CNN's Howard Kurtz Slams MSNBC's Tamron Hall for 'Insulting' Treatment of Conservative Tim Carney
As NewsBusters reported Friday, MSNBC's Tamron Hall threw a hissy fit when her conservative guest, the Washington Examiner's Tim Carney, called her network's coverage of the Washington Post's hit piece on Mitt Romney "ridiculous" and "absurd."
On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday, host Howard Kurtz came down strongly on her asking, "Does Hall only want guests who agree with her handling of every story?" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
As the "Media Monitor" segment of the program began, Kurtz said, "MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall got really ticked off the other day and cut off a guest’s mike. But all the Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney did was challenge her coverage of the report on Mitt Romney’s bullying incident back in prep school."
A clip of the angry exchange was aired followed by Kurtz saying, “I’m sorry, it was Tamron Hall who was being insulting by silencing him. Carney was perfectly entitled to say that, in his opinion, the story was being hyped.”
Kurtz concluded by asking, "Does Hall only want guests who agree with her handling of every story?”
Actually, Howie, that's what every MSNBC anchor wants.
Unfortunately for their viewers, management agrees with this philosophy and typically accedes to such demands.
Is Kurtz really just starting to get this?
(H/T @imau2fan)
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Now that she's famous...
Submitted by Guapo Diablo on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:01pm.
...maybe someone besides Tamron Hall's mom will start watching her show - until the lovely Miss Hall shows them why MSNBC is commonly known as "a conga line of morons."
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Tamron is definitely worth
Submitted by Newsbusterbrown on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:51pm.
Tamron is definitely worth watching, but only with the sound turned off.
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I say good on
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:20pm.
Kurtz and CNN.
Like a Show Trial
Submitted by manofaiki on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:00pm.
What I find most inexcusable is that they put Carney back on the air with his mic cut off. They didn't just dismiss him and not let him in get another word in - they also silenced him and put him back up there so Hall could dress him down.
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A perfect example of
Submitted by texasborngranny on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 10:27am.
what cowards/democrats/liberals do... when they are wrong (which happens most often) they lie, deflect, demean, name-call, or, for the really STUPID ones (e.g.,Tamron Hall), they cut the opposition's mic.
It's inevitable
Submitted by fadeinlight on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:03pm.
Countdown to accusations of racism:
T-minus 3....2....1...
"Tamron Hall...Tammany Hall"...??
Submitted by gopcongress on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:04pm.
Is it no coincidence that Tamron Hall's name is strikingly similar to one of the most blatant, corrupt Democratic Party institutions that fueled the rise of American Socialism, Tammany Hall?
Here is an excellent recap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall
Whenever I see Hall on CNN, this is my instinctive correlation with her and one of the most corrupt political organizations in world history.
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Let Them Speak So That We Know Them For Who They Are
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:06pm.
I'm happy as a Lark that Tamron Hall acted this way. (Mr. Carney took an arrow for the cause, but consider the source.) She showed, with flying colors, what she and her fellow miscreants in the left wing propaganda media are all about.
Ms. Hall: Imperious and insulting is like being drunk and stupid - it's no way to go through life.
It's hard to get worked up
Submitted by shannon76 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:33pm.
It's hard to get worked up with daily outrage at every eye-rolling mistake that MSNBC makes, but somehow Tamron Hall's attitude was especially annoying and irritating.
First...
Submitted by sherlock1 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 6:08pm.
First they cut off your mic, then they act like petty tyrants, then you destroy them.
if it wasn't for Newsbusters and conservative blogs how
Submitted by Lipton on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 6:12pm.
much coverage would CNN even bother to give to something like this?? It is hard to measure the impact of the blogs on the scant amount of balance we get from the news networks.
Go to twitter and search @tamronhall and read the tweets
Submitted by OxyCon on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 7:43pm.
It's very revealing is the best way to put it, looking at the people who approve of Tamron's Tantrum. People like Washington Post's Jonathan Capeheart for one.