Yesterday on The Rachel Maddow Show on MS NOW, Maddow turned organized left-wing protests into a full-blown national crisis and historic resistance movement.
While breathlessly hyping weekend protests against the Trump administration’s ICE detention center expansions (framed, of course, as some dystopian “archipelago of prisons”), Maddow couldn’t help but expose exactly why so many Americans tune out the corporate media.
She declared:
“And, and there were a gazillion of these types of protests all over the country this weekend. And I’m gonna show you some of them in part because I recognize that I am part of the national media. So therefore, I am a little self conscious about the fact that the national media has really been sucking its thumb on this story and hasn’t much caught on to it yet. The national media has been really behind on this story, but local media have been taking notice of these fights everywhere they are happening and local media everywhere this weekend took notice of these protests that happened in more than 180 different locations all over the country.”
A gazillion isn’t even a real number.
For a host pulling in $25 million a year while working just one night a week, throwing around a toddler-level exaggeration like “gazillion” makes her look ridiculous.
Maddow scolded her own industry for “sucking its thumb” while praising local media for covering the supposed 180+ locations.
According to her, big protests were breaking out everywhere.
In reality, organizers behind the “Communities Not Cages” day of action put together coordinated events by left-wing groups like Indivisible, MoveOn, and Detention Watch Network — often just a handful of activists with signs on a street corner or outside a proposed warehouse.
One reported event in McHenry, Illinois, drew about 140 people.
That’s not a national uprising.
It’s not the media’s responsibility to turn every small, left-wing protest into a national spectacle.
Maddow wrapped up her segment with pure fan fiction for the resistance:
Someday when this signature sort of landmark turn against the Trump administration goes down in American history, when somebody in the future looking back at this time, finally figures out that this was actually a really dramatic and important thing. When, when sometime in the future somebody figures out that Donald Trump, when he got back into the office, when he got back into office, he tried to build himself a huge archipelago of prisons to hold people without trial, and he succeeded in getting Republicans in Congress to give him billions and billions of dollars for it. And his administration really did make all these secret ominous warehouse purchases all over the country to do this for him. Someday, somewhere, someone in the future is going to marvel at the fact that despite the fact that Trump got back into office after everything about him, despite the fact that he got funding for this thing, despite the fact that they bought these things, somebody in the future is going to marvel at the fact that none of these things ever actually got opened, that Donald Trump did not get his archipelago of prison camps to hold people outside the legal system. And the reason he didn’t get it is not cause he didn’t try hard enough, but because people all over the country stood up and said, no, not here. You cannot do this. We won’t let you, you sir, have a lot of bad ideas. This is the worst one, and we’re not gonna let you do it in our town.”
Rachel Maddow is not a journalist. She’s a delusional storyteller.
The Rachel Maddow Show is Democrat propaganda pretending to be news.
The Trump’s administration is expanding detention capacity to handle the border crisis he inherited and is now fixing with deportations — something voters demanded.
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