Posted on 03/28/2006 5:47:38 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
March 28, 2006
Keith Olbermann might be on vacation, but that doesn't mean MSNBC's mean-spiritedness took a day off. If guest host Alison Stewart was auditioning for the Olbermann seat, she might well have ingratiated herself with her MSNBC bosses by the nastiness she doled out on the day of Caspar Weinberger's death.
Weinberger passed away today at age 88. He had served as President Reagan's Secretary of Defense. As Bloomberg News put it:
"Weinberger . . . oversaw the U.S. military buildup under President Ronald Reagan that helped hasten the Soviet Union's collapse."
Stewart managed to turn that historic accomplishment, one that led to freedom for hundreds of millions while eliminating the possiblity of mutual assured destruction for the forseeable future, into a negative. Here's how she spun it:
"Ironically, the man who slashed budgets could spend with the best of them. As President Reagan's Defense Secretary, he presided over the biggest military budget increase in U.S. peacetime history."
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Countdown/NewsBusters MSM-hits-new-low ping to Today show list.
The MSM is a Hate Group.
Olbermann's target audience is the DU. Nobody else can stand him. The DU thinks he's a big hero.
The MSNBC people are so tacky. One is forced to hope the Westboro Baptist Church attends their own funerals when that happy day arrives.
I caught the same thing at the 5 PM news of the NBC affiliate here in Seattle. They led off with Weinberger being indicted for the Iran-Contra mess and being pardoned by the Elder Bush. No mention of anything else. It's as if he did nothing else in his life.
She's mean-spirited, but probably even more stupid than mean-spirited....
Maybe his boyfriend does?
It gives you pause to think that the first resource for historians 200 years from now will be the newspaper accounts of the day. When you realize how distorted most of the coverage is, and the smear campaigns they have orchestrated against very decent men, it makes you realize that probably much of what we "know" about our own history is a caricature.
Thanks again for being the eyes and ears that nobody else wants to be when it comes to those stations "down the dial". I never heard of this Alison Stewart - - is she somebody? (I bet she's working her way up the food chain at MSNBC the way the reporterettes at CBS do - - on their knees. Is she decent looking?)
Good point. As is said, journalism is the first draft of history. And thanks to the distortions of the MSM, historians will have to work hard to uncover the truth of our age.
I believe she is a graduate from "MTV News". Some pedigree.
Now, now, now this news-twinkie is just reading off the tele-prompter. After all, we can't expect her to have conjured up all the big words out of her own head; no doubt her dialogue was concocted by some behind-the-scenes ghostdork.
Bingo. I've now looked into it. Not merely, MTV, but their "Choose or Lose" program, the ill-disguised DNC GOTV effort among young people. She also hosted PBS' "Act Against Racism" campaign.
Impeccable left-wing credentials.
Banned from funerals, they'll get 'em in the obits.
Well put!
She's like Soledad O'Brien. Very pretty to look at --- until she opens her mouth....
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