MSNBC Not On Board with the 'Post-Racial' Presidency

Pajamas Media ^ | August 20 | Roger Kimball

[AJKauf]

I am sure you are as happy as I was when it was announced that the election of Barack Obama was ushering in a “post-racial” presidency. Thanks goodness! We could at last say farewell to racial shake-down artists men like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. At last, Black scholars like Henry Louis Gates would be treated just the way his white and Asian colleagues were: no special treatment because of his complexion.

Well, maybe Harvard hasn’t received the message that affirmative action is yesterday’s policy yet.

Surely, though, the legacy (formerly the mainstream) media has? I mean, they elected Barack Obama. They told us he was here to deliver us from racial guilt. Surely they would help realize that noble vision by accurately reporting stories in which race was an issue.

Just kidding. Of course the legacy media isn’t giving up on racial fear-mongering and tendentiousness. It’s just too potent an earner for the grievance industry.

I have to say, though, that I was a little taken aback by the depths to which they were willing to descend. Remember the chap who showed up to an Obama speech in Phoenix wearing an assault rifle. White supremacist on the trail of a (partly) black president?..

[manc]

so MSNBC says this is about racism but the guy holding the gun is black of which they do not show nor do they report

I hope that one day I get to meet these idiots from MSNBC, NBC and tell them about their bias, crap made up reporting

[MrB]

That was a very blatant case of media fraud.

They intentionally tried to make it look like all the anti-0bama gun toting folks were white racists,

when in fact, the guy with the AR-15 “assault rifle” was black.

[ozzymandus]

Well, they HAD to lie! If they admitted the guy with the AR was black, they would have lost their whole “anybody who opposes Obama is a racist” talking point. Then what would they have to talk about?

[manc]

indeed

I is so amazing that the media or so called media like MSNBC, NBC actually do this and report on stories they have made up.

This is such a blatant reporting lie and yet they get away with it every time.

They then would wonder if people in the street started to tell them to stop making things up, that is how out of touch these elitist lye rs are

[manc]

indeed

I is so amazing that the media or so called media like MSNBC, NBC actually do this and report on stories they have made up.

This is such a blatant reporting lie and yet they get away with it every time.

They then would wonder if people in the street started to tell them to stop making things up, that is how out of touch these elitist liars are

[kjo]

Go to their website and email them.

[manc]

they find something which is legal
they then make a story about racism
they fail to report that the guy is black and in their world no blacks can be racist

I hope FOX shows this blatant lie up.

MSNBC
you are pathetic beyond words.
Honestly you never tell the truth and you have forgot what journalism is about.
You should be ashamed but of course you lot are so out of control and out of mainstream America you would never even understand what I am saying to you and you would just pout it down to me being a right winger

[paulycy]

Does anybody have pics of the black guy with the rifle?

[leilani]

I hope that one day I get to meet these idiots from MSNBC, NBC and tell them about their bias, crap made up reporting "

Tell 'em now!

Copied & pasted from Kimball's post at Pajamas Media in the OP link , which I think comes in turn from Ace of Spades:

NBC Headquarters
30 Rockefeller Plaza
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Tel 212-664-4444
Fax 212-664-4426

NBC Washington Bureau
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Email nightly@nbc.com
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Meet the Press
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Letters mtp@msnbc.com
Executive Producer
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Today Show
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Email today@nbc.com
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Dateline NBC
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Email dateline@nbc.com

MSNBC
One MSNBC Plaza
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Tel (201) 583-5000
Fax (201) 583-5453/5584
Email letters@msnbc.com world@msnbc.com
201-583-5030
(Steven Capus, exec producer steven.capus@msnbc.com 201-583-5102)

Hardball w Chris Matthews hardball@msnbc.com 202-783-2615

[Tzimisce]

The libs I’m arguing with don’t care if MSNBC lied.

They only care that this guy is a plant.

[manc]

already have done I mean to their face when they are reporting

KI am sick and tired of their lies to the public.
They either get a story and twist it
or
they just plain make it up

either up I want to tell them about their reporting and ask them why they do what they do.

[petercooper]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320023/posts

[abigailsmybaby]

Go to the linked website. There’s another video from another news agency and they are interviewing the fella.

[paulycy]

Go to the linked website.

Thank you. I had gone there earlier but missed the other video link.

[paulycy]

Thanks for the help. I seem to have gotten myself confused between two similar threads. Nothing new in that, I guess. ;0)

I'm emailing these with a link to the Contessa Brewer "white guy" racists clip to some that still defend MSNBC.

[abigailsmybaby]

You’re welcome! I’d like to hear of any response that you get from the MSNBC defenders about this.

[paulycy]

I’d like to hear of any response that you get from the MSNBC defenders about this.

My guess is that they will be pretty quiet since they are misguided but honest people. They won't defend the indefensible or I wouldn't waste my time with them on this or anything.

One big point that I want to make is that this kind of flat-out dishonest propaganda is NOT generated equally by both sides.

I've always felt, and taught my kids, that a conservative can always sleep well at night knowing they've done everything they could to find the truth rather than simply the winning argument of the moment.

It's that whole honesty, integrity thing you've heard tell about. IMHO that's the difference between a conservative and a partisan of any kind.