Daily Gut: Does MSNBC Want a Race War?
by Greg GutfeldSo on Tuesday, we did a segment on this black dude who showed up in Arizona where Barack Obama was speaking – with an assault weapon and a pistol strapped to his shoulder. We all pretty much agreed, that despite his actions being legal, it was still idiotic. There are many things in life that are legal, but totally nuts if done at the wrong time. For example, when I shower I’m completely naked – no law against that. However, try showing up nude at a Jonas Brothers lunch box signing – that’s another story (I blame it on the Ambien).
But this leads me to MSNBC, where on Tuesday Contessa Brewer – someone I’d like to see in a shower – filed a report about health care protesters showing up armed. In it, she used tape of that same black man carrying an assault rifle and said “there are questions about whether this has racial overtones….white people showing up with guns.”
Of course, like I said – the guy was black. But you never would have known. Because MSNBC has strategically edited the tape, so the race of the armed dude wasn’t revealed. You just assumed he was white, thanks to Contessa.
Take a look at the tape from the MSNBC segment:
And here’s tape of the actual armed dude:
How awesome is that? Anyway, later, pop culture analyst Toure added that there is “anger about a black president being president,” again ignoring that the armed man was black.
So why deny this salient fact?
Because it didn’t fit the story MSNBC wanted to tell: that if you disagree with Obama, you must be a white crazy person with guns.
Even if you’re black!
Look – there were millions of people angry at Bush – and the media never seemed to worry if their own vicious anti-Bush rhetoric would foment hate. Worse, the idea that every angry person is a potential assassin just makes it harder to deal with the real threats. I also resent that my opinion, enraged or not, can be dismissed as racism. Fact is I’ve been against Obama’s policies back when they were Hilary’s policies, and even before that, when they were Ted Kennedy’s and Jimmy Carter’s. Wrongheadedness knows no color, which is why my shorty robes only come in Topaz.
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i cannot tell you how often i've wondered what color your shorty robes were.
now that i know you favor only one color, i have to ask — isn't that racist?
Greg we mustn’t let facts get in the way of a “good” story.
They should move all the MSNBC anchors over to Comedy Central.
As Fred2 reminded me a couple of days ago. This is like when the mainstream media were reporting that the Beltway Snipers were White Supremacists. It turn out to be Two Black Guys OH…OH. can't have that. The only problem was it was True. Yeah unbiased reporting. That I'll be the Day.
And they made surprisingly little of the fact that one of them was named John Allen MOHAMMED.
And they made surprisingly little of the fact that one of the black guys in question was named John Allen MUHAMMAD.
Popular culture is all about image. We are flooded with images day in and day out that are supposed to represent what is acceptable and what is not. In large part they are meant to induce a longing to consume those things that are associated with positive images. MTV is a perfect example of this. We are presented with an image of what is 'in' and an entire consumer infrastructure is built around this. Brewer is using the same technique only now she and those like her are trying to engineer an image of what it is to be an outcast in society and truth be damned if she is wholly inacurrate. I often have wondered why those on the left HATE people that don't think like they do in an ideological sense. I have come to the conclusion that people like Brewer with the help of the educational system have literally brainwashed those simple minds that find it more convenient to buy into the images set before us rather than to actually apply the critical thinking we were supposed to be learning in school.
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You are the issue – not the substance of your argument.
Wow.
Even by MSNBC "standards" this is, well, actually not merely "shoddy". "Shoddy" suggests carelesness and indifference to quality. This is not only a deliberate fabrication, or "lie" as some people still say, but a dangerous and vicious lie at that.
Save this one for the next time some hopey-changey Obamanaut tries telling you the MSM in general, and MSNBC in particular, isn't at all biased.
Hey Liberal Media: You can quit the race-baiting now. We are on to you. You look really stupid.
On second thought… never mind – go ahead and keep it up.
MSNBC is shamelessly partisan, a veritable state run media oraganization. Now that Obama is being criticized the race card is being played with disgusting regularity that it only seems to marginalize real racism. You know, pergatory could very well be having to watch MSNBC endlessly.
I think that everyone pretty much took for granted that the Left (in particular "news" organizations like MNBC) would be pulling this card out of the deck as soon as there was sufficient opposition to any Obama administration policy. CNN did a piece last week about the "growing danger" of possible anti-Obama terrorism noting that the Southern Poverty Law Center had recorded an "alarming" rise in applications for gun permits. (Yeah – That's the underground army I want to be part of – One that fills out all the paperwork and goes through a five-day waiting period before starting the revolution.) All of this is just the usual progressive fantasy that their opponenets are dark Morlock-like beings who hate the Left simply because they ae so pure and noble. In short, they are evil for it's own sake. Well as Jean-Francoise Revel rhetorically asked, "Why is it that the dark night of facism is always descending in the U.S. but always landing in Europe?"
Jake …dammit, it’s the religion of peace.
Better yet, move John Stewart to MSNBC
I'm urging you to stop posting this crap
This one may actually cost them. It's jumped from libertarian and conservative blogs to Politico, and MSNBC has already offered a lame justification. I don't think it's going away.
The result is that they will in the future do a better job hiding their bias.
BTW, I guess I'm a traitor
This one may actually cost them. It's jumped from libertarian and conservative blogs to Politico, and MSNBC has already offered a lame justification. I don't think it's going away.
Unfortunately, I think the only real result will be that they will do a better job hiding their bias in the future.
Does MSNBC Want a Race War?
The last thing the Media and the Democrats want is to be discovered to have been the real racist for all these years. If war will hide the truth they are all for it.
Sounds more like full on Hell to me.
The Left lost no time in launching a boycott over Glenn Beck's calling Obama a racist. Would this be the right time for the Right to boycott the advertisers on MSNBC? I think a boycott over someone's political opinions is wrong as it flies in the face of the First Amendment but a boycott over overt distortion of the news from a supposed news agency is a different matter.
As much as I don't like Obama, a coup d'état would be the death of this republic!
So apparently if you hand a law abiding black man a gun he's now a "white racist"?
newspeak makes the baby Jesus cry (and my head hurt)
> Does MSNBC Want a Race War?
Was that a rhetorical question? If it bleeds, it leads. If it hates, it rates.
Nice try, troll.
BTW, Where do you flag your posts now that flag@whitehouse.gov has closed up shop?
BTW2, Are you Richard Warman, Chief Narc of the Canadian Human Rights Commission?
I disagree. Jefferson wrote of its need when necessary.
The man now occupying the White House and his cronies have created racial divisiveness the likes of which I've never seen, and it keeps getting worse. I think Glenn Beck hit the nail squarely on the head, and Martin Luther King must surely be rolling at warp speed.
"You furnish the pictures. I'll furnish the war."
-William Randolph Hearst, 1898
The GOP paid this black guy. Listen to him, he sounds like a Black guy who hate black people!!!
*ucking Tom!
I'm with you. I guess that makes me a traitor too; my 24 years military service is right down the drain.
I think it's past time that the site admins block this guy. This is dangerous stuff.
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WE DEMAND OUR ARMED FORCES UNSEAT THE KENYAN USURPER IMMEDIATELY
Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya, Obama is not a natural born citizen as required by the Constitution:
a.- Both Parents US Citizens (his father was a Kenyan national)
b.- Born in Us Soil (Obama was born in Mombasa,Kenya)
IMPEACH KENYAN NOW –ASK QUESTIONS LATER!!
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Mark Hinkley?? Haaaaaahhahahahaha!!
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Life's just sooooooo much easier to understand when people fit in neat little boxes. Republicans hate blacks, Mormons hate gays, Jews eat Palestinian kids…
I think it's probably true that the already simmering anger and resentment among large segments of the black population (ref: Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, et al), has been exacerbated by a new sense of empowerment.
"My President is Black". I've seen the T-shirts.
That's in spite of anything Obama has actually done. Now his buddy Gates has a new lecture series, "Racial Equality in the Age of Obama", or some crap like that.
I won't be going. At least, not until they make it mandatory…
This ignorant *lut is an Obama Groupie. I'm sure all 38 of her viewers enjoyed her little tirade! No one believes those bed wetting goofballs on PMSNBC anyway.
Liberals are not born, they are excreted!
Richard Warman . Ha! Great call.
Dash Troll, you're not one of us. Go away.
And by one of us I mean a sane human being
Dude, I hear they’ve had some real success with “Lithium.”
The man now occupying the White House and his cronies have created racial divisiveness the likes of which I've never seen, and it keeps getting worse. I think Glenn Beck hit the nail squarely on the head, and Martin Luther King must surely be rolling at warp speed.
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I totally agree with you, Pamela!
Glenn Beck rocks! And I don't believe he has a racist bone in his body.
Come on now, Comedy Central has more journalistic integrity than to accept MSNBC.
Tom? What a bloody racist you are. "White people can hold wildly different views, but black people MUST think a certain way or they're not really black at all!"
John Oates? I can go for that.
This is like when Brewer and MSNBC edited Letterman's joke about Palin to make it look less offensive. (Here is a link to the video of John Ziegler calling them out on it and completely obliterating her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McvC7n6-buo )
Also apropos in that clip is Ziegler calling them out on their blatant agenda again, saying "You portray Republicans as old white men and wonder why people think of them as old white men?"
Worse, though, is how factious the Democratic party become, far from being "post-partisan" and "post-racial". He continually plays groups of Americans against each other. The media of course plays along since the bigwigs, like all leftists, conceive of every society as having classes.
Before he left office, George Washington left us with a word about those who seek to divide Americans, saying that factionalism would. . .
". . .put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party;—often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community;—and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils, and modified by mutual interests.—However combinations or associations of the above descriptions may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
Michael Vick paid his debt.
Fortunately, our military is far too professional than to listen to you. As are the overwhelming majority of Americans, whether or not they support Obama's policies.
Fortunately, our military is far too professional to listen to you. As are the overwhelming majority of Americans, whether or not they support Obama's policies.
And if Lithium doesn't work, Dasharky, there's still the old fallback of lobotomies.
Oh, you've already had one?
Heh. Thumbs up from me.
Not necessarily. Look at Honduras. Our military is made up of patriotic American citizens, not socialist stormtroopers.
"with a magazine in the AR and the bolt closed."
Was the weapon loaded?
Also, my understanding (may be incorrect, I've read this but not confirmed) is that he was a member of a pro-Second Amendment group using the opportunity for a publicity stunt, and the group contacted the local police department ahead of time to make sure there were no problems. And that there was a police liaison witht he group at the protest.
That's a good point!
Laws permitting open carry notwithstanding, if that dude had been white, light beige or even pink, he'd have been swapping his teeth for pieces of pavement with some big Secret Service people fitting him for some fancy bracelets.
Very nice indeed!
He's to funny for MSNBC.
I have contacted the sponsors of MSNBC and told them I would not buy their products or services and encourage other to do the same.
MSNBC should apologize.
What statements? In the posted videos, you can only hear him in the third one, where all he says is that the health bill amounts to theft in his eyes.
Still, I think your husband's points are very valid.
agreed
Well kids we have reached that stage of the "Political Correctness Hierarchy" where it is now going to be labeled racism for a white person to disagree with a person of color, any color.
Sadly this stage also includes releasing convicted terrorists to go home and die with dignity in the presence of their loved ones as they did today in Scotland. Perfect! I can hardly wait to see what's next.
When was the last good story on MSNBC?
Not since Leo LaPorte hosted "the site".
Yeah, so?
That has nothing to do with the point I made.
Vick went to prison for his actions. What will MSNBC's consequences be for comparable behavior?
Although this is really a waste of time since you are obviously a TROLL. But, what the hey I have a few minutes.
"Guest", your comments are about as ignorant as MSNBC's story. Now, I did not call you stupid as I do not know you but it is obvious you are lacking a lot of information and really need to get out once in awhile.
"he sounds like a Black guy who hate black people!!! " You mean kind of like MSNBC sounds like white people that hate white people?
Not true. You can offend white people all you want.
Sadly that's a given MK but we're Wising up pushing back.
I am so confused. I don't know which of my neighbors to spread rumors about or to hate. Being a reporter is hard y'all.
For Contessa Brewer, journalistic integrity is a foreign concept. Any reputable news agency would have fired her long ago……oh it's MSNBC.
Some of Contessa's greatest moments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwcE0_80dwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkxsodBhwkc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLMgGe6bPTY
I really wonder how many times they think they throw that card. Really. This, the Obama-Joker poster, tea parties, anyone keeping count?
But I'm sure a retraction will be coming soon……
If the facts don't fit MAKE UP A STORY! Heck, the threat of racial violence is important enough to ignore facts!!! It's a news show. And we (MSNBC) make up the news!!!
MSNBC has just shown us that integrity is a lost quality in "agenda journalism". And who would have believed that there is more truth printed in the National Enquirer than in most liberal newspapers and magazines? Truth is always the first casualty of totalitarianism.
And don't forget that Contessa Brewer told John Ziegler that she has no problem being called "slutty!"
Contessa is dumber than a sack of hammers. What makes her even more stupid is her sincere manner of taking herself so seriously. "Look, Ma, I'm a journalist!"
Let me see…."You are the issue – not the substance of your argument." Hmmmm. Yep. I think that qualifies as one of the stupider of stupid statements I've ever heard. It's right up there with "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father"
Goob.
I'm sure they were just worried that it would be racist to point out that the man with the AR-15 wasn't white. /sarc
Unbelievable, did you see they deliberately shot the footage to make sure the guys color was not shown? And then they cut to a protester from days early who was white. "These people are sick!
I really really hate this software, Hate it, Hate it, Hate it, Hate it, Hate it, Hate it, Hate it, Hate it, Hate it, Hate it,
There is something very odd about this country since the 1960's. There seems to be a moving line that continues to shift regarding whats right and whats wrong, whats acceptable and what is not, what is the the norm and what is not. All you have to do to get this line moved is just do it. The next day it becomes the new…usually after the initial shock and protest..then business as usual with no one held accountable. Does anyone REALLY realize just how dangerous, unethical, un-American this is for a major news network to knowingly crop this image and make a false story. Welcome to Pravda..comrades.
From the Dan Rather school of journalism.
And one for you! Thanks.
Two Possible Reasons for This:
(1) MSNBC folks believed that Conservatives/Americans/Bloggers were too stupid to check out and compare footage and figure this out.
(2) Someone in the MSNBC editing room has a huge grudge against Contessa Brewer and (maybe) MSNBC.
Of course, it is also possible that Brewer said that not knowing the footage just shown was black .
agreed, but the anchors at MSNBC aren't really that funny (though I know Kieth Oberman thinks he's very witty inside his own head)
WHy boycott a network no one watches anyway?
MSNBC is a joke—Let the "Uncle Tom" comments begin…
Funny all this terror of right wing loons wanting off to the Prez. Seems to me the last three assassination attempts (two on one guy!!) were against Republican dudes (Ford & Reagan), and the shooters (or would-be shooters) were either counter-culture kooks (Squeaky) or random, unaffiliated whack jobs (Moore and Hinckley.) Furthermore, I've already read that the overwhelming majority of assassinations in U.S. history (at least of the Presidential variety) were perpetrated by odd-lot socialist/anarchist/communist left wing losers. Angry white men, apparently, have other things to do: oppress and exploit minorities and women, conquer and seize third world countries, rip out consumers, et. al. Leave us to our dirty work, Contessa, and fight the real power — schizos and welfare moms!
"if it hates, it rates."
Well, fortunately, based on MSNBC's ratings, that isn't entirely true.
Okay, Carlos let me explain how this works. The issuse should be the substance of ones argument and Greg's argument works very very well: He asorts that MSNBC has opted to lie to the people and try to dismiss the protesters as motivated by race and this only shows how far they are willing to go. They will dismiss you, they will belittle you and they will do so all in the hopes of beatting you without having to actually debate you.
If you cant see past the person to so the argument than you are on the losing end.
You forgot that Christians are Terrorists.
Damn those nuns with guns!
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"But this leads me to MSNBC, where on Tuesday Contessa Brewer – someone I’d like to see in a shower – filed a report … "
Come on Greg. All the intelligent, beautiful and lovely women in the world and this skank would be on your wish list for shower viewing. Sorry man. I have some standards — and though, admittedly, some might question them at times — Ms Brewer would never measure up.
The only thing worse than a "dirty" journalist is a dirty politician. You can wash either for days and they'd still be dirty. No thanks.
Man with assault rifle–political ringer, perhaps…anyone taking bets?
Contessa Brewer continues to vie for top propagandist bragging rights. Goebbels would be so proud. We need a contest!
First, everyone knows that blacks with guns are the real problem in this country. They kill each other and anyone else who get in their way. That black man in that story was there probably as an SEIU plant to intimidate the white people there. NBC wanted to make white people the problem. That black man needed a gun to defend himself against all those white racists without guns. It backfired so they decided to ignor his race and in fact make him white.
Your expression of love for your mom and dad warms my heart.
Do…do you even know what sarcasm means? Sigh.
So, S.C. you and I can both, ( wink ) say its true, but put our forefingers on our lips and say:
'sssh' don't tell MSNBC.
That's what I just said. If you are against Obama's plan and can explain why – they won't listen to your argument. Instead, they paint you as somebody like the guy with the gun. To be honest, it made more sense a few hours ago than it does now.
Military takeover of the government, huh? That's not how we do things here.
The committed and radical leftists of the 60s realized the same thing Hitler did when his attempt to foment revolution from the "outside" failed: it is a very difficult thing to do especially in a society with stable institutions/systems. They, just as Hitler did, realized that success meant working "within" those institutions/systems and then using them against the society they detest to bring the changes and power they desired.
The shift you describe is, in my opinion, not an accident; it has been deliberate and methodical and well financed. ACORN is a perfect example of using society's institutions/systems against the society they detest.
Re: "Worse, the idea that every angry person is a potential assassin just makes it harder to deal with the real threats."
A guy carrying a freaking cannon on his back isn't an 'angry person'. He is a 'real threat'.
Also, the incendiary title of this column is a laugh. 'Race War'?? W T F? Calm yourself.
You're right tho… the newsbabe in question is a looker.
Fox has a large number of highly attractive, beautiful, feminine women who are also savvy, smart and logical.
MSNBC has Rachel Maddow. It's what they call counter programming in the TV business..
I think they have moved far beyond hiding their bias.
It's not on here, but the other night on Red Eye they showed a longer clip where the guy was being interviewed and they asked him if he carried the AR often. 'Oh yeah, everywhere.' Everywhere? Really? 'Yeah, I even take it in the shower with me.' He said this completely deadpan. Maybe it's just me, but I have a feeling he was there to mock the protesters, not contribute. I wasn't trying to characterize the group as a whole, just this individual. I mean, really, even in an open carry state, who carries an AR 'everywhere,' or even often? It just seems suspicious to me.
They didn't pay him enough, he didn't pull the trigger.
I live in near Phoenix and saw this protest first hand. I don't agree with Chris (that's his name) bringing an AR15 to the protest, but it is his right.
I just have one question for everyone. What was the Founding Fathers intent when they wrote the 2nd amendment?
You weren't being sarcastic. You were making an analogy – it just didn't make any sense.
Well stated. They're the ones that keep bringing up the issue.
One day, maybe now, maybe later. MSNBC will go into the ashheap of history. And when it's time for Ms. Brewer to find a job, no credible news agency will hire her.
LEAVE ME ALONE! i'M A FAMILY MAN!!!!
At least that would make Sara Smile.
Alas, I'll be asleep so I won't see it. Say it isn't so! So close, yet so far away.
and remember guys and girls, Private eyes, they're watching you, they see your every move.
Not even if Ms. Brewer were the last woman on earth (which the same sentence has been told to me many times (but gender reversed)). She looks nice, but she's got a ugly soul.
Or that Ms. Brewer is as dumb as the day is long.
If I made that comment to any woman at any place I worked at, I would be asked to leave and never return. What kind of workplace is MSNBC?
So if a black man doesn't agree with Democrates he's an Uncle Tom. So Martin Luther King Jr was an uncle Tom, right? Many of those marching to give black youth a chance today are uncle Toms, right? You liberals are REALLY tolerant, progressive and open mind.. right until you see someone who disagrees with you. When someone leaves your little plantation you just cant stand it so you make excuses about it. They must be paid, they must be flawed, they must hate themselvs. Or maybe they just got wise? Better to be hated by the mindless horde than to follow them on a self destructive path.
YOU are the Uncle Tom.
Alright Carlos, sorry I took it the wrong way.
I am pretty sure I posted an apologize to you Carlos but the site seems to of lost are at the very least is being slow to post it. Again, I'm sorry I took your orginal post the wrong way.
The problem with our media today is that they have learned that the american people are apathiec, they no long care enough to research the issuses. Many americans will merely hear, believe, repeat. Content to do little more than rearange their Ipods and talk about the latest moronic trends. As such the media gets away with this garbage while helping to advence their prefered polticans agenda. It is maddening to no end.
I'd enjoy watching you just walk up and, under the spell of temptation, try to take either one of those guns! His open, peaceful display of superior firepower would not allow that to happen. By the way, that same principle works on any scale…
Contessa Brewer was a hack at the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee and this only proves that MSNBCMSM is giving her FAR more latitude than she deserves. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Contessa…you're as much of a lightweight as Barry Soetoro. Please…just go away. And SHUT UP you raving, talking head, clueless IDIOT!
NOTALWAYSRIGHT…I agree…let's start a movement to BOYCOTT all of MSNBCMSM'S advertisers. Hit 'em in the pocketbook and let's see how quickly they become FOXNEWS2.
MSNBC is shamelessly partisan, a veritable state run media organization. Now that Obama is being criticized the race card is being played with disgusting regularity that only works to marginalize real racism. You know, pergatory could very well be having to watch MSNBC endlessly.
GG if I may steal a line; 'You sir are worse than Hitler,' and perhaps mildly retarded, not that there is anything wrong with that of course.
There's nothing wrong with the mainstream media journalists that several hundred first-class funerals wouldn't solve.
Only the U.S. military can save this country now, but first they'll have to eliminate the pc brown-nosers within.
MSNBC in its way will help lead the way for people to mistrust the media altogether. Before the presidential election, I used to watch most of the cable and network news/talk programs from time to time. But most if not all have taken political sides since the presidential election.
Call me cynical, but I don't totally trust the Government. I now feel the same way towards media news and talk shows. Their view is so slanted to their position that they demean and defile the other side. I don't watch news anymore because I don't trust what's coming out of their mouths. If I want to know what's going on, I'll visit multiple internet site, U.S. and foreign to get any idea what the truth might be.
What's the difference between Michael Vick prodding a Pit Bull and Mastif to fight and what this…this…this 'female dog' did between Whites and Blacks?
In the immortal words of Kosh Naranek:
"You leave this place. They are not for you. Go. Leave. NOW."
Because it's pretty obvious that you are either as mentally deranged as an O-bot or a Moby planting crap here so you can provide a screenshot for people to point at as "proof" that anyone who dares oppose the current President is mentally deranged.
Part of their Constitution, IIRC. Not part of ours.
You know how that works Jake. Mustn't O-F-F-E-N-D anyone. Always be above it and be on your best behavior. Even if it Kills You and it's very possible one day It Will. Oh well pinkies-up everybody.
it reminds me of the dave chappelle skit wherein the celebrated KKK spokesman is actually a blind guy who doesn't realize he's black. he's cheered on by the group until his hood is removed and then heads literally explode.
Can we edit a news package to make Contessa look like a real anchor? Or msnbc, a real news outfit?
Not to go off-topic, but I think the black man in question wasn't really participating in the protest – I think he was mocking the protesters. After all, what serious-minded person even jokes about taking their gun in the shower? His statements were so hyperbolic that it makes me think they were obviously intended to be sarcastic, at best, if not full-out farcical. Now, I can't tell from the videos if he was the ONLY black person there or not. And yes, either way, only showing shots of his guns and then being like "ooooh, evil white people" is sneaky. But I have doubts about this guy being legit.
**Edit: Also, as my husband pointed out, any sane person wanting to further the cause of gun rights wouldn't show up to a presidential event with a magazine in the AR and the bolt closed. At the very least, you'd remove the magazine in case someone was tempted to take it and use it.
This is like when Brewer and MSNBC edited Letterman's joke about Palin to make it look less offensive. (Here is a link to the video of John Ziegler calling them out on it and completely obliterating her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McvC7n6-buo )
Also apropos in that clip is Ziegler calling them out on their blatant agenda again, saying "You portray Republicans as old white men and wonder why people think of them as old white men?"
Worse, though, is how factious the Democratic party has become under Obama, far from being "post-partisan" and "post-racial." They continually plays groups of Americans against each other. The media of course plays along since the bigwigs, like all leftists, conceive of every society as having classes.
Before he left office, George Washington left us with a word about those who seek to divide Americans, saying that factionalism would. . .
". . .put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party;—often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community;—and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils, and modified by mutual interests.—However combinations or associations of the above descriptions may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
Oh, I don't know, I think she's hot in that "slutty flight atttendant" kind of way.
It's a shame that the majority of the media cannot hold themselves to the same level of journalistic integrity (and therEfore credibility) as TMZ.
We keep shooting at it so it rises high in the sky, by the time it can try landing again the Earth has rotated under it.
What the heck "permits" are they talking about? We have the Second Amendment, We don't need no stinking permits!
Let's see a black man carries an AR15 to a health care protest and the MSM thinks the story is there was another white guy with an AR15 who was against the president too even though we could only get a picture of the black guy…
No MSM you were scooped again the real story is this…..
Balck man carries a gun to the Town Hall event and no SEIU thugs call him an N word, gang up on him 3 to one and put him into the hospital.
The second ammendment is a beautiful thing. Thanks for pointing out this travesty Greg.
ANYONE ACTUALLY BELIEVING THIS IDIOT IS A SPEED BUMP.
ANYONE NOT GRABBING THE BRIDGE OF HIS/HER NOSE, SQUINTING HIS/HER EYES AND TRYING TO STOP THE MIGRAINE FROM FORMING IN THEIR CRANIUM AFTER READING THIS IDIOT'S POST IS A BIGGER SPEED BUMP.
WE (or…uh…I…cough!…) URGE Our Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine (yeah…left off the "s"…I can't use atrocious grammar EVEN for satire) Officers and Soldiers to keep reminding us why we are the luckiest country in the WORLD for having the BEST and MOST NOBLE military to ever march on this EARTH!
We (…I again…) don't much like ACORN or Black Panther goons but COME ON! Executions? Really?
WE (uh…oh never mind) DEMAND OUR ARMED FORCES KEEP THEIR HEADS DOWN AND BRING THEIR PATRIOTIC TUSHES HOME IN ONE PIECE WITH AS LITTLE LEAD IN THEM AS POSSIBLE!
BAN THIS DOUCHE BAG NOW!!
(for said douche bag's benefit)
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Someone should call ColorofChange to get Contessa and Keith and Chris and Ed and . . . oh wait the entire network off the air. I blame that shady I-want-government-project-money-Jeff Immelt for this.
Rachaels,
I asked, 'What's the difference…' and you answered, 'Vick paid his debt' (whereas MSNBC hasn't).
I misunderstood your meaning originally and apologize.
Come to think of it, didn't some columnist demand that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff "relieve" President Bush and have him court-martialed?
The similarity is making me think this clown is a Moby.
Obviously more than you. But you can take me seriously if you want.
Though it can be said that Comedy Central has more journalistic integrity than MSNBC. MSNBC is too gooned up to have any journalistic integrity at all.
Da Shark is either a poorly-conceived troll, or a raving idiot. Either way, ban him and delete his comments now…and I very seldom recommend banning anyone or deleting anything, including the garden-variety trolls.
"Why boycott a network no one watches anyway? "
You beat me to it.
He also could have been annoyed by the media and their idiocy in general. Heaven knows I am, and I might answer a stupid question from an MSM talking head-type reporter with a sarcastic remark myself.
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Not the boycott – the advertisers! Those of us who oppose a state-run media (even if that media willingly gave its soul to the state out of similar ideology) should be willing to put our money where our mouths are — just like they do — and boycott any product or advertiser who advertises on MSNBC AND its mother, NBC. If there are enough of us, it will bring them down. If there aren't, they what's been lost except inconvenience on our part. We might actually like a product advertised there.
Not the network – the advertisers! Those of us who oppose a state-run media (even if that media willingly gave its soul to the state out of similar ideology) should be willing to put our money where our mouths are — just like they do — and boycott any product or advertiser who advertises on MSNBC AND its mother, NBC. If there are enough of us, it will bring them down. If there aren't, they what's been lost except inconvenience on our part. We might actually like a product advertised there.
I nominate Contessa Brewer for the Propagandist Of The Year award. It can be called the "Potty" and be in the shape of a golden toilet bowl. Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman are also in the running for the male awards, though with those guys, you can never tell. Dan Rather qualifies for a lifetime achievement award. Health care reform brouhaha qualifies for "Best Slanted Story" award.
I nominate Contessa Brewer for the female Propagandist Of The Year award. It can be called the "Potty" and be in the shape of a golden toilet bowl. Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman are also in the running for the male awards, though with those guys, you can never tell. Dan Rather qualifies for a lifetime achievement award. Health care reform brouhaha qualifies for "Best Slanted Story" award.
yes, he has a legal right to have his gun there. President never in harms way, even though the press implies he was. Yes, it was stupid, and pointless to have the gun there. Only makes it easier for the press to create something out of nothing. This behavior advances nothing. Got to be smarter than this…
Why bother? They won, as we keep getting reminded, and as far as they're concerned, they'll never be out of power again.
"Just because you can, does that mean you should?"
Well, I take my lead from the New York Times. Every time they find out a secret about how we're fighting terrorism. they print it, telling the enemy how to best succeed at killing Americans and get away with it. Why do they do it? Because the 1st Amendment says they can. And if they can, then they should, right?
So yeah, if I can, I will. Because Pinch Sulzberger says that's the right thing to do.
The Bill of Rights: It's not just about Liberals any more.
You meant a golden shower, right, Greg? Slightly more appealing than Michel Moore in a shallow bubble bath is not a good enough enticement for most guys.
I also disagree. Armed resistance from citizen soldiers is what created this nation. It might be the only thing that can save the constitution. Remember, the military is filled with volunteers and not conscripts. Not that I agree with the original poster's inflaming remarks, but armed resistance is a possibility that must be considered.
Looks like the HuffPo/Kos/DU trolls are trying a new tactic–create the impression that the right favors a miltiary coup, whole-sale suspension of civil liberties, and re-education for dissidents.
The psychological phenomena of projection is fascinating, especially among the left…
You've fallen into the classic mistake of assuming it's the color of one's skin that defines whether you're black or not. That hasn't been true for ages. Being black today is defined as whether you are liberal and whether you consider yourself a perpetual victim. Both check marks, then you qualify.
….she can't throw a football 80 yards flat footed…..
Is he a Black Panter…if he is than MSNBC has no problem with him showing up armed anywhere.
It started with FDR, although some think it might have started with Woodrow Wilson. The difference is that the political arm could only go so far without the people with decent morals and intelligence would catch on and reverse the trends. The left had to change the very heart and soul of the nation and the 60s was phase 2 of destroying the constitution and creating Communist AmeriKa.
Sorry buddy, but I am not from Kos and I agree with the military option. Sure, as a last resort, but one that must be considered if we are serious about saving the U.S. constitution some day.
I don't know if he's a Tom, but he sure strikes me as the kind of brother who needs a girlfriend.
Then again, maybe that's why he carries a semi, he doesn't know how to use his own shooter, so he goes and buys another.
No, he's not a Black Panther, he's a Bircher. Funny…I read the post, and a lot of the comments, and I haven't seen any mention whatsoever of the eleven other people who showed up at that event with guns.
Well, the thing with the gun.. I agree it is stupid to bring a gun out to a town hall meeting, but racist? bunch of BS…. I have to say that MSNBC tries to amke mountains out of mole hills and this is another case of them throwing BOMBS at the american public…
Where might I find a list of their sponsors? I am on board!!!
"…mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent…"
–Adam Smith – 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments', p. 170.
A case for including <sarc></sarc> tags if I ever saw one.
Greg:
Good article, but please stop referring to the guy's AR as an "assault rifle", or, worse, the meaningless term "assault weapon." This was a semi-auto rifle. Assault rifles by definition are capable of full-auto or burst fire (and have thus been classed as 'machine guns' by Federal law ever since 1934). "Assault weapon" is a nonsense term concocted by the gungrabbers over at Brady Bunch.
"A guy carrying a freaking cannon on his back"
Cannon? Oh, please. If that AR-15 like most is in standard chambering, it fires the 5.56×45mm (.223 Remington) cartridge- a very light round which in most states is considered underpowered and thus illegal for deer hunting.
except perhaps an escort agency
Except perhaps an escort agency, after all, she already has so much experience whoring herself out to the left.
and his little dog too.
troll troll, troll in the hay…
so that's what's in my knish!
watch out boys, she'll chew you up.
indeed.. "die in diginity"… as did his victims? what where they thinking over there in the UK…
When socialists combine their agenda with corporate money and power, we call it fascism. That is what we have here.
I am not surprised to see the corporate fascist media, using race hate to support their dear leader. Acting as racists – targeting their political and social enemies by race and naming them innately evil and dangerous is what fascists do. Hoping to unite minority against whites in race hate and violence is the goal. If they can convience blacks and hispanics that anyone opposing Obama is the KKK, we will see racial violence and blood shed in the streets on behalf of Dear Leader. Fascists use hate and violence for power.
Oh. In that case, it must be the perfect gun to bring to a health care debate…..
insane.
Gee, wasn't it GOP president Eisenhower who started school desegregation? So explain to me how the message of personal responsibility and accountability being an Uncle Tom? When I first heard about this guy, I though oh no a 2nd Ad loon or a plant. But after hearing him speak, he should be a GOP canidate. FYI most people could care less what color "O" is. He's a commie. That's all you need to hate right there.
No.
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Why don't they just allow FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION?
If all the 'racist' whites were allowed to SEPARATE, which is ALL they want, nothing else, then no more 'racist' whites would ever live near, nor have any power over, non-whites, ever again.
So ALL 'racism' would end.
'Racism' only exists because non-whites FORCE themselves into white people's countries and neighbourhoods, white people who clearly do not want them there.
Yet somehow the WHITE people are in the wrong?
If somebody waltzes past me when I open my front door, and sits down at my table and starts eating my children's food, am I in the wrong for not wanting him there? Is he a victim?
This is as simple as it gets. Just go back to Little Rock. The blacks were obviously FORCED onto the whites, at gunpoint! Yet we are told that they were somehow 'noble'.
I think you meant to write "Jews SHOOT Palestinian kids"… but then, you are obviously a Jew…
I always thought that should be Rush's Hillary update theme. In fact, it might have been.
I got most of those, but not all. Heh.
she's a man… well that says it enough indeed; no need for the rest.
No worries. Glad you caught my meaning
Actually, now that i see his face, he kinda looks like a white guy pretending to be a black guy. Maybe MSNBC is on to something here……
This is nothing like that. They guessed wrong about the snipers. Now they're just lying.
DM your right. Now they are just plain lying. Back with the snipers they were a hoping and a wishing and praying out loud.
She seems SO much outraged at people of any color strapping guns on themselves and not using them than she'd ever be at terrorists strapping bombs to themselves, doesn't she?
you're nuts.
No way! young people watch that and they'll think that what theyre hearing is actually the truth…
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Well, I hate Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Chris Matthews without any guilt. I'd like to see them all thrown into a woodchipper on TV…..perhaps this might boost MSNBC's ratings? We can only hope they'd throw in Bill Maher too!
I know I shouldn't really be surprised, but it never ceases to amaze me how backward "progressives" can be.
Well I have to say Greg that you sir Have never been more right. And Bill you sick little man What exactly are you thinking. You can not profile a person of any color, red, green, purple, or black, by what they wear. So what if that guy wears a certain type of pants. Maybe Greg should put you back in the basement and refuse to feed you for a week. No he should!
Give poor Contessa a break…what she must have had to endure to get her job at MSNBC…Olberman, Matthews, Maddow, it's enough to drive anyone insane. Gross, Yuck…the horrors.
I mean, that's gotta be the only way a mental lightweight like her got a job as a "journalist" at MSNBC, even at MSNBC, right? They must have some kind of standards?
Just imagine what she had to do to get her job.
Acting lessons with Olberman, including fake indignation and outrage on cue!
Fawning 101 with Matthews.
Cosmetology with Maddow.
Wait? What did you think I meant she had to do over there to get her job?
They have interns for that kind of stuff…interns that never tell.
Greg, would'nt you agree that MSNBC's Rachal Maddow is a CUNNINGLINGUIST?
I give up! where do I find my posts? Should I look on the back porch? Is there a secret code or handshake? Are they where the yellow went when I brushed my teeth with Pepsodent? OH Well!…perhaps a site not so tragically hip!
You mean it only takes a gun to "pass"?
I hear you friend. How I used "you" was a bit confusing. That bluenight99 is an unpleasant fellow.
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