After more than a dozen votes, Kevin McCarthy has now been elected as the Speaker of the House. It’s the first time in more than 100 years the process took so long, and there were mixed reactions from media pundits. However, Rich Zeoli of 1210 WPHT was not happy with one opinion in particular.
MSNBC host Nicole Wallace believed only those who are controlled by foreign adversaries were joyous over the political disfunction.
“This is a tragedy for American democracy,” Wallace said last week. “The only people enjoying this are probably newscasters attached to Kremlin state media but I think that it is clear that when we talk about Fox’s influence over the right, it is clear that it is on steroids. Tucker Carlson has been waging a campaign against Kevin McCarthy for years — on the airwaves, not secretly — and these folks voting against Kevin McCarthy are out of things to ask for outside of kidneys and lungs.”
Zeoli did not respond favorably to that perspective, calling Wallace a “fraud” and a “fake Republican”.
“If you have any position that differs from their position, it’s Russia and it’s Russian propaganda,” the Philadelphia afternoon host said. “MSNBC’s fake former Republican Nicole Wallace, who was a war-mongering, neo-con, big surveillance state Republican when she was a Republican and now she’s all those things on MSNBC.”
Zeoli also took issue with one of the panelists joining Wallace insinuating that Tucker Carlson was who the MSNBC host was alluding to with her “newscasters attached to Kremlin state media” line.
“Tucker Carlson going against Kevin McCarthy benefitting Russia? I don’t even follow that,” continued Zeoli. “Donald Trump — who is apparently the number one Russian agent — is putting his neck out on the line for Kevin McCarthy multiple times. So if Donald Trump is the biggest Russian stooge, and he’s angling for Kevin McCarthy, how is Tucker a Russian stooge because he doesn’t? It’s so stupid, I can’t even get my mind around it.”
