During the 2016 primary and general election campaigns,
various MSNBC hosts were openly campaigning for Hillary Clinton. One of
the network’s programs featured Malcolm Nance (pictured, above), whose
background is quite sketchy but who is presented by the cable network
(and now by NBC News) as an “intelligence expert” and former
intelligence officer for the U.S. Navy.
On August 20, 2016, weekend host Joy Reid asked Nance about the
supposed “affinity” for Russia harbored by Jill Stein supporters. In
response, Nance told MSNBC viewers: “Jill Stein has a show on Russia
Today.” You can still watch the video of this claim here on MSNBC’s own website
Whatever your views might be about Jill Stein and her third-party
candidacy, there is no disputing the fact that Nance’s statement was a
falsehood, a fabrication, a lie. Jill Stein did not have a show on RT,
nor did she ever host a show on RT. What Nance said was made up out of
whole cloth – fabricated – in order to encourage MSNBC viewers to
believe that Stein, one of the candidates running against Clinton, was a
paid agent of the Kremlin and was an employee of RT.
Reid allowed Nance’s lie to stand. Perhaps she did not realize at the
time that it was a lie. But subsequently, a campaign was launched to
urge MSNBC to correct the lie that MSNBC broadcast, based on the
assumption that MSNBC – which is part of NBC News – was a normal news
outlet that functions in accordance with basic journalistic principles
and would, of course, correct a false statement once that was brought to
its attention.
The media watchdog group FAIR repeatedly documented the lie told by Nance and urged MSNBC to issue a correction. The Intercept wrote about this
falsehood on several occasions and also noted that MSNBC was refusing
to issue a correction of what everyone knows is a false – but an
obviously quite significant – claim.
Click here for the full article.
Source: The Intercept_
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