I hope that he will not dominate cable news non stop

[question everything]

One thing, I no longer watch what used to be Chris Matthews after the network news and he would always break to cover a rally.

Now it is PBS Newshour and they will not. They will not, right?

[dchill]

1. Your hopes will probably be dashed.

If history is any precedent. He's dominating right now.

[usonian]

2. But that's why he did it!

An NPR station drifted on top of my music station and they were talking about how young democrats were turning out and proceeded to interview SOME YOUNG REPUBLICANS (over 50?) to get their opinions.

Even NPR had to play the bothsiderism game.

[question everything]

4. Glad that PBS did not break into Miss Scarlet and the Duke on Masterpiece

[usonian]

8. Wasn't this 100% predictable?

• The publicity
• The grift

Candy!

I put his five-letter name and three-letter abbreviation on my TRASH list and still get plenty of info. And there’s that OTHER matter going on in Europe.

This is a new experience for me, and a calming one.

I can’t imagine (and really don’t want to know) what GD is like without those blocks.
(Well, yes I can, because that’s why I set them up! )

I see from the PBS reference that you are ad-free when there. I tell people to buy a star, AND use an ad-blocker. No wonder people need tranquilizers.

[PSPS]

9. Charles Pierce refers to those as "Cletus safaris."

[usonian]

10. I saw that interesting article.

I have to ask, what’s a Cletus?
Keep it clean, please.

I thought it was cetus, as in cetacean, or whale. That made some kind of sense to me.
Hunting for Moby Dick, or

(not a fake)

[crickets]

11. Cletus is a first name, often thought of as a name for someone

from a rural area, especially the South. It's on par with Bubba as a catch-all name to refer to a stereotype, one that doesn't tend to be flattering. Apologies to all the Cletuses and Bubbas out there.

edit to add context: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/media-trump-country_n_5a449e8ae4b025f99e199ef8

This was the year the political media couldn’t stop reminding us of the forgotten Americans. All year long, outlets parachuted reporters into “Trump Country” to observe his voters in their habitat — “Cletus safari” is the derisive term of art — and the reporters returned with tenderly crafted soft-focus portrait after tenderly crafted soft-focus portrait of people aching to say the n-word.

2nd edit is a better example than the previous one.

[Bev54]

3. Of course he will until we all turn it off.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. He is media catnip

[Mariana]

6. If that happens, it's time to cancel cable service.

[Island Blue]

7. He's dominated cable news every day/night

since he first rode down that damn elevator in 2015, so I doubt it will be any different this go round. I’m so fucking tired of him.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

12. TFG is a built in clown show for them, the corporate overloads love him

you saw how much damage mitch did with the cover of TFG

[Ron Green]

13. He dominates Democratic Underground non stop.

Why wouldn’t he do the same for cable news?

[BlackSkimmer]

19. I see way more about him here than I do on cable news.

You’re so right.

[lees1975]

14. He will

They can't resist and they don't have anything else to talk about so they beat this to death.

[Meowmee]

15. It will be covered non stop

They will do exactly what they did last time. They already are.

[AngryOldDem]

16. I'm not watching today.

All I care about are updates concerning Poland, and I can access British news outlets for that.

I don’t think I can stand another two years of the media’s sick obsession with everything this man vomits 24/7. I’m out, at least for today.

(If you’re talking about All In With Chris Hayes, Fox News lives rent free in his head. I can only take small doses of him, as well.)

[leftyladyfrommo]

17. The idea of seeing his face all the time for the next

two years makes me want to puke.

[LeftInTX]

18. Really and it's only 2022!