Russel Brand schools MSNBC journalist John Heilemann over standards at his network

Russell Brand has said that MSNBC is also ‘propaganda’ just like Fox News.

Brand made his views known about MSNBC journalist John Heilemann when he appeared on HBO’s Real Time on Friday night.

Heilemann, who appears often on both NBC News and MSNBC, was discussing with Brand how several Fox News anchors had been accused of knowingly reporting on voter fraud conspiracies, knowing they were false.

But Brand questioned the effectiveness of condemning Fox News without acknowledging MSNBC’s involvement in the exact same game, pointing out how both networks display bias and act as mouthpieces for their affiliate owners, BlackRock and Vanguard.

Brand emphasized the futility of arguing over which network is worse with the comic and the podcaster by suggesting that instead of attacking other networks, efforts should be refocused on improving MSNBC to make it a better and more effective platform.

‘Improve MSNBC. Make MSNBC great again!’ Brand declared, echoing the repeated chant of former President Trump.

Brand argued that Heilemann, for her part, should be more open about MSNBC’s biases rather than solely attacking the conservative outlet.

“It’s hard to suggest that this is because these corporations operate as more than mouthpieces for their affiliated owners at BlackRock and Vanguard,” Brand told Heilemann.

“We have to take responsibility for our own perspective.”

I’ve been on that MSNBC. Man, it was a propaganda nutcracker there,” Brand added, referring to his own experience on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

“No one could concentrate, they didn’t understand the basics of journalism,” Brand yelled.

“No one was willing to defend the true American heroes like Edward Snowden. No one was willing to talk about Julian Assange and what he has suffered trying to bring real journalism to the American people.

“I think sitting in the MSNBC castle throwing rocks at Fox News is ridiculous,” Brand said.

“Just spiritually, dude, if I may use that word in your great country, we have to take responsibility for our own perspectives,” Brand said.

Heilemann was finally able to utter a word to refute some of Brand’s accusations.

“It’s not about bias, it’s a false equivalency because you don’t actually know anything about any of these organizations that you’re talking about,” he began. ‘You’ve been on MSNBC once, big deal! You don’t have a single real fact.

Brand appeared on MSNBC in June 2013.

During the panel discussion in which Bill Maher was unusually quiet, Brand attempted to present “evidence” to support his argument, pointing to MSNBC’s coverage of alternative COVID-19 treatments as an example of the network’s failure to report the facts.

Brand described MSNBC’s scorn of Joe Rogan’s use of the drug Ivermectin as “ridiculous, outrageous” and accused the network of “deliberately referring to this as horse medicine when they know it’s effective medicine.”

Brand then brought up MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who he says told his audience, “If you take this vaccine, you’re not going to get it.”

Heilemann dismissed Brand’s examples as simply overblown conservative ‘talking points’.

Brand went on to rant for “new political systems that genuinely represent ordinary Americans so we can overcome cultural differences.”

Brand did not explain why he believed such incidents were comparable to Fox hosts repeatedly airing conspiracy theories about President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory over former President Donald Trump.

Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch has admitted in a statement that some of the station’s top members show “substantiated” unsubstantiated allegations, which now form the basis of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit that Dominion Voting Systems has filed. against the conservative channel.