Rainn Wilson is voicing his opinion on the current state of political media and "left leaning news." During a conversation with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle on his 'Soul Boom' podcast, the pair discussed the differences in the way the media covers Donald Trump's presidency versus Joe Biden's time in the Oval Office.
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00:00So many people have come on this show, I can't even tell you, half our guests have said,
00:03I don't watch the news anymore and my life is so much better.
00:07Rainn Wilson is voicing his opinion on the current state of political media
00:11and quote, left-leaning news. During a conversation with MSNBC host Stephanie
00:16Ruhle on his Soul Boom podcast, the pair discussed the differences in the way the
00:20media covers Donald Trump's presidency versus Joe Biden's time in the Oval Office.
00:25Ruhle argued that there is a current concerted effort to destroy the media that stemmed from
00:29a lot of people tuning out the news following Trump's second win and quote, the Elon Musk media
00:35machine. What we need to do is just cover what's happening in America.
00:39Wilson, however, did not agree. This is where I would push back when I see this kind of
00:45insight and passion being direct directed at the current administration and the lack of this kind
00:51of insight and passion being directed at the previous administration. I'm talking about left
00:55leaning news media organizations who are kind of like, la la la la la, everything's fine.
01:00Look, the economy's great. La la la, immigration's not that much of a problem and really being
01:05Cleopatra, queen of denial. Ruhle argued the media was critical of Biden's approach to immigration
01:10while corroborating Wilson's sentiment. The media regularly talked about the fact that Biden
01:15was not doing enough in his first two and a half years on immigration. Ruhle said what Republicans
01:21have been successful at, and they have not solved any of these issues for the American people,
01:25but they're willing to talk about some of the unpleasant things that people feel that when
01:29people say those things out loud, they're immediately called xenophobic or racist.
01:34A large majority of people who have a problem with the current immigration crisis and have for
01:38the last five or 10 years are not racist, but often kind of tarred as racist by the liberal left.
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