During coverage of J.D. Vance’s keynote speech at the Republican National Convention, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow took a serious detour to bash him.
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It’s only natural Vance would come under fire from the left after he was picked to be former President Donald Trump’s running mate, but the lengths to which Maddow went to bash him are bizarre. After mentioning that billionaire Peter Thiel has assisted Vance in finding jobs, she then went into another thing the pair share: A love of Lord of the Rings.
“Like Mr. Thiel who has named his companies after things in the Lord of the Rings series of J.R.R. Tolkien books – Lord of the Rings is sort of a favorite cosmos for naming things and cultural references for a lot of far-right and alt-right figures within Europe and the United States,” she argued. “Peter Thiel names all of his things after Tolkien figures and places like his company Palantir for example.”
“Like his mentor, like Peter Thiel who had given him all his jobs in the world. Mr. Vance also, when he founded his own venture capital firm with help from Peter Thiel, named it after a Lord of the Rings thing and called it Narya — N- a—y-r-a, which you can remember because it’s ‘Aryan’ but you move the ‘n’ to the front,” Maddow blustered. “Apparently that has something to do with elves and rings from the Lord of the Rings series. I don’t know.”
As one can imagine, this analysis didn’t go over well with X users:
Good heavens. These people have so little to argue with that THIS is what they come up with to fuel their fear-mongering? Yikes! Times are desperate for the left!
Consequences of their past choices keep coming back to bite them!
— Diane2023 (@Diane4030275165) July 18, 2024
I am just now realizing that my husband and every man I know – all “alt-right.”
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) July 18, 2024
One of the most famous Lord of the Rings superfans is Stephen Colbert, meaning Rachel Maddow thinks Colbert is a ‘far right’ figure: pic.twitter.com/LuFWGelrxQ
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) July 18, 2024
She’s mad as a hatter!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 18, 2024
Orcs, goblins, dragons, balrogs, the witch-king of angmar, and the Haradrim Southrons were just a few. Lotr is very diverse and is just a work of fantasy. Just like Rachel Madcows career
— HighlanderUltra (@HansHorlacher) July 18, 2024
**Sigh**
I seem to have to post this at least once a day pic.twitter.com/x1ptHu6h0H
— Elon’s Musk (@andItoldyaso) July 18, 2024
Maddow is not a serious commentator. Her assertions are verifiable at a similar level as “the view”.
She is fantasy politics to motivate the base and to give them hope. Watching her too much would be like taking the calls of a cheerleader as proof of something about the team…
— ScareCity USA (@KThatzall) July 18, 2024
I like Lord of The Rings.
I’m a black woman.
I’m not a white supremacist.
— NaomiSky15 (@NaomiSky_15) July 18, 2024
Exactly. I wondered how long it would take the Left to realize they’re working for Sauron. Good job guys. pic.twitter.com/0bZWKrx2Cq
— Matt (@grghost) July 18, 2024
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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