Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-office-actor-rainn-wilson-admits-theres-anti-christian-bias-in-hollywood-following-the-last-of-us-episode" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rainn Wilson</a> answered his phone during a live interview with MSNBC host Ari Melber, speaking briefly with someone who apparently wanted to sell him solar panels for his home.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-office-star-rainn-wilson-apologizes-for-chestfeeding-tweet-trans-activists-still-mad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wilson</a> joined Melber to discuss his new show, coming soon to Peacock, titled &#8220;Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss&#8221; — but his phone rang in the middle of the conversation and he surprised the host by picking it up while they were still on the air.
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Wilson was in the middle of explaining Iceland&#8217;s bathing culture — in which he participated for the new show – when he suggested that Americans ought to adopt something similar if they wanted to experience a more unified culture.
&#8220;All the towns of Iceland, everyone is just naked and they sit and they bathe together. We could unify a lot faster if we all bathed together, and I want to encourage members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to bathe together in the basement of Congress,&#8221; Wilson said.
Wilson was still talking about what he had experienced in Iceland when his phone began to ring.
&#8220;Show us. Who’s calling?&#8221; Melber asked, and Wilson said that his phone was showing a &#8220;scam warning.&#8221;
&#8220;Hello? I’m on NBC live right now,&#8221; Wilson said to the caller, and then turned back to Melber: &#8220;They want me to buy solar panels. I’m so sorry.&#8221;
Melber laughed, shrugging off the interruption and telling the actor, &#8220;It happens.&#8221;
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&#8220;That’s what happens on &#8216;The Beat,&#8217; ’cause we’re live, baby. We don’t mess around,&#8221; Wilson joked, and then to avoid the possibility of another on-air call, he tossed his phone to someone who was standing off-camera before he went on with the interview.
&#8220;Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss&#8221; is a five-part docuseries that will begin airing on Peacock on May 18th. The show&#8217;s description, according to the network, is as follows:
<blockquote>Based on Eric Weiner’s New York Times bestselling book, “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump&#8217;s Search for the Happiest Places in the World,” Wilson will explore some of the happiest and unhappiest places on earth — from Iceland to Bulgaria to Ghana — in a profound and funny way that unpacks the science of happiness.</blockquote>
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Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Howard Dean said Thursday that people should boycott Fox News — and he wanted to see the network&#8217;s founder, Rupert Murdoch, and his family deported.
Dean made an appearance on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Beat&#8221; with Ari Melber, and he argued in favor of a boycott of the Right-leaning cable news channel as well as popular host Tucker Carlson, blaming them for the racially motivated shooting that killed ten and wounded three others in Buffalo, New York.
&#8220;I wanted to speak to you about something we talked about before, which is, of course, the gun problem in this country, the hate problem in this country, and where it all ties back to. The uproar over the Replacement Theory and the hate and the racism which was cited by the Buffalo shooting suspect,&#8221; Melber began.
He went on to bring up an <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/05/fox-ceo-lachlan-murdoch-tom-brady-hollywood-covid-protocols-svod-1235026960/">interview</a> with Lachlan Murdoch, the company&#8217;s current CEO, who told Deadline, &#8220;We are not only in the news business, he says. When you talk to our fans in middle America, they don’t see us as a news business either. They see us as an American media brand.&#8221;
&#8220;I see the brand of Fox being hate, anger, dishonesty and now murder,&#8221; Dean replied. &#8220;That is the brand. That is the brand of the Murdochs have chosen to be their flagship communication. I agree with Biden, Murdoch has harmed this country more than any other human being in my lifetime, and he should never have been given citizenship. The one thing I would change about our immigration policy is to send Murdoch back to Australia and keep them there, the whole family.&#8221;
&#8220;If you cause that much trouble, you spread lies and hate and anger and tear the United States apart with your crappy TV shows, simply to make money, you do not belong, you do not deserve American citizenship, period,&#8221; Dean continued.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/this-is-a-poison-chuck-schumer-uses-senate-floor-to-berate-fox-news-after-buffalo-shooting/">responded</a> to the situation in much the same way, arguing on the Senate floor that anyone who amplified Replacement Theory — the idea that the Democratic Party favors open borders for the political gain — was to be condemned.
He followed that with a letter to Fox News, calling on the network to refrain from addressing Replacement Theory during future broadcasts.

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MSNBC host Ari Melber took some heat Monday for complaining that Elon Musk might use his newly-acquired control of Twitter to silence some voices and amplify others.
A number of critics responded to his complaint, calling out the obvious irony and pointing out the fact that Twitter had been <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/twitter-ceo-admits-algorithm-has-been-unfair-james-barrett/">using algorithms</a> that effectively stifled conservative voices for years — particularly with regard to Hunter Biden and the New York Post story that was <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/twitter-refuses-to-unlock-new-york-post-account-until-outlet-deletes-hunter-biden-coverage-tweets/">actively blocked</a> across several platforms.
&#8220;If you own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you. You don’t have to explain yourself. You don’t even have to be transparent. You could secretly ban one party’s candidate or all of its candidates, all of its nominees. You could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not find out until after the election,&#8221; Melber said. &#8220;Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech, philosophically clear, open-minded helper.&#8221;
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&#8220;The New York Post would like to have a word,&#8221; Joe Cunningham <a href="https://twitter.com/JoePCunningham/status/1518967612654473217">remarked</a>.
&#8220;This is amazing,&#8221; Gerry Callahan <a href="https://twitter.com/GerryCallahan/status/1518965109103681537">agreed</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s like this idiot has never even heard of the Laptop from Hell.&#8221;
Radio host Clay Travis <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1518793469677948928">added</a>, &#8220;MSNBC &#8216;talent&#8217; suddenly realizes the owners of Twitter can rig the entire site. This is amazing to watch. Does he not realize all of this was already done to Republicans?&#8221;
&#8220;UNREAL,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1518954266299359232">commented</a> Steve Guest, communications advisor for Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).
&#8220;In which @AriMelber describes a scenario too horrible to contemplate except when you do it to the other guy of course,&#8221; Ron Coleman <a href="https://twitter.com/RonColeman/status/1518786581133414402">observed</a>.
Daily Wire Editor Cabot Phillips <a href="https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips/status/1518790478589841408">added</a>, &#8220;There is truly nothing funnier than this MSNBC host ranting about what Elon Musk could do to Twitter, and accidentally giving a perfect description of how Twitter has actually operated for the last five years.&#8221;
&#8220;He can&#8217;t possibly lack this much self-awareness &#8230;&#8221; Mark Hemingway <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1518895697604526081">added</a>.
&#8220;Parody or drunken Chutzpah?&#8221; Rita Panahi asked.
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&#8220;Or, imagine if a presidential candidate’s son had all kinds of shady business partners, and lost his laptop …&#8221; National Review&#8217;s Jim Geraghty <a href="https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/1518931364984274945">said</a>.
&#8220;The full circle among liberal elites,&#8221; Daily Caller Editor in Chief Geoffrey Ingersoll <a href="https://twitter.com/GPIngersoll/status/1519001511040368642">explained</a>. &#8220;First it’s, &#8216;That isn’t happening/is a conspiracy theory.&#8217; Then it’s, &#8216;Actually it is happening and how dare you question it.&#8217; The final state is: &#8216;Oh s***, this thing we said isn’t happening can happen to us too!'&#8221;

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An MSNBC host suggested Monday evening that elections could be swayed through Twitter&#8217;s targeting of political parties or candidates.
Host Ari Melber reacted to Monday news that Elon Musk will be buying Twitter for $44 billion, telling viewers that they should be paying attention to Twitter since &#8220;the world’s richest person, who is very good at accumulating wealth and power, thinks this is worth spending ten of billions of dollars on because, frankly, he thinks it’s that valuable and he thinks it may help him.&#8221;
&#8220;Trump, by the way today is claiming that he won&#8217;t even return to Twitter if the ban were lifted but few take what Donald Trump says seriously on that score,&#8221; said Melber. &#8220;So, what is happening here? This is far bigger than Trump or Elon Musk. They are symptoms of the world we are living in where technology has outpaced any of our ability to deal with it.&#8221;
Melber expressed anxieties that one person can own &#8220;all of Twitter,&#8221; saying, &#8220;If you own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you, you don’t have to explain yourself.&#8221;
&#8220;You don’t even have to be transparent,&#8221; he continued, before suggesting that the owner of Twitter could sway elections. &#8220;You could secretly ban one party’s candidate, or all of its candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until after the election.&#8221;
&#8220;Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech, philosophically clear open minded helper, a world helper, if you will,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Is that true? Should you take him at his word?&#8221;
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The MSNBC host&#8217;s comments sparked scorn and criticism from Twitter users who pointed out that conservatives have repeatedly been locked out of their Twitter accounts for stating traditional views or conservative perspectives (as recently as Monday, Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1518653838865145859">punished</a> Concerned Women for America&#8217;s President Penny Nance for calling a biologically male, transgender athlete, a man).
In October 2020, Twitter <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/30/twitter-backs-down-agrees-to-unlock-posts-account/">locked the New York Post</a> out of its  account following the outlet&#8217;s publication of a smoking gun report on Hunter Biden’s laptop exposing that Hunter Biden and his father met with an executive from the Ukrainian gas company Burisma in 2015.
Twitter <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/15/twitter-suspends-trump-official-campaign-account-video-ny-post-hunter-biden-report/">also heavily censored</a> the story, prevented users from tweeting or sending the New York Post link, and locked the accounts of numerous high-profile Twitter users who attempted to post the link (like White House Press Secretary <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/15/twitter-suspends-trump-official-campaign-account-video-ny-post-hunter-biden-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kayleigh McEnany</a>).
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BREAKING: Twitter has locked the personal account of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for sharing news Democrats don’t like. <a href="https://t.co/eR8HhkgqVY">pic.twitter.com/eR8HhkgqVY</a>
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Following the announcement that President Joe Biden had won the 2020 presidential election, a slew of liberal media outlets, activists, and Democrats <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/16/liberal-media-suggests-biden-should-take-aggressive-approach-to-censoring-conservative-media/">suggested</a> that the president should take an active approach to censoring conservative media and <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/11/pundits-democrats-ocasio-cortez-lists-trump-supporters/">punish conservatives</a> involved in the Trump administration.
Twitter began <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/12/twitter-purge-qanon-accounts-conservative/">massively cracking down on</a> users and activity after rioters supporting former President Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol on Jan. 6. The former president <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/08/twitter-purge-harmful-activity-accounts/">was suspended</a> from the platform shortly afterwards.
&#8220;This is amazing to watch,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1518793469677948928">tweeted</a> OutKick&#8217;s Clay Travis on Monday. &#8220;Does he not realize all of this was already done to Republicans?&#8221;
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MSNBC is freaking out that Twitter will now favor the GOP as much as it has favored the Democratic Party: <a href="https://t.co/wKGJDj0xc5">pic.twitter.com/wKGJDj0xc5</a>
&mdash; Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1518788140294623233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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