Posted on 08/21/2018 6:19:17 PM PDT by markomalley
Appearing on MSNBC’s The Beat early Tuesday night, frequent MSNBC guest and Fordham University professor Christina Greer smeared the memory of late University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts as “a girl in Iowa” that “Fox News is talking about” instead of going all-in on the plea deal for Michael Cohen and the verdict in the Paul Manafort trial.
Both legal stories dominated Fox News Channel programming on Tuesday with multiple segments every hour, but that didn’t stop Greer from making that sweeping generalization and trivializing the death of a young college student allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien from Mexico.
Greer built up to this sickening low blow when she told fill-in host Ali Velshi that, concerning Trump scandals, she’s “been ringing the alarm on this show for months now, the separation of powers is not working because the Republican has not stood up to this president not once.”
Connecting this to the Cohen and Manafort cases, Greer opined that the President’s supporters “have been so willing to move the goal post every single time” for Trump “[n]o matter what he says, no matter what he does.”
She added that “[t]he fact that” Trump was even allowed to become President “after the Access Hollywood tape let me know for a fact that the Republican Party is actually not working on behalf of the American people” and instead for Trump after he “bull[ied] them into their silence and I don't think today changes as much, unfortunately.”
She then wrapped up the show with the dismissal of Tibbetts being a big news story that went unchallenged by Velshi and panelists Nick Akerman, Natasha Bertrand, and Bill Kristol:
I’m sure we’ll hear what he has to say about this at his — his rally, but Fox News is talking about, you know, a girl in Iowa and not this, right? And, tomorrow morning, we know he’ll wake up in tweak and sort of, you know, besmirch the reputation of Michael Cohen and all the people around him and then go back to Mueller. And this has, obviously, been boiled down to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Based on a NewsBusters analysis of MSNBC’s programming since first reports of Tibbetts’s body arrived around 9:00 a.m. Eastern, Greer’s four-second mention of Tibbetts was the network’s only allusion on Tuesday to the now-deceased Iowa student.
NOTE: That’s as of this blog’s publication and after keyword and manual searches of MSNBC programming from 9:00 a.m. Eastern to 8:00 p.m. Eastern (with the exception of a two-minute gap on Andrea Mitchell Reports when the DirecTV signal went out before an Xfinity record kicked in).
To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s The Beat on August 21, click “expand.”
MSNBC’s The Beat
August 21, 2018
6:57 p.m. Eastern
ALI VELSHI: Alright, Christina Greer, to — to you and I hear you. When’s the bridge that’s a bridge too far going to show up, right? To a lot of people, I think, maybe today might have been it, but a lot of people —
CHRISTINA GREER: These are the same people who —
VELSHI: — the pee tape should have done it.
GREER: — who were waiting for the n-word three days ago, right? I mean, so we know that Donald Trump has surrounded himself and possibly given instructions to Michael Cohen, someone who he has trusted for a very long time. We know Donald Trump is engaged in this behavior in Atlanta city, in Queens, in all over, you know, the five boroughs for decades. This is just a, you know, a con that’s gone a little too far now the federal government, but I just don’t see and this is — I’ve been ringing the alarm on this show for months now, the separation of powers is not working because the Republican has not stood up to this president not once. So, even if there is a guilty verdict from Manafort. Even though Cohen has turned himself in. Eight counts here, eight counts there. I still think that they have been so willing to move the goal post every single time with this President. No matter what he says, no matter what he does, right? The fact that he was sworn in as President after the Access Hollywood tape let me know for a fact that the Republican Party is actually not working on behalf of the American people. They are working on behalf of President Trump and he’s been able to bully them into their silence and I don't think today changes as much, unfortunately. I’m sure we’ll hear what he has to say about this at his — his rally, but Fox News is talking about, you know, a girl in Iowa and not this, right? And, tomorrow morning, we know he’ll wake up in tweak and sort of, you know, besmirch the reputation of Michael Cohen and all the people around him and then go back to Mueller. And this has, obviously, been boiled down to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Well, Mollie wuz kilt by an
“Iowa Man”.
How does the Fake News live with themselves?
Another Leftist “professor” opines. Her indifference to the fate of the “girl in Iowa” reveals a total dedication to the religion of “Progressivism”.
we are all expendable to them....
May Mollie Tibbetts be in heaven now. We will never forget her.
I cannot say in the words necessary what I think of this woman who talked about that beautiful young lady in such a demeaning and dismissive mannor because I would probably be banned from this site. Words fail me.
CHRISTINA GREER,
You ignorant front hole....
Excellent
Because illegals mean EVERYTHING to the commie left party..without illegals, they have NO party..they need these cockroaches to vote Democrat, they are bleeding away white voters, they are bleeding away black voters..all they have left are Muslims and illegals
[How does the Fake News live with themselves?]
No conscience. Reprobate minds. The Book of Romans in the first chapter describes them. Absolutely no guilt. In fact, proud of all of it.
Complicit in murder.
24 year old, said 4-7 years in the States illegally. (You bet it could be longer, multiple times).
One of those Obama’s ‘unaccompanied minors’ let loose inside the country.
That same Obama, who famously said the US can absorb a nuclear strike, what’s a few Kate Steinle’s and Mollie Tibbetts’ to him?
Where’s Jeb! to say he did it out of love?
How do they live with themselves?
We let them.
I see the lame stream media is whenever reporting on it, is calling the murderer an ‘undocumented immigrant’ and not as they really are, an illegal alien.
The term ‘undocumented immigrant’ makes it sound as if they are moving here and as yet not on the roles.
That (w)hole renaming thing ain’t going to work out well....
Well that is because they are of the belief it is now their country, another legacy of Barack obama.
Fixed it.
-PJ
Build the damn wall already!
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