Just when you think journalists and journalism has sunk so low, there is a story such as this. Know that if you watch MSNBC, you are getting so much spin, it is LIES. Do yourself a favor and please get your news elsewhere because they are editing videos and making up the rest..
And here’s the story…
On Tuesday last, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer "reported" (more like made up) that health care reform protesters were carrying guns, She said, "A man at a pro-health care reform rally…wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip….there are questions about whether this has racial overtones….white people showing up with guns."
Brewer deliberately did not mention the man was black. Naturally, it is hard to make a racist story if your "bad guy" is black! Yes, this young black man was videotaped and photographed so that you could not tell his race at all, and it was spun into a racist story. Such is the "news" at MSNBC. I know this to be true as my son saw it. It is blatant hypocrisy and manipulation – of the story and of the public.
After Brewer’s report, Dylan Ratigan and MSNBC pop culture analyst Toure discussed this awful racism, "…there is tremendous anger in this country about government, the way government seems to be taking over the country, anger about a black person being president….we see these hate groups rising up and this is definitely part of that." What crap.
Where is the outrage? Isn’t anyone else insulted by this?
The Arizona Republic reported: "A man, who decided not to give his name, was walking around the pro-health care reform rally at Third and Washington streets, with a pistol on his hip and an AR-15 (a semi-automatic assault weapon) on a strap over his shoulder. ‘Because I can do it,’ he said when asked why he was armed. ‘In Arizona, I still have some freedoms.’" A picture accompanying the article showed the man was African-American.
God bless him!
