Russell Brand, an English commedian on Friday eviscerated MSNBC as a “propaganda” network with no room to moralize about Fox News in a relentless and fiery takedown directed right at MSNBC analyst John Heilemann.
Here’s Russell:
Brand took exception to singling out Fox and dismissed all of cable news as corporate “mouthpieces” and propagandists, laughing off the idea that some are less biased or have more integrity than others.
“It is disingenuous to claim that the biases that are exhibited on Fox News are any different from the biases exhibited on MSNBC,” Brand said. “It’s difficult to suggest that these corporations exist as anything other than mouthpieces for their affiliate owners in Black Rock and Vanguard.”
Brand recalled his own past MSNBC appearance, which he was pretty sure was on Morning Joe, trashing it as “propagandist nut-crackery.”
“It wasn’t morning. There was no one called Joe there. No one could concentrate. They didn’t understand the basic tenets of journalism,” Brand said as Bill Maher was dying laughing. “No one was willing to stick up for genuine American heroes like Edward Snowden, no one was willing to talk about Julian Assange and what he suffered trying to bring real journalism to the American people and I think to sit within the castle of MSNBC throwing rocks at Fox News is ludicrous. Make MSNBC better. Make MSNBC great again!”
Heilemann asked for a specific and provable example of an MSNBC host lying on air, claiming Brand was making a “false equivalency.” He also claimed Brand knew “nothing” about MSNBC simply because he’d only made one appearance on the network, an argument Brand immediately laughed off.
“You don’t actually know anything about the organizations you’re talking about. You’ve been on MSNBC once. Big fucking deal,” he said.
Brand emphasized he was talking about “biases,” but did cite the “ludicrous, outrageous criticisms of Joe Rogan around ivermectin.” Rogan boasted about taking ivermectin to treat Covid and initial reports referred to the drug as horse dewormer, despite it being approved for human use. The FDA has released a notice not use the medicine to treat Covid.
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