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Editor’s note: After NBC News hired and fired former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel for being a Republican, Frontpage decided to rerun Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield’s article from last year, “The King of Hate Media,” about how Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts helped turn NBC News and MSNBC into a racist anti-American cesspool where not even sellouts like McDaniel are allowed to work.
While racists like Al Sharpton and Joy Reid, not to mention terrorist supporters, can work freely at NBC News and MSNBC, there’s no room for Republicans, no matter how liberal, at what one personality called its “sacred airwaves” unless they, like Michael Steele, become official leftists and toe the party line.
Cesar Conde, the Chair of NBCUniversal News, justified firing Ronna McDaniel by stating that, “no organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned.”
Below is the real story of how NBC News and MSNBC became “cohesive and aligned” on the far Left…
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The King of Hate Media
NBC’s takeover by Comcast was lubricated by a corrupt deal with hatemonger Al Sharpton. Faced with stiff political opposition to his plan to take control of NBC, Comcast owner Brian L. Roberts met with Sharpton to pitch him on garnering political support for the cable company’s bid.
Once a pariah for his role in inciting anti-Semitic riots that lynched two innocent people, and the torching of Freddie’s Fashion Mart, a Harlem store owned by a Jew whom Sharpton referred to as a “white interloper” in which 7 people were burned to death, all of them “of color,” Sharpton was resurrected by Barack Obama as his “civil rights” adviser and accepted into the Democrat fold as the party’s kingmaker.
In his new role, Sharpton delivered the political support to ensure that Roberts didn’t encounter antitrust issues in his controversial takeover bid to acquire NBC. In return, Roberts gave Sharpton his own MSNBC show, ‘PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton’, while also making Sharpton’s existing employers at black-owned Radio One – and himself – extremely rich.
Without the support of Sharpton and his racist admirers, Comcast would not have been able to gain control of NBC and so it’s hardly surprising that it streams the worst lies and hate by the worst bigots as a payback for the series of dirty deals that made Roberts so rich and powerful.
During Sharpton’s lobbying for the Comcast deal, MSNBC denied that there was an offer to give the notorious racial arsonist his own show, only to debut it a few months later. Comcast not only gave Sharpton a show, but included the head of his racist National Action Network in its “diversity council.” Sharpton in turn gave MSNBC boss Phil Griffin an award after previously handing it to Jeff Zucker, who ran NBC at the time, before going off to run CNN.
Alongside Joy Reid and Sharpton, MSNBC regularly features the unhinged Elie Mystal, who said that the United States “Constitution is trash” and bragged, “you come out as a Republican, I’m prejudiced against you”, Tiffany Cross, who argued that the media focusing on the economic concerns of midwesterners was pandering to “racist white people”, Melissa Harris-Perry, who claimed that the term “hard work” is racist, and a seemingly bottomless list of bigots.
MSNBC doesn’t just employ vile racists like Reid and Sharpton who smear our country and promote hate, but also foreign enemy propagandists like Ayman Mohyeldin, formerly of Qatar’s Al Jazeera, who defended the Islamic terrorist state during the World Cup by attacking America.
Mohyeldin is one of a number of former employees of the Qatari propaganda network who have been given a platform to attack America, Europe and Israel by MSNBC. While Mohyeldin has ‘Ayman’, his own weekend show, Mehdi Hasan, also formerly of Al Jazeera, hosts ‘The Mehdi Hasan Show’. Al Velshi, a veteran of Al Jazeera America, which faced lawsuits accusing its executives of antisemitism and discriminating against women, hosts ‘Velshi’.
MSNBC’s decision to turn itself into Al Jazeera by stocking it with the Jihadist network’s leftovers has led to constant incitement and antisemitic propaganda at its 24/7 hate network.
Even in the midst of China’s takeover of Hong Kong and the Ukraine war, Velshi ranted that Israel was the “leading occupying force in the world.” Velshi claimed that “Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan during the Six-Day War in 1967” while neglecting to mention that it was Jordan that as part of the unprovoked Arab Muslim attack on the infant state had captured half the city in 1948 launching the Arabs’ 75-year campaign “to push the Jews into the sea.” In other words Jerusalem was liberated by Israel from Jordanian occupation in 1967.
Velshi has smeared Israel as an “apartheid state” despite working as a propagandist for Qatar where 88% of the population consists of migrant workers with no rights, thousands of whom die laboring on the skyscrapers of the Islamist apartheid state. Israel by contrast is the only state in the Middle East that is actually not an apartheid state. Velshi’s comments are just the crudest form of Jew hating propaganda spawned by the apartheid regimes in Gaza and the West Bank.
On his hate-filled show, Mehdi Hasan invited Rep. Ro Khanna, a Bernie Sanders ally, to make the bizarre claim that Israel was “burning down Palestinian villages”. Hasan, who has falsely referred to Israel as having its capital in Tel Aviv, regularly hosts anti-Israel bigots like Peter Beinart. Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Tlaib used her MSNBC platform to lie that Israel is “an apartheid government that is targeting a whole people based on their ethnicity and some even based on their faith.” That would be news to the Arab Israelis who have more rights as citizens of Israel than they would in any Arab Muslim state.
But it’s not just the cable network MSNBC that Roberts polluted. After the recent Colorado Springs shooting at a gay club, NBC senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny falsely blamed the attack on critics of the sexualization of children.
“If there is a pipeline it starts from some smaller accounts online like Libs of TikTok, it moves to the right-wing blogosphere, and then it ends up on Tucker Carlson or it ends up out of a right-wing politician’s mouth,” she argued.
We have since learned that the shooter, who comes from a deeply dysfunctional household, identifies as “non-binary.” A normal TV network in normal times would fire a reporter for spewing such a hateful lie. But these are not normal times, and Brian Roberts’ network is a big reason why.
These lies, smears and slurs, like many others, come down to one company, Comcast, and one man, Brian L. Roberts. Comcast is a family business and Brian was born into it. “I think we have known that Brian would take over the company since he was about eight years old,” its co-founder admitted. At 30, he did just that and took the company from cable to content.
Unlike his father, Brian was not satisfied just providing cable access and was obsessed with taking control of programming. After a failed bid to take over Disney, he bought NBC.
MSNBC had begun purging its conservative personalities in a leftist makeover even before the Comcast takeover, but the process accelerated rapidly as talks began. And Comcast bought support for the takeover by handing out money to racists and their hate groups.
That was how Al Sharpton ended up with an MSNBC show.
During the Black Lives Matter race riots, Roberts promised that Comcast would donate $100 million in response to “the far too familiar and frequent acts of violence against the black community, and to acknowledge the structural racism that fuels these injustices” to a consortium of groups including Sharpton’s National Action Network. At the same time, Roberts’ protégé was busy pouring oil on the flames in a eulogy for George Floyd by condemning America for having its “knee on the neck” of black people for over 400 years. In point of fact, black slavery in America lasted 20 years in the north and 76 years in the south. Moreover, black slaves in America had been enslaved by black Africans and sold at slave auctions in Ghana and Benin. Black slaves were liberated at the cost of 360,000 mainly white lives in America’s bloodiest war. When Sharpton poured his racist poison onto America’s television screens 80% of blacks were living above the poverty line and “systemic racism” had been outlawed for over 60 years.
During the George Floyd race riots, MSNBC personnel and guests repeatedly expressed support for the rioters and their violence. In one of the hate network’s more infamous moments, Al Velshi tried to argue that “this is mostly a peaceful protest, it is not generally speaking unruly” while standing in front of a building in flames.
When challenged about Velshi’s lies at a shareholder meeting and asked to condemn Antifa, Roberts retorted that, “racism, injustice, violence have no place and cannot be tolerated.”
But the racism was coming from his personal hate network.
Roberts is not a brilliant businessman, he’s a savvy political donor. Comcast got as big and powerful as it did because it adopted the right politics and paid off the right people.
In 2020, Roberts’ wife provided $152,800 to fund the Biden campaign. But that was small change compared to the millions raised by Comcast’s chief lobbyist for Obama whom Biden has appointed as the ambassador to Canada. Roberts took to golfing with Obama and hosting him on Martha’s Vineyard. And even that money was dwarfed by the subsidies from the tax-free Comcast Foundation.
The Comcast Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that the powerful company has used to build its political connections while dodging taxes. As was noted during the NBC takeover, the Comcast Foundation, dominated by its top lobbyist, handed out “more than $3 billion since 2001” mostly to minority groups and “many of the groups to whom the Comcast Foundation has donated now support the proposed merger”. A number of the Comcast Foundation’s donations conveniently also went to organizations which had ties to Democrat politicians.
Comcast wasn’t just bribing its way to power, taxpayers were subsidizing the bribes.
This is another example of what Internal Radical Service, a report by David Horowitz and John Perazzo, delved into. Published by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, the report documented the abuse of the tax code by leftist foundations and nonprofits which are being used to finance the left’s agendas while the IRS watchdogs turn a blind eye to the violations.
Comcast is a corrupt company that pushes hate for profit. And Brian L. Roberts, who got the job because of his daddy, has used it to tear apart this country and reward the worst and most divisive bigots.
Despite the Jewish origins of the Roberts family, Brian Roberts has overseen a company that spreads the worst lies emanating from the terrorist propaganda machines of Hamas and the PLO. The anti-Semitic chorus at MSNBC, posing as journalists, promotes the worst smears against Israel and Jews in America.
The story of Comcast, like the tragic tale of so many other major and increasingly international companies, is that of powerful corporations turning on their own roots, on the country and the people that made them possible. Torn away from their values and roots, they become a virus that destroys everything around them. And that is what NBC and MSNBC have become as platforms for the Jew-hating, white-hating and America-hating Left.
Boycott NBC Period the Peacocks Shame
No, boycott Comcast, it’s parent company that made this happen. If you have Comcast cable or internet or Peacock, get rid of it. 52% of Comcast’s revenue comes from connectivity services only a small percentage comes from its media services like MSNBC and NBC. If your HOA or condo association has Comcast, tell them to get rid of it. There are plenty of other cable/internet companies now.
Peacock was added to my Samsung TV recently. I watch the free streaming sites occasionally but I don’t pay for any of the ones that demand money, particularly Disney and Peacock, now that I know it’s the NBC peacock. I remember that illustrative logo from when I was a kid and there were only three national TV networks, ABC, CBS and NBC. Comcast should change it to a rainbow flag, a boot stamping on a face or a turd plopping into a toilet.
I do boycott NBC, I suppose. I don’t watch any network TV, not even the smattering of good stuff on the air, and I’m sure not going to watch any fake news.
Well, Rona. should have known that when you make a pact with the devil you never come out the winner.
She was a rino from the beginning…I can’t say I feel sorry for her…
However, the ‘news’ reporting business has been revealed for being nothing more than a bunch of scammers….supporting Communism.
I totally agree. To call Ronna a Republican is a stretch. That’s true of all the establishment “Republicans.” They’re globalists in league with the Democrats. Which is why they’re doing all they can to undermine Trump (who they greatly fear, but would not admit that).
Ronna’s duplicity has also allowed her to cash in, big time. She will apparently collect $600,000, which would have been her entire two-year salary, for three days’ work. Heh.
Rona McDaniel is yet one more example of “What goes around comes around.” I have no sympathy whatsoever for this woman.
As it is with her uncle, Mitt Romney, one could easily conclude both were plants whose agenda was destroying the the Republican Party.
Benedict Arnold: “Rona and Mitt are my favorite rinos.”
Ronna McDNC is about as much of a Republican as Paul Rino and Eric Swallowwell.
NBC fired Rona to placate their spoiled brats, the same way the NYTimes fired their editor.
What’s hilarious is NBC once hired Chesea Clinton $600,000 to be a news correspondent. She turned out to be such an embarrassment that they paid her to stay off the air. (Liberal idiots are very accomplished at squandering money.)
i want to know more about the fun gang at morning joe????
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are analogous to scorned lovers. Once Donald Trump sycophants, the two turned on DJT when he failed to reciprocate their fawning in favor of working to salvage our country.
His success was and is the fuel that lights the fire’s flames which only increases their envy and obsessive hatred.
I hear Joe plays a mean banjo on his front porch swing and crazy Mika bleeds a lot.
Channeling Amos ‘n’ Andy’s “Kingfish,” Al Sharpton to Frontpage: “I not only deny the allegation, I deny the alligator.”
The next time anyone on NBC or MSNBC says they are for freedom of speech or “diversity” they should spontaneously combust, the lie being so enormous. If you bring the column up-to-date you would have to include that it employes Jen Psnarky, the openly racist Joy Reid, and compulsive anti-Republican conspiracy theorist Rachel Maddow in its stable of stellar “journalists.”
NBC also made the embarrassing call to hire Chelsea Clinton.
She was so incompetent, they had to bury her deep off air.
They should’ve flamed up the first time they lied. That would be real social justice.
And don’t forget Joe Scarborough, the banjo strumming retard from the movie “Deliverence,” and Bloody Mika Brzezinski.
“Jen Psnarky.” That’s a good one.
BTW, as far as the Roberts family having Jewish origins, I happen to know that after one major Jewish charity in the Philly area (home to the Roberts family) had all of its investments wiped out by Bernie Madoff, Brian refused to give the organization any assistance whatsoever although requested to do so. And this charity is so large large that anyone would recognize its name. Such a mensch.
Surely you don’t mean the same Handsome Ro Khanna whose grandfather helped to chase the Muslims out of India?
Enabling black criminals ends up hurting their neighbors, who are there most frequent victims, he most. The Democrats are doing no one a favor except the actual perpetrators. I guess Brian Roberts doesn’t care whom he hurts so long as he gets to hobnob with the powerful.
I suggest Daniel G. and David H. read Carl Boggs’ book “The Rise of the Liberal Colossus”. While I don’t think you would agree with all of it, his criticism of the contemporary Democrat party is outstanding. In particular, read the section “January sixth as a godsend” beginning on page 249. I wish the Republican Party had the courage to call out the Democrats for how they have been using the excuse of January 6 to destroy their political opponents.
January sixth was just another Dirtbagocrat political operation designed to take down President Trump. They’re still at it, of course, which as many illegal operations as they can conceive.
Comcast is definitely the worst and most “woke” purveyor of fake news and anti-white racism out there. No wonder it persecuted Newsmax TV to the point where it had to split it’s network in two; a subscription based streaming service (which is only five bucks a month,) and a free service (which I can still watch on my Samsung TV the way I watched the original network.)
I have no idea why Real America’s Voice has remained relatively safe. I do know One America’s News is off the air and relegated to a website. I don’t know if Scumcast is involved in any of that.
Brian Roberts is a total piece of shit and probably a hero to the rest of the fake news media because I don’t think any of them employ conservatives or Republicans, unless they’re used as whipping boys or they’re fake conservatives.
Ronna McDaniel is a fake conservative, a conservafraud, but being the former chairwoman of the RNC is just too much for the trolls at the National Bolshevik Company.
Good article Greenfield. It’s well researched and prescient.
A simple question to ask: Why does anyone expect to get “news” from any of these broadcast outlets? All of them are owned by six or seven megacorps with almost identical agendas, including Faux. Just a cursive look at Trump versus Hunter tells you everything.
For your general information on AL Sharpton, he began his career as a bag boy for James Brown. “Goot Gawd”. “I feel good”
“MILLIONS are still watching Black and White TV’s so they only the see the World as Black and White. Those same millions are constantly playing with The Knobs trying to take The White Part out!”
WHAT….. NBC is against DEI?
I have followed Comcast’s Brian Roberts long before he paid off Sharpton and Obama in his bid to take over NBC/MSNBC. Brian and Cohen were top bundlers for Obama who, undoubtedly, facilitated Roberts takeover.
From the day they took over NBC/MSNBC they have been nothing more than the PR arm for, first, Obama and now every Democrat. Cognizant of this fact I long ago canceled Comcast and, to this day, I would forego cable rather than subscribe to Comcast ever again.
Back in 1993 NBC rigged GM Pick-Up to explode in flames then went and Lied to the Viewers this got them in big trouble and they got used over it but their still giving us fake news
It’s hard to work up anything but crocodile tears for this empty shell. Under her watch the Republicans lost the House and then the Senate and then the Presidency. It’s almost like you and Uncle Mitty were plucked from Hell to destroy the Republicans and Trump
Great job Ronna. No one wants you now.