Update: Dylan Ratigan making lots of friends at MSNBC: termination of Ratigan, Brewer demanded after edited footage used to play race card…
Update: Glenn Reynolds links Megan McCardle who agrees shenanigans went on at MSNBC and Pajamas Media gives us contact info for MSNBC after the break..
McCardle asks Was There a Second Gunman in Phoenix? lol
,,,This is entering into the level of implausibility embraced by those who defended the Rathergate Memos. Yet I’ve seen it stated as a positive fact in several comment sections.
But here’s how we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the footage was not of the protester’s white doppelganger: you can see the CNN reporter in the MSNBC footage. Yet that reporter makes it clear during the interview that he did not see the mysterious other guy who was identically dressed and armed, but possibly white.
There is no reasonable doubt that MSNBC cropped the guy’s race out of the video with some extremely weird editing. I don’t know whether the anchor knew about it or not–I presume she didn’t–or why they chose to edit it that way. But the evidence is pretty overwhelming that they did, and that at the very least, the anchor made some stupid and unwarranted assumptions….
Moderate in the Middle 