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MSNBC Host's False Attack Leads To Threats Against Conservative
NewsBusters ^ | 8/14/09 | Rich Noyes

Posted on 08/14/2009 12:39:38 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

On her MSNBC show last night, the left-wing Air America host Rachel Maddow took a swipe at the conservative Shirley & Banister Public Affairs firm, specifically President & CEO Craig Shirley. Maddow accused Shirley of being behind a grassroots Web site funded by the group Grassfire.org, based on research provided by the "independent watchdog group Public Citizen," and she showed still images from an incendary "Obama=Hitler" video that's still posted on the Grassfire's ResistNet.com Web site.

BUT MADDOW WAS WRONG. THE PUBLIC CITIZEN WEB PAGE SHE CITED IS SEVERAL YEARS OLD. Shirley & Bannister hasn't represented Grassfire.org since 2004, and Diana Banister, a partner and Vice President at Shirley & Banister, told Newsbusters that Maddow's false report has led to hate mail and even death threats to the public relations firm. (Let's see if the left-wing thuggery gets any attention from the MSM.)

Craig Shirley and Diana Banister are demanding a retraction and apology from Maddow. They have sent a letter to Maddow that reads, in part:

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(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


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1 posted on 08/14/2009 12:39:39 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: All

What say you?


2 posted on 08/14/2009 12:41:06 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Marxist Socialist News Network... par for that hole.


3 posted on 08/14/2009 12:45:15 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Uh Oh-—ManCow, you’re in trouble now!


4 posted on 08/14/2009 12:45:15 PM PDT by Mamzelle (bring your cameras to all political gatherings--video if you can)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

From the original tea-bagging homo, Anderson Cooper, to this scary bull-dyke, it’s no wonder MSNBC is in the basement. What have they got now, about 10% of the market share?


5 posted on 08/14/2009 12:45:41 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Hmmmm.....MSM lies, accusations of conservatives doing what lefties have been doing for 40 years, MSM attacking families, private citizens, etc....I, as well as the rest of America are fed up with their BS!

One look at their ratings says it all...


6 posted on 08/14/2009 12:47:01 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I say the Tea Party folks start an all out attack against MSM. We need to appear outside their studios holding signs saying things like, “Nobody believes you anymore,” “Who do you think you’re kidding?” or “Zero credibility.” We need to make their alphabet names synonymous with the likes of “Pravda” during the cold war.

We need to target them, isolate them, and ridicule them.


7 posted on 08/14/2009 12:47:03 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

What say me? An 11 year old blogger has better research and fact checking skills than MSNBC.


8 posted on 08/14/2009 12:47:09 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (http://koreanforniancooking.blogspot.com/)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I hope they’re not holding their breath, marxists never apologise. They don’t care if what they said is a lie, as long as it furthers their cause.


9 posted on 08/14/2009 12:47:25 PM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Its going to get worse....they have declared war on Americans......who stands to gain most from this and why are pharm companies supporting it? stealing more money....


10 posted on 08/14/2009 12:47:41 PM PDT by dalebert
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We need to make their alphabet names synonymous with the likes of “Pravda” during the cold war.

The post cold war Pravda has more credibility than most of the MSM.

11 posted on 08/14/2009 12:48:12 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (http://koreanforniancooking.blogspot.com/)
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To: Kenton

So when is someone gonna’ sue the crap out of these slim balls? A few lawsuits will shut them the hell up...


12 posted on 08/14/2009 12:48:34 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Kenton

So when is someone gonna’ sue the crap out of these slime balls? A few lawsuits will shut them the hell up...


13 posted on 08/14/2009 12:48:47 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Oh, for Pete’s sake!

Look, just move out of New York, to one of the free states — where you can CCW and own all the guns you could possibly want. The birkenstock set is good at threatening, but most are too scared of guns to do any damage. They’ll huff and puff, but they won’t blow your house down. If it stops at threats, then don’t mind them; if they show up on your doorstep, blow their brains out. Simple.


14 posted on 08/14/2009 12:52:10 PM PDT by ForeignDude
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RACHEL MAD-COW.

ROFLMFAO!!!!

;-/

15 posted on 08/14/2009 12:53:24 PM PDT by Gargantua ("Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people..." John Adams)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Since the call for sponsors to stop sponsoring Glenn Beck were so effective, maybe we need to try to apply some pressure to the sponsors of MSNBC’s moonbats who say hateful things.


16 posted on 08/14/2009 12:54:14 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Rachael Maddow is a liar, as well as a pervert..Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!


17 posted on 08/14/2009 1:01:06 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Nobody watches MSNBC. Nothing to worry about.

Beside, if it comes down to direct action against politically active individuals there would be plenty of targets on the left. The left knows better than to start something they can't win.

18 posted on 08/14/2009 1:03:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

No, cnn watches msnbc and msnbc watches cnn. That where they get their numbers. Oh wait, I forgot that they are very popular in certain mansions in Havana.


19 posted on 08/14/2009 1:19:27 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I say sue MSNBC and Maddow.


20 posted on 08/14/2009 1:21:34 PM PDT by khnyny ("Giving government money and power is like giving car keys and whiskey to a teenage boy")
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