Senator Tim Scott recently issued a fundraising pitch which stated, “After sharing my story of cotton to Congress in one lifetime, Democrats are viciously attacking me for being a proud black Republican.” MSNBC political analyst Rick Tyler sneered on Twitter, “Hey @TimScottSC, I just received a fundraising solicitation from you claiming that Dems have called you a ‘Black” traitor’. ‘A Token’. ‘Uncle Tom’. I’ve not seen anyone call you those vile things. Can you cite anyone who did?”
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Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/TimScottSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TimScottSC</a>, I just received a fundraising solicitation from you claiming that Dems have called you a “black traitor”. “A token”. “Uncle Tom”. I’ve not seen anyone call you those vile things. Can you cite anyone who did? Here’s the link you sent. <a href="https://t.co/whgp6Ll5gq">https://t.co/whgp6Ll5gq</a>
&mdash; Rick Tyler-Still Right (@rickwtyler) <a href="https://twitter.com/rickwtyler/status/1302986482119049219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Scott was referring to the reaction to his speech at the Republican National Convention, where he stated:
<blockquote>Joe Biden failed our nation’s historically Black colleges and universities, heaping blame on them as they fought to ensure our young folks had access to higher education &#8230; now Joe Biden wants to come for your pocketbooks, unless you’re a blue state millionaire &#8230;  When it comes to what Joe Biden says he’ll do, look at his actions. Look at his policies. Look at what he already did and did not do while he’s been in Washington for 47 years.
Ladies and gentlemen, people don’t always see those failures because they think we’re having a policy debate on two sides of an issue. That is not what is happening. Our side is working on policy, while Joe Biden’s radical Democrats are trying to permanently transform what it means to be an American. Make no mistake: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want a cultural revolution, a fundamentally different America. If we let them, they will turn our country into a socialist utopia, and history has taught us that path only leads to pain and misery, especially for hard-working people hoping to rise.
Instead, we must focus on the promise of the American journey. I know that journey well. My grandfather’s 99th birthday would have been tomorrow. Growing up, he had to cross the street if a white person was coming. He suffered the indignity of being forced out of school as a third grader to pick cotton, and he never learned to read or write. Yet he lived to see his grandson become the first African American to be elected to both the United States House and Senate. Our family went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime, and that’s why I believe the next American century can be better than the last. There are millions of families like mine across this nation full of potential seeking to live the American Dream, and I’m here tonight to tell you that supporting the Republican ticket gives you the best chance of making that dream a reality.</blockquote>
Scott’s former spokesman Ken Farnaso fired back at Tyler: “Hey, Rick, Ken here, @SenatorTimScott’s former spox. Here’s just 1 example via Twitter. Plenty more if you simply google search. The last thing we all need is a white guy telling a Black senator that he’s not been a victim of racism. P.S. Thanks for sharing his donation linkl!”
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THE HILL: Tim Scott shares racist and threatening messages he&#39;s received over police reform bill<a href="https://t.co/yGBqsCdiCz">https://t.co/yGBqsCdiCz</a>
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FOX: Dem Rep. Steve Cohen likes tweet saying Tim Scott ‘might as well be’ White<a href="https://t.co/ksjXTrf4hW">https://t.co/ksjXTrf4hW</a>
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Joy Reid of MSNBC is refusing to apologize in the face of a severe backlash after she compared Trump supporters to radicalized Muslim terrorists.
Closing out her show on Wednesday, Reid said that criticism of her comments were not made &#8220;in good faith.&#8221;
&#8220;If Trump was a Muslim leader, not the leader of the Christian right, how would we in the media describe what he&#8217;s doing?&#8221; she began, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/joy-reid-no-apology-remarks-deemed-islamophobic">Fox News</a>. &#8220;I asked that question on Monday and there was a lot of conversation, particularly online, after the segment aired, some of which was frankly not in good faith.&#8221;
Though Reid did not apologize, she did say that she should be &#8220;sensitive&#8221; to the face that people have been subjected to bad stereotyping, acknowledging her comments were &#8220;not exactly the most artful way of asking that question.&#8221;
&#8220;But some of the conversation reflected the genuine feelings of people who have been subjected to the kind of stereotyping that I described and who take matters like this to heart because of it,&#8221; she said.  &#8220;And we should all be sensitive to that and I certainly should have been sensitive to that.&#8221;
Reid&#8217;s fellow panelist, Dalia Mogahed of the Institute for Social Policy &amp; Understanding, commended the host for her past treatment of Muslim guests while emphasizing that her remarks &#8220;landed&#8221; as offensive.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-joy-reid-hammered-by-trump-ilhan-omar-over-remarks-about-muslims">reported</a>, Reid sparked online backlash on Monday when she openly wondered if President Donald Trump&#8217;s connection with voters is similar to the radicalization of Muslims.
&#8220;Leaders, let&#8217;s say in the Muslim world, talk a lot of violent talk and encourage their supporters to be willing to commit violence, including on their own bodies, in order to win against whoever they decide is the enemy,&#8221; Reid said. &#8220;We in the U.S. media describe that as they are radicalizing those people — particularly when they&#8217;re radicalizing young people. That&#8217;s how we talk about the way Muslims act. When you see what Donald Trump is doing, is that any different from what we describe as radicalizing people?&#8221;
Trump immediately pounced on Reid&#8217;s comments, arguing that she would be fired from MSNBC if she were anybody else.
“Like Fredo at Fake News @CNN , the very untalented Joy Reid should be fired for this horrible use of the words ‘Muslim Terrorists’. Such xenophobia and racism on MSDNC. Anyone else would be gone, and fast!!!” he <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1301092327017140224?s=20">tweeted</a>.
&#8220;Words matter and these words feed into the harmful anti-Muslim rhetoric &amp; actions that we continue to see in this country. It is even more painful to hear it from someone I admire. We deserve an apology,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1300910566555504640?s=20">tweeted</a> Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
&#8220;Honestly, this kinda of casual Islamophobia is hurtful and dangerous. We deserve better and an apology for the painful moment for so many Muslims around our country should be forthcoming,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1300907287394037761?s=20">tweeted</a> Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
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On Sunday, substituting for host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s “Morning Joy,” host Tiffany Cross disparagingly referred to the speakers of color at the Republican National Convention, including Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker, as “minstrels,” snapping, “It really did look like a modern-day minstrel show to me.”
Cross preceded her nasty remark by playing clips of various speakers of color, starting with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who stated in her speech, “In much of the Democratic Party, it’s now fashionable to say that America is racist. That is a lie. America is not a racist country.”
Cross followed with a clip of Walker asserting, “Growing up in the Deep South, I’ve seen racism up close. I know what it is, and it isn’t Donald Trump.”
The next clip featured Scott saying, “Our family went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime, and that’s why I believe the next American century can be better than the last.”
Cross pontificated, “That was not a Saturday Night Live sketch. Welcome back to AM Joy. I’m Tiffany Cross. If you watched the Republican National Convention last week, you’d almost think that the Republican Party was the one welcoming people of color, given the big display of diversity. The convention featured more than a dozen African American speakers alone.”
“But—don’t be fooled that the party of Trump has suddenly warmed to the same people that Trump’s policies and sometimes his rhetoric directly harms,” she continued. “As friend of the show Elie Mystal wrote so eloquently in The Nation, ‘Republicans invited a cadre of professional black friends to validate Donald Trump and make white people feel a little less racist while still very much supporting white supremacy.’”
Cross mocked, “I mean, I watched the Republican convention, and seeing the slew of black speakers that they had, it really did look like a modern-day minstrel show to me.”
<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minstrel">Merriam-Webster</a> defines a “minstrel” as a “member of a type of performance troupe caricaturing black performers that originated in the U.S. in the early 19th century. NOTE: The acts of minstrels, who typically performed in <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blackface">blackface</a>, featured exaggerated and inaccurate representations of black people in songs, dances, and comic dialogue. The popularity of minstrel shows in their heyday played a significant role in promoting negative racial stereotypes. Professional minstrel shows had fallen out of favor and effectively disappeared by the mid-20th century.”
The accusation that speakers of color at the Republican National Convention constitute a “minstrel show” goes back years. In 2003, New York Times opinion writer Maureen Dowd, referring to the 2000 convention that nominated George W. Bush, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/25/opinion/could-thomas-be-right.html">wrote</a> of “W.&#8217;s nominating convention in Philadelphia, when the Republicans put on a minstrel show for the white fat cats in the audience.”
As radio host Larry Elder <a href="https://www.larryelder.com/column/whitney-houston-critics-called-her-too-white-black-republicans-can-relate/">wrote</a> in February 2012 of black Republican Michael Steele running for lieutenant governor of Maryland:
<blockquote> … he was derided as “Simple Sambo” and depicted as a black-faced minstrel. At a gubernatorial debate, Oreo cookies were distributed by the opposition. The Washington Times later wrote: “Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, a black Baltimore Democrat, said Mr. Steele invites comparisons to a slave who loves his cruel master or a cookie that is black on the outside and white inside because his conservative political philosophy is, in her view, anti-black.&#8221;</blockquote>
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&quot;I watched the Republican convention, and seeing the slew of black speakers that they had, it really did look like A MODERN-DAY MINSTREL SHOW to me.&quot;
&#8212; <a href="https://twitter.com/TiffanyDCross?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TiffanyDCross</a> , guest-hosting MSNBC&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/amjoyshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amjoyshow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tcot?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tcot</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/conservatives?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#conservatives</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RNC2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RNC2020</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/racism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#racism</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MSNBC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MSNBC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoyAnnReid</a> <a href="https://t.co/gxetazwSAx">pic.twitter.com/gxetazwSAx</a>
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The Left is starting to realize that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden might not coast to victory in November as easily as they have told themselves he would.
On Friday, “Real Time” host Bill Maher became the latest left-leaning member of the media to voice his concerns that President Donald Trump might actually win re-election. Speaking with MSNBC host Joy Reid of “The ReidOut,” Maher expressed his concerns about how the Republican National Convention may have spoken to voters.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if this stuff works, but it might,&#8221; Maher said, as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bill-maher-says-trump-rnc-left-him-feeling-very-nervous-about-bidens-chances.amp">reported</a> by Fox News. &#8220;I am feeling less confident about this &#8212; maybe it&#8217;s just their convention bump got to me, but I&#8217;m feeling less confident than I was a month ago.&#8221;
Reid agreed with Maher that the RNC was a “smoothly produced thing” and went on to deride the “four black guys” and the “women” who spoke at the convention as tokens that provided a “permission” slip for people who may have been uncomfortable supporting Trump again.
Maher said the RNC strategy was “effective” and noted Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s speech as resonating with African Americans.
&#8220;He was pushing back on Joe Biden for saying, you know, if you vote for Trump, you ain&#8217;t Black and I don&#8217;t think that is a good thing for Joe Biden to have said,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;He [Cameron] said &#8216;I have my own mind.'&#8221;
&#8220;People do have their own minds. I&#8217;ve never been a fan of conformity. I&#8217;ve never been a fan of, &#8216;We all wear pink on Wednesday,&#8217; we all have to do this, we all have to say this. &#8230; I don&#8217;t bend the knee and I get that people are pushing back at that kind of stuff,&#8221; Maher added.
Maher then said he feels “very nervous, the same way I did four years ago at this time.&#8221; Back then, polls showed Hillary Clinton with a wide lead over Trump. A recent <a href="http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2020/images/08/16/rel8a.-.2020.pdf">CNN poll</a> showed Trump just a few percentage points behind Biden. As The Daily Wire’s Eric Quintanar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-poll-shows-biden-dropping-trump-gaining-bidens-support-among-gop-leaning-voters-halved">reported</a>, polls in 15 “battleground states” show Trump and Biden as being neck-and-neck.
“Biden’s lead shrinks even more when analyzing the responses from places that the pollsters identified as battleground states, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin,” Quintanar wrote. “Across the 15 states expected to help swing the final outcome in the Electoral College, 49% of respondents told the pollsters they would vote for the Democratic ticket. Meanwhile, 48% of respondents said they would vote for Trump.”
Maher also told Reid that the RNC “looked optimistic,” adding that “optimism very often wins elections.”
Several days before her interview with Maher, Reid tweeted out an article accusing the black people who spoke at the RNC of being tokens.
“If you read one thing today, this would be a good choice. <a href="https://twitter.com/ElieNYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1299027467546628096%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fmsnbcs-joy-reid-black-rnc-speakers-trotted-out-to-make-white-americans-feel-good-about-white-nationalism">@ElieNYC</a> writes about the outrage and pathos of the Black people the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RNCConvention?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1299027467546628096%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fmsnbcs-joy-reid-black-rnc-speakers-trotted-out-to-make-white-americans-feel-good-about-white-nationalism&amp;src=hashtag_click">#RNCConvention</a> trotted out to make white Americans feel good about white nationalism,” Reid tweeted.
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The Republican National Convention featured a number of influential black Americans, from NFL great Herschel Walker to civil rights figure Clarence Henderson to Kentucky&#8217;s first Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Despite their passionate and unifying speeches, Joy Reid of MSNBC feels they were invited to make white people &#8220;feel good about white nationalism.&#8221;
In a tweet on Thursday, Reid shared an article from Elie Mystal at the far-left publication <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/rnc-black-republicans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Nation</a>, which argued that the black speakers were simply there to put white people at ease when supporting &#8220;a bigot.&#8221;
&#8220;If you read one thing today, this would be a good choice. ⁦[Elie] writes about the outrage and pathos of the Black people the <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RNCConvention?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#RNCConvention</a> trotted out to make white Americans feel good about white nationalism,&#8221; she tweeted. 
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If you read one thing today, this would be a good choice. ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/ElieNYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElieNYC</a>⁩ writes about the outrage and pathos of the Black people the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RNCConvention?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RNCConvention</a> trotted out to make white Americans feel good about white nationalism. <a href="https://t.co/V2xJzf87Dr">https://t.co/V2xJzf87Dr</a>
&mdash; Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1299027467546628096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In the piece, Elie disparaged Walker, Henderson, and others, describing them as &#8220;black tokens&#8221; who were there to simply say &#8220;thank you&#8221; to their white overlords.
&#8220;The Black people who were allowed to speak at this convention were there to transmit one message to white listeners: &#8216;It’s OK.&#8217; Trump’s racism is OK, because here’s one of Trump’s Black golfing buddies,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Cops and vigilantes’ shooting black people is OK, because here’s a Black ex-con who complied with the police and is still alive. Caring only about your own pocketbook and 401(k) is OK, because here’s a Black guy who started his own business and made a lot of money. All of them wanted to talk about their individual experiences with Trump. None of them wanted to talk about systemic issues facing Black people who don’t have the benefit of knowing a Trump (or a Kardashian) personally.&#8221;
As supposed evidence for this, Elie pointed out that the black speakers &#8220;wanted nothing&#8221; and offered no agenda.
&#8220;The banality of these Black validators can be seen most clearly when you compare their roles to what the white speakers were allowed to do at the convention,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Think of it this way: Most of the white speakers came armed with some agenda. They wanted more farm subsidies or fewer abortions or more Jesus in schools or the right to shoot Black people walking past their homes. But the Black speakers seemingly wanted nothing. There were no additional policies they desired or issues they wanted addressed. They had no goals they wanted the next Trump administration to accomplish and no legislation they wanted Republicans to pass. Instead of an agenda, the Black people were just there to say, &#8216;Thank you, white [sic] folks,&#8217; and fade off-screen.&#8221;
Elie writes that he feels much &#8220;anger&#8221; for these &#8220;tokens,&#8221; mostly due to the fact that they spoke out in defense of President Trump allegedly for profit, going as far as comparing them to Judas Iscariot.
&#8220;What anger I have for this particular crop of Black tokens comes from the fact that so many of them volunteered,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;These were not schoolboys trying to get by at prep school or single moms trying to hang onto their jobs. These were grown-ass adults, predominantly men, who could have sat this grift out but raised their hands to confirm white bias and quote scripture while doing it. We know Trump doesn’t like to pay his debts, so I hope they got their 30 pieces of silver up front.&#8221;
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On Sunday evening, engaging with Washington Post political reporter Dave Weigel on Twitter, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes made abundantly clear what he thinks of President Trump&#8217;s voter base, sneering that they are &#8220;white men without a four-year degree, and disposable income enough to buy a boat.&#8221;
Weigel precipitated Hayes&#8217; condescending remark by tweeting, &#8220;All those years scouring diners for Trump voters when longform writers could have been chilling on boats.&#8221;
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All those years scouring diners for Trump voters when longform writers could have been chilling on boats.
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Hayes laughed, &#8220;no but actually! It&#8217;s a better representation of the base, for real.&#8221;
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no but actually! It&#39;s a better representation of the base, for real.
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Weigel followed: &#8220;I keep trying to make this point but don’t want to be patronizing. The Florida man with a HS degree and a pile of disposable income really is a perfect Trump supporter.&#8221;
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I keep trying to make this point but don’t want to be patronizing. The Florida man with a HS degree and a pile of disposable income really is a perfect Trump supporter.
&mdash; Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) <a href="https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1295205827343679488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hayes summed up: &#8220;correct: white men without a four-year degree, and disposable income enough to buy a boat are genuinely the Trump base.&#8221;
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correct: white men without a four-year degree, and disposable income enough to buy a boat are genuinely the Trump base.
&mdash; Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1295206285655396352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In August 2019, after <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/04/mass-shootings-el-paso-texas-dayton-ohio">two mass shootings</a>, one in Dayton, Ohio, and another in El Paso, Texas, killed over 30 people,  Hayes <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/emma-fantuzzo/2019/08/06/msnbcs-chris-hayes-president-poses-existential-threat-america">attacked Trump</a>, saying he had cultivated a &#8220;racist ideology&#8221;:
<blockquote>Even before the mass murders this weekend, even before this white supremacist committed what is being treated as an act of domestic terrorism, it has been clear from the first moment that Donald Trump came down that escalator four years ago, and particularly clear in the last few weeks as Donald Trump stood idly by as a crowd at his rally chanted &#8220;send her back,&#8221; the President’s cultivation of racist ideology and his racist definition of what the U.S. is for, pose an existential threat to what the country&#8217;s nature should be.</blockquote>
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Also in August 2019, after a guest on his show called for people to show up with “pitchforks and torches” at the home of wealthy Trump donor Stephen Ross, who had held a fundraiser for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, Hayes agreed.
Ross, the chairman and majority owner of The Related Companies, which owns Equinox and SoulCycle fitness centers, was brought up by Elie Mystal, the executive editor for the “Above The Law” legal blog, who <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-contributor-calls-for-pitchforks-and-torches-outside-of-trump-supporting-billionaires-house/">told Hayes</a>:
<blockquote>People of color are already targets under this administration. I have no problem with shining the light back on the donors who fund this kind of racialized hate. I go farther; I want pitchforks and torches outside this man’s house in the Hamptons.</blockquote>
“I’ve been to the Hamptons; it’s very nice, but there’s no reason why it has to be,” he continued. “There’s no reason why he should be having his nice, little party. There is no reason why people shouldn’t be able to be outside of his house and making their voices peacefully understood that they reject this stuff.”
“Totally,” Hayes responded. “There have been peaceful protests outside [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s house and I imagine there will be peaceful protests outside [Ross’s house]. Again, it’s all speech.”
“Trump is a bigoted demagogue and we all kind of know that. These people should be ashamed of supporting him. Right? Like, at this point you should basically only be able to contribute to the Trump campaign with bitcoin,” Mystal said. “But Equinox man is holding an ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ party and he’s surprised the people are getting up in his grill. We know that there is no constitutional way to put pressure on these people’s exercise of their money as speech, but there’s darn sure social pressure that we have barely tried. It’s time for us to start trying at least.”
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MSNBC’s Hayes On Trump’s Base: ‘White Men Without A Four-Year Degree, And Disposable Income Enough To Buy A Boat’

Trump voters

On Sunday evening, engaging with Washington Post political reporter Dave Weigel on Twitter, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes made abundantly clear what he thinks

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MSNBC &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; co-host Mika Brzezinski repeatedly ranted throughout Friday&#8217;s broadcast of the show over everything Donald Trump, suggesting that he was intentionally letting people die from COVID-19.
Brzezinski, who appeared to be in a near state of rage throughout the show, repeatedly berated the president with names, and later, at the end of the show, said, &#8220;If you&#8217;re sensing a little intensity here, I&#8217;m a little amped up because this is an emergency.&#8221;
The video clip below, compiled by Grabien News founder Tom Elliott, is a supercut video that shows the highlights from Brzezinski&#8217;s ravings.
Transcript and video below:
<blockquote>There&#8217;s clear disdain that I have for this president, but look at the facts. Look at how he&#8217;s worn us down from his paid off pornstar to Russia lies to racism in Charlottesville. Racism across the board. Children in cages. I mean lie after lie after lie. Conspiracy theories.
Our country right now is really at a breaking point if we don&#8217;t find a way to hold this president accountable with his attempts to undermine the Post Office and also his apparent negligence, perhaps purposeful, on saving the American people&#8217;s lives in this pandemic.
You are pathetic at this point.
With his calamitous coronavirus leadership, it&#8217;s killing Americans every day. He could be keeping people alive; he&#8217;s choosing not to.
Every day, this president looks more ridiculous. The clothes fall off.
I mean, Mitch McConnell, wake up! Wake up and smell the coffee. Don&#8217;t you see what&#8217;s&#8211;, you wanna hold to the&#8211;, you&#8217;re going to have nothing at the rate you&#8217;re going. At the rate you&#8217;re letting him go.
Can&#8217;t you see what is happening? I know you have a lot of special interests in your state and maybe money coming in from Russia and interests. Your wife works in the administration, but wake up. It&#8217;s not about losing the Senate. We&#8217;re losing much more than the Senate.
You can be sure that you will never see me on Fifth Avenue, ever, ever. Because he has said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. I believe him. &#8230; I, I ask for you to appeal to members of his administration, those who still have a brain, those who aren&#8217;t somehow brain washed by the cult leader, or those who aren&#8217;t such stooges and so interested in their own special interests and the money they might make somehow that they could care for one second about this country.
Talk about ditsy, talk about a ditsy, stupid, botched response to a pandemic that is killing tens of thousands of people, over 160,000 right now, this is on you.
It&#8217;s idiotic and it&#8217;s killing people, and you get up there and talk about Joe Biden being wrong? There’s nobody who has been more wrong about this than President Donald Trump.
Many of those deaths, Mr. President, are on you and your terrible response to this virus. Obvious terrible response. But you say that children miraculously just don&#8217;t get it? You&#8217;re wrong. There&#8217;s no one who has been more wrong than you on this, and you’re the President of the United States.
I&#8217;m thinking of Tulsa, where the Trump campaign took the social distancing stickers off the chairs and squished people together and made them click on a waiver saying, &#8220;You can&#8217;t sue if you get the coronavirus and die from coming to this rally.&#8221; How stupid can you be at this point if you follow this president? I beg you not to be for your life. But I ask you, Dave Aronberg, is there any legal recourse if you get this virus because of the stupidity of this president?
If you&#8217;re sensing a little intensity here, I&#8217;m a little amped up because this is an emergency.</blockquote>
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SUPERCUT!<a href="https://twitter.com/morningmika?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@morningmika</a> goes on wild rampage against <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://t.co/iU7ePXaPf9">pic.twitter.com/iU7ePXaPf9</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1294249825333063682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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MIKA MELTDOWN: MSNBC Host Loses It On Show While Repeatedly Berating Trump

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MSNBC &quot;Morning Joe&quot; co-host Mika Brzezinski repeatedly ranted throughout Friday&#039;s broadcast of the show over everything Donald Trump, suggesting that he

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A former MSNBC producer wrote an open letter on Monday explaining why she left the far-left network a little over a week ago, saying that they are a “cancer” that is “stoking national division” by amplifying “fringe voices” and forcing “journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis.”
The letter was written by Ariana Pekary, who Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-producer-ariana-pekary-letter">noted</a> described herself as an &#8220;integral member&#8221; of MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Last Word with Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell.&#8221;
Pekary begins her letter by sharing quotes of what people said to her over the last couple of years as she pondered leaving the network due to the detrimental effect that it is having on society.
&#8220;July 24th was my last day at MSNBC. I don’t know what I’m going to do next exactly but I simply couldn’t stay there anymore,&#8221; Pekary wrote. &#8220;My colleagues are very smart people with good intentions. The problem is the job itself. It forces skilled journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis.&#8221;
Pekary said that at MSNBC it was &#8220;practically baked in to the editorial process&#8221; that decisions on what and who give coverage to were based on what would generate the most ratings for the network. She said that behind closed doors &#8220;industry leaders will admit the damage that’s being done.&#8221;
A high profile TV veteran reportedly told her, “We are a cancer and there is no cure. But if you could find a cure, it would change the world.”
&#8220;As it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis,&#8221; Pekary said. &#8220;The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others… all because it pumps up the ratings.&#8221;
&#8220;Context and factual data are often considered too cumbersome for the audience,&#8221; Pekary later added. &#8220;There may be some truth to that (our education system really should improve the critical thinking skills of Americans) – but another hard truth is that it is the job of journalists to teach and inform, which means they might need to figure out a better way to do that. They could contemplate more creative methods for captivating an audience. Just about anything would improve the current process, which can be pretty rudimentary (think basing today’s content on whatever rated well yesterday, or look to see what’s trending online today).&#8221;
Pekary said that she has heard colleagues &#8220;deny their role as journalists,&#8221; and claims that a &#8220;senior producer&#8221; told her, “Our viewers don’t really consider us the news. They come to us for comfort.”
&#8220;Through this pandemic and the surreal, alienating lockdown, I’ve witnessed many people question their lives and what they’re doing with their time on this planet,&#8221; Pekary continued. &#8220;I reckon I’m one of those people, looking for greater meaning and truth. As much as I love my life in New York City and really don’t want to leave, I feel fortunate to be able to return to Virginia in the near term to reconnect with family, friends, and a community of independent journalists. I’m both nervous and excited about this change. Thanks to COVID-19, I’m learning to live with uncertainty.&#8221;
Pekary concluded by writing, &#8220;More than ever, I’m craving a full and civil discourse.&#8221;
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MSNBC Producer Quits: ‘This Cancer Stokes National Division,’ Facts ‘Too Cumbersome’ For Audience

A former MSNBC producer wrote an open letter on Monday explaining why she left the far-left network a little over a week ago, saying that they are a

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Perhaps the stupidest development to come out of the protests and riots is the Left&#8217;s bizarre announcement that lawful arrests are now &#8220;kidnapping.&#8221; Recent videos of law enforcement officials arresting wanted criminals and putting them in unmarked vehicles have provoked this sudden redefinition of terms. The latest such incident went viral when a &#8220;counterculture journalist&#8221; (who seems oddly to be completely in line with the culture, not counter to it at all) posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleLhooq/status/1288253381883113475">video</a> with the caption:
&#8220;NYC is taking after Portland — a trans femme protestor was pulled into an unmarked van at the Abolition Park protest — this was at 2nd Ave and 25th Street.&#8221;
This video has been shared all over social media, with people like MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes and Rep. Jerry Nadler describing it as &#8220;kidnapping&#8221; and &#8220;terrifying,&#8221; respectively. Nadler declared that police officers using unmarked vehicles during an arrest somehow amounts to a violation of the Constitution. Many on the Left have echoed this claim.
Meanwhile, back in the solid world of reality, the &#8220;kidnapping&#8221; victim was actually a wanted criminal who had allegedly vandalized and destroyed government property on five separate occasions. The people carrying out the arrest were members of the city&#8217;s warrant squad, and I know that because they were wearing shirts that said &#8220;Warrant Squad.&#8221; They were assisted by uniformed police wearing bright neon outfits that said &#8220;Police.&#8221; Yes, the van was unmarked, but that is nothing strange or innovative.
This will come as a shock to Rep. Nadler, who is shocked and scandalized by the concept of unmarked cars, but police have been using them for decades. The reason is rather logical. Most people, it turns out, don&#8217;t want to be arrested. People who don&#8217;t want to be arrested will tend to run away if they see a police car approach the scene. This is why police don&#8217;t always like to announce their presence with blaring sirens. None of this is new, weird, disturbing, or, for God&#8217;s sake, unconstitutional.
Of course, these days police have a whole host of additional reasons to use a lower profile. One obvious reason is that marked police cars are routinely targeted for arson attacks by &#8220;peaceful protesters.&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/lapd-cars-damaged-during-protests-cost-80000-each/2385560/">In the city of Los Angeles</a>, for example, 156 LAPD patrol cars had been damaged by the end of June, each costing about $80,000 to repair. The protesters are destroying cop cars and then getting angry and screaming about fascism when cops must resort to using different kinds of vehicles.
All of this ridiculous &#8220;kidnapping&#8221; stuff is part of a larger, and just as ridiculous, narrative about our nation&#8217;s slide into &#8220;fascism.&#8221; It is hard to believe that anyone could look at the government&#8217;s paltry response to months of rioting, looting, and chaos, and come away convinced that we live under a fascist dictatorship. I have never lived under a fascist dictatorship — and I don&#8217;t now, and neither do you — but I feel pretty confident that a little bit of tear gas and a few rubber bullets would be the least of your worries if you behaved this way in such a country. But, as we have seen, the Left is never slowed down by facts or reality when constructing their narratives.
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Portland Protests Continue Unabated Despite Federal Law Enforcement Presence

WALSH: No, Police Are Not ‘Kidnapping’ People Off The Street. Stop Being Hysterical. 

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Perhaps the stupidest development to come out of the protests and riots is the Left&#039;s bizarre announcement that lawful arrests are now &quot;kidnapping.&quot;

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Georgia Democratic State Rep. Vernon Jones slammed MSNBC host Craig Melvin on Wednesday after Melvin asked Jones if the reason that he supported President Donald Trump was because he was being paid.
&#8220;Are you a paid campaign surrogate?&#8221; Melvin asked. &#8220;Are you being compensated?&#8221;
“Let me be clear. You get paid to shape a liberal narrative. You get paid to attack this president,” Jones fired back. &#8220;I don’t get a dime for this president. I don’t get a dime from the campaign. Everything I’ve done has been me and based on my principles.”
&#8220;And see, that&#8217;s the problem, when an African American that&#8217;s an [elected official]&#8211;&#8221; Jones continued before Melvin cut him off.
“Sir, I did not raise your race,” Melvin said as the bickering intensified.
“Let me finish now,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;Let me finish.”
&#8220;No, no, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa,&#8221; Melvin continued to interrupt. &#8220;You’re not going to imply that I asked that question because you’re black.&#8221;
&#8220;You don&#8217;t ask Stacey Abrams if she&#8217;s getting paid from the Left,&#8221; Jones shot back. &#8220;So don’t ask me that. You only ask me that because I don’t fit your narrative. You know, this president has never offered me anything. I don’t want anything from this president. It’s what I can do for my country, and you need to accept that many other African Americans and others support this president because of his policies. And to insult me to say am I getting paid, that is disgraceful. That is horrible.”
&#8220;I have asked the same question of Democrats who have come on,&#8221; Melvin claimed without citing any examples.
“That’s representative of MSNBC and their narrative to keep blacks silent who happen to support this president,” Jones added. “Why can’t I be like white liberals or other whites? Nobody questions if they’re getting paid.&#8221;
&#8220;So, I have to get paid?&#8221; Jones continued. &#8220;Do you ask Democrats, do they get paid? Look at [who’s getting] paid by Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;I just said to you, I have,&#8221; Melvin responded.
&#8220;Have you ever asked any host on your show if they&#8217;ve been paid by Joe Biden?&#8221; Jones continued. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t heard it.&#8221;
&#8220;State representative Vernon Jones,&#8221; Melvin said before quickly ending the interview. &#8220;Representative Jones, thank you.&#8221;
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In which <a href="https://twitter.com/RepVernonJones?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepVernonJones</a> demolishes MSNBC host for implying he’s a paid operative.
The mass red polling continues. <a href="https://t.co/wvnMxlzibP">pic.twitter.com/wvnMxlzibP</a>
&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1288547960330969088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/vernon-jones-msnbc-anchor-melvin">reported</a> that earlier this year, Melvin asked South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott if the Republican Party was &#8220;using&#8221; him as a &#8220;token&#8221; on racial issues in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.
&#8220;You have faced a fair amount of criticism, especially over the past few days, because you are the only black Republican senator,&#8221; Melvin <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-craig-melvin-sen-tim-scott-gop-token">said</a> during an interview. &#8220;Some have said that your party is using you, they’ve even thrown around the word ‘token,’ as well. Your response to that criticism?”
&#8220;Well, I am also the only person in my conference who has been racially profiled driving while black,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;I’m the only one in my conference that’s been stopped seven times in one year as an elected official, perhaps the only one in my conference wearing this Senate pin that was stopped from coming into the building. So if there’s someone in the conference who understands discrimination and profiling, it’s me. It’s the reason why I asked to lead this charge, because it is a personal issue, it is the right issue. And frankly, I think it helps to have someone who&#8217;s been a victim of this situation and who still has a tremendous respect for where our country can go together.&#8221;
Scott continued, &#8220;So I shrug those comments and criticisms off. But you’ve got to know, when you’re a black Republican, you’re like a unicorn. People are going to criticize you when you wake up, when you go to sleep, if you say you like apple pie and football, there’s a lot of critics for that, too. So God bless their souls.&#8221;
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WATCH: MSNBC Host Ends Interview After Pro-Trump Democratic Lawmaker Blasts Him For Suggesting That He’s Getting Paid To Support Trump

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Georgia Democratic State Rep. Vernon Jones slammed MSNBC host Craig Melvin on Wednesday after Melvin asked Jones if the reason that he supported President

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On Tuesday, as he prepared to talk to protesters in the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” in Seattle, MSNBC reporter Vaughn Hillyard got himself into deep trouble when he attempted to portray the zone as a peaceful, idyllic atmosphere, characterizing it as “almost like a street festival-type atmosphere.” The comment precipitated one protester to get in Hillyard’s face, yelling, “Shame on you for saying that,” while back in the studio, the MSNBC anchor, eager to show MSNBC had not “mischaracterized” the zone, pleaded for a chance to placate the angry protesters.
Hillyard started by saying to MSNBC anchor Joshua Johnson in the studio, “This is a part of the conversation, Joshua, and we heard here in these streets, is the extent to which it has been peaceful since Monday, after more than a week of clashes between the demonstrators and the police, now you’ve seen essentially almost like a street festival-type atmosphere, a street festival-type atmosphere with a very —&#8221;
&#8220;No!&#8221; An angry male protester interrupted. &#8220;It is not a street festival!”
Hillyard managed to finish, &#8220;— with a very intentional purpose.&#8221;
The angry man snapped, &#8220;It is not a street festival!&#8221; Then, pointing his finger directly at the cameraman, the protester repeated, &#8220;It is not a street festival!&#8221; Jabbing his finger into the reporter’s chest, he snapped, &#8220;DO NOT SAY THAT! SHAME ON YOU FOR SAYING THAT!&#8221; Pointing back into the camera, he shouted, &#8220;Learn right now. It is not a street festival!&#8221;
A female friend of the angry man interjected, &#8220;Do you know what our voices sound like from the tear gas police attacked us with?&#8221;
&#8220;You have to understand, some traumatizing things happened here,&#8221; she said. &#8220;All of us are suffering from PTSD in our own country. From our own country. It is NOT a street festival!&#8221;
&#8220;It is not!&#8221; the angry man repeatedly exclaimed.
Back in the studio, Johnson said, &#8220;Vaughn, it’s okay. Let her finish. Let her finish. Let her finish.&#8221;
&#8220;One thing to listen to: It is not a street festival!” said the angry man, waving his finger in the air.
Johnson then asked Hillyard, &#8220;Would you ask him if I can put a question to him since we mischaracterized —&#8221;
Pleading plaintively with the angry man, Vaughn said, &#8220;Can we put a question to you here?&#8221;
&#8220;Please,&#8221; said the protester.
Johnson then issued an apologetic statement to the angry protester: &#8220;I hear him in terms of saying it’s not a street — would you just let him know, cause we have to move on — but would you just let him know that we hear him 100% when he says &#8216;This is not a festival&#8217; because we saw what happened in Seattle. We do have to keep going — and I want to — just let him know we are going to talk about this future of defunding the police, but just let him know that we hear him loud and clear: this is not a festival; this is a social movement. But Vaughan, thank you for giving him room to speak his mind. That’s NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard in Seattle; that conversation’s going to continue there and we will talk more about the future of what these zones are going to look like as the hour goes on.&#8221;
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Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

Defund The Police

On Tuesday, as he prepared to talk to protesters in the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” in Seattle, MSNBC reporter Vaughn Hillyard got himself into deep

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An FBI lawyer who was dismissed from the special counsel investigation into Russian collusion has been hired as a legal and national security analyst for MSNBC.
Lisa Page, whose anti-Trump texts with fired FBI agent Peter Strzok got her removed from Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election, was announced as MSNBC’s latest hire Friday evening.
“JUST ANNOUNCED: <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC">@MSNBC</a> welcomes Former FBI Lawyer <a href="https://twitter.com/NatSecLisa">@NatSecLisa</a> as an NBC News &amp; MSNBC National Security &amp; Legal Analyst,” the channel’s public relations account tweeted.
As Mueller investigated the Trump campaign (he ultimately discovered no evidence of collusion, despite years of media headlines claiming the opposite), text messages between Strzok and Page became public in a June 2018 Inspector General’s report. The two employees were having an affair (Page is married) and sent each other texts expressing anti-Trump sentiments in early August 2016 – ahead of the election. At one point, Page asked Strzok if Trump would become president. Strzok responded: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.” The pair also discussed an “insurance policy” for if Trump were to win the election.
Following the release of the text messages, Page resigned from the FBI. Strzok was removed from Mueller’s investigation.
In December 2019, Page sued the Department of Justice and the FBI after Trump mocked her texts with Strzok at a campaign rally. Page claimed Trump made “fake orgasm” noises when he mocked her (he used a breathy voice, but did not make a “fake orgasm” noise), and portrayed herself as a victim, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-anti-trump-fbi-lawyer-sues-justice-department-fbi-after-trumps-fake-orgasm">reported</a>.
In her lawsuit, Page claimed the DOJ and FBI violated the Privacy Act by disclosing her text messages.
“The Privacy Act was enacted to protect individual privacy interests,” the complaint read. “Agency records can, and often do, contain highly sensitive personal information, including documentation of criminal history, medical records, financial transactions, personnel actions, private conversations, personal contacts, and other sensitive material. As relevant here, the statute bars the DOJ, the FBI, and other federal agencies from disclosing a covered record ‘about’ an individual unless an exception applies or the individual who is the subject of the record consents in writing to the disclosure. See 5 U.S.C. § 552a. The statute contains no general exception permitting an agency to disclose covered records to the media.”
As The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/06/ex-fbi-lawyer-lisa-page-makes-debut-as-msnbc-legal-analyst/">reported</a>, “MSNBC commentators have defended both Page and Strzok over the years by dismissing their text messages as merely personal criticisms, separate from their FBI work.”
Page is also not the only disgraced intelligence community official to get rewarded with a television contract. Former Director of the CIA, John Brennan, received a national security and intelligence analyst gig at NBC News and MSNBC. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was found to have lied to the bureau, received a contract with CNN as an analyst. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also received a CNN contract.
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MSNBC Hires Disgraced Ex-FBI Lawyer Lisa Page As An Analyst

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On Thursday, as sections of Minneapolis burned to the ground from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evacuate-the-3rd-precinct-rioters-destroy-minneapolis-police-building-170-businesses">violent riots</a> over the death of George Floyd, MSNBC reporter Ali Velshi, standing in front of burning buildings, assured viewers that the &#8220;protests&#8221; were mostly peaceful. Velshi did, however, note that some fires had &#8220;started.&#8221;
&#8220;I wanna be clear on how I characterize this,&#8221; said Velshi, reporting live from Minneapolis. &#8220;This is mostly a protest, it is not, it is not, generally speaking, unruly.&#8221;
&#8220;But fires have been started and this crowd is relishing that,&#8221; he told MSNBC anchor Brian Williams.
&#8220;There is a deep sense of grievance and complaint here, and that is the thing,&#8221; added Velshi. &#8220;That when you discount people who are doing things to public property that they shouldn&#8217;t be doing, it does have to be understood that this city has got, for the last several years, an issue with police, and it&#8217;s got a real sense of the deep sense of grievance of inequality.&#8221;
Earlier in the segment, Velshi said the protests were calmer during the day. &#8220;It picked up later in the evening,&#8221; he said, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-anchor-says-minneapolis-carnage-is-mostly-a-protest-as-building-burns-behind-him">Fox News</a>. &#8220;The crowds gathered here and the standoff with the police looked very different last night.&#8221;
Though he stressed the &#8220;mostly&#8221; peaceful nature of the response, Velshi did admit on camera that he could see &#8220;four fires,&#8221; as Fox notes, among them one engulfing a liquor store. Another of the fires was burning at the Minnesota Police Department&#8217;s 3rd Precinct headquarters, which was demolished late Thursday after the embattled Democratic mayor ordered officers to evacuate.
According to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evacuate-the-3rd-precinct-rioters-destroy-minneapolis-police-building-170-businesses">Saint Paul Police Department</a>, over 170 businesses had been damaged or looted by Thursday night, and &#8220;dozens of fires&#8221; had been started.
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As Thursday turns to Friday, our officers continue to work shoulder-to-shoulder with local, state, federal and fire partners to protect St. Paul. 
More than 170 businesses damaged or looted. Dozens of fires. Thankfully, no reports of serious injuries. Calm on the horizon.
&mdash; Saint Paul Police Department (@sppdmn) <a href="https://twitter.com/sppdmn/status/1266227673694638081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evacuate-the-3rd-precinct-rioters-destroy-minneapolis-police-building-170-businesses">The Daily Wire</a>, the situation in MN became so volatile, the City of Minneapolis tweeted: “We’re hearing unconfirmed reports that gas lines to the Third Precinct have been cut and other explosive materials are in the building. If you are near the building, for your safety, PLEASE RETREAT in the event the building explodes.”
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We&#39;re hearing unconfirmed reports that gas lines to the Third Precinct have been cut and other explosive materials are in the building. 
If you are near the building, for your safety, PLEASE RETREAT in the event the building explodes.
&mdash; City of Minneapolis (@CityMinneapolis) <a href="https://twitter.com/CityMinneapolis/status/1266224316645027841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Floyd, who is black, died after an officer, who is white, knelt on his neck during his arrest, as shown in a video clip that has since gone viral.
“An eight-minute clip filmed by a person on the street shows Floyd telling police he can’t breathe and begging the cop on top of him to stop before he falls unconscious,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-riot-police-in-minneapolis-fire-rubber-bullets-tear-gas-at-protesters-demanding-charges-against-cops-involved-in-death-of-black-man">The Daily Wire</a> reported Tuesday. “Officer Derek Chauvin was identified as the officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck outside Cup Foods on Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street.”
Since the arrest, all four officers involved have been fired, and the FBI and state law enforcement officials are actively investigating the 46-year-old’s death.
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MSNBC reporter says “I want to be clear on how I characterize this. This is mostly a protest. It is not generally speaking unruly.&quot;
As a building burns in the background&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/KGrtpPsF3E">pic.twitter.com/KGrtpPsF3E</a>
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Protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

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During a Tuesday segment on MSNBC, reporter Cal Perry and anchor Katy Tur were apparently stunned by folks in Wisconsin allegedly unconcerned about their safety because most were not wearing masks outside.
As Perry attempted to shame one massless Wisconsin man, however, he quickly pointed out that the MSNBC cameraman was also not wearing a mask, humiliating Perry.
&#8220;Are the people there just not worried about it, Cal? Are they just not worried about their own personal safety?&#8221; Tur asked the correspondent, apparently amazed at Wisconsin citizens&#8217; behavior.
&#8220;I haven&#8217;t met anybody who is,&#8221; Perry responded.
&#8220;I met some folks actually from Lake Geneva who lived in the area, they were staying a few miles outside of town &#8230; and they said they&#8217;re worried about it, they&#8217;re worried about that second spike, they&#8217;re worried about folks coming in from Chicago,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;But they&#8217;ll quickly add, at the same time, this is a place that relies on that business.&#8221;
&#8220;You can see here, just around, nobody is wearing them,&#8221; Perry said, gesturing toward a local man with no mask.
&#8220;Including your cameraman,&#8221; the man shot back.
&#8220;Yeah, there ya go, including the cameraman, yeah,&#8221; a stunned Perry responded, before tossing up his arms and throwing the wrecked segment back to Tur.
All Tur could muster: &#8220;Striking images.&#8221;
The issue of masks, especially outdoors, has folks divided. Initially, visible health experts warned non-medical personnel not to wear masks, stating that they are essentially useless when it comes to protecting yourself from contracting COVID-19.
“Wearing a mask improperly can actually increase your chances of getting a disease. It can also give you a false sense of security,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-surgeon-general-heres-why-cdc-and-who-recommend-healthy-people-do-not-wear-masks">U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams</a> said at the end of March.
&#8220;What the World Health Organization (WHO) and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) have reaffirmed in the last few days is that they do not recommend the general public wear masks,&#8221; Adams continued.
&#8220;Here’s why: on an individual level, there was a study in 2015 looking at medical students, and medical students wearing surgical masks touched their face on average 23 times,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We know a major way that you can get respiratory diseases like coronavirus is by touching a surface and then touching your face. So wearing a mask improperly can actually increase your chances of getting a disease. It can also give you a false sense of security; if you’ve seen many of these pictures of people out and about closer than six feet to each other but still wearing a mask.&#8221;
Adams also noted that N-95s masks have to get fitted, and did not recommend them for the general public. &#8220;As a medical professional, I can’t just go out and wear an N-95; I have to make sure it’s properly fitted and I have the right size in order for it to work properly,&#8221; he said.
However, leading voices on the White House Coronavirus Task Force are now in support of masks where folks cannot &#8220;social distance.&#8221;
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INSTANT CLASSIC FROM <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a>:
ANCHOR: &quot;Are the people there just not worried about it? Are they not worried about their personal safety?&quot;
REPORTER: &quot;I haven&#39;t met anybody who is&#8230; you can see here, nobody&#39;s wearing them [masks].&quot;
GUY ON STREET: &quot;Including the Cameraman.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/h9HbbIqNVh">pic.twitter.com/h9HbbIqNVh</a>
&mdash; Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1265374806662397953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The left-wing media is just fine with spreading propaganda from a foreign government, so long as it hurts President Donald Trump.
NBC News chief global affairs correspondent Bill Neely appeared on MSNBC Friday to literally spread Chinese propaganda in a segment to attack Trump over his administration’s handling of the coronavirus, a virus that originated in China.
Neely used the interview to parrot an article from China’s state-run media, a transcript of which was <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2020/05/15/msnbc-parrots-chinese-propaganda-trashing-trump-lunacy">published</a> by Newsbusters. MSNBC host Katy Tur set up Neely by asking if there was anything behind Trump “again” blaming China for the coronavirus pandemic, even though no one except China claims the virus started anywhere else. China claims the virus originated in the U.S., but all evidence points to it originating in Wuhan.
Instead of explaining why Trump is right to blame China for the virus, Neely described what China’s state-run media was saying in response to Trump suggesting the U.S. cut ties with China.
“&#8230;the coronavirus really is now the central battleground between the U.S. and China&#8230;.and it’s often at the state media level that you find out what the Chinese are really thinking – a completely different reaction to President Trump’s suggestion of cutting off relations altogether with China. The Global Times, pretty influential newspaper, saying that this is lunacy, something that’s not been heard from any U.S. president. Saying it’s hardly surprising from a president who suggested injecting disinfectant into COVID-19 patients,” Neely said (emphasis added).
Neely then describe an “interesting point” made by Chinese state-run media:
But the really interesting point that they make in their editorial is about election strategy in the U.S. They are suggesting that panic is beginning to set in, in Washington, that President Trump will not be re-elected in November. And that the strategy now is to blame China for everything&#8230;
Neely also touted without hesitation China’s obviously false coronavirus statistics. Neely didn’t even attempt to suggest the numbers should not be taken at face value, as it is impossible that China’s numbers climbed rapidly and then just about fell to zero, as the communist regime suggests.
“China has not reported a single death from coronavirus for a month now. And today only reported four new cases in one cluster. So China definitely trying to argue from a position of strength that it has its pandemic under control. That’s what it says,” Neely said.
Full transcript, from Newsbusters:
KATY TUR: During this afternoon’s news conference at the White House, President Trump again blamed China for the pandemic and his trade adviser Peter Navarro also spoke out.
DONALD TRUMP: This came from China. It should have been stopped in China, before it got out to the world. We have 186, it’s been updated this morning, 186 countries are affected.
PETER NAVARRO: We signed a trade deal with them, and one of the things was stop stealing our intellectual property. Now we have credible information that the Chinese government is trying to steal our vaccine information.
TUR: Joining us now from London is NBC News chief global correspondent Bill Neely. So, Bill, is there anything behind these allegations?
BILL NEELY: Yeah, I mean, it’s interesting, Katie, the coronavirus really is now the central battleground between the U.S. and China. And China responding at a state level, really rather diplomatically, not saying very much except asking that America should cut out the cold war rhetoric.
But at a state media level – and it’s often at the state media level that you find out what the Chinese are really thinking – a completely different reaction to President Trump’s suggestion of cutting off relations altogether with China. The Global Times, pretty influential newspaper, saying that this is lunacy, something that’s not been heard from any U.S. president. Saying it’s hardly surprising from a president who suggested injecting disinfectant into COVID-19 patients.
But the really interesting point that they make in their editorial is about election strategy in the U.S. They are suggesting that panic is beginning to set in, in Washington, that President Trump will not be re-elected in November. And that the strategy now is to blame China for everything, that this will just get worse in the months leading up to November. And it’s calling on Chinese people to be prepared for Washington to indeed cut off relations in certain areas, like technology and like the economy.
Now, the interesting thing, as you will know, Katy, is that officials in Washington have been talking in recent days about the position of Chinese companies on the New York Stock Exchange, about removing Chinese companies from the U.S. supply chain, even about limiting Chinese students access to study science in the U.S. So there is, you know, some justification, if you like, for what The Global Times are saying. But they are basically preparing China for a long battle, not just obviously over trade, but over the coronavirus itself, in advance of November’s election.
Just one quick fact also, Katy, that’s interesting. China has not reported a single death from coronavirus for a month now. And today only reported four new cases in one cluster. So China definitely trying to argue from a position of strength that it has its pandemic under control. That’s what it says. Katy?
CHUCK TODD: Bill Neely, thanks very much.
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The media over the past few years has reported a false narrative that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia during his 2016 campaign to steal the election.
That narrative was proven false after a lengthy special counsel investigation found no evidence of such collusion. Media outlets and their Democrat supporters refused to acknowledge that they got the story wrong or that they were biased in their reporting. They are continuing that behavior now that the Department of Justice dropped its charges against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
FBI agents, in handwritten notes, questioned what the goal was of their January 24, 2017 interview with Flynn, writing: “What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe (fired for lying to the FBI) would later say the interview with Flynn was “very odd” because “it seemed like [Flynn] was telling the truth.”
But even though Flynn appears to have been vindicated and the victim of FBI entrapment, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell had a different take: That Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the DOJ’s charges being dropped.
Seriously.
As Newsbusters <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2020/05/09/msnbc-claims-putin-why-doj-dropped-flynn-case">reported</a>, Mitchell was interviewing former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence and current MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi about the charges against Flynn being dropped. Mitchell said the decision to drop the charges was “stunning” and “unprecedented,” even though the documents showing the FBI interviewed Flynn with the goal of getting him fired were released weeks earlier. Mitchell then connected the dropped charges to President Donald Trump’s phone call with Putin on Thursday, the day the charges were dropped.
&#8220;Frank, first, all of the implications here, and the fact that he then called Vladimir Putin yesterday, and according to the White House announcement of this and description of it, there was no mention of the Russia probe and the election probe. But the president himself discussed that with Vladimir Putin, and the facts that in his view now that the Russian hoax was dispelled, they could get back to business,&#8221; Mitchell said, according to Newsbusters.
Figliuzzi was all too happy to agree that Putin was behind the DOJ’s decision.
&#8220;Yeah, I think they&#8217;re actually linked. The dismissal of charges against Flynn and conversation by the president with Vladimir Putin, stone cold adversary of the United States on the very same day, that&#8217;s not a coincidence,&#8221; Figliuzzi said.
The contributor went on to claim that the investigation into Flynn was important for national security.
“The Flynn interview that is at issue here by the FBI was all about resolving the question of whether Mike Flynn was a counterintelligence threat to the nation as he entered into the national security adviser role. It was about figuring out how to neutralize, resolve and counter that threat. So when the president gets on the phone with Vladimir Putin and the topic comes up in the same conversation, the concerns have not yet been resolved,&#8221; he said.
Documents revealed the FBI had no basis to interview or investigate Flynn. Further, Trump’s phone call with Putin occurred the same day the charges were dropped, yet U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen recommended those charges be dropped a week earlier.

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It Never Ends: Now MSNBC Suggests Vladimir Putin Was Behind DOJ Dropping Case Against Michael Flynn

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The mainstream media can no longer ignore Tara Reade&#8217;s claim that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 now that evidence has come forward lending some credibility to her claims. On Wednesday night, Chris Hayes of MSNBC admitted that even though people like himself might wish to dismiss such an accusation, he cannot ignore its underlying credibility.
Opening out the segment, Hayes recalled moments during the #MeToo movement when people tried to &#8220;desperately&#8221; disbelieve an allegation against an individual, an impulse, he argues, that must be fought.
&#8220;The difficult lesson of the #MeToo era is not that every accusation is true, and everything should be believed on its face, but that you do have to fight yourself when you feel that impulse,&#8221; said Hayes, as reported by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/04/30/chris-hayes-sometimes-during-metoo-you-desperately-want">Newsbusters</a>. &#8220;You have to do that in order to take seriously what is being alleged and what the evidence is, and to evaluate it.&#8221;
In March, Tara Reade claimed that then-Senator Joe Biden sexually assaulted her while she served as an aide in his Senate offices during the Clinton administration. She has since detailed her account in multiple interviews and filed a criminal complaint against the former vice president with the Washington, D.C., police department. A former neighbor of Reade and Reade&#8217;s brother have both publicly stated that Reade told them of the assault in the 1990s. Recently surfaced evidence also suggests that Reade’s mother called into CNN’s Larry King in the 1990s to complain about a prominent senator with whom her daughter had “problems.”
Later in the segment, Hayes added that the evidence that has arisen in recent days has created a clear situation that warrants media attention.
&#8220;A piece of evidence that has risen in how I evaluate these stories is a somewhat contemporaneous disclosure to a trusted person who then tells a reporter about it,&#8221; said Hayes. &#8220;That is what has happened here. And to me, that has been, in terms of what the evidentiary record is, has raised it a bit in terms of my own view of this.&#8221;
Despite the seriousness of the allegation against Joe Biden, the former vice president continues to pick up high-profile Democratic Party support, including from women. On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi even went so far as to say she was &#8220;satisfied&#8221; with how Biden has addressed the allegation.
“Well, I have great sympathy for any woman who brings forth an allegation; I’m a big strong supporter of the #MeToo movement. I think it&#8217;s made a great contribution to our country and I do support Joe Biden,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-satisfied-with-bidens-sexual-assault-allegation">Pelosi said</a> on CNN. “I’m satisfied with how he has responded, I know him, I was proud to endorse him Monday, very proud to endorse him, so I&#8217;m satisfied with that.”
Actress Alyssa Milano, a prominent #MeToo activist who condemned Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh based on uncorroborated accusations of sexual assault, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-world-is-gray-alyssa-milano-explains-her-joe-biden-support-as-sex-assault-allegation-heats-up">explained in a lengthy op-ed</a> that she takes the allegation against Biden seriously but still supports him for president.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) told MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid on Sunday that viewers at home should &#8220;follow&#8221; their &#8220;gut feeling&#8221; on matters related to the coronavirus pandemic because their &#8220;gut feeling&#8221; was &#8220;probably much more credible than what you might see coming out of various administrations.&#8221;
Tlaib made the remarks during a segment on &#8220;AM Joy&#8221; while talking about her state&#8217;s restrictions during the lockdown, which have been led by Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
&#8220;Of the things I admire about the governor is I know she’s listening to the health experts, the doctors; those folks are the ones leading these policies,&#8221; Tlaib said. &#8220;To talk about, a little bit about, you know, so called &#8216;loosening up&#8217;, I’m not sure how they made that decision. But I know this much, many of our folks, and I tell you — my 13 district strong residents. If you are afraid to go to work, do not go to work.&#8221;
&#8220;I know this is hard, but you have every right to make sure your life is put first and to fight back. I don’t care if it’s labor organizing this late in the game or if it’s demanding that your life is not treated as if it’s disposable, but I want you not to be afraid to go to work,&#8221; Tlaib continued. &#8220;You should not at all ever feel like — I don’t care if it’s a president, I don’t care who it is that tells you we need you to go back and we need you to start back with the economy and everything. Your life is much more important. So, I always tell my residents when they call, they&#8217;re like, &#8216;Rashida, you know, they’re making us do this, making us do that.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Do you feel safe? If you don’t feel safe, you don’t have to go to work.'&#8221;
&#8220;And you know, folks are going to push back on me about this, but I want you to put yourselves in their places,&#8221; Tlaib continued, later adding, &#8220;I urge a lot of my neighbors and other folks that have called me and reached out to me and said, &#8216;I don’t feel safe,&#8217; I want you to organize with your other coworkers and demand your life is put first, and that your health is put first. I would push back no matter what these decisions and other folks on the task forces being put together, your gut feeling, follow that. It’s probably much more credible than what you might see coming out of various administrations.&#8221;
There was no push back from the MSNBC host against Tlaib instructing viewers to &#8220;follow&#8221; their &#8220;gut feeling&#8221; on the matters related to the coronavirus rather than listen to public health experts.
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Squad member Rashida Tlaib encourages people to ignore coronavirus task force advice saying follow &quot;your gut&quot; 
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On Sunday, leftist journalists appearing on MSNBC’s &#8220;AM Joy” vilified Americans across the nation who have gathered to call for opening the country from stay-at-home orders and lockdowns.  Comments ranged from “They don’t care about America. What they care about is Donald Trump” to they “don&#8217;t care about these black and brown people who are dying” to “they are the Fox News, Nazi, Confederate death-cult rump of the Republican party.”
Dave Zirin of The Nation ranted:
<blockquote>They&#8217;ve gone from all lives matter to no lives matter.  These folks are &#8212; let&#8217;s be honest about what they are &#8212; they are the Fox News, Nazi, confederate death cult rump of the Republican party and their very existence is a slap in the face not only to the health care workers on the front lines risking their lives every single day, but it&#8217;s also a slap in the face to the people who are actually dying from this virus in disproportionate numbers, black and brown people.
These aren&#8217;t economically disenfranchised folks; these are small business owners; these are retirees; these are people who want their workers to be sent back to work, not themselves.  It&#8217;s a complete and utter farce.  It&#8217;s an Astroturf farce.  And also, I think it needs to be said it&#8217;s unrepresentative of the Republican party as a whole. I just saw a poll that said 70% of Republicans want a national stay-at-home order. So this represents nothing except the narrow Astroturf interests and the hard-racist interests that combine and form the modern-day Republican party.</blockquote>
Boston Globe opinion columnist Renee Graham pontificated:
<blockquote>One thing I think is really interesting is how these protests have started after all the headlines the last week or so about the disproportionate effect the virus is having in communities of color.  And so when I look at these protests, what I see are a bunch of white people essentially saying, &#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s affecting those people so why do I have to change my life for them?&#8221;  So that&#8217;s what this is coming down to.  In Boston, the numbers are the same as they are nationally.  One of the public hospitals, Boston Medical Center, 82% of the corvid-19 cases are either black or Latino.
These numbers are real and I think what you&#8217;re seeing out there in the protesters, who by the way are overwhelmingly white, which people aren&#8217;t really talking about, though it&#8217;s quite noticeable, is that they don&#8217;t care. You know, this isn&#8217;t about, you know they&#8217;re out there waving American flags.  They don&#8217;t care about America.  What they care about is Donald Trump and what Donald Trump has created.  They don&#8217;t care about the people risking their lives to keep this country moving; they don&#8217;t care about empty, dangerous rebellion.  All they want is another battle waged for their lost cause.  This isn&#8217;t a protest.  This is a temper tantrum.</blockquote>
Michael Harriot of The Root chimed in: “Again, I disagree with the notion that we shouldn&#8217;t be covering this because I think it is more than just, ‘I don&#8217;t care about these black and brown people who are dying.&#8217; I think what they&#8217;re saying quite clearly when you see the numbers, when you see the statistics, when you see the CDC data, is, &#8216;I want more black and brown people to die.&#8217; If you want the government to open up, then you want more black and brown people to die.  We see it happening in real time; we see it in Donald Trump&#8217;s tweets; we see it in the data; there can be no other outcome if you open up what they call their society or their business or the country&#8230;&#8221;
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&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1251964227415429120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The liberal media are urging Joe Biden to form a shadow government to upstage President Donald Trump&#8217;s crisis response effort, which illustrates its consuming partisanship — and its insufficient attention to the health and welfare of the American people.
MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle floated the idea during an interview with former Barack Obama staffer Jim Messina. Referring to Trump&#8217;s COVID-19 daily press briefing, Ruhle asked, &#8220;Should Joe Biden be counterprogramming that? Should he be creating his own shadow government, shadow Cabinet, shadow SWAT team, and getting up there at a podium every night, saying, &#8216;Here&#8217;s the crisis we&#8217;re in. Here&#8217;s what we need to do to address this&#8217;?&#8221;
I&#8217;ll concede that if Biden were to follow Ruhle&#8217;s ludicrous suggestion, Trump would be the biggest beneficiary. If some are still unaware of Biden&#8217;s diminishing competence, they would certainly learn of it in counter-press briefings. But let&#8217;s not get sidetracked with our own partisan ruminations when we should be working together to mitigate Americans&#8217; medical and economic hardships.
Sadly, the media can&#8217;t get beyond their obsessive hatred for Trump to approach this moment with even minimal clarity. We witness this repeatedly at the briefings. Some reporters seek to elicit facts that will help inform the public, but far too many are there to grandstand, and to embarrass and shame the president.
They sling their gotcha questions, hoping to trick Trump into admitting he didn&#8217;t act quickly enough and isn&#8217;t effectively overseeing the distribution of equipment and other aid to the states. Some have very nearly accused Trump of causing American deaths.
Aside from the spuriousness of their claims, these questions are utterly inappropriate and counterproductive at briefings whose purpose is to update the American people on our battle against the coronavirus and on plans to reopen the economy.
Accusing President Trump of an initially tardy response, even if true (which it isn&#8217;t), distracts our attention from combating this pandemic. It may satisfy their Trump-hating lust, but it serves no constructive purpose. If they want to pursue yet another investigative crusade against Trump in time to damage him before the November election, how about they wait just a few more months while the adults try to alleviate real pain befalling real people?
The idea of a shadow government is not just ill-motivated; it is absurd. Who are these clowns kidding? The president&#8217;s principal medical advisers on this crisis, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, are certainly not Republicans telling Trump whatever he wants to hear. If they&#8217;re paying attention, they also know that Trump is respectfully considering their every word and, in most cases, deferring to their judgment. The media were aghast when Birx shattered their narrative of Trump as an inattentive lummox. &#8220;He&#8217;s been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data,&#8221; said Birx. &#8220;I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues.&#8221; So do I.
The media have tried to drive a wedge between Fauci and Trump, but neither of them would have it. Fauci has insisted that there is little, if any, inconsistency in their positions. There is no tension between Trump and these doctors in the briefings. Fauci has also been quite clear in disabusing Trump&#8217;s media prosecutors of their claim that Trump was delinquent in responding to the crisis — because if Trump was late, Fauci was even later.
So what would these armchair quarterbacks hope to accomplish through their fantasy shadow team, other than keeping Joe Biden in the limelight by presenting some bogus alternative to the administration&#8217;s leadership?
As it turns out, Ruhle wasn&#8217;t the first to pitch the shadow government concept. On March 23, Washington Post opinion writer Paul Waldman proposed it. &#8220;In Britain, the opposition party maintains a &#8216;shadow&#8217; cabinet, a group of spokespeople assigned the same policy areas as the ministries of the government, to offer the opposition&#8217;s view on whatever issue is being discussed at a given moment,&#8221; wrote Waldman. &#8220;While Biden probably wouldn&#8217;t want to assign specific Cabinet positions now he could utilize both his own aides and people in the broader Democratic world to give the public a picture of what government under President Biden would be up to — and provide a contrast with the chaos, corruption, and incompetence that characterizes the Trump administration.&#8221;
The common thread uniting Ruhle, Waldman and the rest of the Trump-hating media cabal is their inability to see anything outside a partisan lens. Even now while thousands of Americans have died and millions are suffering financially, they can&#8217;t see past their unremitting contempt for him, and they can&#8217;t apply their energy toward helping Trump solve these problems instead of scheming of ways to unseat him in November.
Meanwhile, Trump has organized both his coronavirus task force and his Opening Our Country Council on a bipartisan basis, and he is working across party lines with businesses and state governments to address the crisis.
While the media have failed to make their case against Trump for incompetence and partisanship, they have resoundingly demonstrated their own — and the public is not likely to soon forget it.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is &#8220;Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win.&#8221; Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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