{"id":52452,"date":"2022-04-01T10:44:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52452"},"modified":"2022-04-01T11:40:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T18:40:12","slug":"stephen-colbert-hysterically-rips-his-cbs-bosses-for-hiring-lying-trump-flunky-mick-mulvaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52452","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Hysterically Rips His CBS Bosses for Hiring Lying Trump Flunky Mick Mulvaney"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the annals of American presidencies, there are few administrations who were more devoted to dishonesty and deliberate distortions of reality than the one presided over by pathological liar, Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>. And within that council of cretins one man stood out for his shameless flow of flagrant falsehoods: Trump’s chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney.<\/p>\n

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\"Stephen<\/p>\n

Mulvaney distinguished himself despite the tough competition he faced from Trump’s other chiefs of staff, Reince Priebus, John Kelly, and the closer, Mark Meadows, who was just revealed as a coup plotter with Ginni Thomas<\/a><\/strong>, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n

Now CBS News has announced that they have hired Mulvaney as a political “analyst”<\/em> (with an emphasis on the anal). It’s a move that quickly drew the condemnation of CBS staffers who regard the hiring as an embarrassment<\/a><\/strong>. Some of those who expressed their dismay publicly said that…<\/p>\n

“‘I know everyone I talked to today was embarrassed about the hiring,’ mostly due to Mulvaney’s history of inaccurate comments, one CBS News employee told the [Washington] Post. Another employee said ‘everyone is baffled’ by the hire.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among those who were appropriately disgusted by the Mulvaney hiring was Keith Olbermann. He presented a moral challenge to Stephen Colbert, who will become a corporate colleague when Mulvaney assumes his position. Olbermann tweeted…<\/p>\n

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So where is @StephenAtHome<\/a> Colbert on his company putting @MickMulvaney<\/a> on their news? And don't say "he can't be expected to be critical of CBS" – that it IS @CBSNews<\/a> makes it even more mandatory that he say something.<\/p>\n

— Keith Olbermann?? (@KeithOlbermann) March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n