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10/22/2008

Questions for MSNBC

Filed under: 2008 Election — DRJ @ 3:22 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

From the Instapundit via Breitbart TV:

“ANDREA MITCHELL busted on a Biden coverup. “Mitchell says, ‘I think we played the whole thing.’ But as Breitbart.tv documented on Tuesday, the clip that Mitchell used was not from the Seattle event, but rather much milder comments made in San Francisco. MSNBC has even labeled the incorrect audio as being from the Seattle event.”

Deja vu? According to Media Matters, MSNBC and its reporters had similar problems at the end of September:

“On MSNBC Live, Andrea Mitchell followed Contessa Brewer in airing a heavily cropped version of former President Bill Clinton’s remarks on Meet the Press in which Clinton seemingly declined to respond in the affirmative when asked by Meet the Press host Tom Brokaw if he would say he “admire[s]” Sen. Barack Obama and “think[s] he’s a … great man.” Mitchell called Clinton’s comments “hardly an endorsement” of Obama and “not as effusive as you would expect.” But Mitchell did not air or otherwise note Clinton’s statements moments later that he “certainly admire[s]” Obama and that Obama’s “greatness will … become apparent” when he is elected president.”

At a minimum, MSNBC and its reporters have issues with vetting their source material.

H/T Mike K.

— DRJ

12 Responses to “Questions for MSNBC”

  1. “MSNBC are biased, liars or incompetent or lying, biased incompetents or incompetent and biased liars…” Well, there’s only so many permutations, but jeez, DRJ none of them are news. My internet foreshortened brain craves new stuff. In small bites please, that’s all I understand anymore.

    BlacquesJacquesShellacqes (7058ae)

  2. At a minimum, MSNBC and its reporters have issues with vetting their source material.

    You are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too kind to MSNBC.

    Although I look forward to that troll to drop by and tell us how MSNBC is right-leaning because Joe Scarborough is on the network.

    JD (c69925)

  3. Comment by JD — 10/22/2008 @ 3:40 pm

    Can’t understand your negativity JD. You’ve had such a fruitful interchange with your new BF today.

    Another Drew (d7f986)

  4. AD – All I have asked it to do is substantiate its assertions. It should be pretty damn easy to do.

    JD (c69925)

  5. Another question for MSNBC: Why are you working with ACORN on Election night?

    But the net is dodging on answering.

    Karl (1b4668)

  6. Karl – The audacity of that should be shocking.

    JD (c69925)

  7. Poor old Mitchell, sucked up to Hussein for so long her mouth looks like a donut hole. Her husband better pray Hussein doesn’t have aids.

    Scrapiron (d4a22f)

  8. I have a (too) long piece on the genesis of the current news (propaganda, indoctrination, sexualization) of what used to be news. It’s here if you’re curious

    Howard Veit (cc8b85)

  9. I think it is reasonable to say that MSNBC is to liberals as Fox is to conservatives.

    i like america (d2f951)

  10. Au contraire, Mon Ami.

    Even if you think that O’Reilly is over-the-top,
    he is not the doctrinaire Conservative to Olbermann’s rabid Liberal;
    in fact, I think he’s a Democrat.

    So, where is the comparative line-up?

    Another Drew (b4e6e5)

  11. AD – For the sake of argument, let’s concede that. That still leaves them with NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Chicago Sun Time, Miami Herald, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, CNBC, and just about every other media outlet except a handful of talk radio.

    JD (6248dc)

  12. Yeh, I know. Just wanted to deflate another little talking-point balloon.
    The bright side, is that eventually all they’ll be left with is NPR/PBS, the remainder will be out-of-business.

    Another Drew (b4e6e5)


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