MSNBC edits around black guy

[adam & doctor drew]

here's the link. (http://www.luxlibertas.com/msnbcs-outrageous-dishonesty/)

[Nanook of the North]

That's it! I am going to watch Fox News from now on. :rolleyes:

[Kace]

So basically NewsBusters doesn't like black guys wielding weapons?

[BadgerWXman]

As an objective guy, I like to watch all the different cable news outlets just to see what they have to say... almost every time I try MSNBC, I see something like this that's so ridiculously beyond unacceptable and really makes it clear why their ratings are in the toilet. When your product is crap, your ratings are crap. What a joke.

[ISTHISTHINGON?]

Yeaaaaah, I'm gonna have to call HORSE CACA on that one. Contessa even says "White people toting guns/black president(or something similar)".
BUSTED. and DISGUSTED!

[TVMattNYC]

So basically NewsBusters doesn't like black guys wielding weapons?

No. What they don't like is careful editing of the video while the anchor says "what we have here is a black man in the White House and WHITE people showing up at protests carrying guns."

An outright lie.

[Diplomat]

No. What they don't like is careful editing of the video while the anchor says "what we have here is a black man in the White House and WHITE people showing up at protests carrying guns."

An outright lie.

I saw that. The anchor should be disciplined.

[Head Janitor]

Anchor, producer and writer should all be fired. Perhaps the editor as well...depends on if s/he saw a script.
And the EP should be busted down a peg.

[Desert Rat]

Wow.....were are the usual lefties and their comments?

I live in Phoenix and the guy in question is a libertarian.....who did it primarily as a stunt...

But MSNBC isn't as bad as Fox is right?

And Fox is pretty bad when it comes to stuff like this....

[The Thrill]

Wow. That was really bad. What a partisan hack job.

See, sh*t like this is why nobody trusts us teevee journalists anymore. :frustrated:

[Diplomat]

I won't be surprised if some of the other MSNBC hosts say it was done for a "higher purpose" or words to that effect.

These race-baiters should be held accountable for what they said on the air.

[Sir Dropham Pants]

Also, they should consider bringing on pundits who know the nut who tried to assassinate Reagan was John Hinkley, not Mark Hinkley.

[Kace]

No.

Okay. All you had to say.

[Diplomat]

Okay. All you had to say.

Please don't start that business again. I don't think you'd like it if someone did that to you. You have a right to your opinion. Matt has a right to his. And he, and he alone, determines when he has said all he has to say, just as you determine that with yourself.

Back to the topic at hand: any word on what, if anything, will happen to these people at MSNBC?

[Kace]

Please don't start that business again.

Not starting a thing.

[Diplomat]

Not starting a thing.

Yes you are. You're once again setting yourself up as the arbiter of what other people should and shouldn't say. Disagree with us, fine. But don't tell people what they should or shouldn't say. I don't do that to you, and neither does Matt.

[Kace]

Yes you are.

No, but for some reason, you feel the need to start something with me despite no provocation on my part.

[Diplomat]

No, but for some reason, you feel the need to start something with me despite no provocation on my part.

You pulled this same crap with me a few weeks ago. And you kept insisting you and you alone were right about MY opinion. It was MY opinion and I get to decide how I express it.

I could have said that you had no business asking the question you did that brought Matt's response, but because I respect your right to express YOUR opinion, I did not.

Now, back to the topic: has anyone heard what might happen to these MSNBC employees who engaged in this particular act?

[Kace]

You pulled this same crap with me a few weeks ago.

Actually, I haven't pulled anything with you, or anyone else that I know of. But for some reason, you wish to focus very uncomfortably on me.

[Diplomat]

Guess you have a short memory, then. Oh well.

I'll have to talk to my friends in academia to see if they're talking about this MSNBC incident to their students. I hope they are.

[Kace]

It's not a matter of memory. It's a matter of you wishing to start something for no logical reason and with no logical basis. Hopefully you'll cease with it since it's not going to get you anywhere.

[Diplomat]

It's not a matter of memory. It's a matter of you wishing to start something for no logical reason and with no logical basis. Hopefully you'll cease with it since it's not going to get you anywhere.

I'm not starting anything. You have a habit of telling people what they should and should not say. I'm not trying to "get anywhere" with it--just speaking up when you do it. And despite your claim, you have done it at least twice.

Hopefully, you will cease telling people what they should and shouldn't say. THAT won't get you anywhere.

Have a nice evening.

[BadgerWXman]

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[Spike]

Have a nice evening.

That's all you really had to say.

[Mighty Dyckerson]

You have a right to your opinion. Matt has a right to his.

Matthew pretty much gave up that right when he said it's OK for guys to wave their genitals in front of women on airplanes.

[Kace]

I'm not starting anything.

If that were true, you wouldn't have posted in the first place about, "starting business again," or whatever.

[Diplomat]

I liked Matt's explanation. It would be nice if someone in charge at MSNBC asked those staffers why they felt compelled to pull this stunt.

[TVMattNYC]

Matthew pretty much gave up that right when he said it's OK for guys to wave their genitals in front of women on airplanes.

I never said that.

[Sultanosurf]

Wow, it's a good thing you guys aren't starting something over something you didn't say or a guy who isn't a black man could easily get riled and not wave his assault rifle around.

Gotta love ML...

[Kace]

Ohmygodablackman's got a gun??? FEAR!!!

*overdramatically runs around, ignoring the white guys with guns*

[TVMattNYC]

Ohmygodablackman's got a gun??? FEAR!!!

*overdramatically runs around, ignoring the white guys with guns*

Um ... that's the point ... there were no white guys with guns.

[Spike]

Um ... that's the point ... there were no white guys with guns.

Yes there were. There were both white guys with guns and black guys with guns. The point was that the network ignored the black guys and pretended there were only white racists there.

[halfpiperocks]

Wait a second. Who edited what there? I admit I did not see that live, but it looked as if that was re-edited. It was so choppy and looked patched together - does anyone have the a different link that shows the same thing, like it aired on MSNBC. I know that some of the people (perhaps all) that showed up at the NH town hall with weapons were white. So the studio banter could have been referring to that... But either way...something does not look right with that video...

[BadgerWXman]

But either way...something does not look right with that video...

uuuh usually zooming in/cropping video makes it look weird amirite?

[Sultanosurf]

Wait a second. Who edited what there? I admit I did not see that live, but it looked as if that was re-edited. It was so choppy and looked patched together - does anyone have the a different link that shows the same thing, like it aired on MSNBC. I know that some of the people (perhaps all) that showed up at the NH town hall with weapons were white. So the studio banter could have been referring to that... But either way...something does not look right with that video...

There was only one guy there packing an assault rifle. You have a valid point that maybe the people on-air had only the tight edit they were provided as focus for comment, but if that's the case, you'd think that MSNBC would've put out some sort of release after all the heat they've gotten the past week. I seem to recall that video being part of some ABC stuff, so maybe they lifted it and had problems there. Who knows. It's just their latest fire, and they'd need a buncha Mexican hat dancers to put 'em all out...

[halfpiperocks]

uuuh usually zooming in/cropping video makes it look weird amirite?

yeah thanks Badger, but my point is, that it looked like someone else, say a third party edited it after the fact. I am not saying that's def what happened, since I did not see what aired live, but it looked to me like they was a weird edit when they went back to (I think) Contessa Brewer in the studio. I did not know they were taking heat for it, outside of the internet...yeah they prob should address it, if that is the case...