There has been a notable shift toward more and more extreme rhetoric in the media from predicting that democracy will end with this election to “disappearing” journalists and gays to ending all rights for everyone. On Monday, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace added to this litany with a claim that “as with racists, all of the conspiracy theorists are Republicans.”
After discussing how GOP candidates have stated that they believe that the last election was “stolen,” Wallace added “It is not accurate to say everyone in the Republican Party is a conspiracy theorist but as with racists, all of the conspiracy theorists are Republicans.”
It was a crushingly ironic moment. Wallace has been repeatedly criticized for spreading false news. For example, the “Deadline: White House” host told viewers that they should not take the Hunter Biden laptop seriously: “We shouldn’t look at it as anything other than a Russian disinformation operation.”
Wallace heralded the Mueller investigation while pushing the now debunked Russian collusion claims. However, on the Durham investigation, she told viewers that they could ignore it despite the fact that the report stands uncontradicted:
“Durham’s whole thing is predicated on it’s like a rabbit hole conspiracy that suggests that the Trump-Barr paranoia infected his ability to stand back and evaluate whether the probe yielded guilty convictions of people who would have had nothing to do with any of these questions he looked at.”
Wallace and MSNBC also pushed false claims about Bill Barr clearing Lafayette Park for a Trump “photo op.”
On August 5th, 2019, MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace falsely claimed that Trump had talked about “exterminating Latinos.”
Wallace and MSNBC pushed the false story of border agents whipping migrants in Texas.
Wallace claimed that the lab theory of the Covid 19 was a “conspiracy theory.” It has been embraced by various federal agencies despite being called racist by many experts.
Many on the left now routinely call opposing views as spreaders of disinformation or conspiracy theories. The Biden Administration has funded various groups to blacklist or bar those with opposing views as disinformation, malinformation, or misinformation. Indeed, new groups are being formed before the election to echo these claims, including one headed by the former “Disinformation Czar.”
Sort of goes back to the issue before SCOTUS involving “immunity”, albeit on a much broader scope. Does the 1st Amendment legitimize licentious behavior amongst a cadre, with no fear of retribution for their acts. Is political opinion, expressed as “journalism”, immune from liability for harming the masses they influence.
Does the 1st Amendment legitimize licentious behavior amongst a cadre, with no fear of retribution for their act
Like all thing Trump, the lefts throw conflicting principles into the narrative. All to confuse and fragment the debate.
Immunity is not a free speech issue.
The case is Constitutional power. Does the President have constitutional power to take actions. Obama murdered a US citizen without due process. We can tare into all of that and debate the daylight from the facts. But the simple fact remains we are a Representative Republic. Congress has the power to prosecute the President for murder. Congress did not prosecute. Now, the DoJ lacks the power to call the action a crime, because, according to congress, it is a power of the executive to take that action.
I love the smell of desperation in the morning.
Whimsicalmama,
Well said!
Right up there with the smell of a good cup of coffee and bacon cooking!
Thing is Turley, you and Wallace were basically on the same team when she worked for Bush Jr once upon a time…
But her disgust at what was going on inside the party led her to branch off while you just saw a way to make money shilling for them.
So I side with her, consider you to be the liar here, and also consider you to be quite complicit in the denigrating of American principles around representative democracy.
Whoa! Talk about brainwashed…
Hey Anonymous, Wallace “changed” when MSNBC decided to give her a giant check to be a “Republican” that hates Republicans, are you also getting paid or are you just a useful idiot that carries water for those actually cashing the big checks?
In other words, are you a paid hack or an idiot?
Well, I’m not paid so that must make me an idiot in your eyes. Don’t worry, I wear that as a badge of honor…
Mostly though I’m not a cretin moaning at a circle jerk like you and for that I’m eternally grateful.
Anonymous said: “her disgust at what was going on inside the party led her to branch off”
So. she jumped from shilling for a declining group of warmongering, deep state, necon frauds, to doing the same job for a competing ascending group that personifies the very same moral and philosophical liabilities, and portrays them as assets. Wow, what a stunning transformation!
Everything Russia does goes against the UN Charter, so why is Russia still a member of the United Nations? It’s like letting a bank robber sit in the board of directors of a bank.
The UN is a joke and everyone but you knows it.
She is correct. I think MSNBC hates Republicans. Crazy idea, right?
Have you hear?
If you are thinking of having children, that makes you “far-right!”
The absurdity of leftists continues to grow by leaps and bounds!
The far right is so obsessed with making babies, they just held a whole conference about it.
Behind the scenes at the first “NatalCon” ⬇️https://t.co/kLHHmetUNr
— POLITICO (@politico) April 28, 2024
I recently found out that I have become transgender. At the same time I’ve turned into a lesbian. So I guess it’s ok because I still like girls.
Uh-huh, sure, Nicole. 😂🙄🙄
More proof that self-awareness has completely evaporated on the modern left. They really need to wake up and smell what they’re shoveling. Maybe then they’d understand why no one is buying it. Pathetic. 🙄
It’s been confirmed through FOIA that the likes of serial toddler Harry Sisson are paid to follow a script; why should the MSM be any different? I used to joke about the ‘daily DNC spreadsheet’ given the indistinguishable nature of leftist talking points since Obama; turns out it’s true.
The claim “as with racists, all of the conspiracy theorists are Republicans.” seems biased, childish and astounding. Then you realize that those making that claim fall into the category of bigots. And ‘as with bigots, nearly all the gaslighting pseudo-journalists are Democrats’.
Thus, once again, the symmetry of the universe is demonstrated and the zeros cancel out.
Trump’s campaign manager shared internal polling data with Russian intelligence such that they could best target their disinformation campaign. This was found by the Mueller investigation as well as a Senate committee under R control…
So no, for like the hundredth time Turley, nothing was “debunked” along the lines of Russian meddling in the ’16 election.
But hey, don’t want to get in the way of your audition to be the front man for project 2025, so carry on.
Besides MSLSD what other clown sources do you get your news from?
Courts.
Exactly what “polling data” was disclosed?
Lol. Love this…
You don’t seem bothered by Manafort’s actions but instead question the information about polling data that you could easily learn if you read the Mueller report or the Senate report.
Hilarious.
Side bar: I’m not your secretary so perhaps read the reports, be brave and step away from your laziness?
Biden hid classified papers at a “think” tank that China backed with millions of dollars.
Biden was paid by a university that was given 5 million dollars by China.
Biden let a Chinese spy balloon traverse the entire country and only shot it down after it was discovered by the public.
Biden, and his backers, are gutting our energy sector in favor of the “Green New Deal” while not one of the backers, or Biden, ever says one word about China building coal plants weekly.
Biden is letting our military atrophy and our navy shrink while China is building more ships than us every year.
But Anonymous is only concerned that Russia was given polls in 2016, polls that they could have perused on Realclearpolitics for free.
Yup, when the Soviets were a real threat to us and the world the left loved them, now that China is a threat to us and the world the left loves them and hates the weak and feeble Russians. The same way that the left loves Iran (Biden and Obama have given them billions) , a deadly enemy, while they want to eliminate relations with Saudi Arabia, a more friendly nation that secretly supports Israel and the US and is fighting Iran.
The left hates America, some for ideological reasons, some for psychological reasons (they hate their father etc) and many just being paid by China or making grift money due to China and our own stupidity. People like Energy Sec Granholm who made millions with “green” technology, Kerry, a mentally disturbed fool who has been grifting for decades and Biden, a known crook and grifter.
HullBobby,
Ah, yes! Those Russians and their dastardly election interference!
The problem with that is the day after it was confirmed by their respective party conventions, who was still on the fence about who they were going to vote for? Was there some huge swath of undecided voters that could be influenced by some ads the Russians bought on Facebook?
Not that I know of. Everyone I know, knew who they were voting for.
Same goes for now too.
Meanwhile, here is a little tid bit of non-conspiracy news the Biden admin did not want to get out,
NEW: OnlyFans creator Farha Khalidi says she was paid by the Biden Administration to spread “political propaganda” & was told to not disclose her videos were ads.
Everything about Biden is fake.
Khalidi says the Biden admin reached out to her because they wanted someone with… pic.twitter.com/CQ40K5IHID
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 28, 2024
No hullbobby, the Russians couldn’t have perused what trump internal polling told them on Real clear Politics. You do understand that if that were the case they wouldn’t be caught dead by taking polling Manafort, right? Huge risk for them to do that so what they got in return had to worth it….
And trump made millions off the Chinese when he was actually in office. So there’s that.
But by all means, keep being gullible. When the goons come to throw the black hood over you they’ll let you skate for being so clueless no doubt.
Trump’s campaign manager shared internal polling data with Russian intelligence
According to the same agencies involved in spying on President Trumps Campaign Team.
This seems to be true here. There’s always someone bemoaning the collapse of this nation and multiple predictions that WWIII is eminent.
Wallace is mostly right. Conspiracy theorists abound in the Republican Party so much that’s it’s taken for granted that they are all conspiracy theorists, the crazies trying to square the round hole to fit their rabbit hole littered reality. It should not be surprising. It’s the bread and butter of the MAGA world. Thanks to the wide audience that the internet provides, conspiracy theories are what the republicans are best known for these days. That reputation is reinforced by a majority of commenters here. Wallace is not entirely wrong.
Wallace is mostly right. Conspiracy theorists abound in the Republican Party so much that’s it’s taken for granted that they are all conspiracy theorists,
Rubish. Using Wallace as your source irredeemably ruins your assertion.
Wallace rides the wave of being part of the mockingbird media that gets +90% of the total media output. The out put is often wrong when the media uses the story, but as long as narrative is leftist, the media spreads the lie.
Remember Dan Rather? He ran a smear story on GW Bush, before the election. Dan Rather knew the documentation he was looking at was fake. His Network looked at the document and said their expert could not affirm its authenticity. After it was aired and after the election, it was proven to be a fact. Dan Rather, today, stands by his story, saying the source document was fact, but the story based on the lie, is true.
Conspiracies abound on the left, they just never get any media attention, or are reported as True.
Covid 19 origin being zoonotic was ALWAYS a conspiracy theory. Just, Nicole Wallace reported it as fact. Despite ZERO evidence. At that time, over 200,000 samples were taken and analyzed. Not a single case was found in all those tests. Despite that, Nicole Wallace stated as fact, the lab leak theory had been debunked. Again not a single fact supported any debunking. Ignoring the truism that its impossible to prove a negative. Of course today the same “experts” that insisted on zoonotic transfer, say the most likely source of covid 19 is the level 5 bio lab that was experimenting with respiratory viruses.
Yesterday Pelosi was interviewed on MSNBC she pushed the conspiracy theory that Biden created 9 million jobs, The talking head said, ‘well there were covid lock downs’ Pelosi spit back she wasn’t going to listen to silliness from a Trump supporter.
Climate change? Talk about conspiracy theories.
How about the conspiracy theory that inflation is transitory?
Iowan2,
Well said and spot on.
Funny how many things they said was a conspiracy theory turned out to be true.
How about the conspiracy theory that Biden is mentally fit?
@iowan2,
Wallace isn’t the only source. This blog is, as we speak, proving her right.
To further support her claim you and others proceed to make arguments by projection, oblivious to the second nature of the reaction of being called out on a truth that is all too common.
Conspiracy theorists love to dive into endless rabbit holes in arguments avoiding anything that can pop the bubble of fantasy they’ve created for themselves. Fox News loves people like that. They make the easiest and best audience to capture and convince.
George, what is the purpose of your post responding to me.
I note, you are careful to avoid challenging a single item of my comment. Exactly what is your message?
Iown2,
Spot on.
@iowan2,
If you can’t figure out the purpose of my post then it would be pointless to show you what I meant. You’re not really making an effort.
I’m avoiding the problem that I pointed out about conspiracy theorists. Making the mistake of diving into a rabbit hole that will just lead into another one that I’m certain you will just keep on making.
Academic studies since Hofstadter have purported to show that conspiracy theories are mostly believed by people on the political right. Left wing trash, such as Wallace and yourself, have been using that smear against conservatives and Republicans ever since.
Here’s the thing. Academic researchers are, almost universally, left wing trash. So to support the proposition that conservative Republicans are more prone to believe conspiracy theories, they constructed biased garbage studies in which the researchers chose not to measure belief in left wing conspiracy theories.
A robust 2022 study of a very large sample size (N > 30,000) found liberal Democrats are just as likely to believe conspiracy theories as are conservative Republicans. It depends on the conspiracy theory being measured.
Based on their research, they conclude it is simply not true that conservative Republicans are more prone to believe conspiracy theories than liberal Democrats.
The money line is, “In no instance do we observe systematic evidence of a political asymmetry.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9307120/
Not that you, or Nicole Wallace, care. You have conspiracy theories to peddle.
I can give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are just ignorant. Wallace is different. She is a high status influencer. She is paid millions to influence public opinion. To that end, she’s decided to collect enormous sums of money to attack members of her former political party. The party that used to pay her to puff up Republicans and attack Democrats.
As long as the checks clear, she’s happy to spew lies for either side.
She’s evil.
“. . . bemoaning the collapse of this nation . . .”
Then there’s this:
The Left’s entire campaign against Trump is that his election will cause the “collapse of the nation.”
That “bemoaning” is good. The Right’s, not so much.
Apparently, the Left never learned how to use a mirror.
This definitely proves that the vast amount of the mainstream media is not sentient. A key component in determining sentience is that a being is self aware. The mainstem media and the Democratic Party have not exhibited self awareness for the last several decades.
With their declining viewers, even as the population of the country increases, the mainstream media is like watching a train wreck in slow motion but the momentum and speed of the wreck is increasing.
Politically we see the train wreck also occurring as it becomes more and more apparent there is no sentient engineer in front. I can only hope that the wreck confines itself to Washington DC and does not take the rest of the country with it.
An alternative engineer to this thought might be the new GOOGLE AI that was released several weeks ago which showed us that black is white and day is nite and on and on. I wonder if they brought that AI back to a special room and started removing components like Keir Dullea removed components of the HAL 9000.
I think Biden yells more when each new diseased component is removed from his brain. Can’t be many left.
@GEB,
Your comment demonstrates exactly what Wallace is talking about. A wild conspiracy theory involving AI. The irony is too much.
George what conspiracy theory did GEB mention. It is not a theory that google AI was programed to insert race into factual content George Wahingtion is not Black.
That the AI delivered fake facts, is not a conspiracy. That human Programmers caused it, is not a conspiracy.
Facts that challenge your political ideology is not a conspiracy.
@iowan2,
It is a conspiracy theory. There’s not a singe reference used to back up the claim. No quotes, links, or anything that can be verified as fact. You built a rabbit hole right on top of your own assumption and characterized it as fact without any means of proof. It’s a textbook example of what I’ve been talking about. You don’t seem to recognize it because it comes as second nature to you.
You made an assertion without anything anyone can use to corroborate your claim. That’s how conspiracy theories are born.
Well, EXCUse ME!
I made the silly assumption you made the snarky reply about an AI conspiricay being stupid, I just highlighted that AI is mired in woke. Heres a link where google admits that their AI did in fact generate images, that change to race of historic figures. I just figured you were up to speed on current events, it generated lots of comment across all forms of media. But no your just the typical leftist that only parrots the talking points handed to you by your personal Goebbels.
You are just as Ronald Reagan described liberals
“It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
― Ronald Reagan
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/22/google-pauses-ai-generated-images-of-people-after-ethnicity-criticism
Iowan2,
You’re proving my point. All you’re doing is adding to the conspiracy theory things that have no relevance to your original post. Your attempt at a rebuttal is clearly lacking in relevance.
George is not only not self aware but is also delusional. Also not up to date.
AI is still a computer but yet to prove sentience. But even a sentient being is an amalgamation of intellect, experience, problem solving and self criticism and reflection. A sentient being closed inside a box is going to be totally different from a sentient being whose imput is unrestrained .
@GEB,
What are you babbling about? You’re literally creating your own BS rabbit hole argument. It’s still a conspiracy theory no matter how you try to parse it. You’re doing exactly what I predicted this morning. Thank you for proving my point.
GEB
You have exposed George as the dunce he is. Another day, another leftist exposed as cluless
GEB,
Well said.
Great 2001 reference!
Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda AKA RMVK was Hitler’s ministry of propaganda to control the press, cinema and radio. We are digressing into the abyss and following the path of Nazi Germany. How dare anyone question their decrees?
The radical left shares their hatred of Jews and loathing for free speech with the Nazis of days gone by.
Is it possible to hoodwink a segment of the general population? I present the useful and radicalized idiots making a scene on U.S. campuses at the behest of their communist agitators.
You might find this interesting:
The Nazi term Gleichschaltung (German pronunciation: [ˈɡlaɪçʃaltʊŋ] ⓘ) or “coordination” was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler — leader of the Nazi Party in Germany — successively established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society “from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education”.[1] Although the Weimar Constitution remained nominally in effect until Germany’s surrender following World War II, near total Nazification had been secured by the 1935 resolutions approved during the Nuremberg Rally, when the symbols of the Nazi Party and the state were fused (see Flag of Nazi Germany) and German Jews were deprived of their citizenship (see Nuremberg Laws). The tenets of Gleichschaltung also applied to territories occupied by the Nazis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
There is a lot more at the link, such as:
Gleichschaltung is a compound word that comes from the German words gleich (same) and schaltung (circuit) and was derived from an electrical engineering term meaning that all switches are put on the same circuit so that all can be activated by throwing a single master switch.[2] Its first use is credited to Reich Justice Minister Franz Gürtner.[3] It has been variously translated as “coordination”,[4][5][6] “Nazification of state and society”,[7] “synchronization”,[3] and “bringing into line”.[7] English texts often use the untranslated German word to convey its unique historical meaning. In their seminal work on National Socialist vernacular, Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi-German: An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich, historians Robert Michael and Karin Doerr define Gleichschaltung as: “Consolidation. All of the German Volk’s social, political, and cultural organizations to be controlled and run according to Nazi ideology and policy. All opposition to be eliminated.”[8] This accords the general description provided by historian Jane Caplan, who characterized the term as “the coordination of German institutions into a cohesive, Nazified whole.”[9][a]
MSNBC propagandist like Ms. Wallace should be sent to Gaza or N. Korea on a one-way ticket. I am generous enough to give her a choice. These people are downright evil.
AlanK said: “Ms. Wallace should be sent to Gaza or N. Korea on a one-way ticket. I am generous enough to give her a choice.”
If you start a GoFundMe for this purpose, I might be generous enough to chip in 🙂 You might want to include China among the potential itineraries, possibly Wuhan, near the virus lab.
All I can say about Wallace is CBDLF (Crazed Bulldyke Leather Freak). What else can you say about a serial liar? The most positive thought is that maybe she’s hoping to pen a fantasy novel. Get another job, Nicole.
Scary Poppins surfaces again! Maybe she has a new song for us all?
Time to jail Democrats criminals by the 10000’s and save America
Also Defund Democrats
End Federal Aid to cities, colleges, states and non-profits
Cut Federal Spending by 50%
Congenital LIAR!!!!!
Republican…and Correct
So when Hillary and DNC PAID A Foreign Spy, a Russian, used the FBI, Congress, DOJ, etc to commit the treasonous Russian Hoax Conspiracy…why did NO ONE GO TO JAIL?
Har. The smell of desperation is palpable.