Here we have a nice MSNBC story about a guy outside a presidential speech in AZ, carrying a loaded gun. They go on to explain the racist overtones of white men carrying guns outside a black president's speech. Sounds good, right?
Trigger Warning!!!1! :
WRONG.
They intentionally cropped the footage and used the same 10 seconds over and over again, so that we wouldn't see his skin color. The man with the AR-15 was black.
The fact MSNBC has Joe Scarborough as host of its early morning show says they have a long way to go before they're anything like Faux News. Faux pretty much has partisan hosts 24/7. Shepard Smith might be the lone exception.
Martok wrote:The fact MSNBC has Joe Scarborough as host of its early morning show says they have a long way to go before they're anything like Faux News. Faux pretty much has partisan hosts 24/7. Shepard Smith might be the lone exception.
I don't disagree, Faux is definitely much worse. But this looked like something straight out of the Murdoch playbook. Maybe I just expected better of them, and was disappointed?
Martok wrote:The fact MSNBC has Joe Scarborough as host of its early morning show says they have a long way to go before they're anything like Faux News. Faux pretty much has partisan hosts 24/7. Shepard Smith might be the lone exception.
I don't disagree, Faux is definitely much worse. But this looked like something straight out of the Murdoch playbook. Maybe I just expected better of them, and was disappointed?
You get disappointed easily. If any of that stuff in that video, which comes from a very dubious source btw, is true it still does not rise to the same level of underhanded journalism that Fox practices around the clock.
feign_ignorence wrote:Thats very sneaky! I didn't even think that it might be a black guy with a gun!
Pretty mellow compared to fox though.
Martok wrote:You get disappointed easily. If any of that stuff in that video, which comes from a very dubious source btw, is true it still does not rise to the same level of underhanded journalism that Fox practices around the clock.
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