There is no shock in learning that hosts at MSNBC are knee-jerk race-baiters when it comes to making hits on GOP running mate JD Vance. This is such a tired tactic that, as we will see, it appears these pundits operate in this fashion out of muscle memory as opposed to using their think-muscle. The temptation to leap towards race is such a need for them that they have become numb to the dopamine rush it once delivered.

About the only surprise with this action seen is in what we are not seeing – that would be examples from the network’s most reliable race-obsessed hostess, Joy Reid. By now her quotidian melanin missives are more likely to induce the effects of melatonin. Yet she appears hesitant to this point to engage in color-based accusatory segments. I looked into this and it could be due to her having once brought Vance on her show when his book “Hillbilly Elegy” was released, and the two discussed issues soberly.

That odd time when Joy Reid had JD Vance on her program to discuss in friendly fashion issues of race and class. pic.twitter.com/5sjQPveSoV

— Brad Slager - Scrubbing Down In a Bloodbath (@MartiniShark) July 31, 2024

That reasoned approach towards Vance is not shared by Reid’s cohorts; they are more than willing to launch into wildly speculative charges rooted in pure emotion and absent anything approaching pragmatism. To start, as Brandon covered yesterday, frequent morning show loiterer Molly Jong-Fast came out with her daft assessment of the current manufactured controversy of a Vance interview where he referred to Democrats as childless cat ladies.

🚨 UNHINGED: MSDNC contributor @MollyJongFast says JD Vance only wants "white children" in America — as @politico White House chief @JonLemire sits by and refuses to correct her.

JD Vance is the father of three biracial children with his Indian-American wife. pic.twitter.com/pR0UeeiPeP

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 30, 2024

The idiocy of this comment, as most already know, is that Vance has a wife of purely Indian descent and as a result has three biracial children. If, as Molly eloquently stated, “He wants a kind of, a racial thing,” he manages to avoid this obsession under his roof. Usually this “Not in my bassinet” mindset trends in the opposite direction with replacement theory adherents, as she alludes to in her charge.

Making her ignorance all the more glorious to savor is that we just watched the Republican national convention where JD’s wife, Usha Chilukuri. spoke, delivering an eloquent speech. How does Jong-Fast consider herself an expert pundit worth hearing out when she is this oblivious to news developments that are this fresh? (As an aside, Molly caught so much blowback for her idiocy that she went on a blocking spree and then locked down her Xitter account.)

It was in fact this racial dynamic in Vance’s marriage that led to one of the other mentally impacted racism charges from the network, made during their coverage of the convention. While sitting in front of a green screen, selling to the audience that MSNBC was on location in Milwaukee, their panel discussed the aftermath of JD Vance’s speech accepting his role as running mate to Donald Trump. 

In one portion of his speech, Vance referenced that his family has a multi-generational burial ground in Kentucky, and he has the desire to see that he and his wife, and subsequently his children, are buried there as well. Alex Wagner made a very strained attempt to suggest that this desire of his is somehow toxic masculinity and possibly even supremacist in nature. Watch her struggle through this fractured concept, looking for support from her fellow panelists as she stumbles through her theory.

.@JDVance1: I want to my family to rest in our Eastern Kentucky plot

Alex Wagner: WHITE SUPREMACY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE pic.twitter.com/SPO12sQjxR

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 18, 2024

Taking the prize, however, for the most conspirational delivery goes to the esteemed (in the minds of the network) Rachel Maddow. She latched onto a detail in Vance’s professional life and managed to stretch things to a monofilament level to reach her racism claim. She took a look at JD’s business - Narya - and found something nefarious.

See, this is a company he named after a reference to a plot element from “The Lord Of The Rings”. Maddow has gleaned that other businesses like Vance’s have also been named after content from J.R.R. Tolkien. She makes the deduction that a lot of “far right and alt-right figures” name things after “Lord Of The Rings” elements, and thus Vance is positioned as a white supremacist. 

Maddow even adjusts her Reynolds Wrap chapeau to play anagrams with the name of JD’s company to “prove” that it also means “Aryan”! Seriously, she went that deep down the Blue-anon rabbit hole. Behold.

Rachel Maddow claims the "Lord of the Rings is a, sort of, a favorite cosmos for naming things and cultural references for a lot of far-right and alt-right figures" and that JD Vance's company "Narya...which you can remember because it’s 'Aryan,' but you move the N to the front" pic.twitter.com/lfqQ5gXrxu

— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 19, 2024

This becomes the familiar trap these hyper-leftists set for themselves. Much like the cases where you need to be a dog in order to pick up the racist dog whistles, you need to be fluent in white supremacist-signaled dogma to glean the racist messaging. Good thing the MSNBC racist galaxy brains are here to decipher and translate the white codes that somehow only they can hear.