The late Clayton Lockett was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of Stephanie Nieman. The sentence was carried out Tuesday by the state of Oklahoma. The state used a new formula for its lethal injection, and it did not work entirely according to plan. Lockett ended up taking a little while before succumbing.
MSNBC had Lockett’s step-mother, Ladonna Hollins, on for an interview Wednesday night. Together, she and network host Ari Melber floated a conspiracy theory that Lockett was “tortured to death.”
Which, even if true, would be a sort of justice given how Lockett shot Stephanie in cold blood and then buried her alive.
Neither the host nor the guest mention Stephanie Nieman at all.
As awful as the above segment is, it may only be the runner-up for MSNBC’s worst moment of the day, as you’ll see on the next page.
Take it away, Libertarian Republic.
MSNBC host Krystal Ball suggested Tuesday that George Orwell’s famously anti-communist novel “Animal Farm” is an allegory for capitalism run amok — immediately setting the hair of literature professors across the country on fire.
Ball spoke on MSNBC’s “The Cycle” about the recent release of French economist Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” which argues capitalism is intrinsically unfair and advocates a global wealth tax to level the playing field.
Ball noted that Piketty’s claims have been met with some criticism, which she felt was undeserved. “Piketty has predictably gotten the full Cold War treatment,” she claimed. “The National Review calls his book ‘soft Marxism,’ and Lord only knows what they’re saying at less responsible outlets or (ugh) the comments section.”“Even the august and ostensibly economically literate Wall Street Journal tells him to read ‘Animal Farm,’” she noted. “Animal Farm? Hmm. Isn’t that Orwell’s political parable of farm animals where a bunch of pigs hog up all the economic resources, tell the other animals they need all the food because they’re the makers and then scare up the prospect of a phony bogeyman every time their greed is challenged? Sounds familiar.”
Orwell himself said that Animal Farm was anti-Stalin. Anyone who has read it can have no doubt of what it’s about and which ideology it is shredding. The media currently pushing the Piketyy book are pushing Marxism.
Ball knowingly turned Animal Farm inside-out. Ball’s comment was not some off-the-cuff pop. Like previous insane commentary for which MSNBC hosts have later had to apologize, Ball’s spin was part of a pre-written comment. So it had to get past show producers to make it on the air. It’s a conscious lie, told to serve and defend the very ideology that Orwell criticized in his famous novel.
By the way, one major story did not get much airtime on MSNBC last night. Benghazi.
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