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choie

(4,107 posts)
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 07:00 PM Aug 2017

Watching MSNBC

and Ari Melber, who does a good job - why the FUCK does MSNBC have asshole apologists like Michael Caputo and Lawrence Kudlow on his show. It's just unbelievable that MSNBC feels the need to have the voices on the other side heard.

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Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
3. Next thing you know they will have commentators from the Nazi party itself to keep "balance."
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 07:03 PM
Aug 2017

This bullshit has to stop!

ok_cpu

(2,045 posts)
5. I have a ton of respect for the writer from the New Yorker
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 07:05 PM
Aug 2017

Can't remember his name, but he showed incredible restraint.

DURHAM D

(32,606 posts)
8. I think this is Ari trying to be overly "fair and balanced".
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 07:13 PM
Aug 2017

I really like Ari but I think he puts too much stock in his own ability to argue and illustrate that they are total asses and idiots.

IMO the result is that he is just giving them a platform.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
12. Ari's Producer selects the
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 07:19 PM
Aug 2017

persons to be interviewed. The old Canard about MSNBC and NBC appears to be happening again,and that is Joe Scab was the go to Guy for scheduling on air Guest.

Is Comcast trying to Normalize Trump? Sure looks like it.

 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
14. Are you fucking serious????
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 07:23 PM
Aug 2017

Larry Kudlow looked like a humiliated loser. Everyone coming on tv today defending Trump is only embarrassing themselves. I'm enjoying watching this and taking names. When all is said and done their defending Trump will be ON RECORD. Everyone else is shitting all over him on MSNBC. Stop with the dramatics.

still_one

(92,061 posts)
10. This has been the problem with the media for sometime. Racism ISN'T a debatable point!!!
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 07:15 PM
Aug 2017

A few months back CNN entertained the discussion from an alt-right guest asking the question "are Jews people?":

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a50906/are-jews-people-was-a-real/

The fallacy is that they believe that by showing this "other side", they are being objective, when in fact what they are doing is legitimizing racism, and intentionally or unintentionally creating a false equivalency.

According to the polls 25% of the populace believes that President Obama isn't an American.

When Chuck Todd said "it’s Not Media’s Job To Correct GOP’s Obamacare Falsehoods", that IS the problem.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
11. I was shocked Jelani Cobb didn't knock the shit out of Kudlow.
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 07:19 PM
Aug 2017

Ari let him go WAY to far and he needed to shut his privileged white ass sown.

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