MSNBC has recently taken their negativity to a whole new level of fear mongering with a promotional ad peddling their election coverage. The ad features reporter Andrea Mitchell narrating the voiceover:
People really care because our kids are falling behind in school. Because health care is no longer affordable, we’re at war, the American economy is in trouble.
While MSNBC had a bullpen of biased reporters to pitch the promo, Andrea Mitchell was the natural closer.
In May she implied Republicans might cheat if the election is close in November.
There are, you know, Republican governors and Secretaries of State, if you will, Katherine Harris-type election officials in those states [red states]. So, even though he [Barack Obama] may have won primaries or caucuses in those states, he has to go up against the establishment, which would be Republican, and he has to figure out a way to get a fair vote if he's the nominee in those red states.
MSNBC apparently hopes to avoid such a scenario so they have continually aired a deplorable ad that implies Americans better vote in November because the nation is in a dire shape with a change of course is urgently needed.
The thinly-veiled pander to Obama’s campaign theme of change begs the question: does MSNBC believe Americans are stupid enough to blindly follow their biased reporting and promotional material?
After all, in January, "Morning Joe" contributor Willie Geist reminded everyone to "never underestimate the stupidity of the American people."
When the network is MSNBC and the slant is all liberal, all the time, viewers better expect a negative portrayal of both the American economy and the American people.
A transcript of the advertisement follows:
Andrea Mitchell: People really care because our kids are falling behind in school. Because health care is no longer affordable, we’re at war, the American economy is in trouble. This is the time to care because it’s only once in four years where we get a chance to choose what direction our country is going in.
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I'm so proud to be...
July 11, 2008 - 16:23 ET by unkeeafan American dumbass.
Mitchell advocating a dictatorship?
July 11, 2008 - 16:31 ET by SickofLibs"This is the time to care because it’s only once in four years where we get a chance to choose what direction our country is going in."
So when did we abolish the entire legislative branch?
At a time when ascetic old bags should be retiring, you can't switch channels without seeing this crone's hideous makeup-encrusted mug and thirty-something hairdo.
Enough already!
they were really big fans
July 11, 2008 - 16:39 ET by TruthMongerthey were really big fans of Saddam
the good old days
MSDNC
July 11, 2008 - 16:41 ET by Chris Norman"...does MSNBC believe Americans are stupid enough to blindly follow their biased reporting and promotional material?"
Their core viewership will (and yes, they are probably that stupid and blind). MSDNC validates, confirms, and promotes their political beliefs. They preach to the choir.
McNotObama '08
The media will never
July 11, 2008 - 16:47 ET by kgThe media will never mention the fact that over 90% od voter fraud is by Democrats. It sounds like PMSNBC is setting things up for an Obama loss and a stolen election.
"Forget change, I want improvement!"
Well, they've got to
July 11, 2008 - 16:56 ET by Chris NormanWell, they've got to pre-secure all areas - that's their job, isn't it?
McNotObama '08
" Thats Why We Cover It
July 11, 2008 - 16:39 ET by Blazer" Thats Why We Cover It Up "
O.K., thats more like it.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
I really care because..
July 11, 2008 - 16:41 ET by Gary HallI really care because.. there's a bunch of radical nut cases with Marxist tendencies supporting an inexperienced candidate who has not a clue as to what he believes in the moment.. and he could actually win, because of the likes of MSNBC and their line-up of Obama supporters.
Hey, where's their number
July 11, 2008 - 17:00 ET by Chris NormanHey, where's their number one brainiac, Olbermann, in that mugshot line up? I thought he was their flagship personality. Is he so big he gets his own solo picture?
McNotObama '08
KO
July 12, 2008 - 08:22 ET by mom_roxKO's picture is next to Brian Williams.
It must be so depressing working in that *news*room. I wonder if the cafeteria only allows plastic serving utensils.
*sigh* longing for Reagan's "It's morning in America" optimism.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1944
Read History
July 11, 2008 - 17:29 ET by richb313Everyone should do a little reading before they cast thier vote this November. The situations, the photo representations, the eloquence, the deliberate comparrison to the Mesiah are all out of the NAZI playbook. I am not comparing our beloved Obama to Hitler but I am saying that the methods are unmistakedly NAZI propoganda like. I think that everyone should be really carefull. If Obama gets elected or even if he lost by a close margin the fanatic left will find a way to appoint him. While everyone is always afraid of an extreme right wing dissolution of civil liberties. I think we have a lot more to fear from the left, especially if Obama wins by a margin greater than 1%. His Saviour like status might make some in congress more than likely to grant more power to him to straighten things out. If this country is in danger of being ruled by a dictator it will not come in response to some real national emergency but will come softly as a prescrition to all our percieved ills as a civilization and country.
I think that Obama is probably a decent sort of fellow but remeber Power corrupts and Absolute Power corrupts Absolutely.
Mitchell
July 11, 2008 - 17:45 ET by ScrapironIf Hussein O loses the election by 10,000 or less votes he can go kick Mitchell where it hurts. There's at least that many people who work hard daily and didn't appreciate her calling us 'rednecks' in a tone that matches the 'N' word when used in an angry tone. Hussein O won't get those votes.
"The only thing standing between you and lower gas prices is a Democrat"
Old, Retired and glad of it.
I was...
July 11, 2008 - 18:30 ET by HeavyChevyConstipated today but after watching that crap...I'm good now. Thanks MSNBC the makers of Ex-lax finally got some competition.
-sorry guys but after seeing that I could not think of anything "clean" to say to voice my opinion.
"9 out of 10 doctors agree that flag burning is the number one killer of liberals."
The only thing missing....
July 11, 2008 - 18:46 ET by motherbeltis "I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message" at the end.
Shoot 'em all; let God sort 'em out! - Marge Simpson
Yes my friend it's there but...
July 11, 2008 - 18:55 ET by HeavyChevyYou need to play the film "backwards"
"9 out of 10 doctors agree that flag burning is the number one killer of liberals."
Download video?
July 11, 2008 - 18:57 ET by dronetekCan we get a download or youtube link for that video?
I would rather eat glass
July 11, 2008 - 19:07 ET by jefflebowskithan watch MSNBC for one minute. I believe I could maybe one day get better from the glass.
The MSM is now completely anti-American propaganda and MSNBC doesn't even try to hide it. They delight when something goes wrong for the USA.
Jeff Lebowski
www.angrywhitedude.c...
I'll have to admit
July 11, 2008 - 19:13 ET by BlazerI'll have to admit I indulge in MSNBC's Lockdown and Dateline and some of their other documentaries they air after Keith Uberloon and Co. retire to their moonbat caves for the evening.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
andrea mitchell
July 11, 2008 - 21:12 ET by dmannI remember when Andrea Mitchell plied the Boston area airwaves on WBZTV4, she sucked then and sucks more now, I guess thats how you get to the network newsroom!
I don't know what I find
July 11, 2008 - 22:22 ET by CJK51I don't know what I find worse about Andrea Mitchell: the fact that she sounds her mouth is full of cotton or that freaky turkey neck she has going on. Then again, the hair that looks like it comes with a chin strap and goes on a foam head at night is pretty unsettling. The hound dog eyes are a little annoying, too.
Forget all that, I know what bugs me most about her: she is a blathering moron.
People can afford medical care,
July 11, 2008 - 22:48 ET by DEVILDOCMOMthey chose not to spend the money because they know the rest of us who work will pay for them. The other day I was working as the triage nurse in our ER. Over the course of 2 or 3 hours I had 5 or 6 women come in with various complaints...colds, abdominal pain, etc. Each and every one of these women had full manicures and pedicures which must have cost, what, 75 or 100 dollars. How often do they have these done...weekly, biweekly?
They were covered by either the "you and I" insurance or our state health insurance, "access" which is for the "poor". Please. One of the reasons I work is for health care for my family. I do not feel I can afford expensive mani/pedi's...
Falling behind in school?
July 12, 2008 - 00:02 ET by zfFalling behind in school? Funny, since my state (Florida, which typically has near the bottom rankings in education) just released its report card for our schools and most of them got B's and A's (up from C's and D's in many cases.)
We've been at war since 2001, wake up MSM. (Notice how they don't mention the recent sucesses we've had in that war, no just that "we are at war."
Daffy duck says....
July 12, 2008 - 03:42 ET by Parker1227...that Andrea's anti-republican, anti-conservative bias is, "despicable, just despicable!"
Simply amazing that so many "journalists" in MSM are vain-arrogant enough to actually think their left-leaning positions are "the norm" or "just common sense" so they feel no need to respectfully cover differing POVs.
In fact, they gleefully join in the "PC" parade of making news that supports their views, instead of just doggedly presenting as many related facts as possible on the issue - and allowing the facts to speak for themselves.
They want to create reality, rather than honestly and objectively expose it.
They are activists - not journalists.