I feel compelled to keep reitorating my thoughts about Msnbc's similarity to Fox News.
As I said before, the morning shows on MSNBC are very little different from Fox with being PROVOCATEURS. Between the two of them, they take great relish in taking a non issue and spinning and spinning; trying to wrap whatever it is around President Obama's neck. It appears their life's work is to make charges against this president.
It can be seen in the Sherrod story. This morning before Joe showed up, everyone was trying to make sense of the issue and call for not jumping the gun when the race question comes up,althought they still were careful not to jump on Fox. Even with the guests on this show they tiptoe around Fox like it is a holy icon. I find this attitude completely disgusting.
It makes them appear cowardly and fearful of bringing Fox wrath down on their heads. How can we rely on people who show so much deference to a media entity even in the face of their lack of simple professionalism.
Fox will print anything and air anything without regard for facts. This
company has been caught time after time tape tampering and misrepresenting facts. Why defend them? They are NOT worthy.
Then Joe comes on and takes the whole conversation back into the dumps. He asked Prof Melissa Harris-Lacewell why she thought the White House jumped the gun on the issue and more or less he was asking if the White House is COMPETENT in governing. This is MY take on what he was doing.
Lacewell explains that because Ms Sherrod's name is so well known for Civil Rights Advocacy, she felt that the NAACP and the White House should have known. OK. That's her opinion.
Its not my opinion. The Administration ie President Obama and most of his staff ARE OF ANOTHER GENERATION OF PEOPLE. The Sherrod name would not automatically be associated with civil rights to any one. I certainly didnt think of it and I am older than President Obama and Mr Jealous from the NAACP. Why would that even come up.
This was an issue of a charge of racism against a federal worker appointed by President Obama. Due to the climate in this nation and all the hoopla that occurred these last weeks concerning reverse racism there is NOTHING TO NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT WHY THE ADMINISTRATION IE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE MOVED SWIFTLY TO REMOVE THAT PERSON. It is perfectly understandable. They wanted remove any question of racism in this administration so they overcorrected.
We all saw the tape of the purported racial slur. I doubt if anyone of us thought that someone even Fox would edit the ENTIRE TAPE TO GET THE RESULT THEY WANTED.
We have seen answers taken out of context but none quite like this. The
entire conversation has been altered by omitting certain parts. The beginning, the middle explanation and the end. WE WERE ALL MADE SAPS!!!!!
What I thought when I first saw it was "Why in hell would she say that. I wondered why but I still didnt think that I couldnt rely I what I heard.
It was not until I saw the BEGINNING of her speech that the RELEVANTCY OF WHAT SHE WAS SAYING WAS PLAINLY COMPREHENSIBLE." Breitbart really did an excellent job of manipulating this entire situation.
I am not surprised at all at the speed the Administration and the Department of Agriculture took to get Ms. Sherrod out of the Department.
Now, I can see that the action was too severe. THEY SHOULD HAVE PUT HER ON LEAVE UNTIL AN INVESTIGATION. That would have been the proper thing. I
know that is what I would want to happen to me so that I could have time to defend myself.
We have all learned a good lesson, especially the White House. The only people I think have NOT learned anything from this are certain people at MSNBC, Fox, The Tea Party and certain members of the Republican Party. They havent learned because they dont want to learn.
They will continue to spin and spin, with gusto, trying to hang some charges around President Obama's neck. THEY ARE OBSESSED WITH THE INTENT TO DESTROY HIM AND HIS ADMINISTRATION. They will not stop until WE act to destroy them. We have to make them pay for their wickedness. These people like Scarborough are a harm to this nation. Their obsession with power is going to cause our destruction as a nation.
We are going to go the way of the old Soviet Union and the Roman Empire. They are going to keep at it until we crumble into dust from dissention.
How can we as a people allow this pond scum to destroy our integrity as a nation, destroy the integrity of our communication system and destroy our trust in each other as citizens.
We have to be able to rely on each other even if we dont agree with or even like each other. If we dont show some respect for each other at the end of the day, we will not be able to continue as a nation.
President Lincoln told us " A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND"
It is as true today and it was over 150 years ago.