Florida Senator Marco Rubio was a guest on Wednesday night’s Hannity where he reacted to both CNN and MSNBC refusing to carry Donald Trump’s victory speech after his historic win in Iowa Monday night.
“It’s not about bias anymore. There’s always been liberal bias in the media. Human beings are biased. They’re partisan,” Rubio told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “They are now extending that to not just attack Trump as a candidate, as a former president, future president, but also to attack the people who follow [him].”
“What’s really changed is not just a partisan tone of the coverage, but now this effort to say ‘We’re not gonna carry a speech, we’re not gonna let you hear what he has to say. We will interpret it, and we’ll put up the snippets we want you to hear, but we’ve made the decision to no longer carry it,” Rubio later continued. “This is exactly how state-run media is used by authoritarian governments to delegitimize, to discredit to basically make people believe that there is no alternative but to the regime and to their rule.”
“It’s destroying the media in this country. It’s why at this point, you know, no one believes anything they see or hear anymore,” he added.
Rubio also shared his thoughts in a post on X.
“U.S. media refusing to carry Trump speech live last night after a historic Iowa victory is exactly how undemocratic regimes abroad use state-run media to try to delegitimize, dismiss & discredit their political opposition.”
U.S. media refusing to carry Trump speech live last night after a historic Iowa victory is exactly how undemocratic regimes abroad use state run media to try to delegitimize, dismiss & discredit their political opposition
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) January 16, 2024
Watch the clip above.
Hannity blasted MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow during Tuesday night’s Hannity.
“As you heard during his victory speech, Donald Trump struck a unifying tone. But apparently, according to…radical Rachel Maddow, Trump’s speech was too dangerous for the fragile ears of NBC’s loyal viewers,” Hannity said. “They didn’t take any of the speech live. Instead, Maddow was lecturing Americans about truth and integrity.”
“This is a joke, right?”
“No one in the media mob has peddled more lies, more conspiracy theories, than Rachel Maddow…she proudly donned that tin foil hat.”