MSNBC Edits Clip to Play the Race Card - Shocker, I Know

Talk about a complete lack of journalistic integrity! As posted on Hot Air, MSNBC did a segment earlier this week about a man wearing a semi-automatic rifle and a pistol outside of where Obama was speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix.

Now, as you watch the clip, listen closely to how the journalist race-baits the situation - she doesn't specify the race of the armed man, but she then goes on to talk about angry white people showing up armed to events with the black president. The entire discussion into which these three get into centers on race - basically invalidating the opinions of those who disagree with or dislike Obama as being racists (since racists' voices don't matter, of course, right?).



Well, funny how if you look at the AZCentral.com photo of the gunman, you'll notice why the racist accusations don't work:

HE'S BLACK.

Hmmmm... a black man who disagrees with a (half-)black president's policies. Yep, yep, racist indeed.

If you notice, MSNBC's footage never shows the armed man's skin. That took some careful framing of the shot by the videographer. There's a chance that he wasn't purposefully trying to mislead viewers... but let's be honest - that chance is pretty slim.

I'd like to say this is unbelievable... but we're talking about an NBC outlet here. They seem to be so in bed with the Obama administration, I wouldn't trust their spin on anything! (And not to nitpick here, but it was John Hinckley - not Mark - who tried to assassinate Reagan. Come on, people - you call yourselves journalists?!)

Once again, it goes back to the Saul Alinsky handbook - in Rules for Radicals, Alinsky's Rule No. 12 says:

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

Huh. Alinsky was the father of community organizing. Obama started his career as a community organizer and was heavily influenced by Alinsky. Funny how all the anti-Obama critics get labeled and written off as right-wing whack jobs and racists. After all, how could their arguments have any merit, right?

(And for the record - I don't necessarily promote carrying a gun to a rally. That's just bound to incite anger. But it is that man's Second Amendment right to bear arms.)