CBS News has hired Mick Mulvaney as a paid on-air contributor. In his first official appearance on Tuesday morning to talk about President Joe Biden’s budget proposal, anchor Anne-Marie Green introduced Mulvaney as “a former Office of Management and Budget director,” and said, “So happy to have you here…. You’re the guy to ask about this.”
It's absolutely infuriating for a parasite like Mulvaney to be rewarded in this manner, and it's an absolute insult to the intelligence of the American public to hold him up as an expert voice.
The more I read about the GOP's plans, the more incensed I become!
"[T]he Republican Party is working to get rid of the New Deal government. While Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wanted to face the midterms without a platform, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), who chairs the committee responsible for electing Republican senators, has produced an “11-point plan to rescue America.” It dramatically raises taxes on people who earn less than $100,000, and ends Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act."
How do they expect the middle class to survive -- much less the elderly or single parent families? It blows my mind that any party which represents human beings can be so callous and unmoved by people's struggles! Their motto is: let the rich get richer and let the poor perish!
During this period in our history, I have been seeking the Edward R. Murrow of our times. The journalist who brought down Senator McCarthy. The journalist that organized and held an integrated dinner in a downtown Atlanta in the 1930s without incident. The voice for America on the Blitz in England before America got into WWII. Read his biography "Edward R. Murrow -- His Life and Times" by A.M. Sperber. One of my favorite books ever. Murrow set the standards for TV journalism for the last half of the 20th century. I am getting more and more disgusted with 21st century "journalism" if you can still call it that. I'm writing my concerns to the media as much as to my elected representatives now.
Here's one quote from Mr. Murrow:
"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained."
Right now even the so-called liberal media is making the same huge gift of air time to the sensational, the negative, the celebrity -- the stuff that got the Former Guy elected. It is all about the bottom line, the ratings and not about integrity and "doing the right thing".
Every morning I tense before reading your post. Will it be hope? Will it be despair? This morning I despair that too many Americans just don't care enough to learn all the backstories of all skullduggery throughout our history that has led us to this moment in time. When Houston lost The Houston Post and the city, like so many across the country, became a one paper city, I saw this day coming. Too few are well read. Too many are content with their reality television programs. The nation has become a Confederacy of Dunces.
Let’s see, you started with a crescendo first and didn’t stop there! Obviously, CBS felt they weren’t reporting enough “balanced” journalism so who do they hire but one of tfg’s monsters. Maybe their CEO felt sorry for OAN’s fall from grace. It will be very interesting which anchors at CBS will jump ship. I think it could be plenty.
In the meantime, Biden is releasing oil reserves to American citizens to bring the prices down at the pump. In CA where prices are $6+ a gallon, that is welcomed news.
"And yet, CBS News hired Mulvaney and simply introduced him as a former director of the OMB, saying he was the guy to explain Biden’s budget."
Dr. Richardson, all of the mainstream news organizations are trying to get members of the far right on their staff because they can see the probability of a future far right government shutting them down is growing every day.
The NY Times has no less than FOUR far right opinion writers now who routinely right nutty stuff. It is not as nutty as Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, but, nutty nonetheless.
All of the mainstream outlets are hoping to survive by currying favor with the far right.
However, currying favor with a rabid dog never works out. It is always a bad idea to try to pet one.
The mainstream media would be better off getting in the game and playing on the side of Democracy.
As you say, Conservative members of the Supreme Court want to roll back some hard won civil rights like interracial marriage. Just where do we think our Clarence will come down on that one?
I thank Dr. Richardson for pointing this out. I do not watch American television news and would never have known this without her. Right away I complained to CBS. Here is the link if you would like to do so too. https://www.cbs.com/showfeedback/ You need to choose news as the category and select a program as well. I just chose "evening news," not knowing better. If you do, suggest it please. I said I was going to boycott the station's programming and their advertisers. Here is a list. https://stopmediabiasnow.com/cbs-advertisers/
While I read an article that says boycotts do not work, I know they have in some instances. For example, the sanctions on Russia are a boycott. They are working, it is just not quick. Americans tend to be used to immediate gratification, and what is happening in Ukraine, Syria, and elsewhere that Russia has military and is supporting war is terrible, and it cannot be over soon enough. However, over time one is going to more fully bring down their economy to not so easily be retrieved. That is important. It is also important for other authoritarian countries to see what can happen when democracies band together. Of course, thanks to stations like CBS and Fox, we are not likely to remain a democracy without an extreme amount of vigilance.
his gig with PC Matic, or whatever the computer security firm is named. Had a blue polo shirt for that one. Certainly a wardrobe upgrade. CBS is pandering. Uncle Walter, Mike Wallace and Eric Sevareid would not have stood by and let this happen.
You might like to tweet this to anyone and any organization who claims to support Ukraine. Of course CBS might be your first tweet.
"Mick Mulvaney, Trump's hit man withheld defense money from Ukraine, letting Putin know Republicans don't care about Ukraine, giving Putin a green light to attack. CBS hires Mulvaney instead of sanctioning persons giving aid & comfort to Putin. Mulvaney must go."
This is too painful to write about tonite. Prayers for all the women& children & senior folk trapped in Putin’s war on Ukraine. Gnite dear HCR and all of her readers, my new family .
I’m old enough to remember Edward R. Murrow. Walter Cronkite was an evening fixture growing up. CBS was the pinnacle of credibility. No more. CBS’s hiring of Mulvaney and trying to pass him off as a budget expert is beyond the Pale(y). And that’s the way it is.
Walter Cronkite must be spinning in his grave.
It's absolutely infuriating for a parasite like Mulvaney to be rewarded in this manner, and it's an absolute insult to the intelligence of the American public to hold him up as an expert voice.
Shame, shame, shame on CBS.
That’s it. Boycott CBS.
The more I read about the GOP's plans, the more incensed I become!
"[T]he Republican Party is working to get rid of the New Deal government. While Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wanted to face the midterms without a platform, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), who chairs the committee responsible for electing Republican senators, has produced an “11-point plan to rescue America.” It dramatically raises taxes on people who earn less than $100,000, and ends Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act."
How do they expect the middle class to survive -- much less the elderly or single parent families? It blows my mind that any party which represents human beings can be so callous and unmoved by people's struggles! Their motto is: let the rich get richer and let the poor perish!
During this period in our history, I have been seeking the Edward R. Murrow of our times. The journalist who brought down Senator McCarthy. The journalist that organized and held an integrated dinner in a downtown Atlanta in the 1930s without incident. The voice for America on the Blitz in England before America got into WWII. Read his biography "Edward R. Murrow -- His Life and Times" by A.M. Sperber. One of my favorite books ever. Murrow set the standards for TV journalism for the last half of the 20th century. I am getting more and more disgusted with 21st century "journalism" if you can still call it that. I'm writing my concerns to the media as much as to my elected representatives now.
Here's one quote from Mr. Murrow:
"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained."
Right now even the so-called liberal media is making the same huge gift of air time to the sensational, the negative, the celebrity -- the stuff that got the Former Guy elected. It is all about the bottom line, the ratings and not about integrity and "doing the right thing".
CBS thinks it’s paying for access to GOP politicians by hiring Mulvaney, a trashing of journalistic ethics. Why pay? Politicians crave attention.
This development encapsulates the sharp decline of some (former) bulwarks of news.
Every morning I tense before reading your post. Will it be hope? Will it be despair? This morning I despair that too many Americans just don't care enough to learn all the backstories of all skullduggery throughout our history that has led us to this moment in time. When Houston lost The Houston Post and the city, like so many across the country, became a one paper city, I saw this day coming. Too few are well read. Too many are content with their reality television programs. The nation has become a Confederacy of Dunces.
Let’s see, you started with a crescendo first and didn’t stop there! Obviously, CBS felt they weren’t reporting enough “balanced” journalism so who do they hire but one of tfg’s monsters. Maybe their CEO felt sorry for OAN’s fall from grace. It will be very interesting which anchors at CBS will jump ship. I think it could be plenty.
In the meantime, Biden is releasing oil reserves to American citizens to bring the prices down at the pump. In CA where prices are $6+ a gallon, that is welcomed news.
"And yet, CBS News hired Mulvaney and simply introduced him as a former director of the OMB, saying he was the guy to explain Biden’s budget."
Dr. Richardson, all of the mainstream news organizations are trying to get members of the far right on their staff because they can see the probability of a future far right government shutting them down is growing every day.
The NY Times has no less than FOUR far right opinion writers now who routinely right nutty stuff. It is not as nutty as Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, but, nutty nonetheless.
All of the mainstream outlets are hoping to survive by currying favor with the far right.
However, currying favor with a rabid dog never works out. It is always a bad idea to try to pet one.
The mainstream media would be better off getting in the game and playing on the side of Democracy.
So we have a 7-hour gap in presidential phone records. Who else remembers when an 18-minute gap in a presidential conversation was big news?
As you say, Conservative members of the Supreme Court want to roll back some hard won civil rights like interracial marriage. Just where do we think our Clarence will come down on that one?
Hoisted on his own petard….
I thank Dr. Richardson for pointing this out. I do not watch American television news and would never have known this without her. Right away I complained to CBS. Here is the link if you would like to do so too. https://www.cbs.com/showfeedback/ You need to choose news as the category and select a program as well. I just chose "evening news," not knowing better. If you do, suggest it please. I said I was going to boycott the station's programming and their advertisers. Here is a list. https://stopmediabiasnow.com/cbs-advertisers/
While I read an article that says boycotts do not work, I know they have in some instances. For example, the sanctions on Russia are a boycott. They are working, it is just not quick. Americans tend to be used to immediate gratification, and what is happening in Ukraine, Syria, and elsewhere that Russia has military and is supporting war is terrible, and it cannot be over soon enough. However, over time one is going to more fully bring down their economy to not so easily be retrieved. That is important. It is also important for other authoritarian countries to see what can happen when democracies band together. Of course, thanks to stations like CBS and Fox, we are not likely to remain a democracy without an extreme amount of vigilance.
I guess Mulvaney must have given up
his gig with PC Matic, or whatever the computer security firm is named. Had a blue polo shirt for that one. Certainly a wardrobe upgrade. CBS is pandering. Uncle Walter, Mike Wallace and Eric Sevareid would not have stood by and let this happen.
I'm f**king speechless. But YES to what Rosemary says: "That's it. Boycott CBS."
You might like to tweet this to anyone and any organization who claims to support Ukraine. Of course CBS might be your first tweet.
"Mick Mulvaney, Trump's hit man withheld defense money from Ukraine, letting Putin know Republicans don't care about Ukraine, giving Putin a green light to attack. CBS hires Mulvaney instead of sanctioning persons giving aid & comfort to Putin. Mulvaney must go."
This is too painful to write about tonite. Prayers for all the women& children & senior folk trapped in Putin’s war on Ukraine. Gnite dear HCR and all of her readers, my new family .
I’m old enough to remember Edward R. Murrow. Walter Cronkite was an evening fixture growing up. CBS was the pinnacle of credibility. No more. CBS’s hiring of Mulvaney and trying to pass him off as a budget expert is beyond the Pale(y). And that’s the way it is.