If you’re looking for grim and sour women, cable news has a smorgasbord for you. None, though, are as grim or as sour as MSNBC’s Niccole Wallace. The anchorwoman, a rabid never-Trumper, has perfected the glib callousness and creaking vocal fry that mark out a 21st century girlboss.
Like many modern TV anchors watching the industry collapse around them, Wallace has branched out into podcasts. On hers, she hosts leftist actors like Jason Bateman so they can sit around for an hour and a half accusing President Donald Trump of being an arsonist who’s responsible for the L.A. riots happening right now.
On her MSNBC show, Wallace starts a segment out looking and sounding “exhausted,” as leftists like to describe themselves from having to live in a world in which Republicans exist. In a halting voice that’s almost a stutter, Wallace tells her guest, retired Brigadier General Steve Anderson, about the social media posts put out by the Department of Homeland Security. From the lead up you would think you’d find something truly scandalous in these posts on X/Twitter.
“Did Vladimir Putin write that one?” Wallace asks. Her guest replies, “He might very well have.”
Huh?
What do these two think Russian President Vladimir Putin is responsible for? A DHS post asking Americans to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “report all foreign invaders.” Wallace is scandalized because the government used old-timey “Uncle Sam” type graphics? Or is it that she thinks the reporting foreign invaders is un-American?
By the way, here’s the image from DHS:
Here’s Wallace’s exchange with Gen. Anderson. Anderson goes on to describe Elon Musk as “one foreign invader” that the U.S. should “deal with.” Musk is a U.S. citizen.
There were a few X users who took Wallace’s side:
But most reacted this way:
