Let’s play spot the bigotry
You’ll recall that MSNBC showed a guy with a gun at a rally. Well, they showed is gun but not him and this is important for later. Said people with guns were probably white racists who didn’t care for Obama. Trouble was, the guy they showed was black but you wouldn’t know that since it was edited out. The showed his black gun though. Now, MSNBC has responded:
Contessa was speaking generally and not about that specific person with the automatic weapon.
Generally? So, you were assigning stereotypes to a broad group of people? Supposedly trying to address bigotry in this country while being bigoted yourself seems to lessen your point. It’s OK, they’re only gun owners.
And, of course, it wasn’t an automatic weapon.
Via Glenn.
August 21st, 2009 at 10:27 am
No one can accuse the Peacock Network of journalism.
It abandoned journalsim in favor of entertainment when it jerry-rigged the Ford pick-up truck to burst into flames when hit broadside.
When it was caught (by Ford), it sent Stone Phillips out to apologize for rigging the “experiment” to achieve the desired result.
So I am not surprised that it was able to weave a black man with an AR-15 into white armed racist crowds.
And the MSNBC response is completely lame – it doesn’t even rise to the level of a “modified limited hangout”, which was a Nixonian term for a mild, qualified apology.
Nice try.
August 21st, 2009 at 10:31 am
So… since they couldn’t find any real white racist gun carrying protesters, they just made one up.
Yeah, that’s so much better.
August 21st, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Yu-Ain Gonnano Says:
August 21st, 2009 at 10:31 am
So… since they couldn’t find any real white racist gun carrying protesters, they just made one up.
That’s what MSNBC does best. The certainly dont report on anything as it actually is.
August 21st, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Wait, wait wait…
Are you saying that the party that defended and tried to expand slavery in the south, formed and kept alive the KKK until the 1970’s, supports abortion solely because it reduces the Black population, lets White union members to beat up on conservative Black men who are at town hall meetings, and seeks to deny the validity of the constitution in favor of creating a Socialist Distopia are actually racist? Don’t be absurd! Where are you’re facts! This isn’t Fox News you know!
August 22nd, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Just like in the days of slavery, and afterward with racists gun control laws, MSNBC is hiding a black man openly exercising his right to keep AND CARRY arms. Once upon a time, “liberal” meant liberty to the people, and especially oppressed people, but no more.
August 23rd, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Slanting the “news” to support their own agenda. Who would have thought?