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MSNBC is Sick

If they turn down the sensitivity meter they won't be offended so easily.
 
Well, in all fairness, they do make a valid point. I am certain FOX wouldn't have passed on a similar oppertunity to bash Obama.

But you're right. Cable news sucks.

I agree about the sensitivity meter is America being way too high. Folks need to lighten up. That includes the sensitivity meter to propaganda channels like MSNBC and FOXNews. We all know they're tabloid television. Why the uproar? I don't recall Americans getting so upset over the crap printed in the National Enquirer. These two networks aren't much different IMO.
 
Well, in all fairness, they do make a valid point. I am certain FOX wouldn't have passed on a similar oppertunity to bash Obama.

But you're right. Cable news sucks.

I agree about the sensitivity meter is America being way too high. Folks need to lighten up. That includes the sensitivity meter to propaganda channels like MSNBC and FOXNews. We all know they're tabloid television. Why the uproar? I don't recall Americans getting so upset over the crap printed in the National Enquirer. These two networks aren't much different IMO.

What valid point? Medicare and other programs began in 1965. The conversation was about safety nets. It had nothing to do with race when Santorum said it but because 1965 also happen to be a huge civil rights year people ignored context and created a false issue.
 
It was coded. Make no mistake. I realize that is an unpopular opinion to take down in Texas but it doesn't make it any less true.
 
MSNBC is sick, the BBC is sick, CNN is sick, Fox is sick, most mainstream media is sick. Their constant picking and nosing, their casual disregard for fact-checking and privacy, their outrageous headlines that has nothing to do with the subject, their hyperbole and pure lies, that's why I watch only domestic TV
 
It was coded. Make no mistake. I realize that is an unpopular opinion to take down in Texas but it doesn't make it any less true.

How can you be so sure? He was talking about social programs, he referenced the year many of them began.

And yet you're convinced it was a remark on black relations because???
 
How can you be so sure? He was talking about social programs, he referenced the year many of them began.

And yet you're convinced it was a remark on black relations because???

Because it was Rick Santorum and I know the nature of his base.
 
I don't watch cable news and this is one of the reasons why. This sickness needs to be confronted by free thinking Americans so our country can become what our civil rights leaders envisioned for America. What do you think?

Of Course: Santorum Using Racist "Code" Language - Katie Pavlich
I do always find it funny when white people say how great everything was in the 1950s and such. Most of the people who say it don't even stop to think about how much is wrong with that statement by itself.

Anyway, it could be coded. It could not be coded. I don't know. Santorum is still an idiot. And I don't think this makes MSNBC "sick".
 
I think you may want to see O'Donnell's girlfriend before you all him a racist...look up Tamron Hall...

I didn't call O'Donnell a racist. O'Donnell is the salesman. His guest is the racist.

The skin color of O'Donnell's girlfriend means nothing here.
 
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I agree that Al Sharpton has created a cottage industry surrounding racism. He has mellowed a bit as of late since he has appeared to land a 'real" job on MSNBC but his history shows him to be as big of a racist as anybody I have ever met.
 
In my opinion, this kind of media is contributing to the hateful rhetoric in political discussion. I think ALL of us, regardless of political lean, need to call out the race baiters in this campaign and demand clean honest debate on the issues.
 
OK, I think Santorum is a twit.

But if you're seeing racism here:

When Rick Santorum first announced he was running for President, in his announcement speech, he was criticizing President Obama for saying America wasn't as great as it was until there were programs like Medicare and Social Security. But in that criticism, he said directly to the President, he said, "Mr. President, America was great before 1965."

You soooooooooooo WANT there to be racism. You long for it. You nearly shake with desire for it to be racist. It's an all-consuming obsession.

Santorum is not the problem here. If you see racism in that, the problem is you.
 
Santorum is not the problem here. If you see racism in that, the problem is you.

Well, there's plenty of problems with Santorum, but there was nothing racist in what he said. It does make me wonder when he thinks America was great.....and what he would do to go back to that.
 
OK, I think Santorum is a twit.

But if you're seeing racism here:



You soooooooooooo WANT there to be racism. You long for it. You nearly shake with desire for it to be racist. It's an all-consuming obsession.

Santorum is not the problem here. If you see racism in that, the problem is you.

Hmmm.... Maybe it wasn't racism after all. Maybe it was. Heck, who knows? But it is no surprise, all things considered, why one might assume it was a coded message.

Still, much adoo over nothing. MSNBC sucks regardless.
 
OK, I think Santorum is a twit.

But if you're seeing racism here:



You soooooooooooo WANT there to be racism. You long for it. You nearly shake with desire for it to be racist. It's an all-consuming obsession.

Santorum is not the problem here. If you see racism in that, the problem is you.

The speaker on O'Donnell's program said it was "code". He appears to be the one looking for racism.
 
I don't watch cable news and this is one of the reasons why. This sickness needs to be confronted by free thinking Americans so our country can become what our civil rights leaders envisioned for America. What do you think?

Of Course: Santorum Using Racist "Code" Language - Katie Pavlich

Do you know what the best way is to confront this "sickness"? ignore it.

I do however have this to say. That was definitely not a racist comment by Santorum, but I'm absolutely sick of this whole "America was better in the 1950s and 60s" myth bullcrap that some on the right keep on saying. It's complete BS. I'm sure black folk in this country just loved the 50s and 60s.

So no, it's not racist. But it's ignorant as all hell.
 
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Well, there's plenty of problems with Santorum, but there was nothing racist in what he said. It does make me wonder when he thinks America was great.....and what he would do to go back to that.

My opinion is Santorum is speaking of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society". I think the speaker on O"Donnell's program is a race baiter for saying Santorum was speaking "code". His intent was to plant a thought of what Santorum was "really" meaning.

That's the problem.
 
Do you know what the best way is to confront this "sickness"? ignore it.

I do however have this to say. That was definitely not a racist comment by Santorum, but I'm absolutely sick of this whole "America was better in the 1950s and 60s" myth bullcrap that some on the right keep on saying. It's complete BS. I'm sure black folk in this country just loved the 50s and 60s.

So no, it's not racist. But it's ignorant as all hell.

Doctors don't treat sickness by ignoring it. They learn all they can about it and then treat it. That's what we're doing here.

The Democrats have not helped Black people. Just the opposite.
 
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Doctors don't treat sickness by ignoring it. They learn all they can about it and then treat it. That's what we're doing here.

The Democrats have not helped Black people. Just the opposite.

Alright...so how do you suppose we "treat it"? Should we treat Limbaugh as well? It's a free country. If there's a market for the crap that Fox and MSNBC spew, then they have the right to exist.
 
Alright...so how do you suppose we "treat it"? Should we treat Limbaugh as well? It's a free country. If there's a market for the crap that Fox and MSNBC spew, then they have the right to exist.

Expose it. Whenever and wherever you see it, then treat it like we just did by exposing it. I hate race baiters. Don't you?
 
I don't watch cable news and this is one of the reasons why. This sickness needs to be confronted by free thinking Americans so our country can become what our civil rights leaders envisioned for America. What do you think?

Of Course: Santorum Using Racist "Code" Language - Katie Pavlich

Hmmm, well, you think this type of tabloidism is confined to MSNBC? Do you see any other media source as NOT BEING SICK?

If your thread title had been CABLE NEWS NETWORKS ARE ALL SICK...then I'd buy your premise.

But I would add "ALL RADIO TALK SHOWS" are sick along with your premise that MSNBC is sick.

And I'm not excluding any because of their respective political leanings. I MEAN ALL are.

They're selling the public agendas and outrageous "opinions" masquerading them as facts....or viable information. When in FACT they are disseminating pure bull****. ALL OF THEM!

What is astonishing to me is that people freely accept all that is said as fact rather than mostly opinion. And they believe that bull****.

Thanks...
 
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