Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., blasted liberal networks that selected to not air former President Trump’s full remarks following his historic victory from Monday’s Iowa caucuses, linking them to “state-run media” from authoritarian regimes.
Rubio, who provided his endorsement to the previous president forward of the primary GOP main contest, appeared Wednesday on “Hannity” and sounded off on information organizations like MSNBC and CNN over their ideological snub.
“It’s not about bias anymore. There’s always been liberal bias in the media. Human beings are biased. They’re partisan,” Rubio instructed Fox Information’ Sean Hannity. “They are now extending that to not just attack Trump as a candidate, as a former president, future president, but also to attack the people who follow [him].”
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“What’s really changed is not just a partisan tone of the coverage, but now this effort to say ‘We’re not gonna carry a speech, we’re not gonna let you hear what he has to say. We will interpret it, and we’ll put up the snippets we want you to hear, but we’ve made the decision to no longer carry it,” Rubio later continued. “This is exactly how state-run media is used by authoritarian governments to delegitimize, to discredit to basically make people believe that there is no alternative but to the regime and to their rule.”
“It’s destroying the media in this country. It’s why at this point, you know, no one believes anything they see or hear anymore,” he added.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in contrast networks ignoring former President Trump’s victory speech in Iowa to “state-run media” from authoritarian governments. (Invoice Clark/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Pictures)
Trump shattered information within the Hawkeye State with the widest margin of victory in a contested GOP main, incomes greater than 50% of the vote.
Whereas Fox News Channel aired his victory speech in full, neither MSNBC nor CNN did the identical.
CNN’s Jake Tapper interrupted Trump’s speech because the GOP frontrunner started railing towards unlawful immigration, telling viewers, “You can hear him repeating his anti-immigrant rhetoric,” earlier than carrying on with election protection.
In the meantime, MSNBC prevented the previous president’s speech altogether.
“There is a reason that we and other news organizations have generally stopped giving an unfiltered, live platform to remarks by former President Trump,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow instructed viewers. “It is not out of spite, it is not a decision that we relish, it is a decision that we regularly revisit. And honestly, earnestly, it is not an easy decision… But there is a cost to us, as a news organization, of knowingly broadcasting untrue things. That is a fundamental truth of our business and who we are.”
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow instructed viewers the community was not airing former President Trump’s victory speech after the Iowa caucuses, whereas CNN’s Jake Tapper lower away from it for what he referred to as Trump’s “anti-immigrant rhetoric.” (Getty Pictures)
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All through a lot of final 12 months, liberal networks confronted accusations of “platforming” Trump each time they’d him on air.
CNN’s liberal audience fumed over the Trump city corridor the community held in Might, resulting in a revolt amongst staffers contained in the community. NBC Information faced similar backlash in September after Trump sat down with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker. Spanish-language community Univision was additionally the goal of such uproar after airing Trump’s interview with Mexican-American journalist Enrique Acevedo in November.
