Brian Williams Pushes Liberal Trope That Opposing Crime Is Racist

On Friday's The 11th Hour show, MSNBC host Brian Williams pushed the liberal trope that being against crime is somehow racist as he hyped an anti-Donald Trump ad that likens the President to former segregationist Alabama Democratic Governor George Wallace, using clips of both men calling for "law and order."

The MSNBC graphic smeared, "TRUMP ECHOES SEGREGATIONIST GEORGE WALLACE."

MSNBC contributor Jon Meacham conflated Wallace with former Republican President Richard Nixon as he lamented that the two men combined received more than half of the popular vote in the 1968 presidential election, as if there were something wrong with the 43 percent who voted for Nixon.

Neither of these two liberal journalists bothered to mention that their preferred candidate from that year, Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey, also spoke out against violent crime and called for "law and order" in his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention.

Nearing the end of his show, Williams recalled that President Trump has made a "decision to go deep on race" as he cited polling by ABC News and Ipsos finding that most Americans disapprove of the President on race relations.

Without accurately describing the Lincoln Project as a group of disaffected former Republicans who are anti-Trump, he introduced an ad recently released by the group:

An ad by the Republican group, the Lincoln Project, compared Donald Trump to former Alabama governor and veteran segregationist George Wallace back in the 1960s. Indeed, any look through the archives proves to you there are echoes, similarities between what we're hearing now and what we heard from Wallace back then.