Please? I think probably by next weekend the entire world will have collapsed. Come to think of it, the only thing that gave me any pleasure at all today was watching Pirro screetch like a rat caught in a glue trap. It was astounding. The things that she has said in the past - and no, she absolutely had not been a practicing g lawyer for 35 years - made me think she was talking about Trump and company.
She thinks no evidence exists?
It’s easy to dismiss Jeanine Pirro as a joke -- for the last few decades, that’s exactly what she’s been. A third-tier New York political figure turned fourth-tier media commentator, her eponymous Fox News program, Justice with Judge Jeanine, calls back to her two-year term as an elected county court judge a quarter-century ago. Pirro’s show is a poorly-produced mishmash, combining her opening monologue diatribes lionizing the president and hammering his enemies; interviews with conservative commentators and politicians who often have trouble following her rambling questions; and inanities like January’s “Street Justice” segment after the 2016 elections, in which she wandered the town of Chappaqua, NY, and the surrounding woods in search of Hillary Clinton. In her latest book, she accidentally calls herself an idiot.
But the ascension of President Donald Trump has scrambled the ranks of the relevant, as the motley collection of fools and crooks willing to support him rise in influence. And so Pirro has become a thought leader, riding a decades-long personal friendship with the president and a willingness to propagandize on his behalf to the top of the ratings charts and best-seller lists. Because her Fox audience of roughly two million viewers includes the president, she gets top-tier Republican guests, including White House officials who book themselves on the program in order to communicate directly with Trump. Off air, she advises the president in the Oval Office and at his Mar-a-Lago resort; he, in turn, has considered her for senior positions in his administration. In the age of Trump, the idiots reign.
Pirro, an intrinsically ridiculous person, now occupies a position of influence. The way commentators respond to her televised rants often depends on how they weigh those attributes. On Saturday night, for example, I tweeted a clip of Pirro describing the president’s political opposition as “Demon-rats”:
This needed to be preserved for posterity.
Jeanine Pirro just now on Fox: “The establishment Republicans have buckled, caved, and bowed to the Democrats. or should I say, Demon-rats. That's what I said, Demon-rats!” pic.twitter.com/EXArYFJfPS
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) September 30, 2018
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/demon-rats-dimms-and-why-fox-news-dehumanization-matters
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