The journalists at MSNBC may have too much time on their hands. On Thursday, the network played a graphic of a Donald Trump speech with the "breaking news" about his hair. MSNBC blasted, "Breaking News: Trump Has Woman Pull Hair to Prove It's Real."
Anchor Thomas Roberts then excitedly showed video of Trump calling on a woman at a news conference. She walked on stage to inspect his hair:
DONALD TRUMP: It's my hair! I swear! [Calls woman up on stage.] Come on! Come. Is it mine?"
WOMAN: It is.
TRUMP: Say it, please.
WOMAN: Yes, I believe it is.
Roberts described the news conference as talking "about the front page of the New York Times... and the beef that he has going on with Jorge Ramos and also the fact that his hair is real."
This is breaking news on MSNBC? It's reminiscent of CNN in April of 2014. The cable graphic trumpeted, "BREAKING NEWS: Titanic sunk 102 years ago tonight."
That segment was so ridiculous that even the liberal Washington Post derided CNN. Humor writer Alexandra Petri scolded her cable colleagues, sarcastically noting, "Thank heavens they’re here to tell us these things!" She wondered, "What happened to the Hinderberg? Is the Lusitania okay? I haven’t heard from that Donner Party in a while."
