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Trump-hating MSNBC panel gets lesson on use of military at border by GOP lawmaker (Video)

(National Sentinel) Truth Bomb: On a daily basis, panelists on the little-watched MSNBC morning show “Morning Joe” go out of their way to mock, ridicule, and criticize POTUS Donald Trump in what has become a predictable, and wholly unappealing (to most) cacophony of Trump hate.

Thursday’s morning show was no different.

In a segment with Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana, contributor Mike…

After ‘Morning Joe’ Flop, Florida Gov. Scott Tries to Clarify if ‘Islam Hates America’

Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday night that he doesn’t agree with GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s claim that “Islam hates America,” instead clarifying that only “radical Islam” does not like America. Image source: Fox News Scott appeared on Fox News’ “On the Record” with Greta Van Susteren to answer that question, just hours after he repeatedly dodged earlier…

As a talking head and alleged "expert" on various crime-y things I never had Julia Ioffe's experience with a truly rude host like Lawrence O'Donnell (any sympathy I might feel for his politics is completely mitigated by how obvious it is that he's an arrogant tool), but I definitely had my share of frustrations. They led to me feeling the sentence I quoted from Ioffe's post pretty hard. 

The attention-seeker and narcissist in me liked going on TV. I never really felt weird or embarrassed when doing it. I can handle 'performance nerves' and knew the basics of addressing the camera and keeping answers concise. But I grew uncomfortable with doing it after a while due to the haphazard way producers for cable networks (sometimes surprisingly young, naive, maybe even fresh out of college) seek people to guest on these shows.

Ioffe, an expert on Russia, was on O'Donnell's show to discuss that. She never should have received the rude, nasty treatment she did from the host--considering she was probably the perfect guest  for the subject at hand. I was often not the perfect guest and sometimes had only  a passing acquaintance with the crime under discussion. Yet I was sometimes presented to viewers as if I'd been reporting on it all along. Even when I told the producers that wasn't the case. 

I came to believe a great deal of cable news is a kind of pointless kabuki show tossed together on the fly, much, much more interested in sensation that will draw an audience and therefore new ad revenue than in reporting, revealing or clarifying the story at hand. Of course good reporting does happen on cable and broadcast news, all the time. But it's begun to feel more like the exception than the rule in the last 15-20 years or so. Or maybe I was deluded all along. 

That's okay; I'd rather have the realistic view I do now.

They're not big money makers, in fact they often lose money.  I mean, what else needs to be said. I was going to post some top current stories from actual investigate news sites, and some of CNN's top stories right now, which include top searched baby names of 2012 and yet another person say they know where Jimmy Hoffa is buried! And that is the state of media in this nation. Though they can't be entirely blamed, they serve what people want to consume. Of note, CNN international still does investigative reporting.