Words, like actions, have consequences. But these three MSNBC Hosts did not think much about that when they were ridiculing Republican voters in Virginia on Tuesday for listing immigration as a top priority.
The three hosts, Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow, and Jen Psaki, did not get away with it, though. They have been facing a lot of backlash because of it.
“On MSNBC, it’s as predictable as the sun rising in the east, birds flying south for the winter, and something we can agree on, the Cowboys losing in January,” Fox News contributor and columnist Joe Concha joked on Wednesday’s “Fox & Friends First.”
Reid, Maddow, and Psaki mocked voters concerned about illegal immigration on Super Tuesday. “They’re voting on this idea of an invasion of Brown people over the border,” Reid claimed.
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Psaki derisively highlighted an exit poll that had immigration as a top priority for GOP voters in the state. Her other panelists laughed, suggesting it was foolish since Virginia isn’t a border state. Meanwhile, Maddow mentioned that Virginia “does have a border with West Virginia.”
Concha pointed to other exit polls as well, showing the economy and inflation were also top concerns for Republican voters. Immigration is another primary concern, but not for the reasons the liberal anchors claimed, he says.
“This isn’t a racism thing,” he said. “But this is what that network pushes over and over again because I guess they’re telling their dwindling audience what they want to hear.”
He believes Americans are worried about resources getting stretched to cater to illegal immigrants in their communities and security. Especially with deadly drugs like fentanyl coming across the border and terrorists coming into the country.
“Outnumbered” co-host Harris Faulkner says the attitude at MSNBC was “deliberate.” While fellow co-host Kayleigh McEnany thinks that it was a clear case of “tone-deafness.”
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“They are seeing what’s going on. They see the higher violent crimes among some illegal immigrants, and they have to see what happened to Laken Riley,” Faulkner said. He also mentioned how they see that “fentanyl has made every state a border state, so all that’s left really is they don’t care.”
“Outnumbered” guest Ari Fleischer said Maddow sees West Virginia as a “foreign country” thanks to her quip about the border.
Concha also reacted to Maddow rebuking her own network for airing former President Trump’s speech following his string of Super Tuesday primary victories, effectively confirming him as the GOP 2024 nominee.
“Fox & Friends” host Carley Shimkus believes the liberal network may have felt the need to “protect” its viewers. But only because it thinks they “can’t handle” hearing from Trump. “To me, that’s insulting,” she said.
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Concha’s argument is that MSNBC’s strategy was all about “controlling the narrative” so viewers wouldn’t hear directly from President Trump about issues Americans are concerned about. “They can’t control it when he’s speaking without the filter. They want to be the filter; they want to control the narrative,” he said.
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