Tamron Hall Corrects Her Own Viewers’ Ignorance About Ash Wednesday
During Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's NewsNation, host Tamron Hall had to admit her audience clearly doesn’t pay attention to basic political facts. While covering a Rick Santorum speech at a Tea Party event in Arizona Hall said the following: "I don't know if this is a joke or not but some people, many people have Tweeted asking why does he have ash on his forehead? Asking if he's Catholic. Yes." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
One would think that when a network mocks Santorum's religious beliefs and calls him extreme on a daily basis that their viewers would know that he is a devout Catholic. Apparently that is too much to ask of the average MSNBC viewer.
Such statements show the ignorance of the left, and even Tamron Hall had to embarrassingly correct her viewers on Ash Wednesday about the Presidential candidate's faith.
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I have the same ashes
Submitted by expatriot on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 5:33pm.
These idiots don't have a clue. Get it together folks. Its Ash Wednesday
Please
Submitted by John21 on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 5:33pm.
Anyone that watches that crap network loses IQ point daily.
That network does not supply anything like news it merely provides propaganda and liberal indoctrination. Can anyone name one member of that network that isn't knee deep into a Kool-Aid high or in Obama/DNC pockets? I didn't think so.
If they ever reported the facts and the truth most of their news staff would have to go to the hospital for treatment and someone would have to explain to them what truth, honesty or intergrety were. The staff would not believe that those kind of arcane ideas were still valid.
"Daaaaahh... Christians are
Submitted by Darks Shadow Show on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 5:54pm.
"Daaaaahh... Christians are those people who believe their God wants them to kill all non-believers, right? And...and they are cannibals, too. Right? And they want to kill gays and hate women!!!! Why's there ash on his forehead?"
MSNBC viewers are dumb. So many atheists mock Christianity even though they know NOTHING about it. That's called intellectual laziness.
Big bead party!
Submitted by Fredy on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 6:04pm.
When abc radio news announces that Mardi Gras is over, and never mentions that whole lent thingy, well, it is not surprising that so many simply have no idea what it is all about.
In defense of non Catholics,
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 6:31pm.
In defense of non Catholics, I am a Southern Baptist and the whole ash Wednesday thing is pretty foriegn to me. In fact the idea of Catholicism is pretty much foriegn. Part of it depends on where ya grew up at.
I say that because I saw some ashes on some congressman's head and wondered what it was. Then after a few minutes it hit me what it was.
Dan the Man2*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 8:00pm.
I don't think this article was intended to insult non Catholics. We have an administration and the sycophant media filling the heads of non Christians with inaccurate information about Santorum as well as any other R candidates. What is obvious is that he is being made into a backward social conservative and none of these idiots have any idea or understanding of any religion.
It is obvious that they also do no fact checking before they spew their bigotry.
Approximately 50 democrat senate and house members are also against Obama's mandate but you will never hear of that story because the atheist media cannot understand why.
Recall
Submitted by ahusser on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 10:47pm.
Ted Turner's mocking comments when CNN employees were seen with ashes on their forehead's.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/02/06/ash-wednesday-flash...
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
a ha
Submitted by CJohnson on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 11:30pm.
That explains the need for the Soprano/Christi connection made by Endora.
I'm not Catholic but I grew up in Maryland so I happen to know
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 1:28am.
what Ash Wednesday is all about. Regardless, I think it's hilarious that Tamron Hall nailed her own viewers ignorance to the fact. Even Christians would not dare ask such a question whether they knew it or not, but a stupid liberal atheist would. We have our share of atheist conservatives and they even know that's a stupid question I'm sure.
LETS JUST REMEMBER...
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 2:39pm.
That she works for PMSDNC!
Oh, I haven't forgotten that 's why I'm surprised she
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 6:31pm.
made a bog deal out of it, hence my initial post.
Some Things You Were Wrong About
Submitted by berlet98 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 2:21am.
Some Things You Were Wrong About
Contrary to popular perceptions, things aren’t always what they appear to be, especially when it comes to politics.
Politicians and media commentators have a unique ability to reinterpret reality so that, by the time they’re finished with their spinning, it’s difficult to distinguish the real from the fantastical and truth from baldfaced lies. They don’t change what’s real and what’s true but they often succeed in so muddying the waters that the average observer doesn’t see the difference between reality, truth, and prevarication.
A classic case in point is former President Bill Clinton who apparently confused his fellow Democrats to such an extent that lying under oath was not an impeachable offense serious enough to find him guilty as charged. Every Democrat senator, even those who had denounced his actions, voted in 1998 to acquit.
If nothing else, Democrats stick together.
Obama White House chief flack, Jay Carney, knows the Chicago art of deliberate confusion, obfuscation, and subterfuge as if he were born to the task.
Despite all contradictory evidence, Carney made the startling claim at a press briefing that the president didn’t really reject the Keystone XL pipeline. The proposed project, which would have funneled millions of barrels of Canadian oil into the United States and relieved the price pressure on heating oil and gasoline, failed because those rascally Republicans made it impossible for Obama to approve Keystone.
And here we cynics thought Obama was catering to his wacko environmental buddies!
Even ABC’s Jake Tapper was incredulous. Tapper asked Carney, ”How can you say that . . . if the President turned down the Keystone pipeline? And you blame the Republicans for making it political.”
The White House Press Secretary’s byzantine explanation for his reality-bending is too complex to summarize here.
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell is as committed a Clintonian supporter as Nina Burleigh but, instead of offering the 42nd president oral sex like Burleigh, offered an amazing, retroactive defense of the Clinton clan.
Commenting on PBS’s surprisingly-honest production of “Clinton,” Mitchell, who never encountered a Clinton she didn’t love, said she felt “nostalgia” for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, denounced the opposition to Clinton as “vicious,” and bemoaned the actual existence of Hillary’s fabrication of a “vast right wing conspiracy. . . There really was an enemy.”
No one expects objectivity from most MSNBC commentators but that political paranoia, articulated without a shred of proof of the existence of any conservative conspirators, is so far over the top that one suspects Mitchell was reciting from the Clinton playbook.
How any conspirator could plant semen on Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress, could inspire the Comeback Kid to parse the meaning of the verb “is,” or could make Mitchell’s hero lie under oath is beyond me, unless that Democrat thing about fudging reality is considered.
That same studied unreality is evidently a major factor in how the Obama administration is dealing with the unemployment problem and the American economy. With little concrete evidence to support either contention, we’re told both are improving, a view comparable to VP Biden’s characterization of 2010 as the year of a “Summer of Recovery.”
The president keeps boasting about somehow creating millions of jobs with his $787 billion stimulus although no one seems to know what and where they are. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=13923.)
i watch the
Submitted by misterbee241 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 10:10am.
Crap network when they run the Lockup series. I keep hoping to see some of our politicians.