Appearing on Sunday afternoon’s MSNBC Live, the Conservative Policy Institute’s Rachel Bovard injected sanity into the liberal media’s delusional, week-long obsession over Sharpiegate while thousands across the Carolinas and Bahamas have lost life, limb, and property. Not surprisingly, the MSNBC liberals were caught off guard.

Host Kendis Gibson first went to Bovard (who appeared against Democratic strategist Basil Smikle), who noted that “I think everyone in America would agree with” a NOAA memo about voicing political disagreements because “we don't want to hear the personal opinions of people that work at NOAA, we want to hear the facts.”

Gibson countered by defending “the National Hurricane Center there in Birmingham” (which was the National Weather Service station) chastising the President on Twitter for his claim about Alabama and Hurricane Dorian.

Unlike most of the supposedly conservative and Republican guests on CNN and MSNBC, Bovard hit back and slammed the press (click “expand”):

Yeah, that's right, and that's why NOAA issued a statement that said, hey, this is the best reporting we have, five percent to 20 percent tropical-storm-force winds like you said, they never said there was going to be a hurricane. I think it's better than everyone kind of batten down the hatches and prepare regardless, BUT I think the bigger issue is why are we still talking about this? The President is trying to end the war in Afghanistan, border crossings are down by 30 percent. We have a health care system that's a mess and yet here we go day whatever on sharpie-gate? I mean, this is why 69 percent of Americans say their faith in the media is declining because of their obsessive reporting on things like this.

Both Gibson and Smikle seemed exasperated. The former noted that the President didn’t let the topic fall by the wayside either, but Bovard used what ended being her last chance to talk by denouncing “media companies that make money off the professional preside antagonists” because “that's what this is.”

Hours earlier, The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway was afforded more respect and agreement on FNC’s MediaBuzz.

Hemingway told host Howard Kurtz that “[i]t was unbelievable to watch this week” as so much time was wasted on the President’s Alabama fixation that was “such minor point that even if you put the worst construction on it, it does not deserve seven days of coverage, 24 hours, hundreds of stories, front-page news.”

Republican pollster Kristen Soltis-Anderson agreed that this mattered nothing concerning how the President is viewed (click “expand”):

I can't think of a single voter out there who was going to vote one way, but then because of this whole Sharpie story is going to vote another way. What it does do, however, is it reminds the President’s supporters that he is facing a media that is willing to go after every little thing he does in a way that, for past presidents, they may not have been as willing to do but for the President’s opponents, it sort of reminds them of the personality quirks and the approach that the President takes that they don't like. So, I think it’s the kind of story where it confirms what you already believed about the President and, if you’re somebody who’s in the middle, you probably tuned it out.

A few minutes later, Hemingway took aim at the cartoonishly inept CNN for having “completely beclowned themselves” with things like the chyron from Thursday’s CNN Right Now that read “As people die, Trump defends presenting doctored map.”

“So, as people die, CNN and other media outlets are focusing on what exactly? You almost get the feeling that the media decided at the beginning of the week, they were going to make Trump's handling of the hurricane a major story and then turned out that it didn't make landfall in a way that was as devastating as they planned and so all they were left with was map and they went with that anyway,” she added.

To see the relevant transcript from September 8's MSNBC Live with Kendis Gibson, click “expand.”

MSNBC Live with Kendis Gibson

September 8, 2019

2:19 p.m. Eastern KENDIS GIBSON: Okay, Rachel, let me start with you. How do you interpret this whole memo from NOAA to its employees? RACHEL BOVARD: Well, what the memo basically said was, “hey, let's rely on the advice we've been given and let's not issue our personal opinions” which I think everyone in America would agree with, we don't want to hear the personal opinions of people that work at NOAA, we want to hear the facts and if anyone was paying attention to the hurricane advisories coming out of NOAA between August 28th and September 2nd, they showed a five percent to 10 percent chance that Alabama would experience hurricane-force winds. That’s an estimate. GIBSON: Five to ten percent chance that they would experience tropical storm force words. At no point hurricane-force winds. Let me clarify that and the reason people who are at the National Hurricane Center there in Birmingham put out to members, they were getting frantic calls from people, residents saying should we be evacuating? This is dangerous stuff. BOVARD: Yeah, that's right, and that's why NOAA issued a statement that said, hey, this is the best reporting we have, five percent to 20 percent tropical-storm-force winds like you said, they never said there was going to be a hurricane. I think it's better than everyone kind of batten down the hatches and prepare regardless, BUT I think the bigger issue is why are we still talking about this? The President is trying to end the war in Afghanistan, border crossings are down by 30 percent. We have a health care system that's a mess and yet here we go day whatever on sharpie-gate? I mean, this is why 69 percent of Americans say their faith in the media is declining because of their obsessive reporting on things like this. BASIL SMIKLE: Rachel — GIBSON: Rachel, he's obsessed about it. He's tweeted quite a bit about it. BOVARD: No, there are media companies that make money off the professional preside antagonists and that's what this is. GIBSON: So, we saw — we saw the — we heard about the memo that NOAA put out here. I want to show you what the national hurricane center folks told me just last week after that memo went out. [TO GRAHAM, 09/01/19] I noted three times today the president said this storm will impact Alabama and Alabama is in trouble. Did he get that information from you guys or where's the President getting this? Do you know? KEN GRAHAM [on 09/01/19]: You know, I think we're really trying to get everybody ready. If you think about this storm, as we try to, you know, have impacts in Florida, up to the Carolinas, you know, it's the peak of the hurricane season. GIBSON [on 09/01/19]: Okay. GRAHAM [on 09/01/19]: And we've been really saying, we're getting into the peak, let's get everybody along the coast — the Gulf and across the Atlantic ready for the hurricane season. GIBSON [on 09/01/19]: Alright, so Alabama should be on guard as well? GRAHAM: We all should be watching this time of year. We're getting right into that peak. GIBSON: Alright, Ken Graham, thank you, from National Hurricane Center appreciate your time. [BACK LIVE] I’ll tell you, the storm wasn't the only thing that was spinning. He was a V G job, the spinning. What do we make? What's behind all of this? The president's obsession with this? SMIKLE: I don't know if there's the — what the obsession is with Dorian or with Alabama. I think the obsession more is just being right and being forceful about what he thinks is right and delivering that to the American people regardless of how wrong or his inability to say, you know what? I made a mistake, that should not have happened. If you think about — you talk about — GIBSON: Do you think he’s worried about what's going to happen on Capitol Hill this week? SMIKLE: No, he doesn't care, but well, let me not say that. He cares only to the extent that it conflicts with his relationship with his base, not the American people writ large, but specifically his base. To sort of bring the hurricane thing into this part of the conversation, the fact that he would use a map that someone, potentially, him, drew this additional sort of grouped Alabama into the path of the hurricane and did so from the Oval Office tells us a lot. It tells us that regardless of what scientists say and this is very important, regardless of what scientists say regardless of how he may inflame concerns and fears with certain parts of the population, it's really important that people pay attention to what he wants them to pay attention to and that's what's scary, particularly when you're trying to go to an authority figure to get facts and information. GIBSON: And we're going to have a lot of people on Capitol Hill this week who are going to be asking for — asking a lot of questions. SMIKLE: Right. GIBSON: And a lot of investigations. So, perhaps, the President is thinking about that. Who knows. I'm going to have to leave it there. Basil, appreciate your time and Rachel, thank you, also, for being here.

To see the relevant transcript from FNC’s MediaBuzz on September 8, click “expand.”