Newsbusters is rightfully calling Contessa Brewer and Dylan Rattigan to task for this report alleging ties between guns at Obama appearances and racism:
On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: “A man at a pro-health care reform rally…wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip….there are questions about whether this has racial overtones….white people showing up with guns.” Brewer failed to mention the man she described was black.
Following Brewer’s report, which occurred on the Morning Meeting program, host Dylan Ratigan and MSNBC pop culture analyst Toure discussed the supposed racism involved in the protests. Toure argued: “…there is tremendous anger in this country about government, the way government seems to be taking over the country, anger about a black person being president….we see these hate groups rising up and this is definitely part of that.” Ratigan agreed: “…then they get the variable of a black president on top of all these other things and that’s the move – the cherry on top, if you will, to the accumulated frustration for folks.”
Not only did Brewer, Ratigan, and Toure fail to point out the fact that the gun-toting protester that sparked the discussion was black, but the video footage shown of that protester was so edited, that it was impossible to see that he was black. The man appeared at a health care rally outside of President Obama’s speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, Arizona.
A fact which this photo makes clear:
Of course, MSNBC didn’t show the complete photo, because that would’ve detracted from their meme.
Trash journalism at it’s best.
Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EeNcLn4FBM
The black guy is a libertarian, and the whole gun thing was planned as a display of Second Amendment rights. The cops knew about it beforehand, and they actually were happy to help these good folks display their right to keep and bear arms.
How stupid does MSNBC look now? LOL
That Hancock guy sounds as if he thought it was really funny gag to hire a guy to walk around with the weapons in order to get an exciting interview. What a jerk!
I wondered about it because gun toter didn’t seem very anxious to talk about his rights and everybody’s rights, which makes me think he was hired to do this stint.
Where is he now? Might he show up somewhere else? Hancock states that the toter was not from the state of Arizona.
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