Rachel Maddow kicked off her show with yet another lecture about “conspiracy theories on the pro-Trump right.”
Maddow, who spent years as the ringleader of the Russiagate conspiracy, now wants to play conspiracy cop. Night after night, she used her primetime show to push the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. She treated the Steele dossier as credible, implied Trump was controlled by Putin, and told her viewers that Robert Mueller would bring the whole house down. None of it ever happened — and it was proven not to be true.
That’s what makes her new routine so ironic. She points fingers at conspiracies on the right while ignoring the fact that she pushed one of the most damaging fake conspiracies in modern American politics.
Here’s how she framed Trump supporters:
“He (Trump) posted that video on his social media this weekend. I mean, this is one of the weirder conspiracy theories on the pro-Trump right. This is, like, right there along with the lizard people thing. And the earth is flat. And people who think there are big secret cities underwater or huge secret underground nuclear bunkers just for liberals. That one has actually been promoted by Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. I mean, you’ve heard about some of these crazy things, right?
You’ve heard that the QAnon people think that JFK Junior is still secretly alive and among us. Well, apparently, they think that JFK Junior is still secretly alive and among us, because he’s been put in one of the magic beds.
It is just banana land, right? It is utterly insane. But the president of the United States this weekend posted a fake video of himself confirming that it’s all true and announcing that everyone’s getting a magic bed — before he then later deleted the post that he made without comment. Cause this is our life now. And that’s the leader of the free world, right?”
The truth is, the “banana land” conspiracies Maddow ridicules stand a better chance of being proven true than her wildly discredited Russiagate narrative ever did.