Unreal: MSNBC edits clip of man with gun at Obama rally to support racism narrative
posted at 7:42 pm on August 19, 2009 by Allahpundit
I missed this yesterday at Newsbusters but Treacher, rightly aghast, tipped me to it this afternoon. Never will you see a starker example of MSNBC getting away with the sort of deception for which Fox News would be pilloried, especially in the context of race. If you missed Monday’s post about this, go watch the footage (or look at this photo) and see if you can deduce why they wouldn’t want to show the guy with the rifle from the neck up during this particular segment. For all the well-deserved heat that MSNBC’s primetime line-up has taken for its demagoguery — Maddow has been notably egregious during the health-care blowup — this proves that they’re not above pulling this crap during their daytime “hard news” segments either.
When you’re done with the clip, scroll through the new photo gallery Zombie’s put together of the many, many, many “Kill Bush” signs at leftist protests over the past eight years. Thank goodness outlets like MSNBC and the Huffington Post took such “blunt, no-argument stances” against that sort of insanity at the time.
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LOL
It already has.
Old Hippie Vet on August 19, 2009 at 9:54 PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510813/ Morning Meeting comments section.
reshas1 on August 19, 2009 at 9:56 PM
There really are no words to describe the trash MSNBC pumps out.
tetriskid on August 19, 2009 at 10:00 PM
I hope everyine has sworn off all GE products forever, or at least until the network the spawned Olberloser is dead.
paulsur on August 19, 2009 at 10:02 PM
messNBC won’t die, nor will its parent. GE. Think about it.
bikermailman on August 19, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Unreal? I wouldn’t be surprised if MSNBC started covering sightings of bat boy at the town hall meetings.
The useful idiots would eat it up too, thinking it was proof of our evil mongerness.
jhffmn on August 19, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Anybody out there who still thinks you can play nice nice with these Leftists in the war or words?
Be my guest.
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 19, 2009 at 10:07 PM
of words…edit button pleeeeez!
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 19, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Oh I don’t know, Pravda comes to mind.
FlyoverJ-HawkFan on August 19, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Well, it’s another lake, but the entire area around Devil’s Lake is beautiful. You’ll have lots of hiking opportunities.
If you have time, check out the Dells for some attractions. It’s often dismissed as a typical tourist trap, but there’s actually a number of interesting places to go. Just wander around the city.
MadisonConservative on August 19, 2009 at 10:08 PM
the netroots ability yo create any storyline to fit any political argument has finally diffused in total to msnbc.
rob verdi on August 19, 2009 at 10:09 PM
maybe someone can refresh my memory of what schwarzenegger movie this was. But he was in a chopper doing some save the world type heroics. When he got home the media sliced and diced and manipulated that video to make him a villain. I feel like that guy. I live life everyday experiencing a reality and come home and complete manipulation and lies.
Running man had some of that too. Just reminds me of our MSM..
What movie am i thinking of. Its driving me crazy.
cubbieblue25 on August 19, 2009 at 10:11 PM
MSNBC = My Anal Sphincter
they both squeeze out sh!t and feel good doing it…
Anyone who is related to any of those “professionals” who work at that
sh!tholeplace, should be beyond humiliated.BillaryMcBush on August 19, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Been there, really liked it. Also, got an appreciation of Leinie’s that I have yet to yield. (Drinking some right now).
FlyoverJ-HawkFan on August 19, 2009 at 10:12 PM
It was Running Man. From a book by Richard Bachman,I.E. Stephen King.
FlyoverJ-HawkFan on August 19, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Get yourself some Spotted Cow next time you’re up. I think it’s overrated, but everyone I’ve talked to loves it.
MadisonConservative on August 19, 2009 at 10:17 PM
You are right. Been a long time since i watched it. Thanks.
Running Man Media
cubbieblue25 on August 19, 2009 at 10:17 PM
“Tips hat”, will do. Too many German settlers there to ignore their beer.
FlyoverJ-HawkFan on August 19, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Funny how up until yesterday, putting a white face on a black guy was considered racist.
Jim Treacher on August 19, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I enjoyed a cartoon called Kappa Mikey. One episode the characters in the cartoon were at risk of being exposed as frauds. The character Guana panicked and said something like,
“Oh no! If we’re exposed as frauds, I’ll never be able to work again in any field except journalism!”
Daggett on August 19, 2009 at 10:34 PM
This supposed link to between widespread revulsion at Ubama`s socialist healthcare plan and racism is like barnacles on the barnacles. Crud on crud on crud and so on to infinity. Like two mirrors facing one another. If you object to Ubama in any fashion now you are insane or a racist or both. Crude tactics and thuggery galore. I wish these lying media dodos were the crew on my British Ship of the Line in the 18th century. I`d have the scurvy lot hanging from the yardarm to see their final dance. Whoops! I guess I just proved how angry I am! I forgot!! Being angry is supposed to be bad too according to illiberals. It makes them ever so NERVOUS. I would go see a counselor about my anger but they are all illiberals too and would probably put me on something quite . . . uh . . . strong.
Probably wouldn`t be strong enough, tho. Is there such a thing as a conservative counselor? Anyway I am running out the guns. Got the ports open for some ripple fire. Watch out for the splinters!! Now there`s a good crew. All the bad eggs have been tossed overboard! Not that I wish our failed congress to be thrown overboard in 2010.Heavens no!
I have digressed once again.
Back to the point.
I don`t care what color our president is. But the media sure does. People are angry against a black president cuz he is black? NO! They are angry cuz he is a dunce and he is bad for this country. Besides, the truth is that Ubama is as much white as he is black. And I don`t give a fart either way about it. As far as I am concerned he is a sOcialist jOker and LOL on that one. Why so Socialist?
Rant concluded.
Sherman1864 on August 19, 2009 at 10:42 PM
You should put that on Twitter!!!
welcome_ghosts on August 19, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Heh!!!
Baxter Greene on August 19, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Just on the extreme off chance that 25 people have not said it yet – fake but accurate?
MB4 on August 19, 2009 at 10:44 PM
–From The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, Emmanuel Goldstein’s book within George Orwell’s 1984
Jim Treacher on August 19, 2009 at 10:46 PM
The man has a mind like a steel trap.
13blackcats on August 19, 2009 at 10:48 PM
I hate MSNBC. They come to a rally and edit everything so it bares no resemble to the truth and then show it as fact. I regard them as enemy propagandists, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be edited tape from Hell before breakfast.
- William Tecumseh Sherman (updated)
MB4 on August 19, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Ok, so was this intentional clipping to hide the race of the gun owner or an attempt to hide his identity and deceive everyone?
Not sure that I agree with you here- if 95% of the people bringing guns to Obama events are white, is the story actually biased?
bayam on August 19, 2009 at 10:51 PM
No problem! It’s still ok to link to them 2-8 times a day.
kahall on August 19, 2009 at 10:52 PM
This goes beyond incredulous. While I viewed the segment all I could say was wow, wow, wow. I couldn’t believe that an entire news network could be so blatantly hypocritical and such outright liars. Not that I would expect much else than that from MSNBC but this was simply…. what? Over the top doesn’t begin to describe it.
The people at MSNBC are simply liars. Nothing more, nothing less. Just liars.
As the man at Senator Specter’s town hall said, someday they will stand before God. Even, perhaps, that someday may not be after death but while alive and in their own minds and hearts. They will have to answers to THEMSELVES. What will they say that justifies these lies?
They are damned even onto their own judgment of their own lives. God, forgive them.
E
erich on August 19, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Now I know my hearing is terrible, but I swear that I heard her say (all three viewings) that the incident occurred at a pro healthcare rally. If my ears did not deceive me and that was what she said; what does that tell us about those average, patriotic, Obamascare supporting Americans attending these events?
jarhead05 on August 19, 2009 at 11:11 PM
What… WTF?
Really, MSNBC? Super-strategically cropping footage of a black guy carrying an assault rifle so you can get all mouth-foamy about white people bringing weapons to Obama events cuz they’re so raaaacist and all…
How very dishonest. And desperate. And despicable.
Gilda on August 19, 2009 at 11:17 PM
There is a great post at Ace of Spades which provides a lovely take on Ms. Brewer (content warning). She sounds like a great gal. Someone I would want to take home to meet Mommy.
Do any of us actually believe that anyone in the MSM will spend one second exposing MSNBC for the frauds that they are?
jarhead05 on August 19, 2009 at 11:21 PM
These are not the droids you are looking for.
The Notorious G.O.P on August 19, 2009 at 11:22 PM
MSNBC your a disgrace to this country and racist. Why in your mind are only white people racist in this country. This is racist in itself and shows your hatred for America. I do not dislike Obama for his skin color, but for what he is doing to my country. Only you on the left have always pointed out race. From you starting the KKK to keep black people down to now using the government to do that. Your racism sickens me.
Trenaway El daryl on August 19, 2009 at 11:31 PM
It’s a shame that MSNBC feels that their role is to become a leftwing version of Fox. Their viewership among the left would rise if they simply did investigative journalism. I honstly believe that the only thing MSNBC thinks is important about the current moment is the racial element to anti-Obama sentiment, like conservatives wouldn’t be freaking out over ANY Dem who proposed healthcare. And especially since both of the other Dem nominees proposed MORE leftwing versions of healthcare. Are there some racists out there, yes. But the opposition (however kooky) is more about philosophical differences. If you’re gonna be leftwing Fox why not belittle their positions, not lie about them being KKK members. Oy….
CrankyIndependent on August 19, 2009 at 11:34 PM
If O’Reilly picked this up it would be seen by at least a-hundred or more fold than the number of people who watched it live.
Marcus on August 19, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Also, it’s creepy enough that anyone would bring an assault rifle to or near an event with the President.
CrankyIndependent on August 19, 2009 at 11:36 PM
When has Fox ever tried to make us think a black guy was a white guy?
Jim Treacher on August 19, 2009 at 11:38 PM
No wonder MSMNBC gets such great ratings!
MCGIRV on August 19, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Chris Mathews was discussing this with a representative of Gun owners of America. Because he disagreed with Chrissy’s view on the matter he got the are you a Birther harangue.
Someone should respond to that question with “I am not now nor have I ever been a member of the Communist Party. Oops sorry I thought I was testifying before the Unamerican Affairs committee.”
agmartin on August 19, 2009 at 11:53 PM
+10 HEH!!
citrus on August 19, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Hmmmm…they have tried to make us think Michael Steele is really a black guy… I’m kidding, I’m kidding, really…
karlant on August 19, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Shhhh! Be bewwy bewwy kwiiiette, we aw hunting waysists!
Kenosha Kid on August 20, 2009 at 12:16 AM
LOL…because that requires the Left to defend their positions using facts, logic and common sense. Various flavors of ad hominem attack is all they (you) really have.
ddrintn on August 20, 2009 at 12:16 AM
This would be the perfect opportunity to organize a letter campaign to MSNBC sponsors – a counter attack to the Glenn Beck harassment.
jaime on August 20, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Look, I agree that bringing any gun to a presidential appearance is a bad idea and a glaring example of “just because you technically can doesn’t mean you should.”
But this in no way excuses, explains or diminishes the crassly dishonest manipulation engaged in by the so-called “news” commentators on MSNBC.
They cropped a gun-toting black guy to deliberately hide the fact that he was black so they could tut-tut over gun-toting white guys and advance and illustrate the notion that racist whites were out to get Obama, or somesuch, even though the “evidence” they presented would’ve directly contradicted that notion had it been presented in totality without selective editing.
There’s individual bad judgment (bringing gun to rally) and intentional institutional mendacity (the NBC News organization actively conspiring to misrepresent a public event) and there’s no way that the former justifies the latter.
I don’t know if excusing or minimizing MSNBC’s actions was the intention of your post but I just want to make it clear that nothing the original gun-toter did, however ill-advised, warranted their response.
Gilda on August 20, 2009 at 12:40 AM
Frumian is completely wrong about Nazis and socialism. If he thinks that the fact that they had the word “socialists” in their full title does not necessarily mean they had an element of socialism, then all I can say is wow.
Perhaps George Reisman can explain it to him more clearly.
http://mises.org/story/1937
The argument that they couldn’t have possibly been socialists because they fought against other socialists is equally as stupid. The concept that there are opposing groups of power hungry socialists is so difficult to understand?
Comparing the Obama administration to Nazis may be a little over the top, but the smear is certainly more appropriate in the case of Obama than it ever was with Bush. Leftists tend to use the word “fascist” as an all-purpose insult toward anyone who disagrees with them or any authority which thwarts their whims. It’s used by the left in the same spirit as a teenage kid calling his parents fascists because they won’t let him stay out late.
The most important aspect of fascism, indeed of any political ideology, is economic. The economic system of a government or regime is intimately linked to the level of freedom afforded to its citizens, capitalism being another word for “freedom” and all forms of collectivism being another word for “state slavery.” The economic system of fascism, in which the government creates the illusion of private ownership while to all intents and purposes dictating how private property is disposed of, has a lot in common with the economic agenda of Obama. Under fascism, the means of production stays in private hands but the state dictates what is produced, in what quantity, at what times, at what price and at what cost of labor. The Democrats are quite obviously trying to seize control of as much private business as possible. They’re openly talking about dictating wages and bonuses (and not just limiting this to companies that received bail out funds) and have ordered the health insurance companies to turn over all of their records regarding wages and bonuses etc.
This really IS of a fascist nature and the term is quite appropriate, if strong.
Sharke on August 20, 2009 at 12:45 AM
It seems like these leftists really want Obama to get shot and killed so he can become the next JKF, to be remembered as a martyr instead of as like Jimmy Carter, a total failure.
Dollayo on August 20, 2009 at 1:05 AM
There was a time in this country when TV producers got fired for twisiting the truth and deceiving audiences with an editing sleight of hand. Remember when Dateline rigged the pickup truck with explosives to show “what could happen” from the dangers presented by the vehicles gas tanks? If memory serves me right, the executive producer and several of his minions bit the dust, and rightfully so, when the deception was uncovered. The fact that a black man/african amercian was toting the AR-15 was undoubtedly known to the three hacks that expressed outrage over this seemingly dangerous “white supremacist.” and if they didn’t know then, they surely know now, and should be issuing an apology to the half-dozen or so viewers that tuned in to their lousy show.
Goldy1 on August 20, 2009 at 1:17 AM
Exactly! So, when are we going to stop doing nothing but complaining on blogs? Seriously, folks, the MSM is only getting worse every day with thier blatant lies, smears, bias and manufactured “news.” I think it is time we all organized to do something – we can start by filing complaints with the FCC – sure, nothing will be done, but someone will notice if a few million of us file official complaints about this crap every day. Protest the stations that carry them, and write letters to the cable companies like Time-Warner, Comcast and Cox letting them know of the daily lies, bias and smears. Letters to the editors of your local papers can be seen by hundreds. How about we all write sponsors just like the leftoids, and here’s something – maybe someone’s a lawyer and can address this – how about a class action suit against every one of these cable channels for libel, slander, defamation, or whatever. These people must be stopped!
jdawg on August 20, 2009 at 1:41 AM
Precisely, which is why I wrote what I did above. It’s time we started mobilizing and giving the MSM a taste of what they dish out every day.
jdawg on August 20, 2009 at 1:42 AM
I don’t get how some can get so outraged over this – yet you are so willing to join in on the media boondoggle when called upon to dump on the ‘birthers’.
You feed the leftist media machine and then seem surprised when something like this occurs. Legitimate debate gets sidetracked with misrepresentation of the facts and charges of racism.
Mr Purple on August 20, 2009 at 2:29 AM
Who do they think they’re fooling? As a Connoisseur of Men’s Asses, I could tell in a N.Y. second that the behind in question belonged to a “Man of Color”…
/sarc
Conservalicious on August 20, 2009 at 2:52 AM
Interesting that he brought up Hinkley;
From Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator:
You can read the whole article here
alohapundit on August 20, 2009 at 4:14 AM
P.S. In a letter Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) wrote to a fellow segregationist, Senator T. Bilbo, Byrd stated thus, “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side….Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
The conscience of the Congress indeed. What a complete disgrace statist Democrats are.
alohapundit on August 20, 2009 at 4:24 AM
Tommy Bartletts Water show or Big Chief Go Karts??..LOL
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 5:29 AM
LOL
Jeff from WI on August 20, 2009 at 5:32 AM
If you tied that leftie’s hands behind his back, would he be able to talk? Seems like a subconscious BS detector to me: “I’m speaking total garbage here, but my WILD HAND GESTURES will convince you (and me) that I’m right!”
They look like rank amateurs, all three of them.
Grace_is_sufficient on August 20, 2009 at 6:21 AM
Oh just one thing,
The guy was pro-obama and black.
In-fn-credable!
TheSitRep on August 20, 2009 at 6:35 AM
Well…when Gladney was attacked, he was accused of not being his own race. I am not suprised at this, they want to make Conservatism look like a race issue. FAIL
Osis on August 20, 2009 at 7:18 AM
This kind of bias should be fined by the FCC.
TerryMoney on August 20, 2009 at 7:20 AM
Showing the race of the man would point out the lie: armed citizens of all colors can have a civil disagreement and NOT resort to violence. There is no intimidation level in doing so as it is an exercise in civil rights. When civil rights are used in a civil fashion, then there is no alarm. Our ability to use reason and restraint of ourselves is of prime benefit to our society, and those that posit that the mere act of owning or carrying a weapon of any sort is a potential threat have no wish of civil discourse: they wish to intimidate you into disarming by their fears of you.
From that the great ‘racial divide’ does not erupt when a black man brings a firearm with him. If he needs that safety for himself, then saying he must be disarmed is an act of oppression against him. Getting racial harmony finally requires that we destigmatize the ability of the common man to defend himself so as to be a citizen…. not a subject. If the Left would spend half as much time decrying a black man who was beaten by Union Purple Shirted thugs as they do handguns and long arms, there might be some credibility to their arguments… as it is not showing that in our society you can be of any race and BE armed as a citizen is NOT a threat to civil discourse flies in the face of dogma. And like any religion, dogma trumps common sense and requires twisting events to fit a narrative… it requires you to lie to yourself and others when reality doesn’t fit what you believe.
ajacksonian on August 20, 2009 at 7:28 AM
See my first post on this thread (page 2, I believe) :)
DethMetalCookieMonst on August 20, 2009 at 7:51 AM
Quote of the friggin’ month!!!!!
DethMetalCookieMonst on August 20, 2009 at 7:54 AM
I’m stealing the term and am using it for now on:)
Well…this IS the second HotAir post where I said our media is like the one scene in Running Man.
DethMetalCookieMonst on August 20, 2009 at 7:55 AM
I don’t know if he was “pro-Obama”, but he was anti-health bill, and pro 2nd amendment.
Which makes him a borderline legitimate black man.
right2bright on August 20, 2009 at 8:08 AM
f*ck msnbc
blatantblue on August 20, 2009 at 8:12 AM
They had socialist in their name because they practiced socialism. You can pretend all you want that the national socialist workers party promoted capitalism and freedom but you are deluded. The Nazi government ran every aspect of the citizens lives, including healthcare. They took over corporations and installed Nazi party CEOs. They nationalized banks and factories. In fact, their government takeover of every part of life in Germany got them many admirers here in the States such as Joe Kennedy. Once people and the press could no longer pretend what was happening in the camps wasn’t happening, then they started to complain about them, but before that, there was much admiration for what Hitler did for Germany – from the left – much the same as the communists are now trying to distance themselves from Mao and Stalin by saying they really didn’t practice communism. How Orwellian.
Ann NY on August 20, 2009 at 8:15 AM
whatever
no one watches msnbc
give them their little corner to jerk off in
blatantblue on August 20, 2009 at 8:16 AM
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