/dev/null Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AefSi_3C6ww&feature=player_embedded Lean forward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Tancredo is quoted "Obama a greater threat to the US than Osama Bin Laden." An aggressive follow-up is: "Are you saying you'd prefer Obama dead?" It's biased for sure but the right will no doubt get its panties in a bunch over it. And then someone on the left will post Foxnews doing a similarly biased story. The wheels on the bus go round and round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Hedd Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 youtube.com/watch?v=AefSi_3C6ww&feature=player_embedded Lean forward Sorry. Won't let me play the video so I don't know what's in it. What has you upset about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 (edited) youtube.com/watch?v=AefSi_3C6ww&feature=player_embedded Lean forward Not sure what you are finding so controversial here, dev....the video has been removed, but here is a recap from HuffPo...politician says/writes something controversial/inflamitory , someone asks him to clarify...what's the big whoop? Is the objection that Tancredo was there to talk about immigration, and the topic turned something else? MSNBC is obviously slanted one way, the other guys are slanted another, and CNN is irrelevant...Tancredo didn't seem ruffled... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/11/martin-bashir-tancredo-obama-bin-laden_n_860474.html Edited May 14, 2011 by Buftex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keukasmallies Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 MSNBC, classy--the ultimate oxymoron. No news outlet is classy, ever. News whores out to suck up a buck, stab their competition, and sway the public to the easy, sound bite point of view couldn't care less about the news consumer. They will cater to listeners/readers/viewers in order to promote, emails, tweets, etc. to wave in front of potential advertisers/sponsors. It's business at its finest. Recall the old saying, "Believe nothing you hear and only half you see." That is the mantra of the careful news consumer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Not sure what you are finding so controversial here, dev....the video has been removed, but here is a recap from HuffPo...politician says/writes something controversial/inflamitory , someone asks him to clarify...what's the big whoop? Is the objection that Tancredo was there to talk about immigration, and the topic turned something else? MSNBC is obviously slanted one way, the other guys are slanted another, and CNN is irrelevant...Tancredo didn't seem ruffled... http://www.huffingto...n_n_860474.html It's not so much controversial than just a stupid thing for Bashir to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveinElma Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 and they wonder why they get no ratings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob's House Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 This Bashir guy makes Keith Olbermann look like George Will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 (edited) It's not so much controversial than just a stupid thing for Bashir to say. Yeah, I agree, but Tancredos' take wasn't exaclty brilliant either. If anyone watches MSNBC or FOX, they would realize that this is pretty much consistent with 90% of the content of both stations. I give Tancredo credit for not letting Bashir put words into his mouth. The OP is implying that MSNBC is somehow exclusive in using this kind of nonsense "jorunalism"...hate to say it, but the other network kind of created it, or at least perfected it, and everyone else is just trying to jump on the bandwagon. There is a whole generation of "news personalities" that have carved very nice careers for themselves doing precisely what Bashir does here (and in other pieces)... Edited May 16, 2011 by Buftex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magox Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Nothing to see here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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