Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

MSNBC Apologizes for Comment: Nothing Says ‘Let’s Go Kill Some Muslims’ Like Country Music
Mediaite ^ | March 25, 2015 | Andrew Kirell

Posted on 03/25/2015 5:23:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

After a guest made a disparaging comment about country music, MSNBC host Ari Melber apologized on-air Wednesday afternoon and informed his audience that the network does not condone such remarks.

During a Now w/ Alex Wagner conversation about GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz‘s statement that he became a country music fan directly after 9/11, guest Jamilah Lemieux opened up the conversation with this remark: “Nothing says ‘Let’s go kill some Muslims’ like country music, fresh from Lynchburg, Virginia. Someone who obviously does not want to be a polarizing candidate, he wants to bring people together, I mean — really? That’s absurd.”

While co-panelists Joan Walsh and Michael Steele could be heard laughing at Lemieux’s remark, guest-host Melber responded: “Well, I mean there’s plenty of country music that doesn’t have that message, right?”

A few segments later, Melber appeared on-air with an apology: “We have a programming note. A few minutes ago on this show, a guest made a comment about country music. That comment was not appropriate, and we want to be clear this network does not condone it.”

Watch the original remark and the subsequent apology below, via MSNBC:

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cruz; media; muslims; tedcruz
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-72 next last

Jamilah Lemieux

1 posted on 03/25/2015 5:23:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

No one heard the comment, no one heard the apology.


2 posted on 03/25/2015 5:24:53 PM PDT by skeeter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s not the idiots who are in charge anymore. It’s 2nd generation idiots.


3 posted on 03/25/2015 5:25:42 PM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Actually todays country music would kill anybody. I wouldn’t even call it country anymore, it’s more like gay Broadway show music.


4 posted on 03/25/2015 5:30:54 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 15 acts of Treason and counting.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

And nothing says, “Let’s go kill some kaffir like Middle Eastern music.”


5 posted on 03/25/2015 5:33:11 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: skeeter
No one heard the comment, no one heard the apology.

Initially no one hears it, but the conservative blogs like MRC and HotAir trumpet this statement and then MSNBC gets in the news cycle.

No wonder why Rush has a ban on the network.

6 posted on 03/25/2015 5:33:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GO BUCKY GO!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

When the drone made the severe part in her hair, it must have taken most of her gray matter with it.


7 posted on 03/25/2015 5:33:32 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“gay Broadway show music” seems like a triple redundancy to me.


8 posted on 03/25/2015 5:35:05 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nothing says let’s cut back on welfare spending like Ted Cruz.


9 posted on 03/25/2015 5:35:37 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh yeah, now she just looks like a real genius. There’s probably more brain cells in a gnat.


10 posted on 03/25/2015 5:37:12 PM PDT by Bullish (Not even a smidgeon of integrity or sanity in this whitehouse.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Country music is more about killing brain cells


11 posted on 03/25/2015 5:37:36 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Agreed.


12 posted on 03/25/2015 5:37:48 PM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Nothing says ‘Let’s go kill some Muslims’ like country music,

Nothing says "Lets go kill some Christians and Jews like the Muslim call to prayer."

13 posted on 03/25/2015 5:37:52 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

More racism from black people on display huh?


14 posted on 03/25/2015 5:38:31 PM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

So... what does rap say? What’s its message?


15 posted on 03/25/2015 5:39:52 PM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t think they will use this music anytime soon.

Ram Jam - Black Betty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbjyuDYtAtk


16 posted on 03/25/2015 5:40:35 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you know anything about this woman, you know she is a race baiter from the get go. Jamilliah apparently ‘sees’ racism as frequently as Harry Reid ‘sees’ the Koch Brothers under his bed. All they had to do was a ten minute youtube search, to know her. She celebrates her contempt and disregard for the white race at every opportunity.


17 posted on 03/25/2015 5:43:05 PM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Nothing says lets beat some ho’s like rap music.

Seriously, might have to start listening to country if that is what it says.

18 posted on 03/25/2015 5:43:46 PM PDT by jimpick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

MSNBC is becoming more irrelevant with every stupid remark they make in the name of news.


19 posted on 03/25/2015 5:43:51 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

However, hip hop-rap music is actually full of homicide glorification, gratuitous violence, and degrading comments toward women and whites.

Would Jamilah care to challenge? Didnt think so.


20 posted on 03/25/2015 5:44:37 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-72 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson