Is the establishment ‘resistance’ finally crumbling?
With trust in mainstream news at all time lows after a decade of anti-Trump propaganda, media darlings Chuck Todd and Jenn Rubin are reportedly leaving their outlets just one week before President-elect Donald Trump is set to retake the Oval Office.
According to Semafor, NBC host Chuck Todd has “quietly been meeting with Washington media organizations about his post NBC-future,” reportedly telling top editors and leaders from other media organizations that he’s outta there when his contract is up this year, and has discussed potential roles with the network in both broadcast and digital media.
Todd was once a key part of NBC’s broadcast offerings, hosting Meet The Press and a daily Meet The Press politics program on MSNBC and writing for its website. But while NBC announced that Todd would focus on longform projects after stepping down from Meet the Press in 2023, he has been a far less visible presence across the news network and its cable counterpart. –Semafor
learn to code chump
— PutterX (@LeonardLDye) January 13, 2025
Meanwhile, WaPo‘s resident resistance crone Jenn Rubin is leaving the outlet as well – and will be teaming up with former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen to launch a new startup called The Contrarian – aka career collapse.Â
According to CNN, The Contrarian’s tagline, “not owned by anybody” is a ‘pointed reference to billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos’ and other moguls who she says “bent the knee” to Trump.
Genuinely hilarious that Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen — two of the most banal people in media — are calling their new anti-Trump Substack page “The Contrarian.”
Neither has ever expressed a single idea that’s not prevailing wisdom in corporate media and establishment DC. https://t.co/A1tE8XU3x5
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 13, 2025
Given Jen Rubin finally quit the WashPost — to start a blog called “The Contrarian” with @NormEisen, Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, totally known for contrarianism — here’s my absolute favorite TV clip from the Queen of Partisan Dreck:👑pic.twitter.com/s4QtI1mHnd
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 13, 2025
If there’s one word that I think of when it comes to your work, it’s definitely “contrarian.”
— Damin Toell (@damintoell) January 13, 2025
To Karol’s point, putting Jenn Rubin in a management position is an objectively terrible idea. The company might as well make all the employees wear sandpaper as underwear to get them prepared for the office environment Rubin will produce. https://t.co/iNyPS7DzZ8
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 13, 2025
In hindsight, the writing was on the wall…
Are you going to stand for this @JRubinBlogger? Only a noble and immediate resignation can fix this evil https://t.co/ERfFrfZi4h
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 6, 2024
Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/13/2025 – 10:35
