Inconvenient Race? Just Edit Accordingly

Imagine for a moment you’re an MSNBC producer.  You’ve worked hard to convince viewers that President Obama’s health care reform is being jeopardized by dangerous gun-toting white supremacists who hate the idea of a black man in the White House.

So what do you do when the facts don’t reinforce your carefully crafted narrative?  For example, maybe you’ve got prime video footage of a right wing extremist carrying an assault rifle at a protest.  I mean, you can’t honestly be expected to have your on-air talent report that he’s a black man, right? And it’s not like this gun-loving wingnut is an authentic African-American, what with his distasteful conservative politics and dislike of Barack Obama.  Everyone knows blacks are supposed to be Democrats.

But then you notice.  If you get the editing peons to zoom the footage just so, taking care to make sure no exposed skin is visible, a black man and a white man look awfully similar. Why, it’s almost as if you could get away with …

A crop here, a cut there, and presto!  You’ve doctored away the inconvenient truth of a black man’s race.

All will go according to plan if you can roll your whitewashed footage as Contessa Brewer and company analyze the “racial overtones” of “white people showing up with guns strapped to their waists.”  Kind of like this:

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To continue stoking racial animosity, go to page 24.

To get caught out there by NewsBusters, go here.

Published by Jenn Q. Public on August 20, 2009 at 5:20 am

Filed Under Liberal Absurdity, Media Bias, Racism

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2 Responses to “Inconvenient Race? Just Edit Accordingly”

  1. theblackcommenter on August 20th, 2009 11:17 am

    Yes, use an armed Black man to make a point about “right wing crazy white people.” The very sad fact is that other networks will not likely call them on it and utterly discredit this execrable behaviour

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