At NewsBusters, we use the term “MSNBC Republican” to describe the kind of tame Republican the liberal network can count on to echo its talking point o’ the day.
But even “MSNBC Republican” is stretching it when it comes to Susan Del Percio. Appearing on Saturday’s edition of The Weekend, co-host Symone Sanders introduced her as [see screencap] a “Republican” strategist, with emphasis on the R-word.
Del Percio is no kind of “Republican strategist” at all. You’d have to go back almost 20 years to find a Republican for whom Del Percio strategized. For that matter, she hasn’t advised any politician in over a decade. And that was Andrew Cuomo—when he was the Democrat governor of New York.
But MSNBC uses her fake-GOP labels for opinion pieces like “I’m a Republican strategist. Here’s why I’m confident about Kamala Harris’ campaign.“
Demonstrating just how…
