2018

And of course Mika Brzezinski also had to give her two cents.

Women who use their government positions to spread lies and misinformation deserve to face the same withering criticism as men. But leave our looks out of it. Watching from home, I hurt for Sarah, her husband and her children.

— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) April 29, 2018

All of this seemed to puzzle Michelle Wolf who responded with this:

Why are you guys making this about Sarah’s looks? I said she burns facts and uses the ash to create a *perfect* smoky eye. I complimented her eye makeup and her ingenuity of materials. https://t.co/slII9TYdYx

— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) April 29, 2018

Exactly.

Look if you are a conservative then misrepresenting the facts and participating in faux outrage is kinda what you do.

But if you are supposed to be a "journalist" of some kind you are expected to adhere to the facts, and there were several media types who failed to meet that expectation.

And like I said all of this does nothing but help Michelle Wolf's career, and ensure that when her Netflix show drops on May 27 that it will have a lot more folks tuned in.

So keep it up conservatives (And Mika Brzezinski) cause all it does is put money in her pockets.

Donald Trump melting down on Twitter? Must be Saturday.

Okay these are really all over the place so I will just present them one at a time, since there does not seem to be a unifying theme.

Word is that @Greta Van Susteren was let go by her out of control bosses at @NBC & @Comcast because she refused to go along w/ 'Trump hate!'

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2017

Or perhaps MSNBC just insisted on journalist standards that Greta simply could not meet.

Numerous states are refusing to give information to the very distinguished VOTER FRAUD PANEL. What are they trying to hide?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2017

What are they hiding? Well perhaps the personal information of their citizens, so that it cannot be weaponized against them.

How about that?

I am extremely pleased to see that @CNN has finally been exposed as #FakeNews and garbage journalism. It's about time!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2017

I have my own issues with CNN, but they most certainly have NOT been exposed as "fake news."

The only people who believe this are the extreme Right Wing who have never really watched CNN in the first place.

Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2017

Yeah not "bad people," just dumb and crazy.

Considering the source they should take this as a compliment.

You know speaking of dumb apparently European intelligence agents don't have much confidence that Trump has the brain power to deal with Vladimir Putin during their upcoming meeting.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

Moscow believes its leader, ex-spy master Vladimir Putin, can extract major concessions from President Donald Trump when the two meet for the first time next week, European officials tell The Daily Beast. 

The officials say their intelligence indicates Putin thinks he can outmaneuver Trump at the G-20 summit, playing on promises of cooperation on areas like counterterrorism to win concessions like a reduction in the raft of sanctions against Russia. 

“When you meet Russia, don’t give anything away for free,” one Western official warned, echoing the fears of many European diplomats ahead of next week’s Trump-Putin meeting on the fringes of the G-20 in Germany. 

Their misgivings highlight concern that Trump’s inexperience and Putin’s ability to flatter will slowly degrade the U.S. alliance with Europe over time, and boost Moscow back to near-superpower status while extracting no changes to its aggressive, expansionist behavior.

I think it is blatantly obvious that Trump has been compromised by Putin, and I have no confidence that Trump will even bring up the fact that Russia hacked our election.

I'm just worried that by the end of the meeting Trump will have unconditionally surrendered the country to Putin.

Assuming of course that he has not already done that.

Joe and Mika co-author op-ed in response to Trump tweets.

The op-ed appears over on the Washington Post.

Here is a sample:President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal. America’s leaders and allies are asking themselves yet again whether this man is fit to be president. We have our doubts, but we are both certain that the man is not mentally equipped to continue watching our show, “Morning Joe.” 

The president’s unhealthy obsession with our show has been in the public record for months, and we are seldom surprised by his posting nasty tweets about us. During the campaign, the Republican nominee called Mika “neurotic” and promised to attack us personally after the campaign ended. This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked. We ignored their desperate pleas.

The president’s unhealthy obsession with “Morning Joe” does not serve the best interests of either his mental state or the country he runs. Despite his constant claims that he no longer watches the show, the president’s closest advisers tell us otherwise. That is unfortunate. We believe it would be better for America and the rest of the world if he would keep his 60-inch-plus flat-screen TV tuned to “Fox & Friends.”

The article goes on to debunk much of what Trump claimed in his tweet.

Including the fact that Mika was bleeding from a recent facelift, which this image had already put to rest yesterday.

For the record, this is a picture of @MorningMika at Mar-a-Lago at the time Trump is claiming she was "bleeding badly." pic.twitter.com/NJgioOD3Va

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 29, 2017

The National Enquirer did, by the way, go ahead and publish the article that Trump used in an attempt to blackmail Joe and Mika into laying off the criticisms.

 Oooh, that'll teach'em!

As I have said before I am by no means a fan of Morning Joe, and rarely watch anything that they broadcast even on You Tube.

But I have to say that they are certainly doing their part in driving the orange shitgibbon out of what is left of his mind, and that is definitely driving up their likeability in my book.

And they should have no problem keeping it up, since Trump simply cannot stop watching their show and then tweeting about them.

Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2017

God this whole thing is just so fucking sad.

This is what our politics has turned into, one long drawn out soap opera. 

Soulless Sarah Huckabee Sanders takes to the podium to actually defend Donald Trump's indefensible tweets directed at Mika Brzezinski.

(The actions starts around the 6:04 mark)

Here is a report from Think Progress: 

During the White House press briefing Thursday afternoon, Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t apologize on behalf of the president or try to walk back his tweets, which came after Brzezinski criticized him on her show. Instead, Huckabee Sanders defended Trump and portrayed the president and his staff as the real victims.

“The president is pushing back against people who attack him day after day after day. Where is the outrage on that?” Huckabee Sanders said. “The only person that I see a war on is this president and everybody that works for him.” 

(By "attack" Sanders means challenging the things Trump says with facts, or talking about his low poll numbers. Which is what Joe and Mika did this morning.)

Later, Huckabee Sanders was asked why Trump decided it would be wise to lash out at all. She said, “I don’t think you can expect someone to be personally attacked day after day, minute by minute and sit back.” 

“Look, the American people elected a fighter, they didn’t elect somebody to sit back and do nothing,” she said. “They knew what they were getting when the voted for Donald Trump and he won overwhelmingly.” 

(That's fake news by the way. Hillary beat him by just under 3 million votes.)

Huckabee Sanders also claimed Trump’s tweets aren’t beneath the dignity of the office of the president, saying that Trump “shows [dignity] every day in the decisions that he’s making, the focus and the priorities he’s laid out in his agenda, but he’s not going to sit back and be attacked by the liberal media, Hollywood elites, and when they hit him he’s going to hit back.”

(Trump shows dignity every day in the decisions that he's making?  When does that happen? If that were not enough Sanders also added this.)

Huckabee Sanders falsely claimed that Trump has “in no way, form, or fashion promoted or encouraged violence.” 

That clearly ridiculous statement was aggressively challenge by the Washington Post, which went into great detail pointing out multiple examples of Trump fomenting violence during his campaign rallies, threatening to use violence himself, and even offering to pay the legal fees of those who did use violence on his behalf.

In one of the most bizarre moments from this press conference, somebody asked Sanders if she would tell her children that Trump's behaviors were okay, and she responded by saying that when it comes to role models she "points to God."

To me that was one of the strangest cop outs I have ever witnessed.

In fact this entire press briefing was so far down the rabbit hole that I would not have been even remotely surprised to have witnessed Sanders fielding a question from the Mad Hatter of the Cheshire Cat.

So the Commander-in-Chief is now gossiping about face lifts? Update!

I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017

...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017

I have no desire to defend Joe or Mika, after all they are partially responsible for Donald Trump's presidency.

But this is just crass and so very beneath the office that the orange shitgibbon how occupies.

I actually think that Mika Brzezinski might have grounds for a lawsuit here.

P.S. By the way this was Brzezinski's response. 

pic.twitter.com/8YhzcCUwM1

— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) June 29, 2017

Oh that'll really piss him off.

Update: MSNBC has released a statement. 

MSNBC statement on Trump's "facelift" Twitter outburst: pic.twitter.com/uXXwdKr6Kd

— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) June 29, 2017

It's a sad day indeed.

Kellyanne Conway used to say she needed a shower after defending Donald Trump.

Courtesy of Think Progress: 

The co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, claimed on Monday that senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway used to say she needed a shower after defending Donald Trump on air. 

“This is a woman, by the way, who came on our show during the campaign and would shill for Trump in extensive fashion,” Brzezinski said. “And then she would get off the air, the camera would be turned off, the microphone would be taken off and she would say, ‘Blech, I need to take a shower,’ because she disliked her candidate so much.” 

“And also said, it was very interesting, also said that, ‘This is just like my summer in Europe,'” Scarborough said. 

“I’m just doing this for the money,” Brzezinski interjected. 

“‘I’ll be off this soon.’ I don’t know that she ever said ‘I’m doing this for the money,'” Scarborough said. “But she said, ‘This is just my summer vacation, my summer in Europe and basically I’m just going to get through this.'” 

“‘But first I have to take a shower because it feels so dirty to be saying what I’m saying.’ I guess she’s just used to it now,” Brzezinski said.

I have no respect for people like this.

Kellyanne knew who Donald Trump was before she agreed to work for him, and she had several reasons to walk since, and yet she remains a good little soldier.

I am completely unable to defend people or policies that I do not believe in, and when people prostitute themselves like this I find it simply disgusting.

Donald Trump is a pig, and every man, and especially woman, who defends him has lowered themselves to an almost subhuman level.

I have NO idea how they live with themselves.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough is really having a hard time with this Donald Trump nomination.

Courtesy of CBS News: 

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday said he won't support Donald Trump for president until he proves he's not a bigot. 

"Donald, guess what, I'm not going to support you until you get your act together. You're acting like a Bush-league loser, you're acting like a racist, you're acting like a bigot," the host of "Morning Joe" said. 

"I have taken the gun away from my head I am putting it on the table and now. It is in your hands on whether you are going to prove to the Republican party and me personally that you're not a bigot," he said. 

"Don't use Hillary Clinton as a threat against me, don't use Hillary Clinton as an excuse, as your blank check to say racist things about people born in Indiana," Scarborough added. "No, Donald, you don't get to play it that way, I'm not scared of you, and I'm not scared of the base because they're just as pissed off as me."

Still not a fan but I have to admit that I do enjoy watching these Republican types losing their minds over the fact that their party is so ignorant and awash in racism that it was willing to actually nominate this orange tinted extra from the "Sopranos"

It's like they suddenly woke to realize that every criticism lobbed at their party for the last twenty years was spot on, and now there is simply no denying that.

Morning Joe goes off on Donald Trump and the Republicans party for making him their candidate.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

On Monday, “Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski asked if Trump’s remarks were racist. 

“It’s completely racist,” co-host Joe Scarborough replied. “Here you have a guy that is from Indiana. From Indiana! I think his family, if I’m not mistaken, had been in the country of America longer than Trump’s grandmother.” 

Scarborough went on to criticize Republicans who are endorsing Trump, saying it’s wrong for them to denounce Trump’s latest comments while ignoring his call to ban Muslims from entering the United States. 

“They can’t be morally outraged this week when they knew what he was doing last week,” Scarborough said.

I NEVER watch Morning Joe anymore, but I have to admit it really tickles me when I see Scarborough losing his shit while being confronted with what the Republican party has become.

I remember having the same sense of vindication while watching him respond to the news that McCain had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate back in 2008.

As it turns out Scarborough is far from the only Republican suffering buyer's remorse over Donald Trump:

Courtesy of the Washington Post: 

A growing number of Republican lawmakers and strategists fear that Donald Trump’s hostile remarks about minorities and his un­or­tho­dox strategy have imperiled his campaign at the end of a five-week head start on Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton that they hoped would fortify him heading into the general election.

So the question to ask is are they just NOW noticing that Trump is a racist, or are they just now upset because now that it threatens to damage his chances in the general election?

And if does no appear that Trump is planning on tamping things down:  

An embattled Donald Trump urgently rallied his most visible supporters to defend his attacks on a federal judge's Mexican ancestry during a conference call on Monday in which he ordered them to question the judge's credibility and impugn reporters as racists. 

"We will overcome," Trump said, according to two supporters who were on the call and requested anonymity to share their notes with Bloomberg Politics. "And I’ve always won and I’m going to continue to win. And that’s the way it is.

Well okay then.

In other Trump news is appears that there really is not much to the Donald Trump campaign for President.

Courtesy of MSNBC:

Donald Trump is a candidate without a campaign – and it’s becoming a serious problem. Republicans working to elect Trump describe a bare-bones effort debilitated by infighting, a lack of staff to carry out basic functions, minimal coordination with allies and a message that’s prisoner to Trump’s momentary whims. “Bottom line, you can hire all the top people in the world, but to what end? Trump does what he wants,” a source close to the campaign said. 

Okay so should we bother to bet on how many votes Hilary Clinton will beat Donald Trump by in the November election? Or should we bet on whether or not Trump even makes it to the general election?

I am seriously unsure.

The Morning Joe panel attempts to understand just what Sarah Palin was babbling about in Wisconsin.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

The Morning Joe crew were visibly horrified at Sarah Palin’s speech for Donald Trump last Friday night, when she spoke on behalf of the Donald at the Milwaukee County GOP’s fundraising dinner. 

The speech came as Wisconsin is turning into the Republican establishment’s major stand against Trump, with Gov. Scott Walker endorsing Ted Cruz, as well as the state’s right-wing talk radio hosts speaking out vociferously against Trump. 

And in that environment, Palin and her usual “word salad” (as Joe and company referred to it) didn’t get their usual cheering crowd. Instead, it was just the half-term governor, a microphone — and crushing silence. 

“Can I ask you,” Joe Scarborough asked of John Heilemann, who had actually been there for the event, “halfway through her speech did you ask if you had stumbled into some bad acid?” 

Heilemann responded: “Well the question was, ‘Who has taken the bad acid?'”

Actually I think that if the audience had been on acid this speech might well have made perfect sense. 

After covering this speech, and the one that came after it, I really thought I would be done talking about it. However watching this panel of pundits attempting to wrap their minds around what they were seeing was just too good not to share.

So are Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski in the tank for Donald Trump? Listen to this leaked audio and you tell me.

Wow I had no idea that Joe and Mika had joined the Trump campaign.

Do you want to watch Joe Scarborough have a breakdown while arguing about Sgt. Bergdah's parenting? Of course you do.

Courtesy of Political Carnival:  

Rumors are rampant across the internet and cable chatters that Joe Scarborough might be heading for a forced vacation after his tirade over the parenting skills of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's father Robert on Morning Joe today. He suffered a total and quite embarrassing breakdown in an interface with Chuck Todd.

You know I am sometimes not terribly impressed with Chuck Todd, but you have to hand it to the Toddster for taking it right to Scarborough over his inflammatory remarks.

Oh and fuck Mika for being his constant enabler.

I mean for God's sake William Kristol is sitting right there and even he refuses to throw Scarborough a lifeline.

RNC Chairman, Reince Prebus, tells Morning Joe that he ONLY wants moderators that are "actually interested in the Republican Party and our nominees." Also considers doing debates on talk radio.

Courtesy of Mediaite:

After Priebus claimed that there was a porous division at best between NBC Entertainment, which is producing the Hillary miniseries, and NBC News/MSNBC, Brzezinski pointed out that he had no problem appearing on her MSNBC show. “My point is you expected an honest and fair conversation here, even though we’re a part of NBC,” she said. “You understand there’s a difference. 

“But I’m not going to have you moderate the Republican debate,” Priebus said. When Nicole Wallace asked why not, he continued, “Because you’re not actually interested in the future of the Republican Party and our nominees. That’s not a slam on you, Mika, but I have to choose moderators that are actually interested in the Republican Party and our nominees. It’s not going to be NBC, if they continue to go forward with this miniseries.”


So to be clear, Prebus only wants moderators who are Republicans.  Which begs the question "What kind of Republicans?"

Because let's face it, there are extreme differences within the Republican party. And a moderator who would be very understanding and sympathies toward Ted Cruz, is going to be muhc less so toward Chris Christie or Marco Rubio.

So if Prebus is really trying to find moderators who would be fair to all participants he would in fact be better served by members of the press who take their jobs seriously, and remain ABOVE partisanship, rather than members of Fox news or Breitbart's necrophiliac fan site.

Which by the way is what we have always expected from our moderators.

And by the way what happens to the eventual candidate when he reaches the general election and has to debate Hillary the Democratic candidate? After being treated with kid gloves, and having their ass kissed, how will they deal with a REAL journalist asking real questions?

And just in case you think that "Rinse Twice and Prebus" is merely upset about the Hillary documentary and will back off of this point eventually, here is where he said might be an appropriate venue for the GOP debates:   

“Chairman, what do you think about a talk radio debate, where maybe I get together with my buddy Sean Hannity and maybe a Mark Levin, and we interview some of the candidates?” Tantaros asked. “Because the base I think would like that.” 

“I actually think that’s a very good idea,” Priebus agreed. “I mean, there’s a lot of good people out there that can actually understand the base of the Republican Party, the primary voters.”

Talk radio?  THIS is the place where Prebus thinks his candidates will be protected from undue scrutiny?

Let's face it, this is NOT about the Hillary movie. This is clearly telegraphing conservative fear that once America gets a look at the clown car of candidates this year they will launch them off the stage.

Talk radio, the next thing he will suggest is that reporters send their questions via telegraph and then they will answered by carrier pigeon.

Yesterday Russell Brand almost made Morning Joe watchable. Almost.

I love how he COMPLETELY takes over the set and makes Mika suddenly self conscious about everything she is doing. I am not a huge Mika fan, but I do like her more than Scarborough who I find insufferable.

"She grasping for the shaft, she's a shaft grasper."  Sweet!

It took me a little while to warm up to Brand but I have to admit that I am finding him more and more likeable every time I see him. And I am also pretty interested in this Messiah Complex tour of his.

It sounds a little provocative.

I LOVE provocative.

Update: For those who have not seen Brand interview the Westboro Church members, you must see this.

With the career corpse still steaming in the snow bank, many journalists are gleefully rushing to get their Sarah Palin obituaries published before the crime scene is washed clean.

Simply because, after weeks of denying that John McCain was that stupid, I was first shocked to learn that Sarah Palin HAD been chosen as the 2008 running mate while watching Morning Joe. I feel I must include his analysis of her time on Fox News here.

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Okay so not that you have watched it let me say that I disagree with muhc of what Scarborough ad others on the show said.

I DO agree that Roger Ailes is the de facto leader of the Republican party, however I disagree that Sarah Palin EVER had any real opportunity to be anything more than a conservative side show freak.

She is incapable of doing anything more than playing the spokes model for the party. Asking her to weigh in on policy decisions or current affairs is like asking your parrot to look up the definition of a word for you.

Having said that I do agree with this statement from Mika:

“Are you saying that pushing her out of the spotlight is part of making ‘the stupid party’ less stupid?”

Yes I think it is part of the cosmetic approach to "fixing" the Republican party, however I also know that it will NOT fundamentally change anything and that they will continue to promote the kinds of policies that the American people have spoken out against in the last election.


While Joe, and his panel, made some very good points, they also left some meat on the bone that I think deserves to be ripped away.

Fortunately there are other journalists out there with incisors at the ready.

Such as Mediaite's Tommy Christopher, whose headline reads "Cautionary Fail: People Didn’t Kill Sarah Palin’s Career, Guns Did. And had this to say about what happened to her after her tone deaf response to the Arizona shootings:  

Palin’s orbit was forced into decay by that self-inflicted wound. She remained about as popular with the people who already liked her, but after that video address, Palin’s unfavorable ratings shot over fifty percent, and stayed there. Republicans like Newt Gingrich heaped on the criticism, and even Dick Morris acknowledged Palin had made a mistake. It was the first sign of vulnerability in an indestructible media brand. By the time Palin announced she would not run for president, Republican voters had already decided they didn’t want her to.

The Daily Banter is even less forgiving in their assessment:

Leave it to Fox News, the network that cranked the amp on John McCain’s once-naïve ingenue to 11 and made her a political force well beyond the pounding she and McCain took in 2008, to be the one to drop the hammer on her career once and for all. It’s practically Shakespearean that the network that was responsible in so many ways for making Palin is now responsible for breaking her. A couple of days ago, Fox News announced that it wasn’t renewing Palin’s contract as a regular contributor, essentially cratering a deal that had kept Palin rolling in money and at least a minor amount of relevance within the conservative movement and which provided her with her own TV studio in her Alaska home. The reason for Fox’s decision is obvious and can’t be questioned by anyone with a brain and a lick of business sense: Palin’s star has fallen. Even before Roger Ailes made the decision to — in parlance I’m sure Palin herself will understand and would normally relish — take Sarah Palin out into the woods with a rifle and put her down, he knew she had become much more trouble to his network than she was worth. He’d called her “stupid” and had dismissed her dabbling with a run for the presidency in 2012 as a waste of time and was looking for an excuse to drop her; her steady decline as a celebrity, despite her best efforts, ultimately gave Ailes all the reason he needed to kiss her goodbye once and for all. Ailes once said that he hired Palin because she was “hot and got ratings”; these days, she isn’t and doesn’t.

The folks at Smart Politics detail exactly how little bang Roger Ailes received for each buck he paid to Sarah Palin:  

Palin appeared on the network in studio, by satellite, by telephone, or in a pre-taped interview an average of once every 7.2 days during this three-year period, with the vast majority of those coming on two particular programs. 

Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren both interviewed Palin 55 times, combining for nearly three-quarters of her appearances on the network over the last 36 months. (Note: the latter total includes interviews by Griff Jenkins and guest host Martha McCallum on Van Susteren's On the Record program). 

Though the number of appearances were equal, Palin spent a bit more time in the 9 pm EST slot, delivering 72,986 words on Hannity compared to 67,987 words while on On The Record with Van Susteren. 

Overall, 74.4 percent of the words Palin delivered during her political analysis occurred on these two programs. 

Palin generally avoided the more hard-edged interviewers on the network with less than 20 appearances before Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday (13,970 words) and Bill O'Reilly's O'Reilly Factor (10,169) combined. 

Palin also logged in another 5,768 words during the network's various election, primary, or caucus night coverage - usually interviewed by Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly. 

She spoke 18,341 words on other FOX programs, such as The Five, Beck, and Your Money with Neil Cavuto. 

Overall, with reported payments of $3 million across her three-year tenure at FOX, that means Palin was paid an average of $15.85 for the 189,221 words of analysis she provided the network.

What the folks at Smart Politics are apparently too polite to point out is that much of what spilled from Sarah Palin's maw was either nonsensical word salad, angry diatribes against Obama and the media, or blatant attempts to tease her supporters about a possible presidential run and therefore direct more money into SarahPAC. In other words the words themselves were often not worth the spit that spewed out along with them.

Sure she garnered attention and sold advertising at first, but the problem with phony side show attractions is that upon closer inspection the audience realizes that the bearded lady's whiskers are glued on, the strong man is lifting Styrofoam dumbbells, and the miracle pregnancy is nothing more than a square pillow shoved under a pair of stretch pants.

Still waiting for the audience to completely recognize that last one.

However as damning as these articles are, it falls to the people who supported Palin themselves to drive the final stake through the creature's still beating heart.

The SarahPAC numbers came out just a little while ago and they indicate that during this quarter they only garnered donations of $20,790.00 dollars, with expenditures of $67,807.71, which means they are spending more on "postage" and wig care than they are scamming from the sad lonely remnants of her now disappointed supporters. The PAC still has 1.2 million on hand, but with the money gravy train grinding to a stop, and Palin spending more than she brings in, how long can it be before she is offering to vomit forth word salad on a street corner for bus fare?

When a one handed face palm is just not enough.

You know I have to imagine that THIS is pretty much the reaction from just about EVERY Republican not working for the Romney campaign every time they hear their candidate speak.

"Oh sweet Jesus."

HBO planned to create movie eviscerating the head of Fox News, Roger Ailes. And then suddenly the project was dropped. Well isn't THAT interesting?

This was released by Deadline about a day ago: 

HBO appears obsessed by GOP Conservatives. There have been movies about the 2000 Bush vs Gore election standoff and Sarah Palin and most recently a TV series featuring George W Bush’s severed head. Now HBO has done a secret deal for an Untitled Roger Ailes Project. It’s based on the upcoming manuscript by media writer Gabriel Sherman who has written two cover stories for New York magazine on Ailes and Fox News, including his mammoth article “The Elephant In The Green Room” which came out a little more than a year ago and prompted complaints from the Fox News CEO. Last year, Sherman signed a book contract with Random House which at one point was tentatively titled “The Loudest Voice in the Room: An Inside Account of the Rise of Fox News” but isn’t formally titled now. I’ve also learned that executive producing this latest HBO project are two of Ailes’ competitors: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the co-hosts of MSNBC‘s Morning Joe. The deal was negotiated by WME Entertainment, the Hollywood agency run by Ari Emanuel who is a Democratic activist (and the brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the former Obama White House chief of staff). 

None of this has been announced yet because sources tell me Sherman is still researching the book and plans to finish writing it by the end of the summer for a 2013 publishing date. “Nothing much to say. No book yet to read. No script. We’ll wait to see what the script looks like and then decide whether to develop further,” a cagey HBO exec explained to me. It’s commonplace for Time Warner’s premier pay TV channel to sign up books before they’re published and then turn them into TV movies. In this TV movie, a source tells me, ”HBO prefers to take on Fox News through Ailes. The idea is that it should make Fox News look like a Mafia, and you get into this through Ailes, sidestepping Murdoch, not approaching the story head on.”

Wow Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezezinski, isn't THAT interesting?

Okay so I was excited and all ready to  program my DVR to make sure I did not miss this once the date of its premiere was announced.  But then....  

HBO is dropping its plans to make a film on Roger Ailes and the rise of Fox News Channel. 

The network had optioned film rights to work by media writer Gabriel Sherman, who is writing a book on Fox News. But HBO said Thursday that it’s not going forward with those plans, saying it wouldn’t be appropriate considering the network’s ties to Fox competitor CNN. Both HBO and CNN are owned by Time Warner.

Wait, what? So what if HBO and CNN are owned by the same company?

You know if I were a conspiracy minded person, and there is no evidence to suggest that I am, I would find myself thinking that perhaps somebody got a call from another very powerful somebody making them a deal they could not refuse. You know like News Corps the Mafia does.

You cannot tell me that there is not an audience out there that would devour this movie whole and then plead for more, because there certainly is. And since HBO is in the business of making movies, and series, which are controversial and guaranteed money makers, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that there are powerful people who simply do NOT want this movie to see the light of day.

Which of course makes ME want to see it more than ever!

Morning Joe simply cannot resist chiming in on Palin's historical/hysterical faux pas over the weekend.

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By the way I came across a picture which MIGHT explain why Palin was unable to learn anything during her bus tour toward ignorance.

Apparently she was distracted by the uniformed eye candy.

By the way, and to quote the Grizzled Mama herself, "have you seen Todd?" It seems he has been MIA since his appearance at the very beginning of the trip, and since he was spotted climbing into a taxi and getting the hell out of Dodge.

Which kind of makes one wonder if the Palins have finally decided to stop presenting their sham of a marriage as if it is anything but a politically expedient business deal and get that divorce which I first reported about almost two years ago, and which the Globe says is now imminent:

Republican darling Sarah Palin has hammered out a secret divorce deal with her husband Todd as she moves to Arizona without him and mulls a run for the Presidency, say sources in a blockbuster world exclusive. Find out why the former Alaska governor and her "First Dude" are said to be splitting and how it will affect her political ambitions. This is one story you won't want to miss!

So perhaps increasing her knowledge base, or even starting her faux political campaign, was NOT the focus of this bus tour. And the real purpose was in fact to find Sarah Palin a more manly substitute for the prostitute visiting, never around when she needs him, Todd Palin.

Or she could just be the DUMBEST human being on the planet, a woman so ignorant that she literally has to write a note on her hand to remind her to end her publicity tour.

Did you miss it?  Here take a closer look.

You know her Palin-bots can spend every day of their misbegotten lives trying to cover for the ignorant things this imbecile says, but ultimately it will do them not one bit of good because, as they say in the south, "You just can't fix stupid!"

Al Sharpton expresses his opinion of Sarah Palin being compared to him in recent Politico article.

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I love that Sharpton says that he has a lot more on his mind than Sarah Palin.

By the way I disagree with John Heilemann's discomfort with the GOP establishment ostracizing Palin and essentially pushing her out of their clique.  Sarah Palin has done that exact same thing to enumerable people over her lifetime and as they say, "payback is a bitch." So I feel zero sympathy for Palin while watching her get a taste of her own medicine.

Sharpton's remarks about Palin having been on the inside and now finding herself on the outs is certainly supported by the new ABC poll.

As you can see though she still has a fairly impressive 58% approval rating, her unfavorable rating is by far the highest one among the potential GOP candidates.  And this is a poll of Republicans!

Did Sarah Palin just stand up Lou Dobbs on his show's debut as payback over rumor that Roger Ailes is going to dump her?

According to Cincinnati.com Sarah Palin was supposed to be a special guest to help Lou Dobbs launch his brand new Fox show:

Former CNN financial expert Lou Dobbs returns to TV tonight on the Fox Business Network with “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” Sarah Palin will guest on his premiere at 7 p.m. on Fox Business.

Not only that but the Palin-bots over at the Sea O'Pee have been pimping it like its a brand new whore fresh off the bus, with a recently purchased set of fake ta ta's.

Well guess what? 

The show started, no Sarah. 

The middle of show arrived, no Sarah. 

Then the show came to an end, and still no Sarah.

As you can imagine, the Palin-bots lost their shit.  Then at some point the Sea O'Pee went down. (As of the writing of this post, it is still down.)

This drove the Sarah Palin junkies into a frenzy, and they ran over to another sympathetic website to vent their frustrations, blame everybody EXCEPT Palin, and to run around like chickens with their heads cut off.
So, wha hoppen?  Well as of right now I don't know.

However I should point out the odd coincidence that all of this is taking place two days after the story that McCain picked Palin solely due to her gender comes out, one day after the story that Roger Ailes may be over his crush on Palin came out, and on the same day that Mika Brzezinski announces on Morning Joe that she believes that Ailes is planning to dump her.

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Personally I am not sure if these stories are  connected to what happened today or not, however who was it again who said that they did not "believe in coincidences?"

Update: My favorite comment thus far over at the Sea O'Pee:

Look, if they announce that Palin is going to be on Lou Dobbs and Palin isn’t on Lou Dobbs, that’s grist for the Politico mill, guys. Let’s find out why this happened before Johnathan Martin and the rest of the propaganda ministry get out there with the Ailes/Palin Feud.

One thing Palin wouldn’t do is not appear on Dobbs because she was in a snit with Ailes. Palin is nothing if not professional.

Seriously, how much longer can even people THIS simple continue to delude themselves?