MSNBC and Horror

A year or two back, a friend pointed out that MSNBC provides TV entertainment rather than news. You find it amusing or you don't. If you want a quick review of what is happening, you can find that on BBC or Aljazeera. If you are looking for a deeper discussion, you go to Bill Moyers or Melissa. If you want the Republican slant on things, done in the most kindly way imaginable, you turn to the News Hour on Koch-funded PBS (its guest Republicans outnumber guest centrist Democrats by a 2 to 1 margin). 

I just want to add that, after all, I do learn things by watching MSNBC. In the last few days, for example, I learned that the CDC (Center for Disease Control) has been tracking Ebola for forty years.  Ebola is a virus. The CDC knows how to go after a virus, but to eliminate taxes for the 1%, CDC funding got cut. The result: yes, our scientists knew Ebola was flying in on an airplane one day, but they could not prepare. The other thing I learned was something I had forgotten. The mess in Syria, which spawned ISIS, was influenced by climate change. A drought drove poor people into the cities and endangered the farmers. They began to starve. The 1% decided to suppress them. When droughts occur and people get desperate, the horror show begins. But as the Republican say, What, me worry?