I feel an Anchorman rumble coming on!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY5Ug1OW5O4
Posted on 05/11/2015 1:06:57 PM PDT by drewh
All of NBC’s bleeding-heart coverage of tattered American race relations – including the racial struggles of Michelle Obama – might sound awfully tinny if they don’t keep black anchorman Lester Holt in the Nightly News anchor chair.
In a new Brian Williams story at the Daily Beast, “a prominent black broadcast journalist who knows Holt” told them: “If Brian does not come back and Lester does not get the job, it’s going to get ugly. You can only imagine.”
It would seem odd for them to exile Williams and then turn to Savannah Guthrie or someone else other than Holt, but it’s interesting to note that turn might cause a racial rift.
In the new Beast piece, unnamed Williams critics are still venting:
“What if there’s a story about a presidential candidate who lied or embellished his resume?” said an NBC News veteran who, because of the sensitivity of the subject, spoke on condition of anonymity. “How do you have Brian Williams in that chair, intro-ing that story, without all of America guffawing?”
A second NBC News veteran expressed concern that the 55-year-old Williams—judging by quotes in various news stories attributed to “friends” of the anchor—might not fully grasp the gravity of his mistakes.
Indeed, Newsday’s well-connected television columnist Verne Gay recently reported that Williams was “almost certainly expecting a return to the anchor chair by this summer, his period of penance behind him...I hear he thinks a lot of the background noise is confined to the ‘industry’ or to the press, and that the rest of the world could not care less about what’s happened.”
While Williams’s attorney, Robert Barnett, “is fighting tooth and nail to get him his job back”—not negotiating a partial payout of Williams’s reported $50 million 5-year contract, according to an NBC News veteran—the anchor is likely not hearing what he needs to hear.
“It’s a tricky area,” this person said. “Sometimes a hired gun will tell you what you want to hear. If Brian’s goal is a comeback, the hired gun’s goal is a comeback. They say, ‘it won’t be pretty, but we can fix this, we can make this happen.’ They’re not going to say, ‘Look, buddy, you have got to get a grip on reality. You are gonna continue to be tabloid fodder, and if you think you’ve had it bad so far, your return to NBC is gonna be a total s--t show.’”
That last quote on “reality” was highlighed by the Daily Beast.
- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2015/05/11/black-journo-warns-nbc-brass-keep-lester-holt-or-its-going-get-ugly#sthash.S27aLslN.dpuf
Is there anyone stupid enough to really believe that?
If NBC wants to be the Network for just twelve percent of America, I say we just let them.
They could even use the threat of riots and violence against those refusing to but ad time.
It’ll be a DEMOCRAT UTOPIA....
Lester Holt is black? Who knew?
1) Keep Holt but let Brian Williams tell everybody that he's coming back.
2) Keep Holt but let him change his name to something more exciting than "Lester."
3) Bring Back Brian Williams, but in blackface.
No Holt-No Peace!!
It works very well for the blacks. Muslims too.
Uh Oh, I guess I better keep quiet as to why CBS should fire Gayle King.
This NBC news veteran must be referring to GOP presidential candidates, because clearly they passed on doing so for the most recent Democrat one(s).
“We’s in charge now.”
Well, they could fold under to pressure, and then see what happens to the ratings. But, these are modern times. Aren’t the anchor choices focus group tested?
Brian Williams and Lester Holt perform Rapper’s Delight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLqrNhvis7M
That’s the reason Islam is popular with the “prison population”.
I feel an Anchorman rumble coming on!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY5Ug1OW5O4
He probably wouldn’t cry racism. The Professionally Aggrieved / Looking For Reasons To Be Offended would do it for him. He can take advantage of their outrage while seeming to be above the fray.
Sickening, isn’t it?
Are blacks taking a page from the muslim playbook and threatening violence if whites break one of their "rules"?
Do blacks automatically get squatters rights to a job?
Once a black holds a certain job are we obligated to always fill it with another black or expect it to "get ugly"?
After Obama are we going to be free to elect a non-black president or will blacks riot and kill again?
Will the Cabinet Secretary of DHS and the Attorney General always have to be a black from now on or will blacks make "it ugly" for us?
Where does this end?
Are we forever to be held hostage to minority group threats of violence if we don't follow their instructions or irritate them somehow?
Maybe it is time to prosecute as terrorists people who make these veiled threats.
Is that pajama boy?
“Black Journalist”
Blacks are allowed to be journalist???
Let me guess. Keep Barky Obama in for a 3rd term or its going to get ugly.
Sure - those who want to.
I remember when the whole “one drop” or 1/26th negro heritage was grounds for true racial discrimination.
Mr Holt *appears* to be maybe 4 drops ‘black’.
I did not realize he was a minority.
Bend over and grab the ankles.
NBC owned TV station is official sponsor of homosexual parade in Miami.
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