During failed former president Donald Trump’s interview with Newsmax host Eric Bolling, a couple of interesting things happened.
First of all, at the end of the segment, the right-wing network had to run a disclaimer to counter all the lies the ex-president had just spouted about the 2020 election, according to Newsweek:
After the interview ended, Bolling rushed through what appeared to be a short legal disclaimer that sharply contradicted Trump’s election claims.
A post featuring a video clip of the moment was shared a short time later by the account @AccountableGOP on X, formerly Twitter, and had over 280,000 views at the time of publication.
“Alright folks, now just a note: Newsmax has accepted the election results as legal and final,” Bolling says in the clip, just after his interview with Trump.
NewsMax Host Eric Bolling issues a disclaimer after he finishes his interview with Donald Trump: "Now just a note, Newsmax has accepted the election results as legal and final." pic.twitter.com/LPpYue8D3g
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@AccountableGOP) August 10, 2023
And then there was the fly that stole the interview.
What fly? The one that lands on Trump’s face and was noticed by Keith Olbermann, who posted this:
BREAKING: Fly lands on Trump during NewsMax interview.
Yep. There is indeed a fly landing on Donnie. And the insect must have been so disgusted by the smell that he immediately flew away, unlike the one that lingered in then-vice president Mike Pence’s hair during a 2020 debate with Kamala Harris.
The latest fly drew quite a few comments, with many noting that flies are indeed attracted to shit.
Right-wingers absolutely love to talk about how progressives want to impose “cancel culture” on everything they disagree with, which is really just code for conservatives wanting to be racist, homophobic, sexist, or disgustingly bigoted and getting their feelings hurt when they’re called out for being willfully obtuse.
But cancel culture came to call for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Thursday during her media event with fellow extremist Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL). And this time it came from the right.
First of all, the press conference on the first anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was even more batshit crazy than you’d expect hearing the names Greene and Gaetz, with the Florida perv insisting that Jan. 6 had been a false flag staged by the federal government:
“Congresswoman Greene and I are not here to celebrate January 6. We’re not here to obsess about it. But we are here to expose the truth.”
He then went fully fact-free:
“We know this: January 6th last year wasn’t an insurrection. No one’s been charged with insurrection, no one’s been charged with treason. But it may very well have been a Fedsurrection.”
Gaetz: January 6th last year wasn’t an insurrection… but it may very well have been a Fedsurrection pic.twitter.com/Atgntr2aGk
When it was Greene’s turn to talk, she picked up the baton from Florida Man and kicked off her own demented rant:
“You know what I think needs to be the biggest investigation in United States history? What is going on at the FBI and what is happening at the Department of Justice? And the American people deserve those answers because it’s the American people and the taxpayers that pay for all of it! Now I don’t want to have anything to do with a government that is going to be so obsessed with overturning regime change in our own country when it should be serving the American people, particularly…”
Extreme right-wing “news” site Newsmax quickly cut away from Greene, with the host noting:
“All right, Marjorie Taylor Greene. With Congressman Matt Gaetz there, putting forth some of the arguments from the Republican side that you certainly didn’t hear today from President Biden and the Democrats.”
Welp, even Newsmax grows bored of Marjorie Taylor-Greene's Jan. 6 presser and pulls away from it. pic.twitter.com/LSHKmy3Gc0
Yep, Marj and the Sunshine State Perv got canceled by a right-wing outlet, which may well be the most ironic thing of 2022 even though the year has just begun.
Sorry, Marj, but even your conservative, tinfoil hat-wearing compatriots appear to be tired of your crap.
Over the years, there’s been some absolutely moronic, absurd, and misleading shit said on right-wing media, most notably Fox News, which is infamous for trafficking in lies and conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact or grounding in reality.
But in today’s wide-open media bouillabaisse of anything goes inanity — fueled in part by the explosion of social media platforms and ubiquity of the internet everywhere you go — we have even more extreme mutant strains of nutbaggery such as Newsmax, where today’s batshit, head-shaking headline originated with a discussion of “critical race theory” which led to a guest warning that teaching about slavery and how whites have treated blacks in the United States over the centuries will result in “death camps” for white people.
Those words came from right-wing radio host Michael Savage, who told Newsmax hosts Steve Cortes and Jenn Pellegrino that there’s already violence against whites all over the country:
“And now they’re beating up white children in schoolrooms. And I’m not going to mince words. You can cut me off if you have to. I know you probably agree with me. I can’t take this anymore. And there’s only one solution to it—sue the goddamn schools if they do it to your child for child abuse, and you will win.”
Yeah, kids didn’t start beating each other up until racism became a topic of discussion, right, Michael? As for suing for child abuse, can we also sue parents who voted for Trump and believe his bullshit? Seems only fair, don’t you agree?
Rather than provide proof of his specious assertions, Savage went full douche and brought up Nazi Germany and the Holocaust:
“The same kind of thing started in Germany. The Jews were no good. The Jews did this. The Jews did that. The next thing you know they were being excluded from swimming pools. They didn’t put them in concentration camps overnight.
“I studied this intimately. I am Jewish. I know how this starts. Attacks on white people is exactly what was done to the Jews in Germany in the 1930s. Don’t fall for this garbage. This is the road to the death camps. Stand up to these bastards and sue them!”
Newsmax guest says critical race theory is "the road to the death camps," adding "attacks on white people is exactly what was done to the Jews in Germany in the '30s" pic.twitter.com/jus8XSqz2Q
Jewish Americans were once excluded from public swimming pools, clubs, and schools in this country, too. Did it lead to concentration camps? No. It led to reforms, change, and a growth in American consciousness that allowed this country to evolve and realize the ignorance of such discrimination.
We have to understand where we’ve been as a nation in order to make sure we don’t repeat the past endlessly and lose our souls. Learning from history — even the dark and controversial parts — is how we prevent repeating it.
