Did MSNBC Edit Video of Man With Rifle at Obama Event to Hide His Race?

"Here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns strapped to their waists or to their legs."

Editor's note: The man was black.

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August 19, 2009 at 11:47 pm - MSNBC
Dateline: New York, NY
Barry   August 20th, 2009 - 12:00 am

Racism, riiiiiiiggghhhhht! Apparently, these folks don’t review the videos on Breitbart which yesterday had – not one – but two stories showing the man carrying the firearm was as black, if not more so, than BHO! The nerve of these people to accuse non-blacks of wanting to hurt anyone is appalling! I hope no one gets hurt physically (politically is a different story), but these people never bothered to report on the threats against President Bush. Maybe they quietly hoped…

fishergirlusmc   August 20th, 2009 - 12:05 am

I saw the original piece on another station and the man carrying the AR-15 was an african american. I also noticed none of the main stream media did not note that the person who created the joker poster of Opompous was a Palestinian and from Chicago and he supported Dennis Kucinich for president. Guess they want to portray the race card as long as they can get away with it.

Killigan   August 20th, 2009 - 12:20 am

How unbelievable is -that- ? Its an outright lie. an OUTRIGHT lie “white people showing up with guns…” they guy was BLACK. OMFG.

MotherRedDog   August 20th, 2009 - 12:24 am

Hey, MSLSD, can’t you do better then that? Do you have to make stuff up? Why not show the guy being interviewed? He was an intelligent balck guy who stated the obvious………if you don’t use your rights, you’re more likely to lose them. What’s so hard about that? And you wonder why your ratings and dog doody…………..

brent   August 20th, 2009 - 12:31 am

What do you expect form MSNBC? They want to make this a white man going after a black president.

Tim   August 20th, 2009 - 12:34 am

lol…I had to laugh when I seen this….them taking the time to edit the video and make sure the didn’t show the whole shot of the guy because he was black…it’s just hilarious….the incredible length they will go just amazes me. I guess they know that only libs watch MSNBC so they figure they gotta please there audience..They shouldn’t even be labeled as a news network anymore.

Dave, Tn   August 20th, 2009 - 12:38 am

GE “imagination at work” bahahahahahhaahaha

dontflagmebro   August 20th, 2009 - 12:45 am

They associate criminals with law biding citizens that carry. I don’t think they realize that millions of American citizens legally strap up a gun every morning, most with concealed permits or open carry. Gov Ann Richards in 1995 said after the Bush Texas CHL law was passed. That there would be wild west shoutouts. Turned out not to of happened 1.5 million+ permits have been issued.

Calvin&Hobbes   August 20th, 2009 - 12:48 am

MSNBC Please tell me it was only a joke; just to see if we were watching.
Or was this intended only for your “regular/normal” MSNBC viewers who would not be expected to pick up on the obvious.

How low can you go.

corrupt govt must die   August 20th, 2009 - 12:59 am

Show the BLACK man carrying the gun NBC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Us blacks should be ashamed in this country—look at the way we are being and being treated!!!!

BILL COSBY FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

affirmative action just tells me that we AGREE that we are sub-human. As an example, let’s say whites have to score an 80 to get into college and we JUST HAVE TO SCORE A 70????? THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But we want equal rights–what’s equal about that?

cooperscopy   August 20th, 2009 - 1:12 am

This is incredible. Did they really think they’d get away with this.? Did they not know that there are other sources of news that showed the man’s race. It’s no wonder their ratings are tanking. And, those ratings seem to be coinciding with Obama’s tanking numbers…http://cooperscopy.blogspot.com/

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corrupt govt must die   August 20th, 2009 - 1:20 am

OBAMA, BIDEN, PELOSI, FRANK, MASSA, BERNICE JOHNSON NEED TO RESIGN! THEY DO NOT REP US, ONLY MONEY AND POWER!

WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

joe   August 20th, 2009 - 1:25 am

We elect someone about whom virtually nothing is known except that he’s half black and give ourselves credit that this somehow raises us above racism.
He turns out to be committed to Marxist and Humanist policies that are antithetical to everything that made the United States the greatest experiment in freedom in human history–and presents his plans with an arrogance beyond anything seen previously in an American President.
When people get fearful for their future and angry that the they love country is being stolen from them it HAS to be “racist”.
These three morons will be right at home in the United States Ideocracy.

WHO CARES!!   August 20th, 2009 - 1:26 am

Who cares about the gun it is there right to do such.The media angle just illustrates the bias and propaganda the once respected NBC network will go to for rateings.And this also illustrates an agenda.Keep insulting America.Contessa Brewer you are a communist pig.We have a right to bare arms in this country 2 amendment of the constitution states.Read it Dogfacedpig

M@TO   August 20th, 2009 - 1:27 am

I caught this on Olbermann last night also (I watched for the first time in 2-years). Olbermann was ranting when they showed the well dressed black man with the rifle (however never showed his face, hands or skin color at all). I found it odd that he was referencing “right wing” people;…can’t a black man be right wing? Olbermann clearly showed EVERY white person with a pistol, however he masked the race of the rifle wielding citizen with a tight shot that was clearly shot for the NBC brand of propaganda. Being an avid Fox News watcher, I had already seen a fair and balanced interview with the rifle carrying citizen and saw that he was black. MSNB viewers saw the back of a well dressed man and were led to believe he was white.

By the way, I just watched Orwell’s Animal Farm tonight with my kids. What a great lesson for what is happening now. There is a character (a pig) named squealer who narrates propaganda films for the communist ruling pigs. I explained to my kids the various metaphors and correlated the characters to people and groups of today. Ironically, it was easiest to explain that Squealer is like Keith Olbermann… they hated that pig!

Animal Farm: Rent (or read) it today!

joe   August 20th, 2009 - 1:31 am

Three more race card tools for the United States Ideocracy.

TruthTeller   August 20th, 2009 - 2:03 am

LOL- Could MessNBC GET any worse?

“This is definitely, DEFINITELY part of that….”

Apparently, to work at MessNBC, you have to pass an intelligence test. Unless you fall BELOW 75, you have NO CHANCE to work there….

“This has a racial overtones…”
“Anger at a black person being president…”

OMG- Do these idiot, “pretend journalists” at MessNBC have any idea how stupid they sound?

Gandhi's Fist   August 20th, 2009 - 2:27 am

So CNN (Communist News Network,) they–meaning the folks with guns–were all white? The dude with the assault rifle was black. Further, how about checking just what political affiliation these “angry white people” who happen to be black are? Your journalists right? No, CNN are propagandists for the left.

Who is the central commentator? He equates what is going on to “Squeaky” Fromme and Hinckley? Implying what? That the people who are fed up with the profligate spending of the socialist democrats are psychotic? Fromme was a brain-washed follower of Charles Manson, Hinckley was declared insane and served his sentence out in a mental ward. His motivation was to impress Jodie Foster. This isn’t even good agitprop, at least get the analogy right.

The folks are there and upset because the government is spending like it has never done before. This is not the change they wanted. They wanted out of Iraq, to save money, and to change up the old guard with thoughts of defusing the corruption in D.C. What they got was a government that is busying itself spending future generations into a debt they could never repay. The scale of this ponzi scheme is so big most cannot see it. When the bill comes due though, it’ll be your children and your children’s children who’ll pay. Odious leadership.

Finally, a not too quick check reveals that many of these “shocking” conservatives are–in truth–democrats and liberal wackos planted to give the legitimate protesters a bad image. This is why they wouldn’t show the face of that man with a gun or the women who are democrats with swastikas and so forth. George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth had nothing on these guys. The sad thing is–they’d be proud of it. So what can we do. Here is a thought, protest them. Write their sponsors and producers. Let em know you’re on to their shenanigans and will only tune in to networks that don’t filter the news through a liberal, politically correct mesh. They are not to be trusted.

angry black   August 20th, 2009 - 2:55 am

I am so sick and tired of the (liberal) media throwing racism around where it does not exist. Not every Black person in America digs Obama and we don’t all have the “angry at the system/keep a brother & sister down” Pavlovian response just cause they yell that something or someone is racist. These are exactly the type of people who’d see me only as a woman and a Black, No! African-American, but they will never see me as just being American.

Larse   August 20th, 2009 - 3:21 am

:D

Brilliant Bart… :P

Sunnyr   August 20th, 2009 - 3:43 am

Leave it to the MSNBC PUKES to leave out the fact that the man carrying the Assault Rifle was African American! This is the sleaziest bunch of Obama-Mongers on the planet. I guess the Contessa *itch also gets a thrill up her leg too! Scum!

Sandy   August 20th, 2009 - 6:11 am

This is beyond a lack of shame….
This is blatant misrepresentation. How do these talking heads sleep at night????

EagleEye   August 20th, 2009 - 6:39 am

#1 its a right to carry state.
#2 The SEIU and Acorn have been making Threats towards citizens
#3 Who says the Guy wasn’t secret service.
#4 it keeps the smelly libtards at a distance

claspur   August 20th, 2009 - 6:55 am

Expose this on FOX and all talk radio shows.<period *Next

Jerry   August 20th, 2009 - 8:05 am

My first choice for president was Condelisa Rice (of course she had enough sense not to run – mmm, I think that makes her an even better candidate…) but the bama has to be impeached.

Dave   August 20th, 2009 - 8:06 am

Of course they are trying to hide his race.
The media’s agenda of making all dissent and protesting look like it’s coming from “racist white rednecks” is totally undermined by viewers seeing a black man with an assault rifle at one of these events.
This is extremely damaging to their propaganda of indoctrinating their 36 viewers.

Ha Ha   August 20th, 2009 - 8:10 am

It don’t matter what race he is,he was part of a staged event.

Ernest Hancock, the online radio host who staged an interview with his assault rifle-wielding associate at the Obama event in Arizona — and was himself armed with a 9 millimeter pistol — was a vocal supporter and friend of right-wing anti-government militia members who were convicted of conspiracy and weapons charges in the 90s.

Katy Abram of the Arlen Specter townhall meeting, is lying she is not just a stay at home mom.
She is a leader in Glenn Beck’s 912 project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyT_M3aEJKc

William Kostric, who showed up outside President Obama’s Portsmouth, N.H. town hall with a gun strapped to his leg holding a sign saying “It Is Time To Water The Tree Of Liberty.He was found to be active in the birther movement.He could use some health care reform,he evidently need dental work.Look at his teeth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUfsfJTX88

Bottom line,when you right wingers go hopping out in front of the t.v.cameras trying to get your 15 minutes of fame.It don’t take that much for an investigative journalist or a private citizen who know how to go digging in your personal business,to find out all about you and your real motives.
Katy Abram kept saying she didn’t know how people got her cell phone number.There are people out there now, who know what she had for dinner last night.

Ha Ha   August 20th, 2009 - 8:37 am

Breitbarf put my first comments in awaiting moderation.No surprise.

Right wing operatives don’t want you,who believe every thing they say to know the truth.

goggle Man Who Brought Assault Rifle To Obama Rally Was Part Of Radio Stunt.

goggle http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/ tittle when liberals fight back.

You need to know the truth about some of these people out there seeking their 15 minutes of fame.

Dave, Tn   August 20th, 2009 - 9:12 am

Ha Ha August 20th, 2009 – 8:37 am

Breitbarf put my first comments in awaiting moderation.No surprise.

Right wing operatives don’t want you,who believe every thing they say to know the truth.

goggle Man Who Brought Assault Rifle To Obama Rally Was Part Of Radio Stunt.

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WOW!!!! Thanks for exposing these evil right wingers trying to “hide the truth”
You really nailed them. LMAO
http://www.breitbart.tv/was-man-with-rifle-at-obama-event-part-of-radio-show-publicity-stunt/#comments

kmichaels   August 20th, 2009 - 9:49 am

I have a certain amount of hate rising up against POS race baiters. Is that sort of hate for their deception, lies and cover ups ok? Could the stupid fducks at MSNBC play the race card just one more time, you know, just so we are certain that you morons are clear that this is just about race. You are pathetic fools you arses at MSNBC and you just keep dropping in the ratings. But play the race card just one more time, cover up the truth just one more time. We need to be certain just who you are.

da man   August 20th, 2009 - 9:50 am

I think a lot of people are upset not because we have a black person in the white house, but because we have a STUPID SOCIALIST person in the white house, who just happens to be half black.

CommonSense   August 20th, 2009 - 10:24 am

Completely irresponsible “reporting” or “ranting race baiting/hate mongering” – I think that’s the new name for MSNBC work.

Ha Ha   August 20th, 2009 - 10:35 am

Dave, Tn I believe people should just tell the truth and not try to pretend they have no motive.These people claimed they were not part of an organized group.That’s their business if they are anti Obama or hate Obama ,just say so.

If I was out there seeking my 15 minutes of fame ,I would just tell it like it is.I am not gung ho on Obama.He don’t show enough testiclar fortitude.

The DEMS should do the same thing Bush did when he had the majority.Just mow right over your right wing azzes without blinking an eye.

kmichaels August 20th, 2009 – 9:49 am

I have a certain amount of hate rising up against POS race baiters

kmichaels I know how you feel,because I feel the same way about you right wing whacko,s
I gone,unlike you I don’t have the time to camp out all day at breitbarf.
So just left me say in leaving and ahead of the personal attacks.
You can all go to hell and kiss my azz.

PupsMcCann   August 20th, 2009 - 10:49 am

The MS-NBC liars are so desperate to paint all those who are opposed to The One’s health care for the masses that even a African-American is a white racists… pathetic yet dangerous lies from the American Pravada.

Dave   August 20th, 2009 - 10:55 am

Contrary to what many people are saying here,this isn’t an issue of “race baiting”,it’s an issue of selective reporting by the media in order to maintain the illusion that all those protesting against Obama’s POLICIES are “racists”.
I’m a Libertarian so please don’t throw me in the “Bush/neocon/bomb innocent people” category.

JoeKidd   August 20th, 2009 - 11:10 am

Hey you mother focking piece-of-sheet Jeff Immelt: I’m gonna hurt your feelings!

kmichaels   August 20th, 2009 - 12:01 pm

High on many racist conservative’s list of good presidential candidates was Condeleezza Rice.

This is the person that leftists routinely called an uncle tom since she did not hold to the democrat plantation vision.

When Clarence Thomas was up for Supreme Court Judge nobody in the MSM was talking about how nice it would be to have another Black person as Judge. Instead, he was denigrated left and left.

If you are black and wonder very far off the democrat plantation, prepare to be attacked.

LogicalThinker   August 20th, 2009 - 12:15 pm

Obama has done more harm to race relations in our country than white police officers beating african american men in the streets.

BJC   August 20th, 2009 - 1:19 pm

http://www.Today@NBCUNI.com
Email these idiots and let them know we have all seen the whole video. Let them know that their race baiting tactics arent’ working. I let them know that their are REAL new organizations out here.

Scott TX   August 20th, 2009 - 1:41 pm

I think it is now QUITE obvious who in this country is paying attention to people’s race and being racist. There was no racism in these protests only the reporters are focusing on race and classifying people based on race… that my friend is RACISM!

doogle   August 20th, 2009 - 2:04 pm

MSNBC did not edit the tape.

That was the best angle the camera could get considering the camera was hidden in the reporter’s “uranus”.

JohnnyAmerican   August 20th, 2009 - 2:38 pm

These people flat out lied. I watched the video 2 days ago and the man with that assault rifle and side arm was black, not white. how can any believe what MSNBC has to say. they are Lairs plain and simple.

JA

the truth   August 20th, 2009 - 10:03 pm

i think you guys have TO LISTEN!!!! they didn’t say all of them most of them are white people that carrying the gun when president obama present in the area and as for 70 score and 80 score have you listen to todays news Republicans are saying that we need to get 80 VOTES to pass……HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! according to constitution we only need majority of votes by they way those who are weak in math if you have hundred people in senate then 51 would be the majority… and i am not saying that msnbc and CNN are the angels of the world but they’re is a way of showing that can be misleading and then their is a BIG FAT LIE that showed by our Favorite TV station BIG FOX!!!
corrupt govt must die: DO YOU EVEN HOW MUCH DID BUSH ADMINSTERATION HAVE MADE JUST BEHIND THIS UNNECESSARY WAR IN IRAQ…..get your fact straight ALL OF YOU!!!!!! ;(

Conservative Mike   August 21st, 2009 - 2:46 pm

It’s as though the mainstream media wants something to happen. Like they are willing it to be. I’m telling you right now, and I wish no ill to our president, but if somebody tried something, they mainstream would go nuts. They would eat it up. So please, don’t give them anything like that. Let him finish his term. In the meantime, keep be teabagging racists and shout him and his ill conceived policies down before its to late, and the country is destroyed.

I don’t dislike him because he is part black. In fact, I don’t dislike him at all. As a person, I don’t know him or know what he is like. I hate is ideals and his policies. They are just wrong.

corrupt govt must die   August 21st, 2009 - 10:21 pm

Hey “THE TRUTH”. Are you for real??????

read my comment again: “affirmative action just tells me that we AGREE that we are sub-human. As an example, let’s say whites have to score an 80 to get into college and we JUST HAVE TO SCORE A 70????? THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But we want equal rights–what’s equal about that?”

I say nothing about votes to pass or anything of the sort–I AM SPEAKING AS A HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE OF COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMS.

Now, read your comment about Bush (HUH???)—-”corrupt govt must die: DO YOU EVEN HOW MUCH DID BUSH ADMINSTERATION HAVE MADE JUST BEHIND THIS UNNECESSARY WAR IN IRAQ…..get your fact straight ALL OF YOU!!!!!! ;(”

“do you even how much did Bush administration…what?????? must be past your bedtime, have some milk and cookies……good night.

wolfpackjudo   August 22nd, 2009 - 12:25 am

Stop buying products from people who advertise on MSNBC. That include Microsoft for being part of it…

Mike M   September 15th, 2009 - 11:44 am

The only person there with an assault rifle was a black guy and that was him! MSNBC intentionally zoomed in tight and edited the crap out of that video shot to hide ANY skin from being shown and then proceeded to accuse all the people there INCLUDING THIS BLACK MAN of … ‘racism’. MSNBC are a bunch of lying SCUMBAGS and anyone who bothers to listen to anything they ‘report’ is just stupid.

[...] a man showed up at an Obama opposition rally carrying an AR-15 assault rifle. For several days MSNBC used this man as an example of the “racial undertones” of those oppositionseen at these rallies. From their report, “Here you have a man of color in the presidency and [...]

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