Comrade, you fail to understand that the truth must be made subservient to the greater good. The self described "reality based community" has always been at odds with the truth.
Posted on 08/21/2009 2:39:47 AM PDT by marktwain
I wrote earlier how an MSNBC segment is drawing heat from conservatives who accuse the network of selectively cropping an image so as not to show that one of the people carrying guns at an Obama event was an African-American.
Now, Bill Wilson, president of Americans for Limited Government, is now calling on the network to fire those responsible for producing the broadcast, in what he describes as a "nefarious assault on decency."
On behalf of the nearly half million members of Americans for Limited Government — and tens of millions of other equally appalled Americans of all races nationwide — I hereby demand the immediate termination of Contessa Brewer, Toure, Dylan Ratigan and any and all others involved in any way with the fraudulent “news” that ran in the 10:45AM segment of your August 18 broadcast.
Wilson sent the letter to NBC News President Steve Capus, and copied GE chief Jeffrey Immelt and MSNBC president.
UPDATE: An MSNBC spokesperson said the claim against the network are "completely ridiculous."
UPDATE 2: Olbermann showed more footage of the man on Aug. 19. » Continue reading ALG to MSNBC: Fire Brewer, Ratigan, Toure
Mr. Steve Capus NBC News 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, N.Y. 10112 Dear Mr. Capus:
On Tuesday, August 18, at 10:45 AM, your network -- with a blatantly racist broadcast -- took the falsification of the news to a dangerous new low. I am writing to you today on behalf of the 400,000 members of Americans for Limited Government nationwide to ask that all involved in this nefarious assault on decency be immediately fired from their jobs.
I am referring, of course, to the MSNBC “news” cast on that morning in which your anchors hysterically raised the specter of impending racial violence — while carefully cropping the very video upon which they based their duplicitous charges. Leading audiences nationwide to believe that militant whites were mounting violence against a black President, they deliberately covered up the fact that the individual they were framing was himself African-American.
I could go on with a graphic description of the horrendous misrepresentation foisted on the American people by your anchors and those who worked with them on your distorted reportage, but by now, I am sure that you are well aware of the despicable fraud they perpetrated. Even if you, like most Americans, were not watching MSNBC at the time, you undoubtedly have been apprised of the transgression by now.
Therefore, I will not waste your time or mine regurgitating the facts of the blatant abuse of the public trust. Instead, let me simply get to the vital thrust of this letter:
On behalf of the nearly half million members of Americans for Limited Government — and tens of millions of other equally appalled Americans of all races nationwide — I hereby demand the immediate termination of Contessa Brewer, Toure, Dylan Ratigan and any and all others involved in any way with the fraudulent “news” that ran in the 10:45AM segment of your August 18 broadcast.
You network has besmirched the dignity and honor of American people. You have endangered the life of the President of the United States. You have purposely fanned racial tensions. And you have deliberately lied to your own audience.
Failure on your part to act will be proof positive that you, your corporation and the corporation that owns you intended this deception. As such, you can no longer claim to be “press” in any sense of the word but will have crossed the line, becoming a political advocacy organization. That, then, becomes a matter for the FCC and the courts to consider the proper punishment for this gross transgression of the rules of a civil society.
Thank you. William Wilson President Americans for Limited Government cc: Jeffrey Immelt, President and Chairman, General Electric
Phil Griffin, President MSNBC News
He should get a lawyer. You know how democrats like lawyers.
Comrade, you fail to understand that the truth must be made subservient to the greater good. The self described "reality based community" has always been at odds with the truth.
It is a gross violation of journalistic ethics.
Woo, be careful with that charge. If that becomes the issue we may not have too many journalists left.
MSNBC and CNN violate the so called ethics of journalism every single day. Not a single day goes by when they are not spewing lies and misrepresentations to promote their own ugly agenda.
This is the same NBC News that in 1993 faked the exploding pickup truck gas tanks (by igniting them with remote-controlled flares) when they were unable to get the supposedly defective tanks to explode in an ordinary car accident.
thanks to ALG for taking this on! MSNBC needs to be called on this crap everyday...time to sue them, send letters to the crapweasel FCC also.
MSDNC=Fake News
Not only did they crop the Black Guys face the showed the face of a White guy to make it look like that was the guy w/the gun.
Pray for America and Our Troops
Be sure to let me know when that happens.
Huh? What ?
Its incitement is what it is, it just happens to be against whites. Nothing new in human history, this is just the day’s politically correct target. Oh the irony that the self professed saints of “anti-racism” are but themselves nothing but violence seeking racial bigots. “Anti-racism” is but a cloak for the mentally deranged to take up their violent fantasies of revenge and hatred. Without the race card to unite the disparate cults of the Left it would collapse.
Your first sentence portends some calamity, yet I search the rest of your post in vain for what bad thing you think will occur. ;-)
I really can’t think of a one.
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