Thursday, August 20, 2009 :::
 

In case you don't already know better than to take MSNBC seriously: the other day they made a baseless suggestion that protesters were white people motivated by racism toward the president when one of them was black.

To be fair, I don't think they necessarily edited the clip deliberately to obscure the protester's race, I don't think the commentator necessarily knew one of them was black, and her suggestion that racism was a key motive was issued in a manner more befitting a pure uneducated guess than similar baseless assertions made by Janeane Garofalo and — I seem to remember but don't have a link for — Paul Krugman.

Labels: media distortion, MSNBC, racism

::: posted by Steven at 8:25 AM

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