Stuff like this happens all the time; it’s frankly one of the most frustrating things about the place. And it’s ‘frustrating’ because the rules allow people – mostly on the Left, but not exclusively – to get away with behavior that should have earned them a drink in the face.
At minimum*.
Moe Lane
Via Hot Air Headlines.
*Although Maddow’s not on the drink-in-the-face list. Barely.
I was going to hit this Political Punch post about the President ‘telling an untruth’ about why he finally released his long-form birth certificate, and I was going to point out this Ace of Spades HQ post noting that the network that obsesses most about Birthers was MSNBC – only Jim Geraghty hit this in his Morning Briefing, so read that instead.
But I’ll note this: if President Obama’s getting all of his information from MSNBC, it would explain handily why he thinks that the media was obsessing over his birth certificate; the people at MSNBC were, and it was warping their coverage of the President (something like 9.2% of MSNBC’s total coverage last week was on birthers). I recommend that if the President would like to get a better idea of what people are talking about, then maybe Obama should try a less biased, and more mainstream, news source.
Like, say, Fox News.
MSNBC VP Bill Wolff, in the process of denying that his entire network has a psychotic sexual obsession towards Sarah Palin:
“MSNBC does not have a political agenda.”
Here’s why it’s scary: what if this guy actually believes that? Cynical lying we can handle: heck, the media does that every day. But this kind of lack of elementary self-awareness that’s for reals – well, it’s the sort of thing that ends… badly.
Meet Dylan Ratigan. If you’ve never heard of him, that’s because he’s a (hardcore liberal) host on MSNBC. He’s also a seditionist… oh, sorry. For the benefit of our readers with public school educations, a ‘seditionist’ is somebody who incites armed rebellion against his or her country. Here he is, talking with fellow seditionist Ted Rall about how armed revolt against the government now apparently is now on the table when it comes to solutions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=namL_pIqsVo&feature=player_embedded
Via Newsbusters we have a transcript. Here’s the beginning of it: Continue reading MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Preaches Violent Revolution.
I’m a little surprised that Hot Air and Mediate took this long to determine that Olbermann’s suspension was just a publicity stunt: after all, I called it last week. Although it would have been funny if he had been traded out for Grayson.
Moe Lane
PS: If you’re wondering how a mere two days’ off could be an effective publicity stunt, consider that it was directed towards the netroots. That crowd is… undiscriminating in what gives them satisfaction, poor fellows.
I figure that this is staged – mostly because I don’t believe that MSNBC was unaware that Keith Olbermann was making campaign contributions to Democrats before they suspended him without pay – with the objective being getting the netroots up in arms and angrily demanding that the network reinstate their favorite pornographer. A ratings ploy, in other words.
Either that, or they want to give his timeslot to Alan Grayson.
On Jim Geraghty’s list: Rachel Maddow would be tolerable, and she almost certainly has pre-MSNBC conservative friends that she quietly keeps; she probably also is the one that gets along best with non-liberal family members. Keith Olbermann is too crippled by his overwhelming need to prove that he’s relevant and a Smart Guy; he’s got a honking big inferiority complex over the cow college thing and the starting in sports journalism thing, and it shows. The talking head… does not allow itself to engage in higher cognitive processes; its interior life is restricted to tingles up legs and lashing out in frustrated projection whenever a negative stimulus (usually some variant of THAT WOMAN, these days) is presented to it. And Ed Schultz? That’s easy: nobody likes him. MSNBC only keeps him around because they figure that having one of their TV personalities die on-screen one day from a self-inflicted coronary will boost the ratings.
Which might even work, at that.
[UPDATE] It’s Greg Gutfeld, sorry. Shout-out to Little Miss Attila for the correction; hit her tip jar, and all that.
I am almost going to miss MSNBC, once it goes away. Which I suspect that it will: ‘white guys screaming incoherently’ is less demographic gold than you’d think, unless you’re Greg Gutfeld and mocking it savagely.
Via The Other McCain. Seeing as I only watch MSNBC when somebody catches them doing something dumb – OK, I guess that that does mean that I watch MSNBC, then – anyway, I’ve never seen this Dylan Ratigan guy before, I think. Presumably, I won’t have the opportunity for too much longer, either. Unless they score a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, of course. Contra Reason (and via Instapundit), we’re always going to have the NEA around anyway, if only because the Left would whine so about cutting it; and at this point subsidizing MSNBC as performance art almost makes a crazy kind of sense…
Via Hot Air, check out the racial sensitivity of MSNBC/CNBC talking head Donnie Deutsch:
‘Coconut,’ for those lucky enough to have missed it up to this point, is a derogatory racial epithet hurled against dark-skinned individuals deemed insufficiently ‘authentic.’ It suggests that the individual in question is ‘brown on the outside, white on the inside.’ When used by someone of the same ethnic identity as the slurred individual, it takes on the additional connotation of ‘race traitor;’ when used by someone of Caucasian ancestry, it typically represents an opportunity to express racial hatreds in a socially acceptable manner. The Other Side has, shall we say, a history of such things; and if we ever have that full and frank discussion of race that’s been promised the first question that I plan to ask is going to be about precisely why this is acceptable behavior among them.
About the only thing mitigating this exercise in public racism is that it appeared on the Joy Behar show, which means that almost nobody saw it anyway.
Moe Lane
PS: Don’t get mad. Get even.
Crossposted to RedState.
I just got sent this:
…and I gather that reproducing this will cost NBC even more money.
You know: NBC. The company that owns MSNBC.
Just saying.
Moe Lane
