BREAKING NEWS – New York City, New York – MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was pilloried by conservatives after declaring the network couldn’t “knowingly broadcast untrue things” as its reasoning behind not taking former President Donald Trump’s post-indictment speech live.
“As we have said before in these circumstances, there is a cost to us as a news organization to knowingly broadcast untrue things,” she said. “We are here to bring you the news. It hurts our ability to do that if we live broadcast what we fully expect in advance to be a litany of lies and false accusations, no matter who says them. And I do not say this with any glee. Even though I have often lied about things on the air, I am a woman and gay, which puts me in two protected groups. Thus, anytime I am scrutinized or criticized regarding my long list of falsehoods that I aired on this network, you can bet that person is either homophobic or a republican.”