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Obama speaks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National
Convention in Phoenix, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. Protests
at the event have sparked racial controversy.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Contessa Brewer, a host on virulently pro-Obama biased MSNBC network television, accused “white people” of showing up with guns to health care reform protests.
Brewer was referring to President Obama's speech in Arizona earlier this week. But as has been pointed out before, one of the men carrying an assault rifles at that event was black.
The black fellow has since defended his right to bear arms in public, which is not against the law in Arizona anyway.
Ignoring all this, it appears Brewer and MSNBC deliberately attempted to stir up racial tension by deliberately withholding from her viewers that the gun-toters in question included a black man, choosing instead to label them as “white people.”
Here is part of what Brewer said:
"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....Here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns strapped to their waists."
After Brewer presented this misleading information, fellow MSNBC talking heads went on to further link the incident with white racism, pontificating about white supremacist “anger about a black person being president....we see these hate groups rising up and this is definitely part of that.”
Moreover, footage accompanying MSNBC’s report creatively edited out the black man in question, so as to fool viewers into believing he was white.
Is this what Obama meant when he was talking about a post-racial, sky opening, celestial-choirs-singing, honest, edifying national conversation on race?
MSNBC's shameless and unethical deployment of the race card is not only dishonest but dangerous. Contessa Brewer and MSNBC are more interested in racialist drama and ratings than in telling in truth, and in doing so they are endangering lives by inciting racial hatred.
This is not the first time MSNBC's bigots have played fast and loose with images of racial violence; remember last year's backlash when Keith Olbermann accused Hillary Clinton of wanting Obama assassinated?
This type of prejudiced incitement is not funny. And it needs to stop before somebody gets hurt.
Contessa Brewer and MSNBC owe President Obama, white people, and America an apology for their shoddy, racist reporting.
Question for Commentary: Should MSNBC face a boycott for purposefully trying to incite racial tension?
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