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Media Winners & Losers

MEDIA WINNER:
Chris Wallace

After considerable uncertainty, Chris Wallace has found a home at CNN. The veteran newsman's CNN+ show will move to Sunday nights on CNN and air on HBO Max, CNN president Chris Licht announced at the Warner Bros. Discovery upfront on Wednesday.

Wallace anchored Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? on CNN+, a streaming service that became a bust after a month. His status at the network has been the subject of much speculation in weeks since the ill-fated streamer’s demise. CNN gave Wallace a $9 million contract. Wallace has appeared on CNN since CNN+’s crash and was part of its election coverage on Tuesday.

"The first episodes of Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? on CNN+ featured interviews with CEOs and media moguls, Hollywood legends and newsmakers across politics, business, world affairs, sports and culture, setting a high bar for the in-depth conversations both HBO Max and CNN audience will now enjoy." CNN said in a release.

Among the guests touted for the debut are: former CEO of The Walt Disney Company Bob Iger, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, author of the 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones, and actors Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher.

Throughout his career, Wallace has come under fire from partisans on both Left and Right for tough interviews. In the short-lived run of CNN+, his show brought the most visible buzz.

Coming out ahead in the end is a definite win for Wallace and CNN.

MEDIA LOSER:
Oliver Stone

Film Director Oliver Stone floated a theory during a recent podcast appearance that the U.S. could attempt a false flag nuclear or chemical attack against Ukraine and blame Russia.

Speaking with podcast host Lex Fridman Tuesday, Stone said the U.S. is "making a lot of noise" about whether Russia will use nukes or chemical weapons, and that Russia being "pinned" with an incident would benefit the U.S.

“For example, it’d be very, not simple, but it would be possible to explode a nuclear device in Donbas and kill thousands of people," he said. "And we would not know right away who did it, but of course the blame would go right to Russia. Even if it didn’t make sense, if there was no motivation for it, it would just be blamed on Russia.”

“The United States might well be the one who does that false flag operation. It would not be beyond them. They would, it would be a very dramatic, uh, solution to seal this war off as a major victory for the United States,” Stone added.

“That’s terrifying,” Fridman said. “But when you walk across that line you can potentially never walk back.”

Stone replied, "I think the neo-conservative arrogance is such that they really believe they can push their advantage to the max now.”

Stone is a crackpot, anyway. But theorizing in advance that a nuclear attack on Ukraine might be launched by the United States is well past "crank" territory and firmly in Alex Jones land.

CORRECTION: In Wednesday's Green Room, Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey's first name was incorrect. We regret the error and have corrected it online.

The A-Block

Here we go again...

Former President Donald Trump once again claimed an election is being subverted by cheating, all while saying Dr. Mehmet Oz should go ahead and declare himself the winner of Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary.

The Pennsylvania race is currently too close to call as votes are being counted to see whether Oz — who was endorsed by Trump — managed to defeat Republican rival candidate Dave McCormick. The ambiguity over the final result stems from a combination of early voting and mail-in ballots that have yet to be counted.

As far as Trump sees it, the contest is already over, so he got on Truth Social and said “Dr. Oz should declare victory. It makes it much harder for them to cheat with the ballots that they “just happened to find.”

Trump’s insinuations about Oz’s election being cheated echo the frequent attacks and false claims that he pushed against mail-in ballots before he lost the 2020 election. Trump also declared his own victory during the 2020 election, and he has repeatedly pushed the false claim that President Joe Biden’s win was a result of mass election fraud.

That's not all, he also took a potshot at Fox News for saying it was too close to call.

 


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Must See Clip

‘You Have to Scare the Bejesus Out of People’

MSNBC regular Donny Deutsch offered some marketing advice to Democrats on Morning Joe Wednesday: The party needs to “scare the bejesus out of people.”

Deutsch said Democrats need to take advantage of the current moment to hit Republicans hard in the wake of the Buffalo shooting by making every Republican "own" replacement theory.

“You take this heinous platform and make the Republicans own it," he said. "They can’t run from it because it’s part of who they are at this point."

"You have to scare the bejesus out people," he said. "It’s the Racist Republican Replacement Theory.”

NBC News analyst John Heilemann and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace have previously advocated that Democrats “scare the crap” out of their base ahead of the midterms, which Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Madeleine Dean considered a good point during an MSNBC segment last month.

Links We Like

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- Shawn Hubler, New York Times
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- Bess Levin, Vanity Fair
How They Got Over — A Miraculous Documentary
- Armond White, National Review
Elon Musk Is Not the Enemy
- Jim Swift, Bulwark
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