Revolving door to hell – Digby's Hullabaloo

It used to be that the revolving door in Washington was people going back and forth from government to corporate boards and the executive suite, promoting their businesses in both jobs. Now they go back and forth between government and corporate media jobs where they promote political propaganda in both jobs. This is particularly acute in GOP circles since their propaganda is so pervasive and their people are so authoritarian and anti-democratic.

Here’s Aaron Rupar demonstrating why this is so egregious:

CBS is now paying this guy (Mick Mulvaney) for analysis part 1

CHUCK TODD: Are you confident it wasn't a WH staffer who requested the Navy cover up ship named after McCain?

MICK MULVANEY: Oh no, it was absolutely us

CT: Any consequences?

MM: We all know how Trump feels about McCain. It wasn't unreasonable

CT: Seriously?

MM: It's not! pic.twitter.com/fWvYesT4DE
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 2, 2019

CBS is now paying this guy for analysis part 2

CHRIS WALLACE: There's a clear pattern of Trump using the term "infested" to refer to black communities

MICK MULVANEY: You're spending way too much time reading between the lines

CW: I'm not reading between the lines. I'm reading the lines

MM: That's what POTUS does. He fights pic.twitter.com/Kp7AzhzYin
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 28, 2019

CBS is now paying this guy for analysis part 3

Here's Mike Mulvaney at CPAC characterizing coronavirus coverage as "an attempt to bring down the president" and blaming the media for the stock market stump pic.twitter.com/a747Inf2ky
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 28, 2020

CBS is now paying this guy for analysis part 4

Mick Mulvaney announces that the next G20 will be at a resort that Trump still owns and profits from in Doral, Florida. #grifting pic.twitter.com/wHFHzYjx6k
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2019

CBS is now paying this guy for analysis part 5

"To be clear, what you described is a quid pro quo" — Here's Mick Mulvaney casually admitting that Trump held up aid to Ukraine as leverage to get the Ukrainian government to investigate the 2016 election pic.twitter.com/ylz7BKEmKd
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2019

CBS is now paying this guy for analysis part 6

ABC: Why has Trump downplayed threat of white nationalism?

MULVANEY: I don't think he has

ABC: Trump literally said "I don't really" when asked if he sees it as a rising threat 5 months ago!

M: I don't believe that's downplaying … look, this isn't the same as nuclear weapons pic.twitter.com/Xxrtpc8tey
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2019

CBS is now paying this guy for analysis part 7

"It has 0 to do with the fact that Adam is Jewish": While defending Trump's racist tweets, Mick Mulvaney went out of his way to point out that Adam Schiff is Jewish 🤔 pic.twitter.com/CjByPEyfEA
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 28, 2019

CBS is now paying this guy for analysis part 8

Mulvaney downplays the coronavirus, saying it's "not ebola," but then adds, "are you gonna see some schools shut down? Probably. Will you see impacts on public transportation? Sure." pic.twitter.com/y2V5WdBpm6
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 28, 2020

CBS is now paying this guy for analysis part 9

"He got over that a long time ago" — Mulvaney's response to a Fox News reporter raising concerns about the bad optics of Trump holding the G20 at a resort he still owns and profits from is to point out that Trump just doesn't care. pic.twitter.com/8CStvgLsg7
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2019

You get the point. The point of journalism is to inform people. Outlets that are trying to be reputable shouldn’t pay liars to lie and spread bad faith right-wing propaganda. Shame on @CBS.

Mick Mulvaney lied to us for four years to advance the cause of authoritarianism, and now we’re supposed to take seriously his analysis of Biden’s economic policies? Hardest of hard passes.

Former OMB Director @MickMulvaney, who joins CBS News as a contributor, breaks down President Biden’s tax plan on wealthy Americans pic.twitter.com/Wh1m823631
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 29, 2022

Originally tweeted by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) on March 29, 2022.