SCENE: It’s MSNBC. A commentator is bellowing at the camera.
COMMENTATOR: Long Island Republican Congressman-elect George Santos is lying! Which means he’s no different than all Republicans!
SCENE: In a South African jail cell, three inmates are watching MSNBC
JOE BIDEN: The commentator is right. Republicans all lie.
CORN POP: Word up.
NELSON MANDELA: I”m so glad you left the leadership of the Delaware Civil RIghts movmement to come to jail, here in South Africa.
SCENE: In a classroom in Boulder, CO, watching MSNBC
RACHEL DOLEZAL: That’s right! Can I get an amen!
CLASROOM: (A few half-hearted or sarcastic “amens” ensue)
SCENE: A Hill somewhere in the Mekong Delta. Two men in jungle fatigues, M-16s smoking, stand amid a pile of slain Viet Cong and piles of cartridge cases, watching MSNBC on a black and white console TV set.
JOHN KERRY: Let me be clear. I agree with this perspective. All Republicans lie through their teeth.
RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: (Spitting a plug of tobacco into the foxhole, wiping blood off his K-Bar knife on his pants leg). Yup. All of ’em.
SCENE: At a steak house in Newark, New Jersey. MSNBC is playing on a TV over the bar.
T-BONE: Wotchuthinkabout dat?
COREY BOOKER: He’s right. All Republicans lie, all the time.
SCENE: A runway in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. A group of American officials, Secret Service, and a blondish woman huddle behind a brick wall as sniper five spatters the ground around them. A racket of gunfire as Bosnian troops return fire, trying to clear the airfield for the woman to get on her plane. On a TV behind the wall, MSNBC blares.
HILLARY CLINTON: Damn straight they’re all liars!
SCENE: At a Native American observance, with drums and dancers, on the quad at Harvard University, as a TV blares MSNBC in the distance.
ELIZABETH WARREN: The great spirit that is the true law professor of the universe agrees. Republicans are liars. As the first woman of color at this law school, I agree.
The drums continue to beat, as crowds of pasty white liberals shuffle past.
SCENE: At a spa in Hollywood, a man and woman lie on their backs, cucumber slices over their eyes, listening to MSNBC on a TV in the background.
HILARIA BALDWIN: Repobelicans are de woorst liahrs.
ALEC BALDWIN: I oughtta kill them all.
SCENE: At the Saint Paul Grill. Editors and Executive Producers from the Star-Tribune, KARE, WCCO-TV and the Pioneer Press are having cocktails with Ken Martin as MSNBC plays above the bar.
EDITORS AND PRODUCER AND MARTIN: Heh.
SCENE: in the back of a limousine, driving through the District of Columbia. Ilhan OMAR is sitting in the back with husband Tim MYNETT, watching MSNBC on a mobile device.
OMAR: I was never married to my brother.
MYNETT: Literally nobody in the world believes you were, darling.
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