MSNBC: Gun-Toting Protesters are 'White' Racists

[Pat McCotter]

MSNBC: Gun-Toting Protesters are 'White' Racists... Black Guy with AR-15 Edited to Conceal his Race.

http://www.newsbusters.org/
On Tuesday, MSNBCs 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 Brewers 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 thats 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 Obamas speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, Arizona.

[violence]

morons

[KBCraig]

Wow.

Not only did they omit the fact that Chris is black, and carefully edit the footage to avoid showing that he's black, they spun race into the story in a way that can only be called intentional propaganda.

[violence]

Wow.

Not only did they omit the fact that Chris is black, and carefully edit the footage to avoid showing that he's black, they spun race into the story in a way that can only be called intentional propaganda.

how could they possibly think no one would know he is black? there are so many other sources, just on tv alone that will show him in all his blackness.

these people are insane.

[UOGSammich]

so ridiculous... lets talk about 9/11 while we're at it... it really makes me sick to watch the news now that i can see how staged it is.

[Free libertarian]

Bbbut it HAS to be true, I saw it on T.V!