MSNBC - Lies Corruption and Misinformation
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Poor, Broken MSNBC Host Announces Needs a Vacation Because of Trump 'Exhaustion'
Democrats are so soft. They're been throwing fits for the past ten years over President Donald Trump, and they've ramped up the mania since he got back into office.
But it looks like some of them just can't take it anymore.
MSNBC made Rachel Maddow commit to being on five days a week for the first 100 days of Trump's term, when she had perviously had only been doing once a week. But host Lawrence O'Donnell said to her that he hadn't made the same commitment, and he was "exhausted" already.
Madcow's facial expressions were the best part of that segment.
MSNBC Guest Spreads a Massive Lie About the Stranded Astronauts
It’s been nearly a year, but astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams are finally back on Earth. They were stranded in space because the Biden administration didn’t want to give Elon Musk, Donald Trump, or the GOP an election win. Biden tends to leave things behind: he left Americans behind in Afghanistan, he left these astronauts stranded in space, and he let numerous Americans, like Marc Fogel, rot in detainment. It took less than two months to do what Biden could never do, which was secure the release of hostages and bring these two astronauts back.
Yet, on MSNBC, they tried to spin this tremendous win for Trump and the nation, adding that Wilmore and Williams were never stranded despite that being the national media consensus. Even the fake news media writ large couldn’t say they weren’t. The pair were up in space much longer than their original mission. PBS, ABC, BBC, CSPAN, and even Live Science all described their situation as being stranded:
MSNBC Forced to Correct Wild Story by Former FBI Official About Kash Patel: ‘Not Verified That Claim’
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" had to retract a false claim by former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi suggesting FBI Director Kash Patel spent more time partying at nightclubs than working. It marks another embarrassing blunder that underscores the network's vulnerability to airing unverified allegations made by Figliuzzi.
Figliuzzi, a top FBI official during Obama’s first term and current NBC News analyst, made a sensational claim on Friday's show, suggesting there is "chaos" under Patel's leadership and that he spends significantly more time at nightclubs than he does working.
"Reportedly, he's (Patel) been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building," he claimed without evidence.
In addition to that statement, Figliuzzi also suggested that Patel's nightlife habit had reduced the number of critical daily briefings he receives.
"And there are reports that daily briefings to him have been changed from every day to maybe twice weekly," he added.
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Figliuzzi has consistently been a source of absurd theories with little to no evidence backing them up, making Lemire and MSNBC's retraction ring rather hollow. Stop airing him if his comments keep proving to be fiction.
He once claimed - we kid you not - that Trump's lowering of flags to half-staff to honor victims of the El Paso and Dayton shootings in 2019 was a secret shoutout to White Supremacists and Nazis.
Why? Because he had them lowered on August 8th. Which meant they would be raised again on August 8th. Which, in Figliuzzi's mind, everybody (insert eyeroll emoji) knows 8/8 is code for "Heil Hitler."
And he said this with a straight face.
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But Figliuzzi actually thrived at MSNBC with some other gems, including:
- Worrying that the assassination attempt against Trump was going to lead to violence against leftists.
- Suggesting Republican lawmakers should be preemptively arrested to prevent another January 6th protest.
- Likening Trump’s relationship with his supporters to a radical Islamic cleric who plays beheading videos as a means to radicalize jihadists.
Figliuzzi served as assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division between 2011 and 2012. He was appointed by Robert Mueller.
