MSNBC's Rachel Maddow had a meltdown last night as the votes were rolling in for President-elect Donald Trump, and it was every bit as satisfying as one could have hoped.
The biased news anchor panicked on her liberal network MSNBC as a Clinton victory began to seem less and less likely.
“You’re awake, by the way,” she said. “You’re not having a terrible, terrible dream. Also, you’re not dead and you haven’t gone to hell. This is your life now, this is our election now. This is us. This is our country—it’s real.”
As you can see in the clip, she speaks with a sense of terror accompanied by an alarming smile, reminiscent of Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight.
Maddow certainly wasn’t the only media personality who went from zero to emotional as Trump defied the odds, yet again, for a historic upset victory. Talking heads everywhere conveyed their disdain for the American people’s decision, and were left scratching their heads on-air and on Twitter as to how the polls could have been so wrong.
CNN’s Jake Tapper told viewers as the results were coming in that if Trump won, it would “put the polling industry out of business.”
“I don’t know of one poll that suggested that Donald Trump was going to have this kind of night that he seems to be on track to having,” Tapper said. “This is not the repudiation of Donald Trump and Trumpism that I think a lot of Republicans in Washington, D.C., and Democrats, hoped.”
MSNBC's Chuck Todd conceded that Trump "blew all of our predictions, and models, and you name it out of the water," as a panel discussed the consequential election.
ABC’s Martha Raddatz, who moderated one of the presidential debates, visibly choked up as she talked about a Trump victory. She recalled an interview with Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine saying he would fear for his son’s life, a Marine soldier, if there were to be a President Trump.
CNN’s Van Jones may have been the most emotional of all.
“How do I explain this to my children?” he pleaded. “This was a whitelash against a changing country. It was a whitelash against a black president, in part. And that’s where the pain comes.”
These were pretty assumptive claims and race-baiting words from the liberal pundit, as President-elect Trump spoke of “binding wounds of division” and coming together as “one united people” in his victory speech.
“I pledge to every citizen of our land, that I will be president for all Americans, and this is so important to me,” Trump stated.
A slogan we often use here at Media Research Center is "Don't believe the liberal media!" That phrase has never rung more true than it does today. The media doubted Trump from the very beginning all the way until the very end, despite being proven wrong every step of the way. The polls, the so-called experts, the media pundits, the politicians -- they were wrong.
Check out Trump's victory speech here:
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