Mega
Stupid
National
Barack
Channel
Oh, and did you realize that "Obamacare" is the SAME THING as using the
N-word. Just ask their Saturday Anchor, Mellisa Harris-Perry. Yes, this
is the same dim-bulb that wore Tampon earrings in support of Wendy
"Abortion Barbie" Davis when she announced that she would run for Texas
Governor. I wish that was a joke, but it isn't.
David
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas
which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas
which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.*--Thomas
**Jeff**erson*
On 12/10/2013 12:59 PM, [email protected] wrote:
NRO
December 9, 2013 4:00 AM
*MSNBC's Alternative Universe*
<http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365780/msnbcs-alternative-universe-charles-c-w-cooke>**
*What passes for journalism on the network is downright silly.*
**
By Charles C. W. Cooke
<http://www.nationalreview.com/author/charles-c-w-cooke>
More than any other subject, apolitical sorts will ask me about Fox
News. "Is it /really crazy/?" my British friends inquire, flashing the
sort of smile that a botanist might exhibit while examining a newly
discovered species of moss. "Is it, like, /really right wing/?"
The question has always slightly irritated me, showing as it does that
the considerable success that the Left has had in demonizing its
opposition extends even across the Atlantic. Certainly, both Fox's
commentary and its ostensibly straight reporting are marked by the
right-leaning proclivities of its owners. But the notion that the
network is unique in exhibiting bias is one of the more egregious
planks of Western conventional wisdom --- and especially so because it
seems patently obvious to me that if one were to single out for
palpable eccentricity a cable-news station in the United States, it
would not be Fox. It would be MSNBC.
Take a quick look at the numbers. A recent Pew study revealed that the
supposedly neutral CNN spent 54 percent of its time broadcasting
"news" and 46 percent of its time hosting "opinion." Fox, by contrast,
transmits 55 percent opinion and 45 percent news. But MSNBC --- well,
MSNBC consists of a remarkable /85 percent /opinion and only 15
percent news. This has consequences. During the election, Pew added
<http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/11/pew-msnbc-more-negative-than-fox-148088.html>,
the ratio of unfavorable to favorable treatment in stories about Mitt
Romney on MSNBC was roughly 23-to-1, and the negative-to-positive
ratio for Barack Obama on Fox News was 8-to-1.
"Biased" doesn't cut it. To watch MSNBC for an afternoon is not so
much to be given a slanted account of what is happening here in
America, but instead to witness a series of discussions about current
events in parallel America II --- a rather silly place in which the
political center of gravity and all things Good are defined by the
preferences of the faculty at Berkeley and the comments section of the
/Daily Kos/ and in which anyone who dissents from this position is
believed to possess two heads, a black heart, and a pocket copy of
/Mein Kampf/.
America II, as anyone who watches the channel will discover rather
swiftly, hosts a supermajority of well-meaning multi-culti,
progressive types whose foolproof plans for explosive economic growth,
uniform social justice, and general human utopia are constantly being
undone by a blossoming white-supremacist movement, split apart by
neo-secessionists, and existentially threatened by traitors whose
defining characteristic is a never-quite-explained hatred for
progress. America II features no gray areas whatsoever: All local
variation is apartheid, each and every identification requirement is
the second coming of Jim Crow, all criticism of the government is
sedition. It's exhausting.
Hour by tedious hour, America II is saved from its own worst
instincts. What destroyed Detroit, a city that has been run into the
ground by Democrats for half a century? "Republicans" and
"capitalism," naturally. A pressing question? "Are conservatives the
new Confederates?" A topic
<http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/11/03/matthews-badgers-senator-over-palin-have-you-ever-been-eyewitness-her-act>
worthy of Chris Matthews's investigation? Whether Sarah Palin /can
actually read/. It's like watching /Mystery Science Theater 3000/ ---
just less realistic.
Perhaps the most startling thing about the network is that one doesn't
need to even infer or twist anything in order to wallow in the
gratifying stupefaction that its hosts just said what they just said.
There is an entire cottage industry on the Internet that is dedicated
to putting words in the mouths of cable news personalities --- indeed,
in recent weeks I have been featured in a couple of modest
<http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/11/21/2980531/fox-news-pundit-says-end-judicial-filibuster-lead-military-coup/>
contributions
<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/12/02/national-review-online-everyone-should-get-pass/197091>
myself. But with MSNBC, no such mendacity is necessary. No clever
editing. No false contexts. One can just read the transcripts. They
/meant to say that/.
After all, what would one possibly add to Martin Bashir's suggestions
that someone should defecate in Sarah Palin's mouth, that
conservatives are using the acronym "IRS" as a stand-in for "n***er,"
or that Ted Cruz is the "David Koresh" of the Republican party? What
could be achieved by sexing up Chris Matthews's conviction that tea
partiers "still count blacks as three-fifths" of a person, or that the
perpetrators of 9/11 "just have a different perspective"? What might a
worker bee charged with feeding the outrage machine do to make more
impressive Joy Reid's asseveration that Republicans are "resentful" of
"post-1964 America," or to improve upon Ed Schultz's faith that "God
supports Obamacare," or to render more absurd Michael Eric Dyson's
contention that Eric Holder is "the chief lawgiver" and the "Moses of
our time"?
The channel is a lazy intern's dream. Recently, a guest called Tim
Wise nonchalantly announced that Republicans have "essentially gone in
as a white-nationalist, Afrikaner, Boer party." It's all there, clear
as day. Just rip from the Internet and upload. Bingo! One gets the
uncomfortable feeling that the minds behind the programming are so
strongly wedded to the cartoon impression of what they believe Fox
News to be --- sorry, what they believe the "FAUX NEWS ECHO CHAMBER!"
to be --- that they cannot imagine running a television station
without emulating it. MSNBC, it seems, is a reaction against a Fox
that never really existed --- a progressive version of the How Utterly
Ridiculous Can One Become Before the Commercial Break? game that has
long been played more devotedly in the fever swamps of the Left than
by the conservatives they like to denounce.
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