Rachel Maddow has nothing on your average conspiracy theorist and she doesn’t think anything is too crazy to put forth. But now, she is paying a price for her deceptive ways.
After the Mueller report came out and her viewers began to realize that for two years, she has been scamming them, her ratings have dropped by double digits, while Fox News is showing modest gains. The following is 17 instances that Maddow fed her gullible audience over the last two years.
Maddow Tells Her Audience One Thing While the Facts and Her Chyron Say Another
Maddow lied to her audience with the false claim Attorney General Bill Barr was redacting the Mueller report on his own. This is not only no true, her own chyron at time read, “Barr: Special Counsel Is Assisting with Redactions”
2/ Just recently you were caught in real-time lying to your audience. You claimed Barr was handling the redactions by himself. But the chyron — on screen right below — told viewers the truth, that Mueller was in fact "assisting" w/ the redactions: pic.twitter.com/rTSAABngp2
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
3/ There was that time in Jan 2017 when you speculated that Putin may use the pee tape & other kompromat to force Trump into withdrawing US troops near Russia. How did that one turn out? pic.twitter.com/XuXXagyCNb
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- Maddow’s False Claim About Ignoring Putin Tapes
Just a couple weeks ago after the Mueller Report debunked the entire Russia Collision Hoax, Maddow lied to her audience with the provably false claim she “refused to let myself think about” the Putin tapes (that don’t exist).
4/ BTW, just last week you falsely said that "the one thing I refused to let myself think about" was that Putin had tapes of Trump — the very prospect you had previously floated to posit that Putin may blackmail Trump into withdrawing troops. pic.twitter.com/xMC4uPrjSK
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- Maddow Spreads Evidence-Free Paranoia About Putin Tapes
Maddow told her audience that Putin might use compromising video of Trump (that does not exist) to blackmail him into withdrawing troops.
- Maddow Sounds the Alarm About Russia Freezing Americans to Death
Here’s video of Maddow trying to start a war with Russia using paranoid speculation about Putin deliberately freezing the Dakotas to death.
5/ Who could forget that time this past winter when you seized on life-threatening cold temperatures to fear-monger that Russia could kill Americans by knocking out their heat?pic.twitter.com/deo2H4SBBQ
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- Maddow Suggests Trump Takes Orders Directly From Putin
This is the stuff of street corner ranters begging for change. I once met a homeless guy who said he was married to Victoria Principal. He even showed me a photo of her (cut out of a magazine) to prove it. Maddow doesn’t even respect her audience enough to cut out a photo.
6/ There was that time when you explored the scenario under which Putin "gives orders" to his puppet Trump at an upcoming meeting. Do you think Putin ordered Trump to stage a coup in Venezuela/try to kill the German-Russia gas pipeline/nix the INF treaty? pic.twitter.com/cbSrGt2xR3
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- Maddow Suggests Trump Used Cohen to Pay Off Russian Hackers
Maddow’s lack of respect for her audience’s intelligence and ability to discern the difference between informed speculation and what’s been pulled from one’s backside is mind blowing.
7/ How about that time when you speculated — citing the Steele dossier — that Cohen billed Trump $50k for "tech services" to pay off Russian hackers? It was actually to pay a US firm (https://t.co/GGK6FQLvRJ). pic.twitter.com/TcqdN8mC4z
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- Maddow Says Putin Ordered Trump to ‘Bleed Out’ FBI
We are now to a point where Maddow has not only disgraced herself but also CNN’s Brian Stelter, the self-appointed guardian of journalistic wisdom, who has never taken Maddow to task for deliberately misinforming her audience with wacko conspiracy theories like this one.
8/ How about when you suggested that Putin has gotten Trump to "bleed out" the FBI? If Mueller and the FBI found proof of that, I missed that part of their report. pic.twitter.com/hFT0ByWzlQ
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- Maddow Says Putin Installed Rex Tillerson as Trump’s Secretary of State
I am running out of ways to smack my gob.
9/ How about the time when you speculated that Putin installed Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State? pic.twitter.com/YiUYWdxpZ5
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- Maddow Lies About White House Hiding Trump-Putin Transcript
Straight-up lie.
10/ How about when you claimed that the White House edited out a key question from the Trump-Putin presser? The WP showed that to be false, and the result of live video/audio switching issue (https://t.co/miq3aLxhGf). Yet you never corrected it: pic.twitter.com/LrnPyMcTMQ
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- Maddow Says Putin Ordered Trump to End Korean War Games
More proof Brian Stelter is the hackiest hack in hackdom.
11/ Then there was that time when you lamented the suspension of US war games in Korea, and speculated that it was the fault of Putin: pic.twitter.com/cuDgHyDQPs
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- OMFG Russian Pharmaceutical Tycoon and Wife Attend Trump’s Inauguration!
Pure paranoia and the exact same scare tactics and mind games Jim Jones used to keep his cult scared, bubbled, and uninformed.
12/ Have we ever gotten to the bottom of your "New Scrutiny on Russians at Trump's Inauguration" in Jan 2017 — aka a Russian couple who posted video of their attendance? pic.twitter.com/HAieukFsWI
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- The Secret Plot to Funnel Money from the Russian Government to the NRA
This isn’t just fake news, it’s nuts, it’s the behavior of a neurotically unstable woman no one loves enough to save from herself.
15/ How about when you speculated that Maria Butina may have played a role in a secret Russian government plot to funnel money to the NRA in order to influence the 2016 election? How did that one pan out? pic.twitter.com/eaRgZdauty
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- Trump Presidency Is a ‘Russian Op’
Brian Stelter is garbage.
16/ How about when you said in 3/2017 that "if the American presidency right now is the product of collusion between the Russian intelligence services & an American campaign… we need to start preparing for what the consequences are going to be if it proves to be true." Did it? pic.twitter.com/RO71MGdICd
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- #Kids4Trump Hashtag Was Russia Plot to “Destroy American Democracy.”
Maddow is a total kook.
18/ or when you recently claimed that the hashtag #Kids4Trump
was part of a Russian effort "to destroy American democracy." How much contempt do you have for American democracy to suggest that Russian trolls could "destroy" it? pic.twitter.com/WcuG1RibkB— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
- Russians Installed Paul Manafort as Trump’s Campaign Manager
No, seriously, Brian Stelter is total garbage.
19/ Remember earlier where we saw you suggest that Russia chose Tillerson as Sec of State? How about also when you pondered the same about Paul Manafort? "I mean, take the view from Moscow. If you know a guy who needs a presidential campaign manager, how about our friend Paul?": pic.twitter.com/5xcFarXakV
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 29, 2019
- Russia Installed Trump “To Weaken Parts Of America that Most Annoy … Vladimir Putin
That’s only half of the neurotic madness in this clip. Maddow again says Russia installed Tillerson as Secretary of State and he is doing Russia’s bidding by weakening Oregon, or something…
20/ Speaking of installing Tillerson, remember when you also speculated that Russia was actively getting Trump "to weaken the parts of America that most annoy and that most undermine Vladimir Putin", and so that's why the State Dept. was "hollowed out, disappeared, and muted"? pic.twitter.com/6mX5qCCq5F
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 29, 2019
- I Can’t Even
After telling her gullible audience Russia installed Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State…
After telling the suckers Tillerson was doing exactly what Russia wanted him to do as Secretary of State…
Here is Maddow doing a shameless 180 with a delusion about Russia getting Tillerson fired.
20/ Speaking of installing Tillerson, remember when you also speculated that Russia was actively getting Trump "to weaken the parts of America that most annoy and that most undermine Vladimir Putin", and so that's why the State Dept. was "hollowed out, disappeared, and muted"? pic.twitter.com/6mX5qCCq5F
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 29, 2019