Maddow: Trump's claim he'd have hospital ships coming to NY and CA 'nonsense'

Watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC is like watching an anti-American propaganda film from Russia. You get a piece of truth and then it gets spun into a piece of something less pleasant.

It's amazing that people actually spend time watching her show, but one has to suppose that some people will watch anything they want to believe and once it's proven to be bull pucks, they find an excuse or interpret it to suit their thinking, even when the claims that are made are as detached from reality as a Daffy Duck cartoon.

Maddow has been doing this since Trump came down the escalator.

On March 20th, Maddow's entire "show" was to create even more discomfort and even panic over the coronavirus. She claimed everything was out of control, hospitals were stripped of all their supply needs, and Trump was sitting around doing nothing about it.

The craziest part of her rant was the claim that President Trump lied about deploying the two hospital ships, USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy, that were to be sent to New York City and California, respectively. She claimed Trump said the ships were going to be deployed the following week but, according to Maddow, they weren't even close to being deployed nor would they be for weeks at the very least. Her words:

"In terms of the happy talk we've had on this front from the federal government, there is no sign that the Navy hospital ships that the president made such a big deal of, the Comfort and the Mercy, there's no sign that they'll be anywhere on-site helping out anywhere in the country for weeks yet. The president said when he announced that those ships would be put into action against the COVID-19 epidemic. He said one of those ships would be operational in New York harbor by next week. That's nonsense. It will not be there next week.”

According to the transcript, she even continued to make the claim later in her act.

"President Trump announced this week that the navy was sending two medical ships, one to New York City, one to the West Coast to help treat patients. He said the ships would be launched over the next week or so depending on need. Wrong. That was also wrong as NBC`s Courtney Kube puts it. Quote, it's anybody's guess when those ships will come in. One of those ships is currently undergoing maintenance. It has no medical personnel on board. The other one is also undergoing maintenance and it lacks a medical crew all together. Remember the president said it will be there next week. It won't be there next week."

And yet on Monday morning riding the gentle waves in New York Harbor, came the USNS Comfort, and arriving in Los Angeles on March 27, the USNS Mercy began treating patients. 

No apologies from MSNBC; no apology from Rachel Madcow.

Because they are not sorry they said that--it was good for the moment.

This is exactly what fake news looks like.

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