MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson used a portion of her Wednesday show to hold an informative segment about QAnon, the wacky online conspiracy theory that had a very conspicuous presence at President Donald Trump‘s rally last night.
As Jackson explained to her viewers, QAnon is 4Chan-based idea that one of the website’s anonymous users has high-level government security clearance, and is dropping hints about Trump’s war against the so-called “deep state.” Jackson went through several of the nuttiest allegations from QAnon while noting how Roseanne Barr endorsed the conspiracy theory along with other pro-Trump, far-right figures.
Jackson spoke with her NBC colleague Ben Collins about how QAnon spread across the Internet and the NBC reporter described it as a mish-mash of unchecked online conspiracy theories which have been rolled into a single lump of insane preposterousness. Collins was also given plenty of time to argue that he was right when he characterized QAnon as “Pizzagate on bath salts.”
“It’s fan-fiction,” Collins said. “It’s the same way if you were to read people trying to put together two people in a sitcom on the Internet because they’re fans of it. It’s the same exact thing. It’s people role-playing politics, and the goal is to make it so the lives of their political opponents are simply impossible.”
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