From the Daily Download.
MSNBC has long been as bad as Fox News when it comes to ideological bias. But with the hiring of longtime Team Obama loyalists David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs, it’s official: MSNBC is worse.
The cable channel that flies under the banner of NBC News is now all but a bona fide organ of state propaganda, an information channel that speaks in the same dominant voice as the folks running the government–and tries to mask what it is up to.
I didn’t plan on getting all free-press-and-democracy amped up about the hirings until I saw Axelrod with Andrea Mitchell last week in his first appearance on MSNBC. It was Echo Chamber Politics 101 with Axelrod characterizing some Republicans in Congress as irrationally wanting the draconian cuts of the sequester –as “dangerous” as that thinking is.
Mitchell starts out a remote interview with Axelrod, who was in Chicago, by asking about the sequester set to take effect Friday.
“Remember,” he says, “the cuts put into place were so odious it was thought no rational legislator, no rational government official, would allow it to happen.”
As Mitchell starts to pivot to another issue with a new question, Axelrod interrupts her with, “One more thing, Andrea. There is a belief among some Republicans in Congress that maybe this sequester’s all right. Maybe this is another way of shrinking government in a dramatic way. That’s a dangerous idea, but it’s not uncommon in some quarters on Capitol Hill.”
“No doubt,” Mitchell says, placing a cherry atop this propaganda sundae.
Rhetorical Criticism 101: Republican members of Congress are not rational, they have “dangerous” thoughts and they do “odious” things to the American people.
What is this if not exactly the spin Team Obama seemed to be working on all week? And the White House doesn’t even have to bring in a bunch of out-of-town anchormen for quickie interviews with Obama so that they can carry his message back to their local audiences in the heartland.
Now the message can go forth from the president’s mouth straight to our ears–via Axelrod, the so-called analyst, and MSNBC, the so-called news channel.
I would correct the author of the article on one point: MSNBC isn’t alone in its leftwing bias. NBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS have long been mouthpieces for the DemLeft. We have ONE TV broadcast channel that provides a right-wing counterpoint, and the rest of the media has grand mal seizures. That means Fox News is doing its job.
Related posts:
https://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/obama-to-msnbc-make-a-correction-now-msnbc-yes-dear-leader/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/msnbc-in-the-obamaacorn-tank/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/holder-collaborates-with-leftwing-media-matters-to-spin-news/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/chrissy-matthews-challenging-the-one-is-unconstitutional/
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