MSNBC'S
MADDOW NOW REWRITING INSTANT REPLAYS
That
MSNBC routinely, almost compulsively, mischaracterizes what
conservatives say is nothing new. It's what makes the network so
adorable. But in a recent trend, anchor Rachel Maddow has been upping
the ante, altering quotes we just heard her play on tape.
On Monday night, for
example, Rachel ran a news clip from President Reagan's 1983 Martin
Luther King Day signing ceremony:
"Chris Wallace, NBC Reporter (by miraculous coincidence, currently a
Fox News anchor): 'There was an air of celebration in the Rose Garden
and an underlying tension. White House officials wrestled for days how
to usher in a holiday the president opposed. They finally decided to
embrace it. ... Maybe that's what today was about, that blacks have the
power to make politicians do things.'"
End tape, cut to Rachel, taking notes, muttering with disgust: "The
blacks now have the power ..."
Except Wallace didn't say "the blacks." Refer to the tape. By adding
the simple article "the," Rachel turned Chris Wallace from a
garden-variety 1980s news reporter into Archie Bunker. It takes a
special kind of zealotry to play a tape of someone and then immediately
lie about what viewers just heard him say.
Rachel's rewrite of Wallace (again, a Fox News host) was astonishingly
similar to her misquote of Republican Senate candidate -- now senator
-- Joni Ernst just before the November elections. Maddow inserted the
word "the" into Ernst's statement, entirely changing her meaning.
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Is it any different than how they "edited" the transcript of George Zimmerman's 9-1-1 call, to make it appear that he said, "He's acting suspiciously; he looks Black", when in reality "He looks Black" was in reaction to the operator asking "Is he Black or white?"
ReplyDeleteI long for the day, when a journalist uprising finds the likes of Maddow running from mobs of angry reporters, with buckets of roofing tar and bags of feathers.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the warm, fresh cow poo, Jess, and plenty of it.
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