Thread by @JewhadiTM

A Shameless Lying MSNBC Hack is the Face of the Media frontpagemag.com/fpm/274756/sha…

At the end of July, MSNBC’s biggest and dullest conspiracy theorist got some very bad news.

Keith Olbermann had made her MSNBC career possible and another moved her show into the top cable spot.

That man was Robert Mueller. There was no Russian conspiracy theory too bizarre or insane to earn a rant from Rachel.

Going where few dared go, @Maddow began insisting that Russia was conducting a “continuing operation” and might even be in control of the White House and the entire country now.

And then the Mueller Report and later, Mueller’s testimony, destroyed all of Maddow’s conspiracies.

At the height of her Russian conspiracy theories in which she connected everyone and their uncle to Moscow, Maddow had could boast 4 million viewers while claiming to be the top cable news show.

In July, she had fallen to fifth place without even 2.5 million viewers to scrape together for her rants.

Maddow’s insecurity bypassed egomania. She didn’t have the chops to be on the air and she knew it. The only way she could stay on MSNBC was by spewing crazy lies and trying to destroy everyone to the right of Bernie Sanders.

In the middle of August, Maddow, her producers and the voices in their heads, decided to smear the grandson of Iraqi Jewish refugee grandparents as a white nationalist.

In an MSNBC broadcast, she accused Steven Menashi, a Trump judicial nominee, of writing a "blood-curdling article" offering "a highbrow argument for racial purity" by misreading, distorting and misrepresenting his writing.

Maddow repeatedly lied about the article, and failed to even mention that it was about Israel. She falsely claimed that Menashi had written “how definitely democracy can’t work unless the country is defined by a unifying race.”

Menashi’s father was a Jewish immigrant from Iran. His father’s parents had fled Iraq because of the anti-Semitic Farhud pogrom. His mother’s family had fled Ukraine and Lithuania.

All of this made Maddow’s accusations that he was a racial nationalist especially implausible. But it didn’t matter.

Rachel Maddow had not bothered to find out anything about Menashi before trying to destroy him.

All that mattered were two things. First, that Menashi was a Trump nominee, making him fair game for any lie, smear and slander. And second, that Maddow was sinking in the ratings and needed help.

Going after Menashi might not turn things around, but the smear campaign might stop the bleeding.

Rachel Maddow was trying to destroy a good man to keep Bank of America advertising on her show.

But you didn’t need to be a senator or an attorney general to be on the receiving end of a Maddow smear. Kerri Kupec, a DOJ spokeswoman, was smeared by Maddow for graduating from Liberty U.

“We've got a new Justice Department spokesperson who's from Liberty University, and Liberty University was founded by a televangelist so that your Christian child wouldn't be corrupted by actual higher education” she sneered.

It’s not just that Maddow is a radical or a hack. Nobody else would be allowed on at MSNBC. But she’s also pathetically bad at what she does. And her awfulness feeds her insecurities which makes her behave even worse.

Maddow has never cared about her credibility. She shot to the top of the pile through shameless stunts like claiming, “We’ve got Trump’s tax returns.” After ranting and rambling for 20 minutes, she unveiled bupkes. But it didn’t matter because the dupes tuned in.

There are always people with no shame willing to do anything to be on television. That’s what makes Survivor, The Bachelor, and CNN panels possible. But the media likes to pretend it’s better than that.

But MSNBC didn’t just put Maddow on the air night after night, no matter what she did, how many lies she told, how many people she tried to destroy, and which conspiracy she peddled between ad breaks.

MSNBC and NBC brought her in to moderate the 2020 Democrat debates.

Maddow isn’t fundamentally different than the media. She’s just further down the slippery slope. The media puts narratives ahead of facts. Maddow is all narrative. And narratives without facts are conspiracy theories.

The media believes that its goal is destroying Republicans while maintaining its credibility. Maddow only cares about the first part and isn’t worried about credibility.

This is the business that the rest of the media is in. Maddow is just more open about it.