As the sun rises and the night turns into day, MSNBC remains. Despite major changes to its line-up amid collapsing ratings and a worsening financial outlook, the left-wing network continues to be as deranged and dishonest as it has always been. Sure, getting rid of Joy Reid seemed like a step in the right direction, but was it really when people like Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi were promoted into primetime? Because that seems like a lateral move to me.
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Proving that assertion were on-air corrections Ruhle and Velshi were forced to make on Tuesday evening, and the setup reveals even deeper issues within the mainstream media sphere.
As RedState reported, on Monday, the Associated Press put out a story entitled “Gabbard Says Trump and Putin are ‘Very Good Friends’ Focusing on Strengthening Ties.” According to the much-lauded journalists at the ostensible news outlet, DNI Tulsi Gabbard made that comment while giving an interview in India. Naturally, such a headline was like catnip to MSNBC, and Ruhle and Velshi were two of the network’s hosts who ran with it, chastising President Donald Trump as being a puppet of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
There was just one problem. The quote was completely manufactured, and a look at the full interview Gabbard did with India NDTV shows she was talking about Trump and Indian PM Narendra Modi being “very good friends.” MSNBC was a bit late to the party admitting that, though. In fact, ‘Morning Joe’ allowed one of its analysts to repeat the false claim without any pushback after the AP had issued that retraction
When Ruhle and Velshi went live on Tuesday, they carried on as if they hadn’t pushed a blatant lie about what Gabbard said the night before. It wasn’t until the very end of their shows that they finally got around to giving their corrections. Both lasted less than 20 seconds and included no explanation or apology for getting it so wrong.
MSNBC set the record straight last night and corrected false reporting about DNI Tulsi Gabbard. pic.twitter.com/b7MZEW1zwj— Alex Pfeiffer (@Pfeiffer47) March 19, 2025
Ruhle’s correction was especially underwhelming. You could tell she didn’t want to give it and was just checking the box before signing off. Clearly, MSNBC feels zero remorse for propagating such a damaging, dangerous false report. American foreign policy can hinge on the smallest of details, and to have supposedly non-biased, trustworthy news outlets make such a claim comes at a cost. How many will even see the corrections at this point? I can guarantee you that years from now, “Trump and Putin are good friends” will still be the prevailing wisdom on the left. The damage is already done.
And this is why MSNBC continues to falter. It is a network that starts at the premise that the orange man is bad and works back from there. Every single show it has (outside of maybe an after-midnight documentary or two) centers on acting as if Trump is the most evil person to ever exist. When that’s a new outlet’s strategy, these kinds of “mistakes” are going to continue to happen, and MSNBC will continue to have no credibility as a result.
