(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . MSNBC analyst Chuck Rosenberg says something offensively stupid about the Colorado DQ case [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-02-09 “The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.” — Harlan Ellison We’ve been cursed with the stupid. Forget the information age, or its predecessor the space age, or whatever came before that. We’re in the age of peak stupid. And Good Lord, the stupid, it hurts. We’ve been told by those who have “done their own research” that the National Football League has rigged it’s playoffs just so the biggest pop star in a couple of decades can show up at the year’s most popular sporting event and — horror of horrors — endorse Joe Biden. We were told a while back that JFK Jr. would be returning to Dallas’s Dealey Plaza to endorse Donald Trump, and that Robin Williams (who died in 2014) and Michael Jackson (no longer with us since 2009) were milling around at a Rolling Stones concert, with some of the cognoscenti suggesting that indestructible Stones guitarist Keith Richards is really JFK Jr.’s dad. Never mind that JFK Sr. would be turning 107 this year; after all, Keith Richards is probably that old anyway (at least it seems that way). We’ve also been told that Joe Rogan is worth listening to on anything, or that Elon Musk is a smart man, despite all evidence to the contrary. Such are the days we are saddled with. Poet W. B. Yeats famously lamented that “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” True enough — exhibit A: Marjorie Taylor Greene for the worst, and mainstream media for the “best” — but what’s to be said about a guy who comes off like your calm, buttoned down dad who would’ve fit in as the lead character on any number of “Father Knows Best”/”My Three Sons”/”The Brady Bunch” style sitcoms and who says something so mind-numbingly stupid that you need emergency surgery to remove your palm from your forehead? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you MSNBC analyst, former FBI agent and former US Attorney Chuck Rosenberg. There was no shortage of takes on the SCOTUS arguments yesterday, some more on the mark than others. But Chuck Rosenberg, appearing on a panel with Lisa Rubin and moderated by Jose Diaz-Balart, had a take that was a jaw dropper. Take it away, Mike Brady, er, Chuck: It's emphatically the province of the courts to declare what the law is. That's all we have ever asked the courts to do. The courts nevertheless have an eye on the importance of history. Let me give you an example. The 1970s were a bitterly divisive period in our nation's history coming out of the Vietnam war and into Watergate with an investigation of a sitting president, Richard Nixon when he was subpoenaed to turn over documents to a special prosecutor, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he had to comply with the subpoena. Four of those justices in the 9-0 decision were appointed by President Nixon. It can't be lost on the court the value of unanimity and it can't be lost on the court that there's a value in people, justices regardless of who appointed them joining in those majority opinions. I think if there is a 9-0 decision out of this court, or 8-1, whether you love Mr. Trump or loathe Mr. Trump, that's helpful that people can see the justices put aside politics. You're still free to disagree. We're all free to disagree, but i think they have their eye on history. There are many examples, Jose, in our past of justices putting aside politics and reaching unanimity. Brown versus Board of Education, nine to nothing, sent a very important message to the nation in 1954 similarly. And the MAGA shall lie down with the lamb... Shorter Chuck Rosenberg: SCOTUS needs to put Donald Trump back on the ballot in Colorado, and SCOTUS needs to do it unanimously. Kumbaya or something — it’s “helpful that people can see the Justices can put aside politics”, ya know — and “they have their eye on history”. Never mind that Trump incited a riot that under a reasonable definition amounts to insurrection, and that riot led to, among other things, human feces smeared on the walls of the Capitol, bear spray and flag poles used to attack police, and the attempted murder of Trump’s own Vice President. Never mind that through all this, Trump watched this and refused to make a televised speech calling off his followers for over three hours, even ignoring the pleas of The Daughter He Has Impure Thoughts About to call his dogs off. Chuck Rosenberg, in the name of “history” and “putting aside politics”, is telling us that it’s useful to compare US v. Nixon, a case affirming that the President of the United States isn’t above the law, to a case putting a wannabe dictator who incited an insurrection back on a ballot despite the Constitution’s prohibition against insurrectionists holding office. More offensively, he somehow believes unanimity in Trump v Anderson is somehow equivalent to unanimity in the landmark case desegregating schools. You have to imagine what Three Dog Night, with the only song about a real Supreme Court case that ever charted on the pop charts, would sing about now: His skin was bronze, His hate immense, Together they went To hang Mike Pence The Trump is bronze The hats are red And all the MAGAs Are so brain dead… They’re sooo brain dead... Chuck Rosenberg is supposed to be a reasonable man, and there are definitely Fred MacMurray/Robert Reed sitcom dad vibes coming from him. But lordy Chuck, comparing Trump v Anderson to Brown v Board of Education???? Please, Mr. Rosenberg, please… take a few minutes, look Harry Dunn, Michael Fanone and Eugene Goodman in the eye and explain to them how desegregating schools and putting an insurrectionist on the ballot are the same things. And please, MSNBC, televise this. At least you’ll get some value out of What the Fuck Chuck. It’s bad enough when we’ve got the QAnoners looking for JFK Jr. , but when you’ve got a seemingly sober “voice of reason” guy spouting bilge like this… Like I said, the stupid, it hurts. Here’s the clip, in all its glory. Rosenberg’s comparison of the Trump DQ case with school desegregation and the Nixon tapes case starts at about 7:50. x YouTube Video And while you’re at it, if you’ve got a few quid laying around, please consider donating to Harry Dunn's congressional campaign. Like Chuck would say, have your eye on history. 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