Brian Williams isn’t very bright. But you already knew that. But he’s dumber than you might have thought. You see Brian can’t understand why conservatives call Communist China, “Communist.” Could it be because China has been a communist country since at least Mao Zedong? Could it be that the country is controlled by the CCP, aka the China Communist Party?
This led Williams to wonder, “Why am I seeing so many people in the cheap seats? And that, by the way, is the definition of Twitter, the cheap seats, talking up some kind of a confrontation? War with China?” Those in the cheap seats, according to Williams, included conservatives and those on Twitter.
But wait, there’s more! Williams got even more ludicrous and offered a line one could utter on the English-language version of Chinese state TV: “Why, as I mentioned last night, have we seen just in the last two weeks, mentions especially on the right in the media of people only calling it Communist China, like when you and I were growing up?”
With this take, Williams was alluding to a Thursday segment where Mark McKinnon told him that GOP concerns about China exist because the GOP needs a boogeyman to scare people.