POLL: What was the worst media quote of the week? (Vote below)
Watch the quotes from @SRuhle, @AshleyRParker, and @KeithOlbermann
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Stephanie Ruhle Blames the Riots in France on Trump
“The President is also using fear-mongering around the riots in France to motivate voters. Right? He said in the last 24 hours, without any evidence, that migrants, jihadists, and communists are the ones responsible for these riots. But we have to remember, the riots started, of course, over school conditions, but it’s also over high prices. And you can draw a direct link to the high prices in Europe, to President Trump’s war in Iran.”
— Host Stephanie Ruhle on MS NOW’s Money, Power, Politics, October 20.
Ashley Parker Speculates ICE Agents Might Shoot At Citizens with “Brown Skin” Trying to Vote
“Talking to Democrats, they’re terrified. ‘Are ICE officials going to show up at the polls?’ You know, we don’t know what's going to happen….Even just the talk of ICE officials showing up at the polls, coupled with the arrests and some of the killings that is happening with ICE officials, can have a chilling effect of a legal citizen who has brown skin saying, ‘You know what, it’s not worth it for me, right? I’m not going to take time off of my job to show up and maybe get hassled by ICE and get shot in a parking lot when I’m a citizen.”
— The Atlantic’s Ashley Parker on PBS’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, October 16.
Keith Olbermann: Trump Is a “Russian-Owned Mass Murderer”
“Trump is owned by Russia….He line-item vetoed virtually all of the provisions of the sanctions on buying Russian oil that happen to apply to Russia. It is abject corruption. It is aiding an enemy at the time of war. It has resulted and will result in the death of Ukrainians, and it increases the chance of a European war in which this country will be involved and in which Americans will die. Maybe thousands of us, maybe more; their deaths will be Donald Trump’s fault. Adding to his resume as a mass murderer, a Russian-owned mass murderer.”
— Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann on his Countdown podcast, October 19.
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