Posted on 07/10/2009 5:26:50 PM PDT by Pyro7480
MSNBC’s David Shuster and Tamron Hall labeled the circulation of a photo of President Obama...a “right wing smear,” and singled out Fox News and Drudge as culprits. They brought on a Media Matters spokesman, who accused these sites of being motivated by a “racist stereotype of an oversexed black man being a predator.” They let this accusation go unanswered (audio clip from the promos and the segment available here).
Shuster and Hall promoted the segment on the Obama picture from the start of the 4 pm Eastern hour of MSNBC’s live coverage. A graphic on-screen at the top of the hour pondered, “Right Wing Smear?,” as Shuster read the first teaser: “Plus, smearing President Obama- some on the Right went crazy over this photo they claimed shows President Obama with a wandering eye. But check the tape- the actual video shows a far different story- why the Right was so wrong with this one.”
...They played what purported to be the video from the moment the photo was taken, but upon examination, it was a snippet from immediately after that specific point in time (ABC’s Good Morning America played the entire sequence; see the video clip here for MSNBC’s version).
Shuster then introduced Carl Frisch...and asked, “Carl, this has been bouncing around all over the conservative blogosphere, conservative networks. What are they doing here?”
Frisch immediately launched into his accusations:
FRISCH: It started yesterday afternoon on FreeRepublic.com, which is an extremely conservative message board, and basically, they posted this Reuters photo, asking their readers to caption it, and what followed was a string of racial expletives, and just kind of gutter swamp verbiage that I don’t think anybody would want to hear on television....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Looks to me like he is a predator. IIRC, Drudge got the picture from Yahoo and the international press is all over it.
Sounds like the “messiah’s” apostles are a little upset. They’ll get over it.
Unfair! my caption was not a racial expletive!
The photo is worth a thousand words.
A complete and utter lie.
But Bush did it!!!
the problem is that MSNBC believes it’s own press Drudge has nothing to do with the photo and if I ‘m wrong i’ll stand corrected.
The liberal media published this pic w/it’s headliners
All I had to hear about two weeks ago was about some Governor cheating on his wife with some hottie from Argentina.
Back at yA Meth-NBC!!!
Are these pantloads saying the picture was photoshopped? Isn’t a smear necessarily a lie? Morons.
They should be glad, We no longer think he is gay, we now know he is probably bisexual. LOL
Meth-NBC!!!
Meth-NBC!!!
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Right winger made me check dat!
I'm assuming they were equally outraged over the Clarence Thomas hearings.
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