MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid Disgustingly Argues CPAC Attendees Sympathize With Slavery
Once again, MSNBC shows it has no sense of decency when it comes to its political contributors making extreme statements on its network. The latest example comes from contributor Joy-Ann Reid, managing editor of TheGrio.com, who asserted that attendees of the annual CPAC conference sympathized with pro-segregationist comments made by one extreme individual attending the three-day conference.
At issue is video that has emerged from a CPAC panel discussion called “Trump the Race Card” hosted by K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans. After Smith commented that, “[Frederick] Douglass escaped from slavery. He writes a letter to his former slave master and says, I forgive you for all things you did for me,” an attendee of the panel named Scott Terry then interjected, “For giving him shelter and food?” [See video after jump. MP3 audio here.]
Media Attack Ann Romney for Suggesting They Helped Obama Win
It didn't take long for liberal members of the press to spew venom at Ann Romney after she stated during an interview on last weekend's edition of “Fox News Sunday” that she's “happy to blame the media” as one of the reasons her husband, GOP former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney, lost the 2012 presidential election.
The fast and furious insults have ranged from a declaration by Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post that she “is suffering a serious case of sour grapes” and “needs to move on” to a sarcastic Tweet about her from David Bernstein of the Boston Phoenix as “still blaming media” even though he “lost count of stories she and Mitt refused to participate in.”
MSNBC’s Wagner, Guests Use Papal Abdication As Fresh Excuse to Bash Catholic Church
Early this morning, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he’d abdicate the papal throne at the end of the month, which is the first time a pontiff will have stepped down in seven centuries. Such breaking news was bound to set off rampant media speculation about next month's meeting of the College of Cardinals --which will decide Benedict's successor -- and talk in the media about the outgoing bishop of Rome's legacy.
All that is well and good, but on MSNBC, it was the perfect excuse for the liberal network to feature liberal Catholics Chris Matthews and E.J. Dionne scolding the Church as out of touch with modernity on issues of sexuality and women as priests. And that was on top of laughingly treating the election of a new pope as though it were some presidential primary where candidates work feverishly to line up enough delegates to win nomination. Read the relevant transcript below the page break:
Capehart Warns On Drone Strikes: Remember, A Republican Could Become President!
Sure, you might be cool with Barack Obama calling up a drone strike on an American citizen. But don't forget: a Republican [shudder!] could become President!
That was the Washington Post editorialist Jonathan Capehart's warning to Donny Deutsch when the ad-man-turned-pundit proclaimed he had no problem with the president, under desperate circumstances, ordering a drone strike against an American. View the video after the jump.
Bozell Column: Al Gore, Super Rich Sellout
The liberal media have spent 12 years feeling sorry for Al Gore.The Man Who Should Have Won in 2000 has had megatons of positive publicity dumped on him, hailing him as the “Goracle.” They cheered as leftists honored him with the Nobel Peace Prize and gave an Oscar to his filmed eco-sermon “An Inconvenient Truth.”
So when Gore sold his left-wing cable channel Current TV to al-Jazeera for $500 million, where were they? Despite the fact that conservatives thought the deal sounded like a ridiculous April Fools joke, the networks had nearly nothing to say. ABC skipped it entirely. CBS and NBC offered a perfunctory sentence on a couple of newscasts.
Lawrence O’Donnell Hypes Ann Romney Crying After Election
Despite President Obama’s reelection nearly a month ago, MSNBC has continued to attack Mitt Romney and his family every chance it gets, with the latest being a vicious critique of Ann Romney on the December 3 The Last Word w/ Lawrence O’Donnell. Mr. O’Donnell brought on Washington Post writers Jonathan Capehart and Philip Rucker to comment on recent articles they penned on the Romneys.
Mr. O’Donnell started the segment by gleefully claiming that, “They [friends of Ann Romney] said she has been crying in private and trying to get back to riding her horses." "[G]iven the way you saw the character of Ann Romney unfold during the course of the campaign, what’s your reaction to that?” O'Donnell asked Capehart, a liberal columnist. [See video below page break. MP3 audio here.]
Despite Handy Election Victory for Obama, MSNBC Continues Attack on Voter ID Laws
With the election over and President Obama handily winning reelection -- including in photo ID states like Michigan and Florida -- you'd think MSNBC would go silent about voter ID laws, which clearly did not disenfranchise millions of seniors, students, or black voters nor did it turn the election in favor of Romney.
But no, the network will still flog the issue for the forseeable future. Witness Tuesday’s Now with Alex Wagner, which featured a discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision to review Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. [See video below break. MP3 audio here.]
Martin Bashir Apologizes to Young Viewers Frightened By Charles Krauthammer’s Face On Screen
The childish unprofessionalism on display at MSNBC is becoming breathtaking.
Martin Bashir on Wednesday jokingly apologized to young viewers that might have been frightened by Charles Krauthammer's face in a video clip he aired (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
MSNBC’s Bashir Suggests a President Romney Would Be Mental Breakdown Waiting to Happen
In an interview last Thursday with Reno, Nevada, station KTVN, Ann Romney said her chief concern with her husband winning the presidency would be his "mental well-being," adding, "I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness and his leadership skills, in his understanding of the economy, in his understanding of what's missing right now in the economy - you know, pieces that are missing to get this jumpstarted. So for me I think it would just be the emotional part of it."
Obviously, in context, she was not suggesting her husband couldn't handle stress well, just that she knows the presidency is a stressful job and would be emotionally taxing on the man she loves. But to MSNBC's Martin Bashir, it was an opportunity to run a segment on his October 1 program where he strongly suggested that Romney may not be mentally fit for duty as president. [MP3 audio here; video embedded at bottom of post]
NBC, Arbiter of Civility? ‘Today’ Correspondent Slams Conservative Group for Mistaken Tweet
On Tuesday's NBC Today, correspondent Kristen Welker amazingly shoe-horned a swipe at Republicans into a report about Commerce Secretary John Bryson causing multiple car accidents over the weekend, claiming that a tweet from a GOP super-PAC about the incident was "a sign of how contentious the campaign season has gotten." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
After quoting the tweet in question – of American Crossroads joking about Bryson's odd series of fender-benders – Welker then quoted another tweet shortly after that apologized. A sound bite then followed of left-wing Washington Post opinion writer Jonathan Capehart, who eagerly seized on the Twitter postings: "We always knew that it was going to be a negative campaign. But we're beginning to see just how low and how negative it can get."
It's important to note that NBC News employs several hosts and contributors that have a long list of offensive remarks, many of which they have never apologized for. In a particularly notorious example, MSNBC host Ed Schultz ranted on his 2010 radio show that Dick Cheney's heart was a "political football" and that "We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him."
Here is a portion of the June 12 report:
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WELKER: President Obama nominated Bryson just last year. Late Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney issued a statement saying, "The President's thoughts are with Secretary Bryson and his family during this time." Mr. Obama learned about the bizarre chain of events more than a day after it happened.
OBAMA: We're going to make sure that obviously he gets the best care. And we'll be able to make a determination from that.
WELKER: In a sign of how contentious the campaign season has gotten, the Republican-leaning super-PAC founded by Karl Rove, American Crossroads, posted this tweet first thing Monday morning: "How does @commerce sec have three car crashes in five minutes and alcohol not be involved? #Skills." Once they learned it was health related they apologized, tweeting: "...attempted levity (before facts known) and failed miserably. We took it down and regret the tweet."
JONATHAN CAPEHART [WASHINGTON POST]: We always knew that it was going to be a negative campaign. But we're beginning to see just how low and how negative it can get.
WELKER: Now senior administration officials say President Obama didn't learn about the accidents until Monday morning because Secretary Bryson spent Saturday in the hospital and the Commerce Department didn't learn about the incidents until Saturday evening. But there will likely be more questions around that part of this story. In the meantime, the good news here, there were no serious injuries. Police did cite Bryson with a felony hit-and-run, but he has not been formally charged with anything. This morning he is back in D.C. resting. Ann.
CURRY: Alright, Kristen Welker this morning. Kristen, thanks for your reporting on this.