Amazing. MSNBC’s Brian Williams departed his show, The 11th Hour, Thursday night for the last time, as noted here by NewsBusters own Curtis Houck.
Included in the farewell was a smear of conservatives – after insisting he was, as Curtis notes, “not a liberal or a conservative,” but “an institutionalist” fearful of “the darkness…has spread” across America while equating Trump supporters to arsonists and murderers that frighten him as “an aging volunteer fireman.”
However, earlier in week, he was busy smearing conservatives solidly Newsmax MagazineIt is a lie.
The simplest amount of research – in this case reading an article in Newsmax Magazine before he talked about it – wasn’t done. Or just maybe it was done – and the idea was to deliberately misrepresent Newsmax to fit a phony left-wing narrative.
Eric Bolling, Newsmax’s host, led The Balance at 4:00 PM Wednesday with this eye-opening example of fake news operations at MSNBC.
Eric Bolling: Well, it’s official folks. Newsmax was the victim of…wait for it – fake news. It’s the liberal strategy on full display. Choose a headline to fit your narrative, and then go for it. Don’t pay attention to the content. Don’t pay attention to what reporters have painstakingly composed. You can’t judge a book from its cover. It was broadcast last night by MSNBC with Brian Williams. Listen.
Brian Williams: “But Putin is not without friends in the United States. This is the December issue Newsmax Magazine — “Vlad the Great.” Tweeted out tonight by Ron Filipkowski: ‘For anyone who thinks Newsmax is anything but Russian disinformation here is the cover of Newsmax Magazine’s December issue. Hundreds of thousands of MAGAs get their news from Putin everyday.’ Close quote.”
The Ron Filipkowski that Williams cited as a source self – describes as a Florida Republican turned Democrat and as “General Counsel for the Woke Mob.” Reading his Twitter feed, Filipkowski is clearly no fan of Florida Republican Governor Ron Desantis. Williams brandished the cover of the Newsmax magazine that Filipkowski featured, the cover with a photo of Putin next to the words “Vlad the Great.”
Bolling, who also displayed a copy of the magazine added this: “Now here’s the thing, Brian. Or should I say Lying Brian?”
Bolling recounted the infamous (and true) story, replete with video, of Brian Williams spouting his made- up-out-of-whole-cloth story of being in a helicopter covering the Iraq war when the helicopter was shot.
NBC did not find any other stories that were true to the Williams story. The network discovered this and removed Williams without warning from his position as anchor on NBC. After letting time pass, it placed Williams in a lesser job at MSNBC. Williams, as it turns out, has left MSNBC.
Bolling then continued by opening the magazine to the”frigging first page” and a summary of the article that “tells a far different story.” He added that “no one at NBC wants to do the slightest amount of work.”
The summary actually says:
Russia may not possess the power to confront us directly. But that hasn’t stopped its leader, Vladimir Putin, from exploiting every opportunity to weaken America and its allies.
Evidently, this article is an attack on Putin.
Bolling then points to the summary, saying “Right there. Open the from cover.” The real point of the article, of course, was that Vladimir Putin, in the fashion of Russian dictators like Peter the Great, is a bad guy. And in today’s world Putin is out to harm America.
Ron Filipkowski and Brian Williams had to read the article. Too lazy to read it, the two could have gone to The Newsmaxsite and then followed the link to the magazine. This is the article, highlighted in bold for emphasis:
Putin’s War on The West
Russian leaders seize every opportunity to undermine the U.S., its allies and partners.He’s evil, he’s cunning, and he’s the most powerful man in the world.
The December issue of Newsmax Magazine takes you into the secretive, sordid, and sometimes frightening world of the man who’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants — Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This explosive cover story is your chance to be the first! “Vlad the Great: Putin’s War on the West,”Kenneth R. Timmerman, investigative reporter and bestselling writer explores Putin’s beginnings and his goal of exploiting every opportunity to weaken the United States and its allies.
He was a KGB spy in East Germany, and he rose to power as the president of Russia.Putin, with his incessant nuclear weapon acquisitions, saber-rattling and deadly spying plots, has created unending headaches for America and the entire world.
This iron-fisted ruler kills his enemies with no remorse and invades the surrounding countries like Crimea and Georgia. He also works round the clock to block America’s cyberattacks.
Putin is also a flirtatious with Iran, China and Iran in an effort to establish an axis against the rest of the world. ‘Putin has managed to expand Russia’s sphere of influence dramatically, while insulating the Russian economy from any serious impact from U.S. and international sanctions,’ Timmerman writes.”
Hello? Brian? Ron Filipkowski Does that glowing, exultant coverage really reflect Vladimir Putin’s true feelings? Really?
Kenneth Timmerman (the author of this article) is a prominent journalist, who can be described as an expert on foreign policies. Timmerman was the correspondent on Middle East for The Guardian. Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionLebanese Fatah militants held him for 24 hours. This is absurd to claim that he’s some sort of Vladimir Putin advocate.
Newsmax, as the world outside of Brian and Filipkowski’s leftist narrative fantasy knows full well, is conservative -founded by the decidedly conservative Chris Ruddy and decidedly no friend of Putin’s. An article that calls Putin “evil” and “cunning” and that he is an “iron-fisted tyrant (who) kills his enemies without remorse” is hardly kissing up to Putin.
Newsflash! Calling Putin “Vlad the Great” is an obvious sardonic reference to another once-upon-a-time Russian dictator – Peter the Great, who ruled Russia with a Putin style iron fist between 1682 and 1725.
Russian dictators are known to love Peter the Great. Allan Nevins (the famous Columbia University Professor in History) wrote an extensive article about the affection of Joseph Stalin for Peter the Great. This article was written by The New York Times in February of 1940, Nevins wrote this of Stalin and his idol: “Stalin, it is said, now has for the only picture in his Kremlin office a portrait of Peter the Great,” with the latter being “one of his (Stalin’s) sources of inspiration.”
Peter the Great was big on “general territorial expansion” – as was Stalin. At this very moment of 2021 Putin has, per news accounts, some 120,000 Russian troops poised on Ukraine’s border. Putin regards himself as the new Peter The Great.
That was of course the obvious point. Newsmax calling Putin “Vlad the Great.”
The real point of this idiocy from “Lying Brian” and Ron Filipkowski is that contrary to facts, they are intent on pushing a left-wing narrative that the American conservative movement – Newsmax in this instance – is an ally of Putin. They choose not to acknowledge the truth of the article and instead make up the story to sell this absurdity to the public. This is because they want to spread a left-wing narrative which, like Trump-Russia collusion hoax, is completely false.
FACT: The anti-Putin media group could not have been more anti-Putin. Newsmax.
Do you expect an apology NewsmaxBrian Filipkowski and Filipkowski are deliberately lying to the truth, in an effort to advance their liberal narrative.
Don’t hold your breath.
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