MSNBC and Trump's flamebait
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 by Dave Winer

Fox News doesn't take Trump's bait, but MSNBC does.

They show Trump over and over saying that Hillary did something to hurt Bill's ex-lovers. Nothing specified. Just a bunch of hand-waving. 

This speech was repeated three times in one evening, as the opening segment on three shows: Chris Matthews, Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow. I didn't stay up to watch Lawrence O'Donnell, but I expect it was the opener on his show too.

I don't imagine that Hayes or Maddow wanted this. Maddow showed us how the idea is the teaser for a book being written by a guy who wears a joker hat who lives in Austin, and a hack friend of Trump's. He's selling the book. Presumably it has names in it of women who say shit about HIllary. 

Fox News didn't carry this. MSNBC did. 

I am so disgusted. None of this stuff works if the TV people don't pick it up. It's nasty, irrelevant, has nothing to do with the decision we have to make, and it leaves us with nowhere to turn for an evening's worth of political bullshit (yes we know it's bullshit) that doesn't make us feel used and dirty.

And Hillary. Get smart. You need to fill the air with nasty shit about Trump. You can't do it personally. But we have to get people who can. Comedians. For the 80th time we need the Democratic Comedian Corps, every day and night, to compete with this crap. Beg Jon Stewart, just for six months, put it on Periscope, YouTube and Facebook. Live stream. Let's get everyone excited. And make Trump into the footnote of media history that we need him to be.