Posted on 04/23/2025 4:28:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
Rainn Wilson, the actor best known for appearing in the comedy series ‘The Office’ recently spoke with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle and pushed back on her when she tried to blame President Trump and Elon Musk for the loss of trust in media.
Wilson is probably not a Trump supporter himself, but he does make an excellent point about the media and their selective concerns about government.
Ruhle talks about her belief that it’s the media’s job to hold the powerful to account, and Wilson reminds her that the media did not think that way at all when Biden was in office. He is exactly right.
FOX News has details:
“President Trump won and tons of people were shocked or angry or frustrated and they’re tuning out, and at the same time, you have the Elon Musk media machine, because they want you to leave traditional media, they want you to go to X, which is a bastion of misinformation,” Ruhle said during an appearance on Wilson’s “Soul Boom” podcast released on April 17.
“What we need to do is just cover what’s happening in America, right? We have to cover Democrats trying to figure out what their lane is and how they’re going to get back on their feet, and we have to simply cover what this White House is doing.”
However, Wilson suggested there was a lack of interest among left-leaning media to aggressively cover problems during the Biden administration.
“This is where I would push back, when I see this kind of insight and passion being directed at the current administration and the lack of this kind of insight and passion being directed at the previous administration, where again, I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about left-leaning news media organizations were kind of like, ‘La la la la, everything’s fine,'” Wilson told Ruhle in a clip flagged by The Daily Caller.
Here’s the clip, stay with it to the end:
VIDEO AT LINK......................
The way the media covered, and covered for, the Biden administration was an educational moment for millions of Americans, including people on the left. Everyone can now see how they operate, depending on who is in power.
Rainn makes a good point but why would I give a rats ass what he thinks?!
I suppose it is noteworthy when an actor, and probably a lefty, points out the truth to another lefty.
“because they want you to leave traditional media, they want you to go to X, which is a bastion of misinformation,”
Somebody is irony impaired.
I have never watched The Office, and do not know this actor. That said, he is not my enemy on this point. So I care.
i would call it another crack in the dam
lets see what kind of pushback wilson gets
loss of subscribers/cancel podcast
blacklisted for future acting work
hostage apology video
The MSM and X each have their problems AFAIC.
The MSM behave as a pack. One source provides misleading information, which may not be technically false. Other sources pile on making many false statements. If they don’t realize a statement is false, then it’s not a lie. The hits keep coming and it’s like a wall of lies comes crashing down, with no ability to respond.
X is very different. At least there is a forum where one can respond. Many posts are not sourced. Some video clips are acted out. Can I tell the difference? Most seem obvious, but maybe I’m fooled.
I saw a post from the Babylon Bee. It seemed like everyone was taking it seriously and I tried to set them straight. Have I ever fallen for something like that?
My main problem with X is that, unlike FR, I cannot look to my pings and follow the discussion before and after.
Ruhle’s lack of awareness is stunning. Here she is, once again, being a partisan hack and acting clueless as to why the MSM has lost trust.
Queen of Denial indeed.
Studies show that by overwhelming percentages, individuals in the MSM are Democrat, contribute to Democrats, and vote Democrat. When forced the recognize the facts, their response is “Yeah, but we are objective in our reporting.”
Wilson’s a lefty. So the fact he’s pushing back on this is somewhat good news.
I saw the clip on Fox and the funny part was that Fox had “Dwight Shrute” at the bottom of the screen to identify Wilson.
Shrute was Wilson’s character in ‘The Office’.
He also pointed out that water was wet which she would have none of.
Why does it matter? Because sometimes Hollywood types speak truth to idiots... and that's worth reporting on - it's a 'man bites dog' kind of story.
I would have to agree with you. Any inkling of support from a lib is good. I am very familiar with the Office and love it! I’m also familiar with Wilson‘s left-wing podcast which is infuriating. That said, at least he used some common sense in this debate.
I lost trust in the News media 58 years ago. Can’t blame Musk and Trump for that. It was when Walter Cronkite made his diatribe about the Vietnam war. It seemed the rest of the news media fell in lock step with him.
Newsies seem to have forgotten that their ‘job’ is to REPORT THE NEWS, NOT GIVE ME YOUR OPINION.
Don’t color it.
Don’t slant it.
Don’t give it a bias.
Don’t withhold it.
Don’t hide it.
Don’t downplay it.
Just tell me WHO, WHAT, WHEN and WHERE.
Anything else is propaganda...............
The MSNBC people are idiots (but you already knew that) to be interviewing actors on political or social questions ... but I suppose Rainn Wilson, as essentially Stephanie Rule’s peer as a hired hand somewhere in the belly of the Borg, has a valid point of view when it comes to their common employer’s loss of credibility. The loss of credibility hits most directly at the news division, while the actors at least are playing make-believe over in the entertainment division, but the actors are increasingly pushing back against the heavy-handed woke politicization that is degrading their product. In fact, the smarter actors are probably way ahead of the MSNBC talkers in at least identifying the problem. (The stupid actors get their news from MSNBC.)
MSNBC is a division of NBC Universal, which is now owned by Comcast. Comcast is an international conglomerate with roots in telecommunications and cable, but it is also a holding company that dips in and out of various media and entertainment channels as it pursues shifting opportunities. It currently owns Universal Studios, DreamWorks, Peacock, and myriad other properties, but it buys and sells these so regularly that I no longer even pretend to keep up.
An actor is really no different than an MSNBC talking head. They are both mid-level employees in public facing positions. I suppose Rainn Wilson bounces around from gig to gig, but he’s best known for his role on Parks and Rec., which was an NBC show. As a Parks and Rec actor, he and Stephanie Rule simply work for different divisions of the same company, and they are talking about their employer’s loss of credibility.
FWIW, Microsoft was a Comcast/NBC partner in founding MSNBC, but Comcast bought out Microsoft years ago. Once upon a time, Alan Keyes, Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan were MSNBC talkers. MSNBC went hard left after Rick Kaplan was replaced by Dan Abrams, and that would have been a top corporate strategic decision. Personnel are policy. Who controls the Board?
There was a time when the movie business, for all its faults, was at least run by movie people for whom success began with selling tickets and putting butts in seats. Television was always in the big gray area, the crossover sector where movies, sitcoms and tv dramas shared platforms and bosses with news and sports, and whatever else the corporate conglomerate happened to own at the moment. Today, however, Big Tech is vacuuming up everything, and reading scripts for Parks and Rec is not much different from reading scripts off a teleprompter for MSNBC. The actor’s boss’ boss is probably the same person as the MSNBC talker’s boss’ boss.
That’s part of the problem. I’d love to see a guest on any of the “news” shows push back hard at the Rachel Maddow types on the problems of their own companies, pointing out that they themselves work for the companies that are responsible for so many abuses.
Comcast? At least it’s headquartered in Philadelphia, not New York or LA. I’d be happier if it moved to Omaha, but anything that tends to decentralize the Borg helps. Part of the problem is the incestuous world that so many of these people inhabit.
Oops, I said Parks and Rec. Rainn Wilson was on The Office. But the conglomerate/Borg dynamic remains the same. The Office was also an NBC series.
Truly surprising and just as awesome.
Maybe this is the part where traditional and more reasonable Democrats distance themselves loudly from the insanity of the New Left. Why would any sane person want to be associated with them in any way?
I certainly hope so, that would be huge. (that’s what she said)
Yes. Any crack in the facade of unanimity is worth noting. It may create a opening that can be developed in later conversations. It may be the first step in someone getting red-pilled (at least partially, which is still progress). It should at least create at least a bit more space for tolerating differences of opinion, and that in itself is a victory.
We can't hope to win the culture war unless we are willing to engage in it, and that means mixing it up with people who disagree. Otherwise we're just hiding in our bunkers complaining about how we lost.
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