Video Reveals Rachel Maddow Crying at Meme About Elon Musk Shopping for MSNBC?

Starting in late November 2024, on-line customers shared and mentioned a video displaying MSNBC TV host Rachel Maddow crying on-air. Within the clip, Maddow tried to carry again tears, purportedly after viewing a meme about tech entrepreneur Elon Musk contemplating buy of the left-of-center cable information community.

Within the video, Maddow says, “Can we put up the graphic of this?” The clip then shows a meme posted by Musk. Maddow continues talking whereas making an attempt to not cry. “I feel I will have handy this off. Yeah, sorry. That does it for us tonight. We’ll see you once more tomorrow now.” The chyron (headline) subsequent to the MSNBC emblem learn, “Elon Musk Posts Harmful Meme.”

Nevertheless, this rumor was not true. A person misleadingly edited an outdated video of Maddow holding again tears a few completely different topic. The person changed a delicate matter involving migrant infants and toddlers with the meme about Musk and MSNBC. Since this matter concerned a deceptively edited clip, now we have rated this declare as fake.

The meme’s creator later clarified that the video was supposed as a joke of a “meme,” however many customers shared it with captions suggesting they believed it had really aired on MSNBC.

Conservative Customers Believed Video Was Actual

In a single instance of a person posting in regards to the video, on Nov. 24, conservative host Mark Simone shared the clip on the web site for the New York radio station 710 WOR (archived). His headline learn, “Watch Rachel Maddow Break Down and Cry Over Elon Musk Shopping for MSNBC.” He additionally posted the story on X (archived).

On TikTok, one person’s post of the video obtained over 500,000 views. The submit displayed the caption, “Rachel Maddow has a bizarre breakdown on-air. Her response to Elon meme of him shopping for MSNBC.” The person who uploaded the clip additionally added a remark beneath the video indicating the person believed it was actual: “Her response is form of excessive to the meme however perhaps it is a actuality test that she could also be out of a job. Her far left wing considering will not work on an Elon owned new station. Like and repost.”

As of the afternoon of Nov. 25, the TikTok person’s account and video had been inaccessible.

In different posts, an Instagram person claimed (archived), “Rachel Maddow BREAKS DOWN over Elon Musk meme.” Equally, a Fb person shared (archived), “30 million greenback Rachal [sic] Maddow is crying as a result of Elon could also be her new boss.” Customers additionally circulated the video on Rumble and YouTube.

Maddow Cried About Youngster Migrants — Not Musk

On June 19, 2018, MSNBC broadcast dwell the original and unedited video displaying Maddow holding again tears. In the course of the clip, she learn from a information story revealed by The Related Press. The article’s headline learn, “At the very least 3 ‘tender age’ shelters arrange for youngster migrants.” That story started, “Trump administration officers have been sending infants and different younger kids forcibly separated from their dad and mom on the U.S.-Mexico border to no less than three ‘tender age’ shelters in South Texas, The Related Press has discovered.”

Rumor About Musk Shopping for MSNBC

The deceptive clip confirmed a watermark for X person @alx, who posted it on Nov. 24 (archived). The submit from @alx displayed on X as a repost response to Musk’s personal share of the meme (the picture showing within the edited video) from hours earlier (archived). The meme urged Musk could be tempted to purchase MSNBC.

As of Nov. 25, the concept of Musk critically contemplating shopping for MSNBC was merely a rumor, together with with posts containing ideas from Donald Trump Jr., podcaster Joe Rogan and others. CNN, the New York Post and Vanity Fair reported it merely simply amounted to “joking.”

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