Adam Johnson — Stoking Russia Panic for Partisan Gain Will Have a Long-Term Price for Peace

On Saturday’s episode of AM Joy with Joy Ann Reid, guest Malcolm Nance, a former Naval intelligence officer, summed up MSNBC’s Russia panic with this quote:

Joy Ann Reid: Because from what I’ve seen, the only people not with Hillary Clinton at this point…are people in the Jill Stein camp. Jill Stein was sitting at Putin’s table right with General Flynn.

Malcolm Nance: Jill Stein has a show on Russia Today.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein doesn’t have a show at all, let alone on RT. She once attended a function hosted by RT, which, by our current standards of liberal discourse, makes her a Kremlin agent, but the fact that such a demonstrably false statement could be made on cable news to thousands of people without anyone bothering to correct it shows how easy Russia panic is to stoke.

Earlier in the segment, Nance made the claim that “someone” in Trump’s campaign “may” be an “agent of Russia,” citing a recent report in the Financial Times (8/19/16) alleging that Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s former translator “may” have “links” to Russian intelligence.

The irony, of course, is that Nance himself has far more recent and better documented ties to US intelligence, but MSNBC feels no need to convince viewers he is not a CIA plant spreading disinformation.…

It gets even worse as it goes. Not only smearing Trump and Putin, but now Jill Stein, too. Beyond McCarthyism. Sick (psychopathological).

MSNBC the new Fox? Looking that way. I stopped watching them sometime after Keith got the boot and before Cenk resigned in protest of manipulation.

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Stoking Russia Panic for Partisan Gain Will Have a Long-Term Price for Peace
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Sam Seder — Midterm Elections Do Not Show Dems Need To Stop Being 'Hard Left'

The Majority Report's Sam Seder takes on Chris Matthews and his predictable call for Democrats to move further to the right during this Tuesday's election coverage.

During MSNBC's Midterm election coverage, Chris Matthews said the Democrats need to stop being "hard left" and get stuff done. While saying this, progressive referendums were winning across the country...

This is what we're going to be treated to for the next two years from our so-called "liberal media" and pundits like Matthews -- hippie punching, calls for President Obama to cooperate with Republicans no matter how destructive their agenda may be and calls for the Democratic party to move to the "center."

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