MSNBC Remixes White House Advisor as Totalitarian Villain; CBS, NYT Imagine His Cruel Death

Painting the narrative however they want.

Stephen Miller, the senior policy advisor to President Trump, caused a ton of reactions after his fiery appearances on the Sunday shows. Chuck Todd and George Stephanopoulos both appeared upset during their interviews, getting straight answers but not the ones they wanted.

To capitalize on the “terror” some of the network talking heads were feeling, MSNBC’s Morning Joe cut together video from Miller’s appearances and put it through the George Orwell 1984 filter so that he would appear evil and menacing. But to be sure, they had to chop up his words to really drive their point home. 

Watch below via Newsbusters:

Newsbusters provides the MSNBC hosts’ and guest’s reactions:

After the video concluded, host Joe Scarborough declared, “Wow,” and journalist Willie Geist agreed, “That’s terrifying.” Co-host Mika Brzezinski agreed as well, proclaiming, “It’s like a horror show.” She was right, it was like a horror show because the clip was not real, made to look scary, and not representative of Miller’s actual comments. Scarborough continued with the mocking, asking, “Remember that part of Lion King where Rafiki says to Simba, what was that? What was that? It was Mufasa's ghost actually.” 

Scarborough even repeated the criticism on Twitter with a still from Orwell’s movie:

But MSNBC wasn’t the only one in the mood for an early Halloween. Stephen Colbert aired an edited video on The Late Show on CBS with Miller superimposed as a victim of Neegan’s cruel barbed bat “Lucille” from The Walking Dead and as a decapitation victim on HBO’s Game of Thrones over his comments about illegal aliens voting:

The New York Times had NO problems posting a screenshot from Colbert’s “joke” to Twitter on Valentine’s Day (it still hasn't been taken down) because, hey, they're serious journalists:

Obviously, what no one in the media is interested in reporting are facts or looking into the many instances of voter fraud that the White House is referring to. They’d rather make cute little videos as if that’s reality. Big media fail here.

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