Free Beacon Mocks MSNBC's 'Live '25' Fan Event in NYC For Its 'Dying Audience'

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Andrew Stiles and Jameson Mitrovich at the Washington Free Beacon captured all the funniest takes at a MSNBC fan event, "MSNBC Live '25" at the Hammerstein Ballroom in midtown Manhattan. They wrote the event drummed up "several busloads worth of gray-haired radicals," humming with "the sound of walkers, canes, and Medicare-approved stability sneakers shuffling on the brocade carpet."

It sounds like the speakers offered exactly the same paranoid hot takes you can get as part of your basic cable package:

Chris Hayes, one of several Rachel Maddow look-a-likes scheduled to appear, kicks things off by comparing Trump to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. He's hopeful that American democracy will survive because Putin is "defter, smarter, and more effective" at tyrannical governance.

Michael Steele, the disgraced former Republican, isn't so sure. He predicts Trump will soon declare martial law to facilitate his efforts to abolish elections.

The “mood brightens” when Nicolle Wallace interviewed Martin Sheen, who acted as the president in The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin’s Democrat fan fiction series that aired on NBC from 1999 to 2006. Sheen went viral for saying it's about time Trump realized he was "the biggest nothing in the world" and should "get in touch" with his humanity.

Actor Martin Sheen on Donald Trump: “You are the biggest nothing in the world. Stop listening to all these people around you, these sycophants, who are encouraging you to be your non-human self. Get in touch with that humanity. Stop fussing with your hair. Speak from your heart… pic.twitter.com/cBvftK1HXq

A fictional president lectured the actual president that he was nothing.

Stiles and Mitrovich noted all this could get pricey: "When the morning session ends, VIP ticket holders who shelled out $900 or more are invited to attend the Capstone Lunch with Chris Hayes, Mika Brzezinski, and Hillary Clinton's former servant Huma Abedin."