So most of us didn’t know who Chris LICHT was until Stephen COLBERT gave him a gushing send-off from being executive producer of the COLBERT show to become the president of CNN. Coming from COLBERT’s shop, it must be a good fit for CNN, no? Little did we know that LICHT would embark on re-fashioning CNN “to the CENTER,” meaning turning it into a mini-Fox Propaganda Network. Because *one* Fox just ain’t enough, haha. So he warned CNN staff that “changes were coming,” which most recently resulted in canceling Reliable Sources and kicking out host Brian STELTER, giving rise to Fox host parrots hilariously mocking STELTER for lacking testosterone. Even before, Chris WALLACE, the boy with Daddy Issues, had landed on CNN from his long years at Fox.
But then, this LICHT (means “light” in German) was said to be the pawn of John MALONE, Board member of Warner Discovery, the owner of CNN, and of David ZASLAV CEO of Warner, both of whom on record for an agenda of “making CNN great again,” MALONE being a huge donor to wingnut politicians and entities. And their examples of “fair” journalists as models are (ta-daa!) Bret BAIER and Brit HUME, the Fox boys, yeah that’s the ticket. BAIER got his start as Donald RUMSFELD favorite son mouthpiece, and HUME was the consigliere of the BUSH Family Evil Empire dating back to his ABC years, and spent years browbeating Black Juan WHILLIAMS like it was Sunday at the plantation.
So silly me, I thought THAT was the bombshell about LICHT, pawn of wingnut bosses. But recently (since I haven’t kept up with ex-MSNBC’s Keith OLBERMANN for years), another onion skin of LICHT got peeled off, that he is no johnny-come-lately to the wingnut world: That he originally hatched from Joe SCARBOROUGH’s shop, before SCARBOROUGH claimed to stop being a wingnut. And OLBERMANN says LICHT was “henchman” for SCARBOROUGH, more like a hatchet man, who would go to the then boss at MSNBC, Phil GRIFFIN, with demands from SCARBOROUGH that Left leaning guests be scrapped from OLBERMANN’s and other MSNBC shows, with threats that SCARBOROUGH would be missing from work if not complied with, and also that disciplinary suspensions not be carried out on SCARBOROUGH for his violating GRIFFIN’s policy against hosts trashing fellow hosts.
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Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann
My full length warning to you about Chris Licht and @cnn
- how at MSNBC he was Joe Scarborough's henchman and got guests on my show, Maddow's, and Schultz's, banned or cancelled - is in Ep. 19 of the Countdown podcast, at about
29:30.
Listen here:
https://omny.fm/shows/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/episode-15-countdown-with-keith-olbermann-8-19-22
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