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MSNBC far more interested in Trump Sideshow than are Republicans*

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Amidst all the hysteria over Donald Trump’s sideshow, Jennifer Rubin once again offers a dose of common sense.  She doesn’t “agree that this is all bad news for the Republican field of candidates and for the party as a whole“:

For one thing, those potential candidates not yet in the race can take their time, secure in the knowledge that nothing aside from the Trump travesty is going on for now. . . .

And we shouldn’t get carried away here. It is far from clear Trump will actually run for office, and unimaginable that a majority or even plurality of Republican primary voters will throw their votes and their chance to retake the White House down the drain by backing Trump. Eventually, a serious candidate or two will rise to the top of the heap and Trump will be a regrettable but ultimately irrelevant footnote in our political history.

In another post, she links “data from the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism” to show that the left-leaning network MSNBC showed a greater interest in this story than did FoxNews or CNN:

MSNBC devoted ten percent of its airtime last week to President Obama, and fully 92 percent of that was “airtime coded ‘citizenship and religion rumors’ and ‘birther’ coverage.” By comparison, CNN and Fox devoted just five percent of their airtime to the president. Of that, PEJ says CNN’s coverage of the president was 100 percent devoted to “citizenship and religion rumors,” while Fox’s coverage was only eight percent.

Wonder why MSNBC was so obsessed with this issue.

*NB:  changed title to make my meaning clearer.

Comments

  1. Why is Rubin so focused on The Donald? He is the very model of “peaking” too early. Bush the Elder couldn’t parlay an 80% approval rating into a second term win because there was too much time between the adoration period and the voting booth.

    Trump is causing a certain panic in the Obama camp and he is forcing the media to notice his games. Even Whoopi has decided to play the race card against him. But where is the honking and squawking among the mind-led Progressive crowd calling for his downfall? Why don’t they Palinize him? It might be because he doesn’t threaten them so much as he inconveniences them.

    The 19-29 crowd seems to be Obama’s strongest cohort, which, incidentally, is also the group most likely to shout and stomp but turn out in thin numbers on election day.

    Jennifer Rubin really has it in for Trump, but I do not quite understand why. Are Republicans supposed to eat their own according the musings of the punditry? And, really, Trump is no more conservative or Republican or anything than it suits him to be at a given time and place. If that is not obvious, nothing is. So this effort to beclown a person who excels at beclowning himself is puzzling to me. Is he offending the souls of RINOs and the country club crowd? Or is this just part of the silly season that precedes the contest?

  2. “Are Republicans supposed to eat their own according the musings of the punditry?”

    There is more than a little truth in this. The MSM will try desperately to persuade the GOP to nominate a “moderate” Republican (think about that term for just a moment) because they always stand a fighting chance against one of those. Look for them to sing the praises of Mitt Romney, Olympia Stowe and maybe even Scott Brown. They’re reasonable. Thinkers. Non-confrontational. Peace-makers. Not like those
    hare-brained, radical Tea Party types.

    Yeah. That’s the trick. Hey, it worked last time!

  4. This is a story that makes Republicans look like raving lunatics. Of course MSNBC, the Democrat-friendly network is going to cover it extensively.

    MSNBC is such a powerhouse of depth and reach. Last time I checked, they were still in last place behind the school cafeteria menu network.

    MSNBC saw Trump skyrocket to the top of the polls with the “birther” issue so, like all cheap knock-offs of the real thing, they immediately put their “top” people on it. Sort of like Dollar Store going head to head with Bloomingdales.