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The day before the Mississippi Senate runoff the liberal media trying desperately to drag Democrat Mike Espy over the finish line by dragging GOP Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith through the mud. They’re putting all their money into smearing Hyde-Smith as a racist and the product of a racist state. During their Monday evening newscasts, ABC, CBS, and NBC did everything they could to attack her, with one going so far as to attack her teenage daughter with lies about attending a segregated school.
Earlier that day, nooses were found hanging from a tree outside the Mississippi state house with signs attacking Hyde-Smith. But on NBC Nightly News, White House correspondent Kristen Welker provided no context. “And this morning, a disturbing reminder, this race has become all about race, two nooses found at the state capital,” she said, essentially leaving up to viewers to assume it was a threat against Democratic candidate Mike Espy, who is African-American.
On ABC’s World News Tonight, it wasn’t any better. Chief national affairs correspondent Tom Llamas picked one of the most ambiguous sign to read to viewers. “Nooses found hanging today outside the Mississippi state capital, along with niece signs. One reading We're hanging nooses to remind people that times haven't changed,’” he read.
Llamas also asserted that the nooses appeared after Hyde-Smith “embrace[d] the state's racist past.” But meanwhile, on CBS Evening News, correspondent Ed O’Keefe noted that the nooses were “hung by critics of Senator Hyde-Smith.”
All three of the broadcast networks continued to push twisted accusations that a joke Hyde-Smith made about public hangings was about lynching African-Americans. They also pointed to suggested she was a Confederate sympathizer because she once visited a Mississippi museum and complimented their exhibits.
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