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NBC Chastised by Congressional Black Caucus Members for Lack of Diversity
newsbusters.org ^ | Feb. 26, 2010 | Seton Motley

Posted on 02/26/2010 2:37:51 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow and the egregiously stentorian and officious Keith Olbermann have made their warped interpretation of the conservative and TEA Party movements as racist a staple of their oft-ridiculed and rarely watched television programs.

These three (and other MSNBC hosts) have engaged in this slander with regularity and fervor.

Reporting on an August 18, 2009 Arizona TEA Party, white host Contessa Brewer fretted "there are questions about whether this has racial overtones....(with) white people showing up with guns" (Arizona is an open-carry state). The only problem was, one of the men they showed packing was black, and they edited out of the video any show of his melanin so as to carry further their fraudulent narrative.

The Dallas (Texas) TEA Party created a video mocking Olbermann (and Company) for these serial assaults, showing people of color attending TEA Parties and contrasting it with the prevailing whiteness of MSNBC's line-up. To which Olbermann responded with a list of black participants in the alleged news making of his network (and that of parent NBC).

Well Olbermann's explanation, and all of the race-baiting "reporting" done by his vile network, apparently wasn't nearly good enough for Congresswomen Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) and Maxine Waters (D-California), two members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).

These two Congresspeople are members of the House Judiciary Committee, which yesterday convened to examine the proposed merger of NBC and television-internet company Comcast. They find the diversity of NBC to be sorely lacking.

From yesterday's Maine Justice:

Two members of the Judiciary panel - Reps. Shelia Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) - ripped into (Comcast Chairman Brian) Roberts and (NBC President Jeff) Zucker for what they saw as the lack of diversity in programming and in the executive ranks at either company.

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KEYWORDS: blackcaucus; blacks; nbc; racism; racist
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1 posted on 02/26/2010 2:37:51 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Eating their own. Love it.


2 posted on 02/26/2010 2:39:12 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Well Olbermann’s explanation, and all of the race-baiting “reporting” done by his vile network, apparently wasn’t nearly good enough for Congresswomen Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) and Maxine Waters (D-California), two members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).”

Hahahahaha...two of the biggest idiots in the congress attack THE WORST PERSON ON TV!


3 posted on 02/26/2010 2:39:50 PM PST by jessduntno (They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The Congressional White Caucus deserves equal time!


4 posted on 02/26/2010 2:41:10 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wow... this ISN’T satire? I had just assumed...


5 posted on 02/26/2010 2:41:18 PM PST by kevkrom (Obama's Waterloo: a "hockey mom" with a laptop and a Facebook account)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Actually, most of the folks on MSNBC have black hearts..is that good enough?


6 posted on 02/26/2010 2:41:54 PM PST by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And what is the CBC’s diversity rating? IIRC they were plenty selective as to what qualified as “black.” I believe there was a white congresscritter representing a “black” district who was denied membership.


7 posted on 02/26/2010 2:42:57 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Roll back Pelosi" Rush Limbaugh, 2/12/10)
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To: thefactor

When are the “White Folks” in this country going to STAND UP and tell the MINORITIES to Shove It Up Their Orifices?

I am SO SICK of this S#IT!


8 posted on 02/26/2010 2:43:10 PM PST by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I propose creating the Congressional White Middle-Class Christian Conservative Caucus.


9 posted on 02/26/2010 2:45:12 PM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Chrissy, you should voluntarily give up your spot to a Black Supremacist. Be true to your ideals!


10 posted on 02/26/2010 2:45:31 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
They find the diversity of NBC to be sorely lacking.

It's probably the coverage every evening for over a week of the Winter Olympics that pushed Shelia Jackson-Lee over the edge.

11 posted on 02/26/2010 2:48:04 PM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What did the Congressional White Caucus have to say about the matter? Oh, wait...there isn’t one...never mind ; )


12 posted on 02/26/2010 2:50:45 PM PST by ravingnutter
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To: Free ThinkerNY

But, But, But, Chris and Keith along with all of MSNBC are all liberals. Liberals are not segregationist or are they. It sure looks like it too me. I wish minorities would open their eyes to the fact that they are being used by the Democrats.


13 posted on 02/26/2010 2:52:28 PM PST by kempo
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And exactly what is the Congressional Black Caucus members’ record on diversity?


14 posted on 02/26/2010 2:54:12 PM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: Free ThinkerNY

MSNBC is infested with fanatical crazed socialists.


15 posted on 02/26/2010 2:58:12 PM PST by screaminsunshine
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To: Common Sense 101

Ask Pete Stark lol


16 posted on 02/26/2010 3:05:41 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

A segregated institution complains that another institution isn’t diverse.

I wonder if they realize how stupid they look.


17 posted on 02/26/2010 3:15:54 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Hey Keith, where are the blacks?
18 posted on 02/26/2010 3:19:01 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That’s it, keep demanding more things. Just maybe whites will give you what you want, the entire country, and then you’ll have your own sewer to wallow in.


19 posted on 02/26/2010 3:26:37 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Hardly. To them, it’s all about THEM.


20 posted on 02/26/2010 3:27:06 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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