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Now, you KNOW that had the roles been reversed the liberal media's race baiting journalists would be out there asking this very question. So, how about it? Was his motivation racial?

BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation today accused MSNBC of using deceptively-edited video from a Phoenix, Arizona anti-tax rally on Monday to invent a racial stereotype in its on-going effort to demonize and marginalize American firearms owners as "racists." The MSNBC video, narrated by reporter Contessa Brewer, appearing with "Morning Meeting" host Dylan Ratigan, shows an AR-15 rifle being carried over a man's shoulder. The man is part of a crowd protesting near the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, where President Barack Obama spoke. Brewer notes on camera, "Yes, there are Second Amendment...

Last week, there were several instances of protesters showing up outside of town hall meetings openly carrying firearms. Anti-gun activists and the media were flabbergasted not only at the audacity of the protesters, but that the carrying of firearms happened to be perfectly legal where it occurred. (Eleven states allow unlicensed open carry, with 12 more requiring a permit.) MSNBC, not content to simply say, “Golly, guns are scary!” decided that there must be something racist going on. After showing close-cropped video footage of a protester with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle slung over his shoulder, MSNBC host Contessa Brewer went...

I wrote earlier how an MSNBC segment is drawing heat from conservatives who accuse the network of selectively cropping an image so as not to show that one of the people carrying guns at an Obama event was an African-American. Now, Bill Wilson, president of Americans for Limited Government, is now calling on the network to fire those responsible for producing the broadcast, in what he describes as a "nefarious assault on decency." On behalf of the nearly half million members of Americans for Limited Government — and tens of millions of other equally appalled Americans of all races nationwide...

Media bias has reached a new low, according to Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, courtesy of MSNBC’s “Morning Meeting” program and reporter Contessa Brewer, and he is righteously furious. During a segment of “Morning Meeting,” Brewer – appearing with host Dylan Ratigan and MSNBC culture critic Toure – launched an attack on armed American citizens who have appeared at rallies protesting taxes and the Obama health care plan. During her comments, MSNBC showed video of a man who had carried semiautomatic rifle at an event in Phoenix, AZ earlier this week. That video,...

We're Winning, Obama's Losing; State-Run Media Calls Us Racists August 17, 2009 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to go back to January 16th on this program. I want you to listen to my whole notion on "I want and hope Obama fails."The reason Obama is having big trouble with his policies right now is just as I warned you. He was elected on platitudes; he was elected on feelings; he was elected on atmospherics and cult-like things, not specifics. So here come the specifics, and the specifics Obama's pushing don't match any of his rhetoric. We were going to...