Word to conservative media: enough with the rehashing of how wonderful President-elect Trump’s victory is, and the celebration of the stages of liberal grief on display across the media landscape. It’s not that out here in flyover country we’re not joyous about the electoral sweep. We’re just fed up with seeing and hearing about the defeated talking heads that have to be discussed when discussing how they’re taking it.
No Spin News’s Bill ‘O Reilly has already admitted relishing the “passive retribution” contained within the 2024 results, so much so that he affirms he may have to confess such uncharitable thoughts to his priest. Meanwhile, his former Fox News stablemate Megyn Kelly has whipped up an ongoing media storm aimed at adding a deluge of happy-talk criticism to the downpour of liberal tears.
It’s easy to understand. The “legacy” media and Democrat politicos pilloried for their hatred and groundbreaking cluelessness have been horrible since Trump came down the escalator. No punishment, banishment, or razzing is too severe in light of their downfall. But the time’s rapidly approaching when the faces of the vanquished will become a major turn-off, as in turn off the television, or at least switch channels.
It’s the appalling prostration of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that has brought the orgy of enjoyment to a crescendo. Most Republicans, conservatives, and MAGA adherents would never see faces of these awful people if not for their castigation and ridicule on conservative media. We get it. Denouncement of leftist idiocy and overreach is a staple of right-leaning political entertainment. Who doesn’t love sitting back with a beer and some trail mix to watch James Carville or “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel in the throes of a meltdown.
But the Scarborough/Brzezinski pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago represents some fatal, final straw. Wasn’t Mika’s face bleeding from a facelift the last time they flew south to be with Trump? We don’t want to see this anymore, and especially don’t want to see Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who are still president and vice president.
O’Reilly and Kelly—both who expressed their intention to vote for Trump—will be coming with slings and arrows if Trump doesn’t immediately began following through on his campaign promises. If there’s the slightest hesitation on new immigration policy and enforcement, O’Reilly, who has made the deleterious effects of immigrant crime a focal point since he championed Kate’s Law in 2015, will opine—and Trump won’t like it. Similarly, should Trump’s culture warriors dally on the issue of biological men playing in biological women’s sports, expect Kelly to go on the warpath.
It’s an exciting time. Trump’s nominating professional disruptors—who can aggressively step in and turn America’s moribund ship of state around. It’s time to turn away from four terrible Christmases past, and get to work.