It’s no surprise that MSNBC hosts reflexively spout race-baiting when it comes to attacking Republican Vice President JD Vance. It’s such a hackneyed tactic that, as we’ll see, it seems like these pundits are operating this way out of muscle memory rather than using their thinking muscles. The temptation to pounce on the race issue is so powerful for them that they’ve become numb to the dopamine rush they once provided.
The only surprise in this move is what we don’t see — namely, examples from Joy Reid, the network’s most reliably race-obsessed host. Now, her routine melanin-themed broadcasts are more likely to trigger the effects of melatonin. Yet she has so far seemed hesitant to engage in color-based accusatory segments. I’ve looked into this, and it may be because she once brought Vance on her show when his book Hillbilly Elegy came out, and the two discussed the issues soberly.
That weird moment when Joy Reid had JD Vance on her show to have a genial discussion about race and class issues. pic.twitter.com/5sjQPveSoV
— Brad Slager – Scrubbing in a Bloodbath (@MartiniShark) July 31, 2024
This common-sense approach to Vance is not shared by Reid’s colleagues, who are more than willing to make wildly speculative accusations based on pure emotion and lacking anything but pragmatism. First, as Brandon reported yesterday, regular morning show host Molly Jong-Fast weighed in with her silly assessment of the current manufactured controversy surrounding an interview with Vance in which he referred to Democrats as childless cat ladies.
🚨 UNHINGED: MSDNC Contributor @MollyJongFast says JD Vance only wants “white children” in America – like @politico White House Chief @JonLemire sits next to her and refuses to correct her.
JD Vance is the father of three children of mixed race with his Indian-American wife. pic.twitter.com/pR0UeeiPeP
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 30, 2024
The idiocy of this comment, as most already know, is that Vance has a wife of pure Indian descent and therefore has three mixed-race children. If, as Molly eloquently put it, he “wants to have some kind of race problem,” he manages to avoid that obsession under his roof. Usually, this “not in my bassinet” attitude tends in the opposite direction among supporters of the replacement theory, as she alludes to in her indictment.
Her ignorance is all the more gratifying as we just watched the Republican National Convention, where JD’s wife Usha Chilukuri gave an articulate speech. How can Jong-Fast consider herself an expert commentator whose opinion is worth listening to when she is so oblivious of modern developments? (Incidentally, Molly was criticized so heavily for her idiocy that she launched a ban campaign and then suspended her Xitter account.)
In fact, it was this racist energetic in Vance’s marriage that led to one of the other allegations of mentally impaired racism that the network made during its coverage of the convention. While sitting in front of a green screenwho made it clear to the audience that MSNBC was on site in Milwaukee, discussed in their panel the consequences of JD Vance’s speech in which he accepted his role as Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate.
In one part of his speech, Vance mentioned that his family owns a cemetery in Kentucky that has been used for several generations, and he wishes for him, his wife, and eventually his children to be buried there. Alex Wagner made a very difficult attempt to suggest that his wish was somehow toxic masculinity and possibly even supremacism. Watch her struggle through this questionable concept, looking for support from her fellow panelists as she stumbles through her theory.
.@JDVance1: I want my family to be laid to rest on our property in Eastern Kentucky
Alex Wagner: White Supremacy REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE pic.twitter.com/SPO12sQjxR
– Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 18, 2024
The prize for the most conspiracy-theoretical exposition, however, goes to the esteemed (in the eyes of the network) Rachel Maddow. She latched onto a detail from Vance’s professional life and managed to stretch it to the monofilament level to support her claim of racism. She took a look at JD’s business – Narya – and found something nefarious.
See, this is a company he named after a reference to a plot element from The Lord of the Rings. Maddow has found that other companies like Vance’s have been named after JRR Tolkien content. She concludes that many “far-right and alt-right figures” name things after elements from The Lord of the Rings, and that this positions Vance as a white supremacist.
Maddow even adjusts her Reynolds Wrap hat to form anagrams of the name of JD’s company to “prove” that it also means “Aryan”! Seriously, she has descended so far down the Blue Anon rabbit hole. Check it out.
Rachel Maddow claims that “The Lord of the Rings is a kind of favorite cosmos for naming things and cultural references for many far-right and alt-right figures” and that JD Vance’s company “Narya… which you can remember because it’s ‘Aryan’ but you move the N forward.” pic.twitter.com/lfqQ5gXrxu
– Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 19, 2024
This is the familiar trap these hyperlinkers set for themselves. Much like the cases where you have to be a dog to understand the racist dog whistles, you have to master the dogmas of white supremacy to understand the racist messages. Good thing the racist galaxy brains at MSNBC are here to decode and translate the white codes that somehow only they can hear.
