For 60 years, Leftists were complacent while Russians conquered and enslaved Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and Poland and Hungary and Romania and Bulgaria and ran slave labor camps and engaged in political murders and committed genocide against Ukrainians, etc., etc.

We had to be realists and they we had to understand that they had good intentions, we were told by Leftists.

But hack into one unsecured DNC email system and it is time to go to war.

//ONE DAY AFTER her network joined the rest of corporate media in cheering for President Trump’s missile attack on Syria, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was back to regular business: seeing Russian collaboration with Trump at work.

It’s “impossible,” fellow anchor Lawrence O’Donnell told Maddow on April 7, to rule out that “Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in Syria this week – so that his friend in the White House could have a big night with missiles and all of the praise he’s picked up over the past 24 hours.”

Maddow concurred, suggesting that only the FBI’s ongoing probe into Trump’s alleged collusion with Russian electoral interference will determine the truth. “Maybe eventually we’ll get an answer to that from [FBI Director] Jim Comey,” Maddow said.

The Washington Post noted that the “conspiracy theory” drew “derision from across the political spectrum.” But it was not out of place.

MSNBC, the country’s most prominent liberal media outlet, has played a key role in stoking the frenzy over Trump’s alleged involvement with Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential race — in lock step with the Democratic Party’s most avid partisans.//

Nice to know the priorities.

Execution of Parisian hostages unfairly overshadows more important issue of climate change.

Are these idiots for real?

MSNBC anchor incites racial violence...

...but let's keep the focus on Bill O'Reilly who may have been imprecise on his resume.

Melissa Harris-Perry hopes that Trayvon "whooped on" Zimmerman.

*Sheesh*

MSNBC is the new Comedy Central.

Host Krystal Ball follows up her observations that George Orwell's "Animal House" was about "capitalist greed" by getting pranked by a Howard Stern fan.

By the standards of the American left and MSNBC what Bashir said was not all that noteworthy, and certainly he picked a target about whom the media has permitted all manner of vilification...

...so why does it now become a firing offense?

Has MSNBC come to understand that catering to the hard left is not an effective business model for bringing in a larger audience?

Lean Forward...
...into oblivion.

CNN and MSNBC lose half their viewers.

It’s been a tough year for the liberal cable news outlets.

Data released Tuesday show CNN shedding 48 percent of total viewers since last November and MSNBC dropping 45 percent.

The numbers were even worse in the all important demographic of people aged 25 to 54 as CNN’s ratings dropped 59 percent and MSNBC’s 52 percent.

In an off-election year, and with last November’s numbers skewed higher as a result of the presidential election, it should be expected for ratings to decline.

However, Fox News didn’t see close to these losses. In total day, FNC is only down 18 percent since last November and 30 percent in the demo.

As you might imagine, prime time numbers were also down.

CNN was off 54 percent in total viewers and 62 percent in the demo. MSNBC declined 50 percent in total prime time viewers and 57 percent in the demo.

By contrast, FNC was second in all of cable in prime time this November averaging over 2 million viewers. This represented a decline of 21 percent in total viewers and 41 percent in the demo.

As such, no matter how you slice it, the liberal cable networks fared much worse in the past twelve months than their far more centrist competitor.

No kidding.

MSNBC President acknowledges that MSNBC is not the place for news:

After sharing some of the horrible ratings numbers for MSNBC in recent months, Carter spoke to network president Phil Griffin about why viewers seem to turn away from his channel when serious news items break.

“We’re not the place for that,” said Phil Griffin. “Our brand is not that.”

MSNBC more biased than Fox.

Via Glen Reynolds:

SHOCKER: Pew Study: MSNBC Really Is More Partisan Than Fox.“ON MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3. That’s not a news channel. That’s a propaganda machine, and owner Comcast should probably change Phil Griffin’s title from president to high minister of information, or something equally befitting the work of a party propagandist hack in a totalitarian regime. . . . I thought show host Sean Hannity of Fox News defined party propagandist. But while his channel was bad, it wasn’t as bad-boy biased as MSNBC.” Interesting to see such strong language in the Baltimore Sun.
 

MSNBC gives the Democrat's Emmanuel Goldstein the 1984 Treatment...

...by refusing to air his speech...

...which is an indication of how succesful the speech was.

From the Daily Caller:

The left’s disdain for former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis’ embrace of the Republican Party has been obvious, particularly when the Congressional Black Caucus condemned his endorsement of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.

But it has also been evident in the media coverage of it as well, with his speech having been all but ignored by MSNBC on Tuesday night. Davis, once a regular guest on MSNBC in primetime, acknowledged the leftward tilt of the network in an interview.

“MSNBC has made a conscious marketing decision, with the exception of [Joe] Scarborough’s show that they are going to be an organ of the Democratic Party and it appears in the way we interpret the rules these days in terms of broadcasting — they clearly have an agenda in their coverage with the way they put things on the air,” Davis told The Daily Caller.

As for the network neglecting to air his speech at the Republican National Convention, he said it was gesture by the network indicating his speech went well.

What good is a philosophy that can’t withstand even the sight of the simple facts?