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This is the same MSNBC contributor who insinuated that Donald Trump is a Russian KGB agent who was at some point “co-opted by Vladimir Putin,” which caused him to “buy into” and “embrace” a “dictatorial ideology that was done by a spymaster of the KGB.” He then said, “Ten years ago, twenty years ago, there would be treason trials at this point.” 861

One of their regular panelists, Donny Deutsch, actually issued a serious fight challenge to the president during one segment, saying, “Donald, if you’re watching, we’re from Queens. I’ll meet you in the schoolyard, brother. You need to be schooled. No, I’m serious. This is where this needs to go. He’s a coward! A coward!” 862He wasn’t fired, or even suspended; giving the impression that MSNBC endorses threats of violence against President Trump.

Host Mika Brzezinski once decried Trump’s influence on Twitter, saying, “He is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts,” and that “he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job.” 863

Another host apologized for fake news after she falsely claimed that Fox News was having their Christmas party at Donald Trump’s new hotel in Washington D.C. which had recently just opened. “I mean, think about the hotel in Washington right now. The RNC is having their Christmas party there. Fox News had their Christmas party there. That doesn’t feel a little hanky?” 864

At the end of the show the host surprisingly apologized, saying, “This is some serious business that I need to share. I need to apologize to the audience. Earlier today in a segment I stated that the Fox network held their holiday party at Trump’s D.C. hotel. I was wrong. We’ve since learned that neither Fox network nor an affiliate held any party at Trump’s Washington hotel. I stand corrected. I apologize for the error. I am truly, truly sorry. The mistake entirely my fault. And of course, I wish all my friends over at Fox a very happy holiday no matter where you have your party.” 865

Of course she didn’t say “Merry Christmas” because that might have offended some people, so instead she used the more “inclusive” phrase “happy holiday.”

Host Chris Matthews said that President Trump’s inauguration was “Hitlerian,” meaning it reminded him of an Adolf Hitler rally, and aside from being obsessed with “possible Russian connections” for a year after the election, he has also compared Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner to Saddam Hussein’s murderous sons, Uday and Qusay. 866Chris Matthews is the same guy who said he got a thrill up his leg from hearing Barack Obama speak. 867

After a terrorist ran down pedestrians using a van on the London Bridge in England, killing eight people and injuring 48, MSNBC host Thomas Roberts suggested that President Trump was “trying to provoke a domestic terrorist attack” of a similar nature in the U.S. “to prove himself right” about the dangers of radical Islamic terrorism. 868Such an egregious allegation should put an end to someone’s career in the television news business, but these kinds of unhinged statements are a common occurrence on the network.

In the immediate aftermath of the bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England which killed twenty-two people, MSNBC briefly mentioned the attack but quickly cut away from the breaking news to continue covering what they said was “shocking news in Washington tonight” and went on as usual with their nauseating obsession with conspiracy theories about Russia and the 2016 election. 869A bunch of children were blown up at a major pop star’s concert by an ISIS terrorist, but MSNBC thought talking about six-month-old conspiracy theories was more important.

Anchor Katy Tur appeared to insinuate that she was concerned Trump may have journalists he doesn’t like assassinated, drawing parallels between Vladimir Putin, who is accused of having some of his most vocal critics killed. During an interview with Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer, Tur asked, “As we know, there’s, since 2000, been a couple dozen suspicious deaths of journalists in Russia who came out against the government there. Donald Trump has made no secret about going after journalists and his distaste for any news that doesn’t agree with him here. Do you find that this is a dangerous path he is heading down?” 870

The fact that Katy Tur is put on air is a prime example of MSNBC’s low standards and poor quality talent pool they have to work with. During an interview with Republican Congressman Francis Rooney of Florida, when Tur again was grasping at straws to keep the Trump-Russia conspiracy theories circulating, Rooney pointed out that it was President Obama who got caught on a hot mic telling the Russian president he’d have “more flexibility” after his election. 871

Tur responded, “I’m sorry, I don’t know what you’re referring to, Congressman.”

Rooney replies, “Remember when he leaned over at a panel discussion or in a meeting and he said, I’ll have more flexibility after the election? No one really ever pushed the president on what he meant by that, but I can only assume for a thug like Putin it would embolden him.”

Tur then immediately ended the interview. 872Any journalist should have known what he was talking about since it was a pretty stunning exchange to have been caught on tape, and what Obama meant was that he didn’t want to lose votes in his bid for re-election, so he had to wait until after the election to do what he really wanted with Russia. In response to online criticism of her ignorance she tweeted, “To be fair, I didn’t touch politics in 2012. I almost exclusively covered fires and shootings in NYC area.” 873

This is the same ‘journalist’ who says that Trump has “weaponized” the term “fake news” and claimed that Trump had never denounced white supremacists during the 2016 campaign despite video compilations circulating on YouTube and Facebook showing him doing such things over and over again, as far back as the year 2000 when he denounced David Duke as a racist and a bigot. 874Tur’s father◦— it’s interesting to note◦— is also a reporter who now identifies as a woman, and once threatened to ‘curb stomp’ conservative pundit Ben Shapiro for using the wrong pronoun during a panel discussion Mr. Tur was involved in when he was called ‘sir.’ 875

MSNBC hasn’t gotten as much heat as CNN since the ‘fake news’ backlash began because it is a liberal network, whereas CNN was supposed to be impartial, and has recently changed its format from covering breaking news around the world to being an extension of the Democrat Party and a mouthpiece for George Soros.

The search for truth and investigating and verifying what a bona fide fact is, and what makes it different from a belief or an opinion has been an age-old philosophical quest known as Epistemology. What is knowledge? What is truth? How do we “know” something? While Socrates and Plato were searching for answers to these important questions over two thousand years ago, it’s a strange situation we find ourselves in when the ‘information age’ has helped to cause millions of people to drown in misinformation. It’s a paradox. Misinformation has become so pervasive in the information age that some say we’re living in a ‘post-truth’ world.

The Oxford Dictionary defines post-truth as “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief,” and the constant flow of media that is carefully crafted from multibillion-dollar corporate conglomerates has gotten constructing a post-truth world down to a science. Millions of people are mesmerized by an endless amount of information that bombards us constantly; wanting our attention, wanting us to believe something, wanting us to buy something, and wanting us to be something. It’s hard to tune it out and think for ourselves sometimes, and it seems that fewer people are even thinking at all.