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Overdue library books, and human sacrifice, are essentially the same MannyGoldstein Jul 2013 #1
+1000 mountain grammy Jul 2013 #9
Thank you Manny G Doc_Technical Jul 2013 #10
BS. Telling the truth on MSNBC is not the same as telling lies on FAUX News on point Jul 2013 #2
A crucial question is, Quantess Jul 2013 #3
false Equivilency 90-percent Jul 2013 #4
Viewers are dumping MSNBC because it feels like they're watching FOX railsback Jul 2013 #5
well there was Keith Olbermann PatrynXX Jul 2013 #13
b... bu... but... malthaussen Jul 2013 #6
Kind of an old story Just Saying Jul 2013 #7
Not really, at least they fact-check. Deep13 Jul 2013 #8
Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2013 #14
More of the Clinton/DLC type push to the right. loudsue Jul 2013 #11
Bill Clinton is the Democratic version of Warren Harding byeya Jul 2013 #12
Wonder when he last watched the channel? SaveAmerica Jul 2013 #15
Thanks billy boy. Faux pas Jul 2013 #16
We're locking this as it is older than the Late Breaking News 12-hour limit. greatauntoftriplets Jul 2013 #17
 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
1. Overdue library books, and human sacrifice, are essentially the same
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 12:49 PM
Jul 2013

FUCK THIS FALSE EQUIVALENCY BULLSHIT

mountain grammy

(29,034 posts)
9. +1000
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 01:01 PM
Jul 2013

Doc_Technical

(3,764 posts)
10. Thank you Manny G
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 01:01 PM
Jul 2013

I always appreciate a thought provoking comment told
in a humorous manner.

on point

(2,506 posts)
2. BS. Telling the truth on MSNBC is not the same as telling lies on FAUX News
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 12:50 PM
Jul 2013

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
3. A crucial question is,
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 12:51 PM
Jul 2013

does MSNBC make viewers dumber and less informed after watching, the same way FOX does? I don't watch either, by the way.

90-percent

(6,956 posts)
4. false Equivilency
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 12:53 PM
Jul 2013

Fox is untruthful corporate propaganda.

MSNBC still strives to employ the basic rules of journalism. That is their news has some basis in facts and reality, instead of manufactured and false.

MSNBC seems to be suffering ratings-wise these days. The price they must pay for losing Keith Olbermann, the best cable news journalist of the last decade.

-90% Jimmy

 

railsback

(1,881 posts)
5. Viewers are dumping MSNBC because it feels like they're watching FOX
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 12:54 PM
Jul 2013

The faux outrage gets tiresome.

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
13. well there was Keith Olbermann
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 01:03 PM
Jul 2013

but then they dumped him because he didn't always tow this line. So MSNBC bleh boring .... I've found myself watching CNN more often just to get some bloody news. Huffintonpost more and more though is becoming MSM so I've found myself back at DU

malthaussen

(18,567 posts)
6. b... bu... but...
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 12:55 PM
Jul 2013

... it is a sainted CLINTON speaking! We cannot disagree!

-- Mal

Just Saying

(1,799 posts)
7. Kind of an old story
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 12:57 PM
Jul 2013

But I don't think Fox has an equivalent not should they be allowed to call themselves "news." MSNBC makes no secret of their leanings unlike Fox which claims to be "fair and balanced."

I liked MSNBC better years ago and miss Keith.

Deep13

(39,157 posts)
8. Not really, at least they fact-check.
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 12:59 PM
Jul 2013

MSNBC does not just make shit up and report it as fact. Still, except for Rachel, the MSNBC talking heads are just polemicists.

BTW, Bill, thanks for throwing the left wing of the party under the bus. But then, old habits die hard.

Response to Deep13 (Reply #8)

loudsue

(14,087 posts)
11. More of the Clinton/DLC type push to the right.
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 01:01 PM
Jul 2013

Totally false statement, btw. As was mentioned by other posters...false equivalency, especially since Fox is the station that went to the supreme court so they could be called an ENTERTAINMENT channel, and tell all the lies they want to.

 

byeya

(2,842 posts)
12. Bill Clinton is the Democratic version of Warren Harding
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 01:02 PM
Jul 2013

SaveAmerica

(5,342 posts)
15. Wonder when he last watched the channel?
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 01:04 PM
Jul 2013

That's just a strange thing for him to say.

Faux pas

(16,356 posts)
16. Thanks billy boy.
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 01:04 PM
Jul 2013

Like we need someone else ramping up 'their' side.

greatauntoftriplets

(179,004 posts)
17. We're locking this as it is older than the Late Breaking News 12-hour limit.
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 01:04 PM
Jul 2013

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