There is a jarring disconnect between the elite media, especially leftwing Acela Media, and the rest of America. And it is not often that we get such jarring examples of that disconnect as MSNBC’s treatment of the portion of the Republican National Convention devoted to honoring the memories of our brave service members killed during the ISIS-K attack on the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
To their credit, CNN aired the entire video package, as well as the speeches from the loved ones. Coverage across the rest of the dial was mixed, with varying degrees of cutting in and out. But MSNBC plumbed a disgusting low, completely blowing off the segment of the RNC devoted to honoring Gold Star families and, more importantly, the memories of our dead service members. Instead, the assembled panelists devoted their time to fretting over the future of the Biden-Harris ticket.
Watch as Joy Reid warns viewers of efforts to throw Kamala Harris off the Democrat ticket along President Joe Biden:
MSNBC RNC SPECIAL COVERAGE
7/17/24
9:23 PM
JOY REID: What I am hearing and the anger that I am hearing that’s coming from them, is that to the point that you are making, given the stakes, and the stakes being democracy itself, the stakes being Project 2025, the stakes being a Trump presidency, which I think everyone agrees that African- Americans would be first in line to suffer, right? And so they understand the stakes- that here is a sense among the people that I have spoken to, including some senior members of that (Congressional Black) Caucus. That given that, there is a sense there is gamesmanship going on inside of this effort to remove President Biden from the ticket, and that that gamesmanship is heavily geared toward also pushing aside Kamala Harris, Vice President Harris. And there is a sense there is a lot of pressure coming from there– some people are just calling it California at this point. Whether it’s donors or whether it is members, whether it is whoever. This sense of huge pressure for the CBC, which has locked arms with President Biden, I think we can agree on that.
RACHEL MADDOW: Sure.
REID: They have been unwavering. They are sticking with him, you know, Claire McCaskill will tell you, to the very end. They are with him. But the huge pressure is coming without regard to the vice president.
This lengthy segment, which I remind you played through the portion of the RNC honoring the Gold Star families and Abbey Gate fallen, preceded a yukfest between Rachel Maddow and DNC Chair Jaime Harrison.
I can’t think of a clearer contrast- and of the juxtaposition between the two Americas: the one where a major political party honors our fallen heroes, and the other where corporate media ignore that memorial and grotesquely disrespect the memory of the fallen in order to cover shadow parlor games.
