This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features a top MSNBC show discussing the possibility of a Donald Trump cable network taking over from Fox.
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On Sunday’s AM Joy, Joy Reid ‘dissed the competition and featured a panel that slapped Fox as “too lazy to join” the KKK and called Donald Trump like a “Swastika.'”
In a discussion about potential post-election Trump TV venture, Reid said, “I actually think – and you probably know better than I do – there are people who say that Fox News doesn’t hate Muslims enough, isn’t angry enough about immigration, that Megyn Kelly is too tough on Trump surrogates. There is an audience that’s further to the right because it’s on Breitbart.com right now.”
Panelist and comedian Dean Obeidallah, added, “Finally a network for people who find Fox News too intellectual, and too warm and fuzzy, and too lazy to join the Klan. So you can sit home and watch this stuff. But, you know what, and a great morning show of Mel Gibson and Paula Dean together in the morning for the base. Here’s the reality. We’ve watched Fox, we’ve watched Trump TV, a preview the last about 15, 16 months. It’s horrifying. It is bone-chilling.
“We’ve seen a spike in emboldening in hate of anti-Semitism, of white nationalists. Anti-Muslim hate crimes have spiked in the last few weeks by self-professed Trump supporters. I’m not guessing they’re Trump supporters. Last weekend alone, two mosques defaced with the word ‘Trump.’ To his supporters, the name ‘Trump’ is becoming a modern day version of the Swastika. So I fear that this is an IV drip of hate.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: “Such condescending disdain for a significant portion of the population, trying to smear many Trump supporters as deplorable racists, may be funny to MSNBC producers, but it’s likely humorous to few others. Obeidallah shouldn’t try this routine beyond MSNBC.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
