Some journalists in the media aren’t even hiding they are Democrat activists, anymore. From his MSNBC pedestal Sunday, Ali Velshi actually berated viewers to vote Democrat in November or be complicit in America’s misogyny towards women. If that wasn’t bad enough, the Biden lackey went on to literally beg Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to tell the media how to report sympathetically on Biden’s female VP pick.
The Velshi host ended his show’s first hour trying to bully viewers into voting for Biden. He lectured the only way America would be “great again” would be if a woman was in office because Americans had been too sexist to vote for a woman leading up to this point. The amount of women in Congress and all other levels of political leadership in America didn’t seem to diminish Velshi’s zeal for hyperbole:
Today we find ourselves on the cusp of history…It's going to take real effort to mess this one up, but if there’s anything America can mess up, it's the advancement of women. I don’t know if its misogyny or sexism but it sure is something. We find reasons to criticize, chastise woman candidates in a way we don't do with men...From women, we demand a plan, we want to see receipts and we often vote for someone else anyway. Whatever this thing is we've been doing so long, it's time to stop, end the double standards, the age-old criticisms that have plagued women in our society and politics for centuries.
We spent the last 3 1/2 years showing the world how great we are not. We have less than three months to remind the world that America can be again, to demonstrate what female leadership looks like in America, to prove why we are great, to embrace the ideals that we say we stand for
Velshi urged voters to not think of Biden when they’re voting, but vote for the potential next “historic” president:
"At 77 years old, Joe Biden may only be willing to serve one term, if he wins on election, in which case in November you may be voting for the person who will be the president in 2024 or 2028. You may be voting for the first woman president of the United States of America," he gushed.
Looks like the media’s pulling the same stunts they used in 2008, when they said you were a racist if you didn’t vote for Barack Obama and in 2016, saying voters were too sexist to vote for Hillary Clinton.
Just a few minutes later, Velshi brought on former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and repeatedly pleaded with her to tell his network and the media as a whole how they should be reporting on Biden’s unnamed VP:
I invite you to be as critical as you would like to be right now about the things we do in the media that contribute to the stereotypes that have prevented America from having a woman president or vice president in its entire history.
...My whole team is listening to you and my whole network are listening to you. As well as the millions of viewers.
...What is the stuff you want to tell us not to do or what we should do when we're talking about it? Because It's going to be historical...What are the dangers, what’s the pitfalls we could fall into?
Yes, this really happened: a journalist invited a former Obama administration official to tell him how to report on another member of the Obama administration’s VP, who more than likely will be another member of the Obama administration! Is this what passes as journalism on MSNBC?
This absurd segment was paid for by Progressive and Safelite. You can tell Velshi’s advertisers how you feel here.
Read the transcript below:
MSNBC
Velshi
8/9/2020
8:55AM EST
ALI VELSHI: Today we find ourselves on the cusp of history. We know the next vice Democratic presidential nominee will be a woman, and the group of women vying for the post is diverse as the day is long. More importantly they are empirically impressive group of women. Any one of them more than qualified to be the Vice President. It's going to take real effort to mess this one up, but if there’s anything America can mess up, it's the advancement of women. I don’t know if its misogyny or sexism but it sure is something. We find reasons to criticize, chastise woman candidates in a way we don't do with men. We call them too serious,or too angry, or too ambitious they smile too much or smile too little or they’re too uptight. Conversely we often give men the benefit of the doubt. We assume they’ll get there that they’re sure of themselves. From women, we demand a plan, we want to see receipts and we often vote for someone else anyway. Whatever this thing is we've been doing so long, it's time to stop, end the double standards, the age-old criticisms that have plagued women in our society and politics for centuries.
We spent the last 3 1/2 years showing the world how great we are not. We have less than three months to remind the world that America can be again, to demonstrate what female leadership looks like in America, to prove why we are great, to embrace the ideals that we say we stand for. America has often gotten it wrong, with slavery, with the failure to extend the vote to women, with civil rights, but when America gets it right, it really gets it right. At 77 years old, Joe Biden may only be willing to serve one term, if he wins on election, in which case in November you may be voting for the person who will be the president in 2024 or 2028. You may be voting for the first woman president of the United States of America. The United States was built to lead. We’re a little late to this race but let’s show the world what leadership looks like.
9:07 AM EST
ALI VELSHI: You're part of a group called We Have Her Back, who sent a letter to news executives warning about stereotypes in regards to Biden’s female VP pick.You and I have a great relationship so I invite you to be as critical as you would like to be right now about the things we do in the media that contribute to the stereotypes that have prevented America from having a woman president or vice president in its entire history.
VALERIE JARRETT: Good morning. First of all You are terrific. I agree the segment in the last hour was exceptional. It's a double standard and we’ve seen it forever and it's time to stop. The reason we sent the letter ahead is because we're already seeing women described in ways you wouldn't, whether it's wearing a corsage or a bachelor, whatever the language, it's intended to demean or diminish. That's not acceptable. We just wanted to be really clear, when we see it, we're going to call it out, if we see it from within our own party, we will do the same.
VELSHI: My whole team is listening to you and my whole network are listening to you. As well as the millions of viewers.
JARRETT: I hope so.
VELSHI: What is the stuff you want to tell us not to do or what we should do when we're talking about it. Because It's going to be historical. What happens in the media when something historical happens, is we lend ourselves to superlatives. Right? We start to talk about things with these words that make things feel bigger than they are. What are the dangers, what’s the pitfalls we could fall into?
JARRETT: Just deal with the substance. Don't talk about what she looks like. Don't describe -- I'll give you one very good example. This whole concept of whether a woman is ambitious. What woman who is contending to be vice president of the United States isn't ambitious? And more importantly what man who has occupied that office ever in our history wasn't both ambitious and hoping to be president one day? So why do we turn what is a good trait into something that's intended to be insulting? Let's stop talking about that. Let's stop describing us in words that you wouldn't use to describe a man.
VELSHI: Alright well, hold us to account on this. We will continue to make sure we do the best we can on this.
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