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Continue reading …MSNBC.com Accuses Walter Williams of Making Racist Statements on Fox’s ‘Stossel’
June 6, 2011 No Comment
MSNBC.com on Monday accused economist Dr. Walter Williams of making racist statements during his interview with Fox News's John Stossel last week. The charge was associated with an “Ed Show” segment in which the host disgracefully cherry-picked one of Williams' comments about welfare and slavery (video follows with transcript and commentary): ED SCHULTZ, HOST: And in Psycho Talk tonight, Rush Limbaugh’s favorite fill-in host Walter Williams. We welcome him to the zone tonight. He’s the perfect substitute for Limbaugh because last year he went on the radio and said he believes in keeping wives under control. But sexism isn’t all that he’s good at. Here’s what happened when Fox’s John Stossel put Walter on the TV this weekend. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOHN STOSSEL: Government is like a giant drug pusher? WALTER WILLIAMS, ECONOMIST: That's absolutely right. The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery could not have done, the harshest Jim Crow laws and racism could not have done, namely break up the black family. (END VIDEO CLIP) SCHULTZ: Walter Williams should know better than to compare slavery and welfare. Slavery is perhaps the biggest stain on American history. It turned human beings into property. It doesn’t get much worse than that, does it? Meanwhile, welfare programs help American families survive when they’re destitute. Welfare helps folks meet their basic needs while they lift themselves up and get back on their feet. So for Walter Williams to say welfare has hurt black families more than slavery, pretty cruel psycho talk, don’t you think? Why don't we see Williams' entire answer (video courtesy Daily Caller ): STOSSEL: Government is like a giant drug pusher? WILLIAMS: That's absolutely right. The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery could not have done, the harshest Jim Crow laws and racism could not have done, namely break up the black family. That is, today, just slightly over 30 percent of black kids live in two parent families. Historically, from 1870s on up to about 1940s, and depending on the city, 75 to 90 percent of black kids lived in two parent families. Illegitimacy rate is 70 percent among blacks where that is unprecedented in our history. Now, it's not just a matter of a racial thing, in Sweden is the mother of the welfare state and illegitimacy in Sweden is 54 percent. STOSSEL: And why does a welfare state create illegitimacy? WILLIAMS: Well, because, look, if you subsidize anything, you're going to get surpluses of it, and if you tax something you're going to get less of it. If you did not get welfare, then people would decide, I'm going to go out and get a job, I'm going to live more responsibly. STOSSEL: I'm going to get married before I have children. WILLIAMS: That's absolutely right. STOSSEL: But the welfare state actually discouraged some men from marrying the woman, she would lose the check. WILLIAMS: That's right, the government has said to many young women, I am the father. And so the father, black males, have become dispensable. STOSSEL: Black illegitimacy was 19 percent in 1940, but it skyrocketed during the Great Society and now it's over 70 percent. WILLIAMS: Yes, and that's a heck of a start in life, that is, to be born — you don't know who or where your father is, that's not really great start in life. Makes a little more sense with all of the actual data, doesn't it? But the folks at MSNBC weren't done, for at the website's video page for “The Ed Show,” the following advertised the segment in question: Not only did these geniuses accuse Williams of racism, they actually misspelled racist. Sadly, this wasn't the only such accusation at MSNBC Monday, for earlier in the day, Al Sharpton filling in for Cenk Uygur on “MSNBC Live” falsely pointed the finger of racism at just-named Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum for having the nerve to say America was a great country before 1965. It's really a fabulous news organization, isn't it? Comcast, General Electric, and NBC must be so proud.
Continue reading …Al Sharpton: Rick Santorum is Racist for Saying ‘America Was Great Before 1965′
June 6, 2011 No Comment
As NewsBusters has been reporting for weeks, one of the goals of the Obama-loving media is to depict every possible Republican presidential candidate as racist. On Monday's “MSNBC Live,” substitute host Al Sharpton implied that newly announced candidate Rick Santorum was making a racist comment when he said at Saturday's Faith and Freedom Conference, “America was a great country before 1965″ (video follows with transcript and commentary): AL SHARPTON, SUBSTITUTE HOST: Santorum today said that America was great before 1965 in his announcement. I mean, what is he talking about? Was he talking about the Voting Rights Act? PAT BUCHANAN: Who are you talking about? SHARPTON: That’s what I remember happening in ’65 from my studies. BUCHANAN: Who are you talking about? The Eisenhower and Kennedy, this was a magnificent, Al Sharpton. Did it have problems? SHARPTON: Why did he use the year ’65? What signal is it sending? BUCHANAN: Who are you talking about? Who used it? SHARPTON: Rick Santorum has said America was great before ’65. What is the, what is the significance of '65? Is he sending a signal here? BUCHANAN: I think in '65 is one of the years we really got ourselves deeply involved in Vietnam, the Democratic Party came apart and lost 47 seats SHARPTON: Oh, so rick Santorum was attacking our involvement in Vietnam? BUCHANAN: Well, I don't know what he was attacking, but why would you pick out the Voting Rights Act? You’re hung up on that stuff, Al. SHARPTON: That's one of the great things that happened in '65 that he may have been referring to. Bill? BILL PRESS: Al Sharpton, Al Sharpton, you know better than anybody what it was like particularly in the south of this country in 1965. But I think what it shows is what the Republicans mean when they say they want to take back America. Yeah, they want to take America back to 1965, if not to 1950 before Brown v. Board of Education. You know what else happened of great significance in 1965? Medicare was created, and that's what Santorum was talking about. As reported by Talking Points Memo Saturday: Obama, Santorum said, thinks that it's the nation's safety net that helps to define America's greatness. This is an example of Obama missing the point about America's inherent exceptional nature, Santorum said. Social conservatives know that America had it goin' on before there was a social welfare system. “There's one statement that everyone in this room should remember that the President of the United States says, that sums up how the President looks at America,” Santorum said. “He said it about 6 weeks ago.” As TPM noted, this is what Obama said on April 13 in response to Congressman Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) budget proposal: Part of this American belief that we are all connected also expresses itself in a conviction that each one of us deserves some basic measure of security. We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, hard times or bad luck, a crippling illness or a layoff, may strike any one of us. “There but for the grace of God go I,” we say to ourselves, and so we contribute to programs like Medicare and Social Security, which guarantee us health care and a measure of basic income after a lifetime of hard work; unemployment insurance, which protects us against unexpected job loss; and Medicaid, which provides care for millions of seniors in nursing homes, poor children, and those with disabilities. We are a better country because of these commitments. I'll go further – we would not be a great country without those commitments. Santorum said the following as a result: He was talking about Medicare, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance, and it was in response to the Ryan budget. And he said this, talking about these three programs: He said, “America is a better country because of these programs. I will go a one step further: America is a great country because of these programs.” Ladies and gentlemen, America was a great country before 1965. Did this have anything to do with the Voting Rights Act? Or Brown v. Board of Education? Or race? Not at all, but that's the impression created by Sharpton and Press. Now in reality, it took me about five seconds on Google to find what Santorum said Saturday as well as what he was referring to. Do the folks at MSNBC lack the resources to uncover what prominent political officials are saying without so badly misrepresenting them absent any factual basis? Is this really what qualifies as journalism at this so-called “news network?” Are there any fact-checking standards at this organization anymore, or is all fair in love of Obama?
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Continue reading …Kevorkian’s Attorney on MSNBC: He Will Be Remembered as a ‘True Hero’ and ‘Martyr’
June 3, 2011 No Comment
As news broke of Dr. Jack's Kevorkian death on Friday, MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing invited on defense attorney and friend Geoffrey Fieger to praise the convicted criminal known as 'Dr. Death': “Dr. Jack Kevorkian will be looked at as a hero, a true hero, and as a martyr for what they did to him for nine years. Putting him in prison…” [ Audio available here ] Jansing began the interview by wondering about Kevorkian's legacy: “Was he a dying patient's savior or a cold-blooded killer?” As soon as she introduced Fieger, he immediately argued: “I doubt very many people will ever remember him as a cold-blooded killer. Obviously there's some on the fringe, but I think most of us would recognize his, not only his greatness and his kindness and his beneficence and his importance.” View Video Below Even Jansing seemed to buy into Fieger's apologist rant: “There is still an ongoing debate, though, about assisted suicide….What was it about this cause that made him [Kevorkian] willing to go to prison?” Fieger proclaimed: “Well, he was a historic man who believed absolutely from the bottom of his soul in the right of the patient before him to make decisions about his or her own life and to be able to make decisions about ending one's own suffering, even if that meant ending the patient's life. He thought that was the role of the physician and he was right.” Fieger further asserted that opponents of assisted suicide had been “marginalized” and even suggested that efforts to reform Medicare would mean that “you can't just spend money limitlessly to keep people alive based upon a philosophical or religious belief.” Here is a full transcript of the June 3 segment: 10:42AM CHRIS JANSING: Was he a dying patient's savior or a cold-blooded killer? Those questions will probably always be asked about Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the man known as 'Dr. Death,' who allegedly assisted in as many as 130 suicides. Kevorkian died this morning at the age 83 and the man who defended him at trial, Geoffrey Fieger, joins us live from Detroit. Geoffrey, good to see you. I'm so sorry for your loss. Thanks for being with us. GEOFFREY FIEGER: Thank you, Chris. JANSING: You know- FIEGER: And I doubt very many people will ever remember him as a cold-blooded killer. Obviously there's some on the fringe, but I think most of us would recognize his, not only his greatness and his kindness and his beneficence and his importance. JANSING: There is still an ongoing debate, though, about assisted suicide, as you well know, and I remember our conversations when he went to prison and when he was released. And you knew him so well. What was it about this cause that made him willing to go to prison? FIEGER: Well, he was a historic man who believed absolutely from the bottom of his soul in the right of the patient before him to make decisions about his or her own life and to be able to make decisions about ending one's own suffering, even if that meant ending the patient's life. He thought that was the role of the physician and he was right. And I really think that the debate about it, at least in terms of his opponents, has been marginalized. There hasn't been the slippery slope that was predicted. Oregon and Washington state have permitted it for years and there haven't been any of the dire predictions. And now with the Medicare and Medicaid debate, the fact that you can't just spend money limitlessly to keep people alive based upon a philosophical or religious belief. In the coming decades, Dr. Jack Kevorkian will be looked at as a hero, a true hero, and as a martyr for what they did to him for nine years. Putting him in prison, in the deepest holes of Michigan's prison system, and holding him incommunicado. JANSING: And he had been in the hospital for the last couple of weeks. I wonder, Geoffrey, when the last time was that you spoke with him and did you talk to him about his legacy? FIEGER: No, he didn't – Jack was never a guy who liked to look back and as a result, neither he nor I have ever written about it. He and I were together a lot during the making most recently of the Al Pacino movie and the documentary. He had entered the hospital several weeks ago and gotten out and I spoke to him just before he went back in. Since he's been in the hospital, no one's spoken to him. The doctors wanted him to be, to not have any guests. I spoke to his physician everyday, his personal physician Stan Levy, but I had not spoken to him since he went back in the second time. He's been there about ten days. JANSING: Again, Jack Kevorkian died this morning at the age of 83. Geoffrey Fieger, his defense attorney and friend, good to see you again. Thanks so much for coming on and again, our sympathies. FIEGER: Thanks, Chris. Thanks for having me. Thank you.
Continue reading …Anthony Weiner gave an impassioned interview to Luke Russert of MSNBC today, insisting that he “was the victim of a prank,” and did not intend to tweet a picture of his erection to a female follower. But he also stoked the fires further by saying he couldn’t say “with certitude”…
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MSNBC's Luke Russert on Wednesday pressed Congressman Anthony Weiner with a very simple question: Is the picture of man's penis that was sent out on the Representative's Twitter account his? Weiner responded, “You know, I can't say with certitude.” Russert began by wondering, “That's not a picture of you?” After a lengthy non-answer, he reasonably pointed out, ” But, Congressman, you would remember if you were to take a photograph of yourself like that .” [See video below.] Following another confusing reply about pranks and being hacked, a puzzled Russert quizzed, “But, fair enough. You will not flat-out deny that that photograph is not you?” In a previous hour, the journalist summarized it this way: “And he said that he can't say with certitude that it's not me, meaning there's a distinct possibility that that photograph of the male area below the waist could be that of Congressman Weiner.” Earlier, MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall seemed to worry about covering the story: ” A lot of people, I'm sure, reach out to you on Twitter and they're saying why are we covering Weinergate? Congressman Weiner said he that didn't want to discuss it anymore but he gave you this interview .” She added that Weiner “may not have done a great job.” A transcript of the June 1 exchange can be found below: 2:00 TAMRON HALL: Luke, you're like me. A lot of people, I'm sure, reach out to you on Twitter and they're saying why are we covering Weinergate? Congressman Weiner said he that didn't want to discuss it anymore but he gave you this interview. He was trying to clear the air but may not have done a great job at it here. LUKE RUSSERT: Well, yesterday, Tamron, was certainly a difficult day media-wise for Congressman Weiner when he called a colleague of ours from CNN a jackass. He was angry at the media for asking him questions about this controversy, He's saying that it was a prank. It was silly, that he wanted to concentrate on bigger issues of the day. He realized it didn't go so well, as there was a lot of network coverage of what occurred at the press conference and he started to have a series of sit-down interviews with us. I just completed one with us and the real news that came out of it is, I pressed him or not, even if it was a mistake that photograph ended up in the Twitter feed of Ms. Cordova, the 21-year-old college student from Seattle, could he confirm nor deny that was actually him. And he said that he can't say with certitude that it's not me, meaning there's a distinct possibility that that photograph of the male area below the waist could be that of Congressman Weiner. 3:03 LUKE RUSSERT: That's not a picture of you? WEINER: You know, I can't say with certitude. My system was hacked. Pictures can be manipulated. Pictures can be dropped in and inserted. One of the reasons I've asked the firm that includes internet security arm is to take a look at what the heck happened here was to make sure it doesn't happen again. But let's, kinda, keep in mind why this is so silly. You know, someone committed a prank on me. Somehow got access to my Twitter account. By the way, took off a picture that made fun of the name Weiner and that's what happened here. RUSSERT: But, Congressman, you would remember if you were to take a photograph of yourself like that. WEINER: Well, you know one of the reasons we've asked an internet security firm to come in is to see maybe something was manipulated, somebody something dropped in. We don't know for sure what happened here. But let's try to take a step back. You know, this is a circumstance where someone committed a prank on the internet where someone spoofed me, made fun of me, whatever. We're taking it seriously in as much we want to make sure it doesn't happen again but this story has become a little bit out of control to the point that people are asking me, and asking people who follow me on Twitter, you know, personal questions. People are asking what other things are in your internet, on your, on your database. RUSSERT: But, fair enough. You will not flat-out deny that that photograph is not you? WEINER: Here what happens I will say: I will say that we're trying to figure out exactly what happened here. Whether a photograph was manipulated that was found in my account, whether something was dropped into my account, whether a photograph was partially my account, you know. Jon Stewart might have that right last night. RUSSERT: So, you never intentionally sent anything to Ms. Cordova? WEINER: No. Nothing. She says that. I'm saying that. I've said that since Saturday when I said that originally. Look, this is a prank, intended I believe to make fun of me and to throw me off my game. I confess that it's done that a little more than I would have liked.
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On her Friday 1 p.m. ET MSNBC show, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell characterized Sarah Palin participating in the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally in Washington as a “distraction,” with the headline on-screen wondering if the former Alaska Governor was “stealing their thunder.” After declaring that Palin was “once again showing that she sure knows how to seize the political spotlight,” Mitchell spoke with Rolling Thunder spokesman Ted Shpak, and asked: “When did you first hear that Sarah Palin was coming? Did you invite her?” Shpak incorrectly claimed: “No, she wasn't invited. We heard yesterday she came out with a press release that she was coming to Rolling Thunder.” In reality, as Hot Air's Ed Morrissey reported on Saturday , there was a miscommunication within the Rolling Thunder organization. He detailed a conversation he had with another organization spokesperson, Christine Colborne: “She explained that Shpak didn’t know that Palin had been indeed invited to ride at the event. The invitation came from a retired board member, Michael DiPaolo, who had connections in Alaska and got Palin to agree to attend….Colborne….explained that the last-minute RSVP didn’t get communicated through the echelons of Rolling Thunder.” During the Friday segment, Mitchell played up Shpak's objections to Palin's attendance: “I know it's an open event. She can get on the back of a Harley, but you're not exactly going to have her bus as part of you're event?” Shpak replied: “Absolutely not. We're not endorsing – you know, we're here for a reason. And our – in a way this has been taking away from the reason we're here.” Mitchell concluded: “So you think it's a distraction? I don't want to put words in your mouth, but-” Shpak added: “No, you don't have to put words in my mouth. It is a big distraction because my phone's been ringing off the hook ever since she did that, she announced that.” So far, Mitchell has failed to offer any correction to her Friday segment. Here is a full transcript of Mitchell's May 27 interview with Shpak: 1:04PM ET ANDREA MITCHELL: Meanwhile, back here, Sarah Palin once again showing that she sure knows how to seize the political spotlight. She's kicking off a national bus tour of east coast historic sites this weekend, with plans to stop at Gettysburg, the Liberty Bell and then New Hampshire. The first time since 2008. Her tour kicks off at Rolling Thunder, the annual motorcycle rally held in Washington in support of the nation's veterans, particularly those held captive or missing in action, a very serious purpose here on Memorial Day weekend. Ted Shpak is a spokesman for Rolling Thunder and he joins us now. Ted, first of all, when did you first hear that Sarah Palin was coming? Did you invite her? [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Stealing Their Thunder?; Sarah Palin Announces Multi-State Bus Tour] TED SHPAK: No, she wasn't invited. We heard yesterday she came out with a press release that she was coming to Rolling Thunder. MITCHELL: Well, what role do you expect that she would play? You've got an event. You have a rally at the Pentagon. This is something that happens every year. We all here in Washington look forward to it. So how is she going to fit into this? SHPAK: Okay, we've got to remember, we – first of all, Rolling Thunder, it's a demonstration for the prisoner of war issue, veterans issues, taking care of our troops, taking care of our military. And this is why we do this run. Now, anybody, as you probably know, we have a lot of people that show up in town for this weekend. And this is the weekend – the reason that we're here is because of them reasons. Now, we didn't invite her. I heard stories, people calling me and says we endorsed her. We don't endorse nobody. She's not – we have our program after our run, down at the – by the Lincoln Memorial. And she's not invited to speak. We're not endorsing her. But she's – we can't stop her from coming to ride, if she wants to ride. That's fine because, you know, we don't- MITCHELL: No, I know it's an open event. She can get on the back of a Harley, but you're not exactly going to have her bus as part of you're event? SHPAK: Absolutely not. We're not endorsing – you know, we're here for a reason. And our – in a way this has been taking away from the reason we're here. MITCHELL: So you think it's a distraction? I don't want to put words in your mouth, but- SHPAK: No, you don't have to put words in my mouth. It is a big distraction because my phone's been ringing off the hook ever since she did that, she announced that. And, you know, we're not –
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