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MSNBC Guest Insists Neil Munro Motivated by Hatred of Non-white Immigrants, ‘White Supremist Ideology’

By Ken Shepherd | June 20, 2012 | 10:46

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Any old liberal journalist can charge Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro for being a racist for rudely interrupting President Obama during a press conference. It takes a hard-core lefty to delve deeper to diagnose the Irish-born journalist as a bigot for, well, questioning Obama's policy vis-a-vis how it harms the job prospects of American citizens.

During a segment on the June 19 edition of his eponymous program, Bashir assented to the spurious charge by The Root contributor Edward Wyckoff Williams that Munro – an Irish-born naturalized American citizen -- was motivated by a "white supremist [sic] ideology" as evidenced by his belief that President Obama’s quasi-amnesty policy helps illegal immigrants at the cost of job opportunity to American citizens:

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WYCKOFF WILLIAMS: It’s sort of disingenuous and sort of cognitive dissonance example here of someone who is Irish working in America but somehow believes that he’s more legitimate than a Hispanic who comes here as an immigrant.

And I think that it speaks to sort of a white supremist [sic] ideology, this idea that being white in and of itself is mainstream and somehow he is more deserving of being in America, even though he’s foreign-born than the Hispanics or Asians and Africans  who come seeking the American Dream.

And I wish that more people in the mainstream media would call him out on that aspect of what he said.

BASHIR: Indeed.

Indeed? A fair, objective journalist would be demand to see evidence to back up that claim, particularly since Obama’s policy is not about immigration per se but benefiting folks who are in the United States because they are violation of federal immigration law.

 

Whether Bashir or Wyckoff Williams like it or not, Munro is an American citizen who was previously a legal permanent resident in the United States. As a former legal immigrant who abided by the law, isn’t it entirely possible that Munro’s disagreement with the president is motivated by anger at the fact that he abided by the law while others who haven’t are going to benefit from a president who won’t enforce it?

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Everyday black leftists

Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 11:27am.

Everyday black leftists demonstrate that stereotypes are based on fact. Why isn't this moron asking obama about the blacks who will be displaced by the amnesty scam. Obama obviosuly believes blacks are even more stupid than any white supremist could.

Non, je ne regrette rien. "You aren't angry because I might be a racist, you're angry because you know I'm right".
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I use my own standard....

Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:08pm.

....I measure an act or statement by how it compares to something done or said by Bill "Donkeyface" MaaHerHater. So the bar isn't all that high.

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You know, my sister-in-law is

Submitted by LinTaylor on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 12:45pm.

You know, my sister-in-law is Vietnamese. She came over here as a child (LEGALLY), spent a year getting acclimated, but then proceeded to do extremely well from grade school through college, and despite having an accent she's as American as can be. And she's just as Libertarian as the rest of my family, and has absolutely no sympathy for illegals who whine about how hard the process is and claim they HAVE to sneak in here.

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New standards by MSNBC

Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 2:36pm.

Well, so not just the race card, but new standards of anyone questioning DuhOne is now a white supremacist.  Didn't see that coming.

Just one more piece of proof that the WH, whom MSNBC and their guests get their talking points from, is trying to start a race war, especially in a desperate attempt to distract from the broken laws and violations of the Constitution perpetuated by the WH all the way to the top.

At this point, it's not going to be enough to deny such things on the part of people being accused of racism, it's going to get down to smacking the holy crap out of them for saying such stupid things because trying to reason with these unreasonable frauds won't be enough.

In other words, if someone says a lie about someone else, that someone else should be the crap out of the someone who says the lie.  That's the only thing that's going to work.

-Jon

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As a former journalist...

Submitted by updoc101 on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 4:18pm.

...I've never seen a journalist show up at a presidential news conference without a notepad, camera, or tape recorder. Munro had none. So what and how was he going to report? It is apparent to any objective observer that he was there to create the story, not report on it.

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Is it possible, now that it's 2012

Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 4:22pm.

That he had a camera man with him, or his little recording device? I know that throws your whole theory up in the air and all...

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