On Live with Craig Melvin Wednesday, MSNBC shouted its bias via historian and frequent network contributor Jon Meacham, who made a by-no-means-objective statement about the loss of Republican Alabama senatorial candidate Roy Moore.
During the one o’clock hour (ET), host Melvin asked Meacham for his reaction to the election in Alabama, which he addressed with a quote from Winston Churchill:
“What I think happened in Alabama is my neighbors in Alabama managed to prove Winston Churchill right one more time. Churchill once said, ‘You can always count on Americans to do the right thing once they've exhausted every other possibility.’ And they've sent a message, I think, that the President and this kind of reality show excess that has become so much part of our politics is not going to always carry the day.”
Moore, of course, was never proven to have done anything wrong, despite the Left's trumpeting of allegations of sexual impropriety leading up to the election. Nevertheless, to Meacham, electing Democrat Doug Jones was the incontrovertibly right thing for Alabama to do.
Melvin then asked whether President Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon’s political future was negatively affected by his support of Moore:
“Was Steve Bannon's influence diminished at all last night? Or does he still have enough pull among Trump's base to still cause trouble for [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell and other members of the co-called establishment?”
Meacham once again stated his endorsement of the Democratic Party:
“That's the key question before the 2020 presidential election. Did Bannon -- did the Breitbart-ism of the America First wave that elected Trump -- did that carry such a flawed candidate to within 20,000 votes? Senator-elect Jones won -- that's probably good news for the country, inarguably -- but it was close. This was not a blowout. And so I do think that's going to be a salient factor going forward.”
To Jon Meacham -- and many other left-wingers -- Trump's election was merely a "wave," rather than a decisive change in the direction of our country after eight destructive years of Barack Obama. Those on the Left can't conceive of another point of view; therefore, anything outside their echo chamber must surely be an anomaly. But they're wrong: America is filled with people who embrace conservative values, and who vote accordingly -- people who don't believe that electing a Democrat is the "right" thing to do. And to those people, MSNBC endorsing such an idea is just one of many reasons to write off the network as nothing but a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party.
It's why, despite major news networks' furious efforts to demonize Roy Moore, he still almost won. And it's why Americans will continue to distrust the media.
