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I'd say MSNBC was just as complicit as Fox over the decades. In 2009, they purposefully cropped video of the main protester outside an Obama town-hall meeting
by drak0n1c 6y ago
I'd say MSNBC was just as complicit as Fox over the decades.
In 2009, they purposefully cropped video of the main protester outside an Obama town-hall meeting to only show his back and slung rifle, and then used the footage to immediately launch into a panel discussion positing that the primary motivation for the protests against Obama was racial animus. The protester was black.
Here is the footage (paired with another incident of egregious misreporting in 1992): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvBQDHqdCck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvBQDHqdCck
- butbutemails2 6y agoWhoa, that reminds me of the 2011 Obama speech in Alabama where it was misreported that Alabamans thought Obama drank Honest Tea (see video for better context) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
- AlisdairO 6y agoI'm not going to tell you that there aren't issues on the other channels, but the sheer volume of manipulation on Fox is utterly overwhelming. Imperfect as it is I don't really think MSNBC compares.
- core-questions 6y agoJust remember that it's always easier to see the manipulation and bias the your political opponents are doing to their own side, than the ones your own leaders are doing to you.