Meet the Press aired a deceptively edited video this weekend that made it appear as if White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany had said that U.S. schools should reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic despite what the science says.
The press secretary said no such thing. McEnany said specifically that there should not be any science-based objections to reopening because the data show it is both safe and preferable to put students back into their classrooms.
That Meet the Press would so egregiously misrepresent McEnany’s remarks, and that the mischaracterization occurred specifically on a show anchored by NBC News’s Chuck Todd, is both infuriating and kind of hysterical at the same time.
After all, it was Todd who claimed last week that “there is no editorial view here on any of these newscasts on MSNBC in the daytime.”
Whatever you say, Chuck.
MSNBC’s daytime newscasts obviously lean liberal, and not just in opinion matters — they have no qualms about distorting facts, the way Todd did here. If you rely on MSNBC’s daytime schedule for facts, you might get the false impression that “the Republican Party decided not to arm Ukraine” or that then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, dodged a meeting with pro-gun-control activists after a shooting — in fact, he was attending a funeral for one of the victims.
Indeed, the cable network’s left-wing editorial slant even during the daytime hours is so obvious to anyone with a working brain, that it is fall-down-funny that the host of Meet the Press would allege otherwise. The network is little more than a mess of hosts claiming Trump wants the extermination of Latinos and also journalists, wants to provoke racially inspired attacks, and is basically Adolf Hitler.
As the brilliant, incisive Nicolle Wallace once put it, “I watch enough History Channel to know that they cheered at Hitler, too.” Sigh.
