The 2024 presidential election has left the media reeling and plunged into a period of self-doubt and introspection. But for a few fleeting moments on NBC’s Meet the Depressed, the media forgot that they got shellacked.

Watch as the Regime journalists (including former Obama and Biden spokesmouth Jen Psaki and taxpayer-funded Amna Nawaz of PBS) on the show’s panel plot a pressure campaign against Republicans considering confirmation of President Elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks:

NBC MEET THE PRESS

11/17/24

10:44 AM

KRISTEN WELKER: Eugene, what about the tension between: yes, you have the ethical questions, but then also the questions about whether these folks, some of them, are- actually have the right experience for the roles that they're being picked for?

EUGENE DANIELS: Yeah. To Jen's point: if Democrats can convince enough senators, Republican senators, on the issues and the policy prescriptions and whether or not these people have the management experience, that's probably a better lane for them to try to do this in. Right? Because you -- you are not going to see them -- we have seen from Republicans for a long time in the Senate and the House, is that you know, a lot of the tabloidy stuff doesn't bother them, right? And that has been key as Trump has run the Republican Party. So Democrats can do that. Talk to them behind closed doors and they have- they can do a pressure campaign, right? That’s a question we’ve been asking a lot of both House and Senate Democrats. Are you guys going to work on a pressure campaign, publicly…

WELKER: Ooooooh.

DANIELS:  …to convince some of these senators to do the thing that they're saying behind closed doors that they already want to do?

JEN PSAKI: And need to pick one. This is the hardest thing for Democrats.

DANIELS: Exactly. We have to pick- we can't do all of them.

AMNA NAWAZ: And the public-private thing is important too, because the vote to make Senator Thume Majority Leader was a private vote. They will have to publicly defend votes for the nominees.

Politico’s Eugene Daniels sounds almost fanciful as he imagines a pressure campaign against Trump’s picks that is predicated on technocratic arguments. None of these people made those arguments against Pete Buttigieg taking over the Department of Transportation despite his lack of related experience. Much of that time was instead spent hailing his nomination as “historic”. Likewise Xavier Becerra taking over the Department of Health and Human Services despite having no healthcare experience outside of maintaining Kamala Harris’s persecution of opponents of Planned Parenthood.

The most telling part of the exchange? When Psaki interjects to caution the panel that they should “pick one” Trump nominee to pick off via the pressure campaign, followed by Daniels’ agreement that “we can’t do all of them.” A literal Alynskyite (13th Rule for Radicals) strategy session, live on NBC air. 

This exchange may lead reasonable individuals to imagine that there is zero daylight between Democrat communications types and their pals in the media. There certainly can’t be, when they feel comfortable laying out a pressure campaign against Republican Cabinet nominees on the air.

Some corners of the media may be going through an introspection period. But not all corners. Certainly not NBC on this day, as they provide us with a clear example of what the great Rush Limbaugh described when he talked about the Regime Media.