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MSNBC guest blames COVID lockdowns and video games for latest trans shooting

Leftists are twisting themselves into knots trying to explain away the cause for a mass shooting in Minnesota as anything but another transgender who acted out murderously against innocent children.

In the aftermath of the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, MSNBC featured a guest who suggested that Robin Westman – formerly Robert Westman – may have been influenced to open fire on kids in a religious setting by bad parenting, playing video games and the COVID lockdowns.

During Wednesday’s edition of “Chris Jansing Reports,” national security analyst Christopher O’Leary speculated about the possible motivations of the alleged shooter who had posted disturbing video online along with a manifesto that was quickly removed after the incident that left two kids dead. The MSNBC expert also pointed to online radicalization in forums on Reddit during the conversation.

“So when you talk about radicalization, you talk about writings that reference suicide, extremely violent thoughts and ideas, and those multiple videos that are posted online. What do these groups do when you say they radicalize?” Jansing asked.

“So, you know, whether it’s a terrorist organization or, you know, the variety of ideologies that different people follow, they’re following them because they have susceptibility,” O’Leary responded. “There’s various push-pull factors. Maybe it’s some kind of mental break. Maybe it’s their life has, you know, gone down the toilet and they have no hope.”

“Maybe they have bad parenting, a variety of things,” he continued. “The effects of COVID and the isolation and what’s called the gamification influence, where young men are growing up, you know, being raised by video games, all of those things are involved in really people mobilizing towards violence more routinely in these things.”

“But you will also see people get radicalized solely on these video games through headsets. They may never go on the Internet otherwise. So there’s a variety of things that, you know, threat professionals look at now and trends. But we’re seeing this repeated,” O’Leary said.

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Changing Names Won’t Fix MSNBC’s Reputation As A Left-Wing Propaganda Machine

MSNBC may be undergoing a major rebranding, but its role as a left-wing propaganda operation is here to stay.

On Monday, the network announced that it will be transitioning to “My Source News Opinion World,” or “MS NOW” later this year. The name change comes as part of the outlet’s move to Versant, a new media company separate from NBCUniversal and NBC News that is expected to include the Golf Channel, CNBC, GolfNow, and SportsEngine.

These changes demonstrate our focus on “building our individual identity and vision for the future while laying a foundation for the continued growth and success of our businesses,” Versant CEO Mark Lazarus reportedly wrote in memo to network staff.

While it may be getting a new name and paint job (that are already receiving mockery online), the outlet seemingly has no plans to abandon its role as a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party. MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler all but confirmed as much in an internal memo obtained by NBC News, in which she wrote, “While our name will be changing, who we are and what we do will not.”

“Our commitment to our work and our audiences will not waiver from what the brand promise has been for three decades,” Kutler wrote. The network additionally confirmed in its announcement that the “same familiar and trusted hosts and journalists who make sense of what is happening in Washington, across the country, and around the world will still be here.”

In other words, MS NOW will be no different than its soon-to-be predecessor when it comes to spewing endless amounts of propaganda on behalf of the outlet’s Democrat allies.

This is hardly a shock, especially when considering the doozies the network and its “talent” have put out over the years.

This past spring, for example, MSNBC took part in a media-wide campaign fomenting fears that President Trump’s tariffs would immediately “turbocharg[e]” inflation and destroy the economy. Like many of their ill-fated predictions, they turned out to be wrong.

Not long before that, NBCUniversal (MSNBC’s current parent company) was forced to settle a $30 million defamation lawsuit involving MSNBC’s “familiar and trusted” personnel. As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman reported, several of the network’s hosts (namely, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Nicolle Wallace) “falsely accused a Georgia doctor of unnecessarily — and without authorization — performing hysterectomies on illegal immigrants in an ICE facility.”

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Susan Rice: ‘Clearly and Repeatedly Established’ Russia Interfered in 2016 Election

Former White House adviser Susan Rice said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that it had been “clearly and repeatedly established” that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Friday in Alaska, Trump said, “I’ve always had a fantastic relationship with President Putin, with Vladimir. We had many, many tough meetings, good meetings. We were interfered with by the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. That made it a little bit tougher to deal with, but he understood it. He’s seen it all. But we had to put up with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. He knew it was a hoax, and I knew it was a hoax.”

Host Nicolle Wallace said, “How do you add up, Trump’s talking about the Russia hoax with Marco Rubio and his cabinet, who assessed that it wasn’t a hoax at all, that Russia interfered in 2016? What do you hear when you hear him say that?”

Rice said, “It’s pathetic. It’s been clearly and repeatedly established, including by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee led by Marco Rubio, that Russia interfered in the 2016 election by disinformation campaigns, by social media efforts, by all sorts of means short of manipulating the actual vote. And that’s just a fact. Now, obviously, Donald Trump doesn’t like that fact. He doesn’t like the fact that the intelligence community and the Senate Bipartisan Intelligence Committee assessed that this interference was intended to not only sow distrust in our democracy, but to benefit Donald Trump.”

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MSNBC Has Been Rebranded; See What It’s Now Called…

MSNBC’s terminal decline has been further confirmed with a desperate attempt at rebranding the network with a new name.

It will now be known as MS NOW, which sounds like a charity group raising awareness for multiple sclerosis.

It’s ironic because, just like the chronic autoimmune disorder, watching MSNBC leaves people with symptoms including fatigue and cognitive problems.

Yes, MSNBC is still owned by NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. MSNBC operates as a joint venture between NBCUniversal and Microsoft, with NBCUniversal holding the majority control. This structure has been in place since the network’s founding in 1996.

The rebrand is part of a “spin off of cable assets” according to a memo from the network reported by Variety. 

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MSNBC Contributor Claims He’s More Afraid of Climate Change Than Crime in Washington, DC

If you needed more proof that MSNBC is not a serious news network, you’re in luck.

During a recent appearance, frequent guest Anand Giridharadas tried to downplay crime in Washington, DC by listing the things he is more concerned about, such as climate change, losing his vote, whatever that means, and other imaginary problems.

At one point, he manages to throw in a concern about the middle class, which is funny because the left abandoned them years ago.

He says that there is a crime problem in DC but qualifies it as a small one and accuses Trump of being an authoritarian. How original.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

ANAND GIRIDHARADAS: Crime is real. It is blown out of proportion. People are feeling much more unsafe than they statistically are—but the feeling matters. People deserve to be safe, but they also deserve to feel safe.

I think it is true that Democrats have sometimes ignored or lectured people, holding a spreadsheet of statistics. That said, it’s really important to be clear about what is going on here: a relatively small crime problem is being used for specific authoritarian purposes that we know and understand.

Let’s be clear—D.C. does have one really big crime problem, which was the January 6th insurrection incited by the current president of the United States. His first act in coming back was pardoning all the people who tried to overturn constitutional order in Washington, D.C.

When I go to D.C., I’m not afraid of losing my wallet so much as I’m afraid of losing my vote. I’m not afraid of losing my wallet so much as I’m afraid that my children’s freedom to breathe will be stolen in a world where climate change policy is nonexistent. I’m afraid that the future of middle-class people will be stolen by the very things you were talking about cutting—the safety net, Medicaid, rural hospitals.

If you watch the video below, you’ll notice that Joe Scarborough jumps in at the end, trying to save the segment. It doesn’t work.

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“I’m Trying to Hold My Temper” – Race Baiting MSNBC Commentator TRIGGERED by Trump’s Crackdown on Crime in DC, Blames Obsession with Black Lives Matter and “Racial Politics” to Distract from Epstein Story

Eddie Glaude, an Ivy League critical race theory and African American studies professor at Princeton, went on MSNBC on Monday to condemn President Trump’s federalization of DC’s Metropolitan Police Department, blaming racism and Jeffrey Epstein for the move. 

“I’m trying to hold my temper,” Glaude told MSNBC’s Chris Jansing in response to the President’s comments during a press conference earlier. “I think there’s an ongoing argument that he’s having in his head with Black Lives Matter.”

It should be noted that in 2021, over 96% of suspects in Washington, DC homicides and nonfatal shootings were black, according to a National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform report.

“He really doesn’t really care about what’s actually happening in DC… because he’s not trying to get at the underlying root causes,” Glaude continued.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump announced on Monday that he is taking federal control over DC’s Metropolitan Police Department and authorizing the use of national guard troops to solve the “public safety emergency” in the nation’s capital.

Trump also called on Republicans in Congress to change the statutes to get rid of “no cash bail” and “some of the other things” that empower criminals in DC and other major cities across the nation.

“This city will no longer be a sanctuary for illegal alien criminals. We will have full, seamless, integrated cooperation at all levels of law enforcement, and we’ll deploy officers across the district with an overwhelming presence,” Trump said.

United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro went off earlier on the “young punks” that are terrorizing the city and revealed that minors are not even being prosecuted for violent crime but, instead, receiving a slap on the wrist and released back into the community.

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MSNBC Contributor Goes Full Drama Queen Over Colbert Cancelation: ‘Really Scary’

People on the left truly seem to live in an alternate universe. During a recent segment on MSNBC, contributor Molly Jong-Fast reacted to the Colbert cancelation by saying that it’s ‘really scary.’

It’s scary that a TV show got canceled? That happens all the time. In this case, the show in question was losing tens of millions of dollars a year.

She actually goes on and compares this situation to the McCarthy anti-communism hearings. This isn’t even remotely similar to that but she takes herself and her words so seriously.

“And even if it’s not quid pro quo, the idea of self-censorship. And I talk about my grandfather, Howard Fast, who was jailed by McCarthy during The House UN-American Activities, that that our government has done this before, that history is very much filled with moments like this.”

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MSNBC Contributor Implies Violence Against ICE Agents is Justified: ‘Lawful Right of Self-Defense’

MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance is a former U.S. Attorney who was appointed by Obama. This week, she appeared on the network and implied that the violence we are seeing against ICE agents is justified.

Her argument is based on the fact that ICE agents are masked, which ignores the fact that these men and women are wearing masks to protect themselves and their families from the unhinged and radical left.

Does everyone remember how the liberal media constantly accused the Tea Party of being potentially violent, even though no violence ever materialized? Compare their rhetoric from back then to this attempt to justify the violence of the left.

Partial transcript via NewsBusters:

ALI VELSHI: Joyce, let me ask you one thing….You’re a prosecutor, I want to ask you, there are legitimate reasons why some enforcement agencies, some police agencies, go undercover or, you know, do things in shadows to achieve certain things. I would assume that’s specific and, you, know, it needs to be, needs to comport with some laws.

JOYCE VANCE: Exactly. There are very serious legal restrictions around the use of, for instance, FBI agents as undercover operatives. Very strict rules regarding how it’s done, what they can do, what they can’t do. But you know what I’ve never seen a federal agent working a case due is pull a mask up so nobody knows who they are and go out and terrorize a civilian population.

And I think it’s important for us at this point to be very plain-speaking when we say that this is not normal, it’s not acceptable, and it’s a danger sign. You know, we are well past the point where we can just identify danger signs and say, oh, there might be problems down the road. The problems are here, they’re in the right now.

And as we see people being pulled off the streets — you know, the danger to law enforcement, quite frankly, is that when you’re masked like that and people don’t know who you are, someone might exercise their lawful right of self-defense to protect themselves, thinking they’re being kidnapped. So the notion that this is for law enforcement’s protection is utterly ludicrous. And we need to do away with that.

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MSNBC Reporter Says Riots Are “Relatively Mellow” As Cars Burn, Explosions Go Off Around Him

This is it. This is the most ridiculous one yet. An MSNBC reporter went to downtown LA to report on the anarchy and chaos that rages on, and declared that it was “relatively mellow” while standing in front of a burning car with explosions going off around him.

With his gas mask hanging from his shoulder, the reporter proclaimed “it’s not chaotic, you know other than what you see behind me, it’s actually relatively mellow.”

The moment he said that, a flashbang went off on cue. He then claimed that the riot is “almost like a celebratory atmosphere, as much as like a confrontational one.”

Stand aside ‘fiery but peaceful’, we have a new king of riot memes.

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This Was All Part of Their Plan: Democrat Senator Calls for Nationwide Street Protests on MSNBC

Democrat Senator Chris Murphy called for nationwide street protests following the massive destruction and violence by leftist, pro-Palestinian, and illegal alien riots in Los Angeles over the weekend.

Senator Murphy was on with Morning Joe this AM when he called for street protests in every US city.

These people are lawless.

Choose your side wisely.

Senator Chris Murphy: my first message is to keep it peaceful. I mean, obviously, this is a moment where we have to be on the streets all over the country to protest what’s happening to our immigrant community, but more broadly, to protest what’s happening to our democracy. This is the most corrupt administration in the history of the country, and we are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets. But ultimately, I think the country sees what Donald Trump is trying to do here. He’s looking for a fight. There’s nothing in what he is doing that is about about peace or about restoring order. He’s taking a protest that is relatively isolated. People in Los Angeles over the weekend would tell you that 99% of them went about their day, and it was pretty normal because this is not an invasion that has taken over the entire city. He’s trying to turn a protest that is pretty small into something that involves an even bigger confrontation so that he might actually be able to invoke the Insurrection Act. That would be a defining story of the week if he were to do it.

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