We don't buy the conspiracy theory that Democrats cooked up the attack on Paul Pelosi as a last-minute election ploy. But, wow the liberal media is fully embracing the conspiracy theory that this can be directly connected to January 6 and should become a central election issue.
Take today's Morning Joe. Not only was the entire first half-hour devoted to the story, but at the end of those 30 minutes, Mika Brzezinski pledged:
"We're going to be spending the entire show trying to take a deep dive into this."
It wasn't the "entire show," but it was obsessive. A quick word search of the closed-captioning (a rough measure) shows "Pelosi" was spoken 81 times. Mika began with her liberal summary of the case, when there are still so many questions.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Monday, October 31st. Paul Pelosi, the husband of the Speaker of the House, the woman who is second in line to the presidency, was savagely attacked on Friday. And while surgeons were operating on the fractured skull of the 82-year-old grandfather, deranged right-wing fanatics, Trump media allies, and some of the most powerful people in the world, were feverishly trying to stir up conspiracy theories that distracted from the central political headline of this story. That years of Republican propaganda and Trump-fueled fascism led 42-year-old David DePape to break into Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home, seemingly with the intent to harm her.
CAPITOL HILL RIOTER: Nancy! Oh, Nancy! Nancy! Where are you, Nancy?
MIKA: [deep sigh] A connection? What connection? Why would there be a connection? I mean, he was just deranged, right? In an isolated way. And by the way, voters, look over here: crime is up. Look away from the parallels to January 6th.
Then there was the very unsubtle chyron: "How Far-Right Demonization Of Pelosi Led To Attack." Mika was simply going to ignore the San Francisco Chronicle (not a MAGA newspaper) reporting the alleged assailant DePape was part of a nudist group and became a hemp jewelry maker. They also found he was once registered as a member of the Green Party. Someone is looking away at potential parallels.
And—courtesy of the Washington Post columnist David Ignatius—there was the obligatory Nazi Germany/Republican analogy:
Germany, the birthplace of science, philosophy, music, the arts. It was a country that was taken apart by uncontrolled radical extremists, anti-semitic politicians; Adolf Hitler as the dominant personality. It happened in a country that was a good country. So we have to be on guard always, and I think discussions like this one are important,
We have a "news" network that isn't really reporting new facts on this assault. Instead, the liberal are media look like they are exploiting the attack for all it's worth to stave off a potential red wave.
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski vowing to devote the entire show to a discussion on the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband was sponsored in part by Jeep, Liberty Mutual, and Subway.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
10/31/22
5:59 am EDTMIKA BRZEZINSKI: Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Monday, October 31st. Paul Pelosi, the husband of the Speaker of the House, the woman who is second in line to the presidency, was savagely attacked on Friday. And while surgeons were operating on the fractured skull of the 82-year-old grandfather, deranged right-wing fanatics, Trump media allies, and some of the most powerful people in the world, were feverishly trying to stir up conspiracy theories that distracted from the central political headline of this story. That years of Republican propaganda and Trump-fueled fascism led 42-year-old David depapp to break into Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home, seemingly with the intent to harm her.
CAPITOL HILL RIOTER: Nancy! Oh, Nancy! Nancy! Where are you, Nancy?
MIKA: [deep sigh] A connection? What connection? Why would there be a connection? I mean, he was just deranged, right? In an isolated way. And by the way, voters, look over here: crime is up. Look away from the parallels to January 6th.
. . .
DAVID IGNATIUS: So first, Mika, I thought your opening montage was superb, bringing together footage, reminding us of the kinds of things Donald Trump said at campaign rallies, bringing together all the evidence that these are not isolated incidents, they're part of a pattern.Something I've been saying, really, since 2016. I remember in the spring of that year as Donald Trump was beginning his campaign, visiting Germany, and saying and writing in one of my columns, bad things happen to good countries.
MIKA: Yeah.
IGNATIUS: And that's the story of modern Germany. Germany, the birthplace of science, philosophy, music, the arts. It was a country that was taken apart by uncontrolled radical extremists, anti-semitic politicians; Adolph Hitler as the dominant personality. It happened in a country that was a good country. So we have to be on guard always, and I think discussions like this one are important.
MIKA: Wrap this up, this block. We're going to be spending the entire show trying to take a deep dive into this.
