The hosts at MSNBC have a storied history of being kind of insane, but sometimes they get so far off the reservation that it is stunning.

That was the case with the network’s most popular hosts, Rachel Maddow, as she hatched a bizarre conspiracy theory about Republican vice presidential nominee and Ohio Sen. JD Vance.

The conspiracy theory somehow involves Sen. Vance being a white supremacist because of “The Lord Of The Rings” movie.

“Like Mr. Thiel who has named his companies after things in the Lord of the Rings series of J.R.R. Tolkien books, Lord of the Rings is sort of a favorite cosmos for naming things and cultural references for a lot of far-right and alt-right figures within Europe and the United States,” she said

“Peter Thiel names things after Tolkien figures and places, like his company Palantir for example. Like his mentor, like Peter Thiel, who had given him all his jobs in the world, Mr. Vance also when he founded his own venture capital firm with help from Peter Thiel named it after a Lord of the Rings thing. He called it Narya — N-A-R-Y-A — which you can remember because it is Aryan but with the N moved forward. Apparently, that word has something to do with elves and rings from the Lord of the Rings series. I don’t know,” she said.

Rachel Maddow having a normal one. Calls Lord of the Rings a right wing dog whistle. (Based)

Refers to Gandalf’s Ring of Power “Narya” and says, it’s “Aryan” but you just move the “N.”

Hard hitting mental breakdown goblin activity here. pic.twitter.com/stP0wA4NVN

— The Middle-earth Mixer (@MiddleearthMixr) July 18, 2024

But, not to be outdone by his colleague, fellow MSNBC host Alex Wagner says Sen. Vance gave “Easter eggs” of white supremacy in his speech.

“I just think the construction of this notion reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity, and it’s couched in a sort of halcyon, you know, revisitation of his roots, but it is actually really revealing about what he thinks matters and who America is, and that America is a place for people with his shared Western background,” he said.