The co-founder of the Intercept says MSNBC refuses to feature him.
Appearing on the inaugural episode of Megyn Kelly’s podcast, journalist Glenn Greenwald told the former Fox News host that MSNBC has blacklisted him from appearing on any of their shows because of his vocal opposition to the way the network covered allegations that President Trump colluded with Russia to beat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016.
“Once I became a critic of Russiagate, I basically got banned from the network because I became a critic of their coverage of it,” Greenwald said.
“Are you saying you’re banned from MSNBC?” Kelly asked.
“Yeah. I’m totally, formally banned,” Greenwald responded.
Greenwald complimented two of the network’s top show hosts but said that his criticism of the Left from the Left was no longer of interest to the producers at the network.
“I used to be really good friends with Rachel Maddow,” Greenwald said. “Before she got her MSNBC show and was on Air America, I used to go on all the time, and we used to bash Democrats from the Left as a fraudulent political party.”
An MSNBC representative told the Hill that there is no formal ban of Greenwald and said that his lack of appearances was based on the fact that no host wanted to have him on as a guest. Greenwald dismissed this notion and said that he was not the only left-leaning journalist to be punished for questioning the network’s coverage of the “Russiagate” controversy.
“I was told this in 2017 and early 2018 by two separate producers with two separate shows that they were told never to book me,” he said Monday afternoon. “I should also add that it’s not just me but several liberal-left journalists, including Matt Taibbi and Jeremy Scahill, who used to regularly appear there and stopped once they expressed criticism of MSNBC’s Russiagate coverage and skepticism generally about the narrative.”
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report said that Russians interfered in the 2016 election in a “sweeping and systematic fashion,” but the special counsel’s team “did not establish” criminal conspiracy between Russians and anyone in the Trump campaign.
