In what can only be described as a severe case of a lack of awareness, during Wednesday’s edition of “MSNBC Live,” anchor Katy Tur and Hollywood director Rob Reiner stood aghast that supporters of President Trump would dare to heckle CNN correspondent Jim Acosta at a rally in Tampa, Florida.
After expressing indignation that President Trump would dare retweet the viral video, Tur said, “The President hasn’t said a word to his supporters to tell them to cool off, to chill out, to calm down. He stokes this,” MRCTV reports.
Tur then launched into a rant in which she blamed Trump for how his supporters view the mainstream media.
“When you don’t like the answer, you’ll boo the messenger, which is [what] we saw happened to Jim Acosta last night,” she declared. “People don’t want to hear the facts about the President it seems, or Donald Trump supporters don’t want to hear the facts. A lot of them tune us out, won’t believe a single thing that they say. They believe what he says over us, which is, you know, propaganda, when you don’t have somebody to push back or fact-check or correct the spin, or they’ll believe their friends and family, but they’re not going to believe the media, even if the media is comporting with what they’re seeing with their own eyes.”
Rob Reiner readily agreed with her.
“You just have to keep pounding away. There’s nothing else you can do,” he said. “I mean, look, it doesn’t speak to the mainstream media. They’re just angry. Their people are angry, and he will feed them whatever they want to keep that anger going and you see it in the rallies. He actually calls for, you know, this outrage and take it out against the media, take it out against immigrants, take it out against whomever you want. That’s what he does. He keeps stirring it up. But you have to stay at it, you have to stay at it. There’s no other way.”
“Bring the fact checking up to 11,” Tur chimed in.
Reiner continued: “Well, if you can, I mean if you can. If you don’t break through, we are going to have… we are in right now, it might be the last stage of a civil war. The latest battle is being fought. Hopefully it won’t be fought physically, but we are more divided than we ever have been and we’ve got a President who is backed up by media. Presidents have always spewed propaganda. Liberals, Democrats, Republicans, everyone has.”
What better example to demonstrate why Middle America feels such distrust in today’s media than a New York news darling and a Hollywood elitist whining about Trump supporters at a rally? These two talking heads are both leftists, worth millions of dollars each, and not once in their conversation did they offer any outside perspective or hint of sympathy for the millions who have a hard time trusting the media.
Their message: “These ignorant rubes need us smart people to fact-check their stupidity.” Here’s guessing that’s not going to resonate well. No wonder audiences are turning to alternatives.
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