In a segment on Tuesday night’s program, Fox News host Tucker Carlson called out MSNBC in particular for doing whatever it could to keep the Russian hacking story alive, despite having no evidence:
.@TuckerCarlson: "@NBCNews, and particularly its cable outlet @MSNBC, have gone to remarkable lengths to keep [Russia hacking story] alive." pic.twitter.com/cuD88sAee1
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 15, 2017
.@TuckerCarlson: @NBCNews lied to…help destroy a politician they didn't like…Do we know they're not doing it now? Unfortunately we don't pic.twitter.com/EHiDk7OIDH
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 15, 2017
Here’s video of the segment:
Tucker: NBC the real meddler in election, not Russia https://t.co/x05C4d9SFf
— William Amos (@WilliamAmos) March 15, 2017
The suggestion got liberals on Twitter upset.
"Just The Facts"
One of the "facts" is "It's all just innuendo and conspiracy mongering" pic.twitter.com/HTkhqYFdpP
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 15, 2017
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It is alive because it has not been resolved. It is patriotic to get to the bottom of this.
— GoodGovGal (@napapap) March 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/PriceSjrw5614/status/841817945537933312
it's called journalism……try it!
— Dirk Diggler (@diggydirk) March 15, 2017
While others added this:
Deflection for damaging info on @BarackObama https://t.co/3SCykJ6ujD
— Marie (@MarieLeff) March 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/tom_luu/status/841822331341279232