On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: "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 failed to mention the man she described was black.MSNBC has a vested interest in turning these stories into racial strife in order to help the administration with their goal of getting nationalized health care. I'd love to say I'm surprised to find out they did this, but it doesn't surprise me at all. Truth is highly discounted on MSNBC.
Following Brewer’s report, which occurred on the Morning Meeting program, host Dylan Ratigan and MSNBC pop culture analyst Toure discussed the supposed racism involved in the protests. Toure argued: "...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." Ratigan agreed: "...then they get the variable of a black president on top of all these other things and that’s the move – the cherry on top, if you will, to the accumulated frustration for folks."
Not only did Brewer, Ratigan, and Toure fail to point out the fact that the gun-toting protester that sparked the discussion was black, but the video footage shown of that protester was so edited, that it was impossible to see that he was black. The man appeared at a health care rally outside of President Obama’s speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, Arizona.
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.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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And an AR-15, while semi-automatic, is NOT an assault weapon, as it does NOT have either multi-round burst firing capability, NOR does it have full-auto capability.
Newspaper writers tend to lack a lot of knowledge when it comes to firearms. Don't know much about knives, either. Don't know much about history; don't know much about the French they took; don't know what a slide rule is for--Hey, it must be something for sliding under or around rules! Sounds good to me!
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