MSNBC anchor starts sobbing as he begins Jan. 6 anniversary interview — and observers mercilessly mock him



MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart started sobbing as he began a Jan. 6 anniversary interview Saturday — and observers mercilessly mocked the anchor for his emotional display.

What are the details?

Prior to interviewing Michael Fanone, a former Washington, D.C., police officer, Capehart's voice seized up and began to break as he struggled to say, "I'm gonna try to get through this."

Capehart paused to dab his nose with what appeared to be a hanky or piece of tissue.

"Thank you," Capehart then said to Fanone, his voice still shaky.

With that, the camera quickly pulled away from Capehart and focused only on Fanone — which is when Capehart's sobs were on full display.

"For what you did," Capehart blubbered, barely hanging on to his emotions, as he continued his thank you to Fanone, "three years ago today."

Fanone at first was looking at Capehart:

Image source: X video screenshot via @CollinRugg

Then, he averted his gaze downward after Capehart shifted to full sob mode:

Image source: X video screenshot via @CollinRugg

Regaining his composure, Capehart asked Fanone to "please tell me your thoughts on this third anniversary."

Here's the clip:

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How are folks reacting?

As you might guess, Capehart's sob show annoyed a fair number of notable folks:

  • "State propaganda has reached a new level," conservative figure Collin Rugg said while calling Capehart's emotional display "unreal."
  • Libs of TikTok said, "These people are pathetic paid actors!"
  • Author Margaret Kimberley stated, "Move over Van Jones, now Jonathan Capehart is crying."
  • Conservative pundit Carmine Sabia wrote, "Jonathan Capehart — you, my man, are a woman. ... the acting is so piss poor it’s hilarious. The more they push this January-6-is-the-same-as-9/11 nonsense, the more hilarious it gets. It’s beyond desperate."
  • Podcaster Kyle Becker observed, "Capehart actually had a tissue prop on hand for this act. Pathetic!"

Believe it or not, Capehart pushed back later Saturday on X: “And I’d do it again!”

But commenters still weren't letting him off the hook.

Brandon Straka, leader of the #WalkAway movement for disgruntled Democrats, told Capehart: "You had many opportunities to do it again: your side attacked, beat, injured, and murdered police relentlessly throughout 2020. You also defunded them and demoralized them. You advocated for all of this. You didn’t cry for any of it. Weird."

Chad Prather stated bluntly, "You're an insult to vaginas."

Another commenter provided the following dose of dark humor:

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LeBron James makes fun of Kyle Rittenhouse crying on witness stand — and outspoken NBA superstar gets shredded for it on Twitter



Socially conscious NBA superstar LeBron James weighed in on the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial Wednesday by mocking the 18-year-old defendant for becoming emotional and beginning to cry on the witness stand.

James — reacting to a USA Today headline saying Rittenhouse "broke down in tears" — told his 50 million Twitter followers that he wasn't buying it, among other things.

"What tears?????" James asked in his now viral tweet. "I didn't see one. Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court." He finished off his message with a trio of laughing-crying emojis.

What tears????? I didn\u2019t see one. Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court. https://twitter.com/usatoday/status/1458521089152274442\u00a0\u2026

— LeBron James (@KingJames) 1636596954

As of Thursday morning, James' tweet garnered nearly 170,000 likes, nearly 29,000 retweets, and over 23,000 comments.

Oops

Of course, not all of the comments were favorable. In fact, James — who's unwisely opined on a number of issues beyond the basketball court — got his head handed to him by a several prominent Twitter users:

Lebron, great defender of the Chinese government's tyranny, also happens to be an unparalleled dumpster fire in the field of criminal justicepic.twitter.com/Hs9JeXnBt9

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) 1636635152

You're a genuinely terrible and unintelligent person.https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1458619464329670657\u00a0\u2026

— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) 1636601447

Did your ChiCom masters tell you to tweet this?

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) 1636631091

To know you is to dislike you. How could an individual be wrong on every conceivable issue? What an execrable schmuck you are, respectfully of course.

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) 1636605781

LeBron James appears to be mocking people dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in this post. Why? Is this a joke to you? Not a good look!

— Aaron J. Carpenter\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@aaronjcarpenter) 1636605250

You would know all about faking.

— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) 1636602595

glad you could take a break from promoting slavery in China that benefits you to mock a kid who defended himself legally.

— Jessica O\u2019Donnell (@heckyessica) 1636603857

The coward who\u2019s fought for nothing has comments about a young man who stepped into the breech to defended his community because our institutions failed. \n\nLeBron\u2019s existence as a celebrity is a reflection of our decline.https://twitter.com/kingjames/status/1458619464329670657\u00a0\u2026

— Joe Kent for WA-3 (@joekent16jan19) 1636599488

Sit this one out champ.pic.twitter.com/e8tfbJJhhR

— Barrington Martin II (@_BarringtonII) 1636600062

No one knows how to fake something better than youpic.twitter.com/XHLzaTX00d

— Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) 1636635858

You get rich selling shoes made by SLAVES.https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1458619464329670657\u00a0\u2026

— Larry O'Connor (@LarryOConnor) 1636599830

If he\u2019s faking it, we better call Juwan Howard.pic.twitter.com/j5ZuKTwYSo

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) 1636600458

And conservative commentator Stephen L. Miller called James a "f***ing coward" while mocking him back, asking if he plans on offering "any support for your fellow NBA player @EnesKanter speaking out against the mass extermination of ethnic Muslims in China?"

But notable blue checkmarks agreed with James

As you might guess, a number of Twitterverse luminaries saw things the way James did.

"Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed Anthony Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and injured Gaige Grosskreutz, now 27," CNN commentator Ana Navarro-Cárdenas tweeted. "Think about how much their loved ones have cried, real anguish and grief, not crocodile tears."

"F*** this brat's crocodile tears," Amanda Marcotte, a politics writer for Salon, tweeted. "Self-defense is when you are minding your own business, someone attacks you, and you have to fight back. Rittenhouse picked up a gun and went looking for trouble. He found it and, in a sane world, would go to jail for it."

And Carli Pierson — an attorney and USA Today opinion writer — also invoked the "crocodile tears" charge while writing that Rittenhouse came across as "melodramatic" and shouldn't be believed.

"Regardless of how Rittenhouse tries to twist his story — or twist his sad face into tears — his innocent kid act shouldn't fool anyone," Pierson said, adding that he "could get life in prison if convicted, and that's what he deserves."

Oh, and how can we leave out this one?

C R I S I S\nA C T O Rpic.twitter.com/F0Hnce60S8

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) 1636589734
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