MSNBC star Lawrence O’Donnell tore into NCS and its company management for prominently featuring Scott Jennings on the air, calling the community “absurdly deranged” for employing a “rabid, lying Trump supporter.”
O’Donnell’s tirade towards the rival cable information community comes as NCS’s guardian firm, Warner Bros. Discovery, is being targeted for a takeover by Paramount chief David Ellison, a bid that’s largely bankrolled by his Trump-backing ultra-wealthy father Larry Ellison. Meanwhile, it has been reported that Donald Trump has all however authorised Paramount’s merger proposal with WBD, regardless of no deal but being reached.
During Monday’s broadcast of his primetime MSNBC (soon to be MS NOW) present, O’Donnell grumbled about media moguls trying to develop “richer” via large company mergers, which he stated confirmed how “they never cared about the news.” He then took purpose at the company mother and father of CBS News and ABC News for settling “frivolous lawsuits” with the president.
“They might all be doing this because they fear Donald Trump’s interference with the next merger they want to engage in. But it wasn’t always that way,” O’Donnell huffed. “It used to be that Republican administrations allowed just about any corporate merger to go through as part of their so-called pro-business spirit. It turns out that was all a lie. They don’t believe in anything.”
The liberal host went on to accuse companies of being afraid of taking the president and his administration to courtroom, as an alternative insisting that they’re merely trying to placate Trump with a view to win his approval.
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“These greedy, cowardly corporate executives and billionaires of today don’t want to wait 204 days to get richer,” O’Donnell declared. “Not when the payoffs of the mergers could come immediately, just by paying off Donald Trump.”
This introduced him to NCS, which he stated was presently “owned by a right-wing Trump supporter,” seemingly referencing WBD shareholder John Malone. Claiming that the community has “compromised itself accordingly,” O’Donnell referenced the latest departure of anchor Jim Acosta as proof of NCS’s conservative shift beneath chief govt Mark Thompson.
“And everyone who remains has become much more careful in anything they might even think of saying about Donald Trump,” he said earlier than immediately invoking Jennings. “And now NCS eagerly pays a Trump supporter to lie on NCS every day and night for Donald Trump.”
Claiming NCS “regularly paid Trump supporters to lie” concerning the president throughout the first Trump administration, O’Donnell added that the “NCS regime then realized that was a mistake” and stopped doing it. However, based on the MSNBC star, Thompson determined to convey again the MAGA defenders when he took over NCS three years in the past.
“[Thompson] thinks paying Scott Jennings to lie about Donald Trump is money very well spent. Scott Jennings, who used to be an aide to Senator Mitch McConnell, was not always a rabid, lying Trump supporter,” O’Donnell exclaimed. “When he first started appearing on television, he was capable of criticizing some of the more extreme Trump positions, but Scott Jennings figured out where the money is and how he could get his own podcast and decided to become the ‘JD Vance of NCS.’”
Pointing to a latest interview that Thompson gave to Mediaite, O’Donnell accused the “lost in America Englishman” of claiming the “single goofiest thing ever said by anyone in charge of NCS,” which featured Thompson immediately evaluating Jennings to one of many Three Musketeers.
“Scott’s like D’Artagnan, he’s got his sword out and he’s got about four Democrats against him, but he spiked them all off. That’s much more like it, I think. He’s a worthy opponent, as it were, for the Democrats in the room,” Thompson said earlier this month. “And it makes for not just good television, but also for in some ways, a slightly deeper testing of the ideas all the way around that table.”
Taking specific offense at Thompson’s declare that Jennings makes for “good television,” the MSNBC host famous that the right-wing pundit is prominently featured on NCS Newsight – which airs reverse O’Donnell’s present.
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“Good television? Here’s how bad that television is that they make over there. The show that Scott Jennings frequents the most is on opposite this program. And that show on a good night gets half of the audience of this show,” the Last Word host stated.
“This program usually has an audience triple the size of the terrible, terrible television that Scott Jennings is delivering on the absurdly degraded version of NCS, presided over by the man who thinks lying for Donald Trump on TV is an honorable pursuit and should be paid for by NCS,” he concluded. “Scott’s like D’Artagnan, he says.”
While Ellison is currently looking to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery and probably merge NCS with CBS News, Jennings recently visited with new CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, the “anti-woke” founding father of The Free Press. Jennings’ assembly with Weiss comes as she is actively pursuing Bret Baier to anchor the community’s night broadcast, although it’s extremely unlikely she’s going to achieve poaching the Fox News star.
Meanwhile, Ellison isn’t the only suitor looking to take over WBD. Comcast, the company guardian of MSNBC – at least till the Versant spinoff is full later this yr – has expressed curiosity in buying all or elements of the media big.
While the president has lengthy railed towards Comcast chairman Brian Roberts, calling him a “lowlife” whereas describing the corporate as “Concast,” the NBCUniversal proprietor recently ponied up cash to fund Trump’s East Wing demolition and new ballroom. That transfer has left many of the company’s journalists disgusted and mortified.
On high of that, one high media analyst has suggested that so as for Roberts to persuade the president to approve a merger between Comcast and WBD, he ought to agree to put in Erika Kirk – the widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk – because the editor-in-chief of NBC News, MSNBC and NCS.