MSNBC’s Live Tour of #SBShooting Killers’ Apartment is Most Awful Thing Ever
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Just when you think cable news’ insatiable desire to fill every second of its 24 hours has hit bottom, they find a new low. On Friday afternoon, the landlord of the apartment that San Bernardino shooters Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik lived in with their 6-month-old baby opened the dwelling up for the media, and notwithstanding the questionable legality or propriety of that move, MSNBC elected to broadcast the macabre tour live, in real time (CNN started with an audio-only report, and waited a restrained 20 minutes or so before showing video).
The result was, of course, a shitshow that veered from useless to creepy and useless, and potentially harmful and useless. The whole thing was presided over by an obviously mortified Andrea Mitchell, who pulled the plug after ten minutes, which was ten minutes too long. Here are some “highlights.”
Ironically, reporter Kerry Sanders starts off the proceedings by throwing shade at an Inside Edition reporter who paid $1000.00 to jump the line instead of having the class to crowd in like everybody else. What’s fascinating is to hear the thought process that’s usually kept off-camera when gathering news for LATER presentation, as Sanders decides to cleverly go where everybody else ain’t: the baby’s room!
“So we’re walking up stairs here, which I am told is a two-bedroom apartment. Let’s just take a look. Okay. Here we come around the corner and this appears to be the baby’s room right here. You can see we have, this is where the 6 month was — 6 month old child, and here’s a computer.”
Next, after touching as much of the remaining computer equipment as he can, Sanders makes a couple of important discoveries…READ MORE
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