Sensitive MSNBC Host Warns Viewers About Someone Saying the 'Racial Slur' 'Redskins'

NewsBusters ^ | June 18, 2014 | Scott Whitlock

[2ndDivisionVet]

MSNBC is the network where ex-host Martin Bashir suggested that someone defecate and urinate on Sarah Palin. Yet, the suddenly sensitive Joy Reid on Wednesday warned viewers that she was about to feature someone saying the word "Redskins," what she deemed to be a "racial slur." [See video below. MP3 audio here.']

Hours after the U.S. Patent and Trademark office had cancelled the Washington Redskins trademark registration, Reid played a clip of Senator Harry Reid attacking the team. The host fretted, "And I just warn people, he does use the name of the team. So, I'm just going to warn you guys about that in advance."

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Ms. Reid huffed that the word Redskins is "a racial slur I won't say here."

MSNBC journalists weren't so delicate when Bashir, on November 15, 2013, recounted how one slave in the 1700s was forced to "s-h-i-t" in another slave's mouth. The anchor suggested Palin would be an "outstanding candidate" to have someone do the same to her.

On April 13, 2009, then MSNBC-host David Shuster mocked the Tea Party as "teabaggers" and made several sexual and vulgar jokes.

Clearly, the journalists at MSNBC have an odd standard of what is acceptable and what isn't.

A partial transcript of the June 18 segment is below:

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JOY REID: But today, American football is making major headlines. The U.S. Patent and Trademark announced today that it's canceling the trademark registration of Washington D.C.'s professional football team. Team owner Daniel Snyder maintains that the name of the team, a racial slur I won't say here, is meant to be respectful of native American heritage and football tradition.

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REID: Speaking of revenue, Senator Harry Reid made an actually interesting case on the floor of the Senate, continuing to talk back to Dan Snyder. And I just warn people, he does use the name of the team. So, I'm just going to warn you guys about that in advance. So, Let's listen to Senator Harry Reid. An interesting argument.

HARRY REID: As I understand the law, the presiding officer wants to use the name Redskins for a church, he can do that. There's no trademark anymore for the Redskins.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Majority Leader Reid doesn't know what he's talking about. Until this case is settled (which will probably be many years down the road) the team has all the rights they had a week ago.

[hal ogen]

LIBs are truly insane.

[Tzimisce]

...so a bunch of people who call me “racist”, “sexist”, “homophobe”, “terrorist”, “extremist” are now taking action against language they find offensive?????????

[SkyDancer]

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That should freak them out - they'll go yelling and screaming into the street.

[Steely Tom]

It’s their network. They can be as idiotic as they want.

[skeeter]

An exercise in language control. They'll tell you which words are bad and which are acceptable.

Today its 'redskins', tomorrow its 'constitutionalist', 'capitalist' or 'conservative'.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Watch out.. the dreaded R-word. Pretty soon the alphabet of forbidden words will be all used up. In fact, isn’t the R-word already taken, as in “That’s retarded, sir?”

[Le Chien Rouge]

I lived in DC for four years.

Many of the BIGGEST Redskin fans were blacks who did NOT want the REDSKIN name changed.

Are these blacks,according to the media, using the term Redskins along with wearing the team name on a tee-shirt racists???

[TigersEye]

Washington Redskins

in 2001, Indian Country Today conducted a poll of an undisclosed number of readers reporting that "81 percent of respondents indicated use of American Indian names, symbols and mascots are predominantly offensive and deeply disparaging to Native Americans."[69] A 2014 AP poll showed that 83% felt the team should keep its name[70]

Notwithstanding the protests of activists, a 2002 poll commissioned by Sports Illustrated found that 75% of those American Indians surveyed had no objection to the Redskins name.[73]

But in 2004, a poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania supported the prior poll's findings, concluding that 91% of the American Indians surveyed in the 48 states on the mainland USA found the name acceptable and setting out in detail the exact wording of the questions.[76]

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yeah, I was TDY in-and-out of there so much during the Carter and Reagan administrations that they might as well have assigned me there ... and you’re right, the biggest fans, by far, are the black people. Joy-Ann must’ve got ahold of some Turkish happy smoke.

[Dead Corpse]

Is it ok to start shooting these people yet?

Or do we need to wait until we have our Warsaw Gheto moment?

‘Cause... That didn’t work out to well last time...

[2ndDivisionVet]

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts

[Mark17]

Are these blacks,according to the media, using the term Redskins along with wearing the team name on a tee-shirt racists???

No, only whites can be racists. I thought you knew that already. I mean, after all, how many times a minute do they use the N word? Are they called racists because of it? NOT EVER. /s

[Zeneta]

I'm sure this "Band" trademarked their name

[tophat9000]

the left is demonic..it gains power by instigating others to be offended at everything

[luvbach1]

In actuality, use of Indian names and symbols gives a nod to American history and adds color (no pun intended) to team names. Their use is in no way demeaning and is much closer to a tribute than the former. It’s only when twisted through the distorted prism of political correctness that it can be perceived otherwise.

[TalBlack]

They don’t care about any minority. All they care about is conditioning people to ask “how high” whan ever they say ‘froggy’.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Team owner Daniel Snyder maintains that the name of the team, a racial slur I won't say here, is meant to be respectful of native American heritage and football tradition.”

Jim Thorpe, voted greatest athlete of the 20th Century, was part American Indian, and played professional football for the then Cleveland Indians, and the Oorang Indians. I don't know of any evidence that he was offended.

[Vinylly]

I don’t understand, I’ve lived on an Indian Reservation and any Indian I know would consider it something to be proud of to have a ‘winning’ team be called Redskin, Mohawk, or Indians. Indians have an entirely different attitude about themselves, anything that signifies strength is to proud of while being called a ‘nigger’ is insulting and demeaning to a black person. Redskin is not a racial slur to an Indian.

[Nachum]

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