Posted on 09/24/2008 12:55:53 PM PDT by paltz
MSNBC's David Shuster continued the attack on Governor Sarah Palin for not allowing reporters in on meetings she attended at the United Nations. Fellow Newsbuster Ken Shepherd pointed out recently the media never complained over not having full access to Barack Obama's meetings with foreign leaders during his tour through the Middle East and later Europe.
However, Shuster's attack included a very edited down tape of Palin and Dr. Henry Kissinger, which attempted to make Palin look like she knew little of what was being discussed. Moreover, Shuster seemed to take delight in pointing out Palin's spokeswoman misspelled Kissinger's last name(my emphasis added throughout):
She even answered a reporter, 'great, great', when asked how it went. Perhaps Kissinger and the governor also discussed Glastnost, because later in the day the campaign issued the following mini manifesto:
We regret the mix-up and were happy that the pool had access to the Governor's meetings with President Uribe and Dr. Henry Kissenger[sic.]
Incidentally, we here at MSNBC did not misspell Dr. Kissinger's name. That version came from Palin's gang.
MSNBC should be the last network to be casting stones over typos. If the IQ litmus test for MSNBC is a misspelling in a press release, perhaps a trip to an MSNBC 2002 broadcast featuring conservative pundit Niger Innis as a guest is in order.
The lower third graphic identifying Innis misspelled his first name, so the broadcast ended up looking like Ku Klux Klan programming for a while. Check it out here.
A red-faced Gregg Jarrett, who later jumped over to FNC that year, made an on-air apology to Innis:
Let me offer a profuse apology from this network. We accidentally misspelled your name in the last hour, and we are terribly sorry.
MSNBC spokesman Mark O'Connor said this at the time of the incident:
We regret this unfortunate typographical error that was made to Mr. Innis' first name. We immediately corrected the error in the on-screen graphic and apologized to our guest on the air.
The individual in the control room responsible for the misspelling was never revealed, but the incident was solely blamed as a typographical error and not a racist plot against Innis.
Racist or stupid?...After such an incident, Shuster and MSNBC would do themselves well to remember Mr. Innis before they sneer at anymore typos coming from Palin pressers.
Stupid is as the Dime Store Media does, sir.
Considering how the MSM calls black Republicans house n*’s, I’m not buying the accident excuse anymore than the big X across Cheney’s face.
The rollovers/filenames in some newspaper website photos also make it abundantly clear than some in the media play these games deliberately.
David Schuster isn’t qualified to report on a local PTA Meeting anywhere in the United States and he is to stupid and ignorant for Hugo Chavez to hire him as an anti-American lackey, so where else can he babble except on PMSNBC, the home of Prissy Chrissy and Keith Oberdouche..
I don’t know, everyone makes typos, but how could anyone possibly miss THAT word? It’s not like it was a two page article. All they were in charge of was FOUR words. What, did they not have time to read over FOUR words? Any idiot could spot that screw up just by walking past the computer screen! They just don’t want to admit that half of their staff is probably made up of left-wing racists (the rest of them being EXTREME left-wing racists).
David Shuster probably aproved that mesage.
Not to mention the fact that if anyone linked to McCain made a “typo” of the same magnitude MSNBC did with Niger, McCain would have about the same chance of being forgiven as Al Gore does of being right about anything scientific.
I hope that McCain and Mrs. palin win, if for no other reason than to permanently bar reporters from access to the White House, the VP and the Prez.
WOW, I hadn’t seen that one from PMSNBC before — they are not in a position to cast any stones about typos!!!!!
not so sure that their was a typo, either....
btw, what was that crapola with PMSNBC referring to the typo as coming from “Palin’s gang”??!!
Would they ever refer to staff of Obama or Biden as a “gang”..... NO, I don’t think so — just another petty vicious smear.
Given other graphics on the screens, Innis’ name was intentionally misspelled.
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