The Purveyors of Propaganda and Divisiveness: Maddow v. Hannity – two sides of the same coin?

The most watched American cable news hosts are Rachael Maddow and Sean Hannity. In the latest ratings count, The Rachael Maddow Show beat Hannity by an average total audience of 3.058 million views. FNC's Hannity inched behind at 3.000 million views. These ratings also included the much sought after demographic the 25-54 age group. This is where the sacred advertising money enters the mix. Maddow is making more money for her corporate over lords, and Hannity is not too far behind.

What do these two news shows have in common, aside from a similar number of views?

Last month, I remember reading somewhere, (possibly Twitter) that Rachael Maddow is merely the "left-wing Sean Hannity". Two-sides of the same coin. Two wings of a single political bird. One claims to promote liberal values, laying bare the corruption of politics, President Trumps many short falls and the hypocrisy of the Conservative Party. While Hannity reports on the criminality of the left, the absolute virtues of President Trump, and the slowly “crumbling values” that the true patriot of The United States of America holds dear. On the surface, listening to their respective rhetoric, observing their body language and self-righteous desk slamming, this may be all true. But peering through these carefully crafted facades, their “opposing arguments”, their effort at partisanship, there are two agendas: First, an attempt at further dividing the country into only two political parties. And the second, demonizing any foreign power, whether Iraq, Libya. Palestine, Iran and currently Russia, at the behest of the Military Industrial Complex, rallying the people for war.

It is no secret that MSNBC has been fanning the flames of the Mueller investigation. Maddow, before any other news outlet, predicted that there would be a “special council” appointed after Trump fired the FBI Director, James Comey. Since then, her fanning has become bombing, with unrelenting speculation, and accusations of treason to all and sunder, particularly, on the Republican side of the aisle.

In 2017, before Russia bashing was simply a rumour, a senior member of Hillary Clinton's campaign, Jennifer Palmieri, caught wind of the potential political impact of a conspiracy of Russian meddling in the election, and urged the DNC to ramp up the “Russian attack on our Republic”, from this point, it has been on for young and old for the left, leading to a world wide political attack on Russia.

There has been no other media covering Russia to the extent that, The Rachael Maddow Show has, lifting her ratings for MSNBC to record highs over the last ten years. The left want president Trump do go down, and go down hard. He has been called everything from a traitor to a “Putin Puppet”, and every MSM outlet has been carrying the same message. Russia like Iraq before, is the new Evil Empire, and the American people are eating it up like an episode of FX's production of “The Americans”. Rachael Maddow is not a journalist. She is a mouth-piece for her corporate masters, who in turn follow the dictates of the NSA, CIA and DOD.

Sean Hannity is of the same pedigree as Rachael Maddow, but a dog of a different fur colour.

For months and months, one could not turn on to Hannity's show without hearing about “crooked Hillary”. Why hasn't the FBI been investigating her 30,000 deleted emails? What about the corrupt “Clinton Foundation”? Maddow would scream, “Russia, Russia, Russia”, and Hannity would bellow, “crooked Hillary”!!! Maddow would criticise Trump's infantile tweets, and Hannity would attack the FBI. This corporate media mudslinging from the so-called Left and Right, has corroded into a “Mean Girls” production, only with less maturity, and much more at stake for the country.

Sean Hannity is a well known promoter of American aggression overseas. I remember it clearly, when president Obama suggested (in his first term) a plan to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. Hannity erupted into a frenzy, accusing Obama of putting the American people into harms way, enabling terrorists, and calling him weak. This infamous Hannity tirade went on for days. He is also a pundit for regime change, pushing the (unproven) chemical attack by Syria's Assad on his own people. Sound familiar? When president Trump ordered cruise missiles into a Syrian airport last year, after images surfaced of “gassed children”, Hannity spouted praise for the Donald, calling it, along with other MSM puppets, how “presidential” he appeared to the American people. Hannity too, is a mouthpiece for his corporate masters, that furthers the agenda of the DEEP STATE, he so often criticises, on behalf of his single master, president Trump.

Rachael Maddow, while claiming to be “liberal” is certainly pushing conspiracy agendas, positing Russia as the new Evil Empire, calling Trump stupid, and colluding with Russia. Sean Hannity changes his political views depending on which direction the wind is blowing at the time. He loves president Trump, however, sabre rattles whenever the opportunity arises to promote American aggression overseas.

Maddow and Hannity are two sides of the same coin, divisive in domestic politics, yet united in War.