m$nbc is pushing the 'mosque controversy' ad nauseum

[spanone]

m$nbc headlines

'Obama leaps into mosque fray — then tries to find a way out'

Obama's mosque remarks generate firestorm (firestorm, really?}

Rep. King: Obama can’t have it both ways

www.msnbc.com

[Subdivisions]

1. It's sickening the childishness displayed by everyone involved, including MSNBC.

They're getting more and more trashy by the day.

Heads up! More Jersey Shore news coming right up.

[jtuck004]

2. What controversy?

Have we repealed the 1st amendment? If this is a mosque, then...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

So not a controversy. Settled law. (surely the folks who keep throwing the constitution around as if it were a weapon are pushing this)


Unless it's not a mosque, and instead it's a community center. If it's a community center, then it's a place to play pool on a hot afternoon, not a training ground for terrorists, eh?

[spanone]

5. didn't you read, it's a freakin' 'FIRESTORM'

i agree with you...settled law

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Which just proves how "liberal" our corporate media really is

I've just come to the realization that the "liberal media" isn't really "liberal" in the sense that they have a "liberal" bias in their reporting but rather that their reporting is based on an extremely "liberal" interpretation of the facts. :eyes:

[GodlessBiker]

4. It's simple: If you'd let a church, but not a mosque, be built on that site, you're fucked up.

It's hard to believe that conservatives are saying that the government should tell people of faith where they can build their houses of worship.

I always thought they said it was us lousy atheists who always were trying to shut down religion. Oh, that's right, just as the puritans of old, only their religion is really a religion.

[polmaven]

6. Well, yeah, but,

It isn't the RIGHT faith.....doncha know? I can't be one o' them WRONG HEADED faiths! Sheesh!

[malaise]

7. There is no mosque controversy

GEM$NBC needs to study the first amendment. Fugg them.

[spanone]

8. andrea mitchell has already done well over ten minutes on it

she accused Obama of backpedaling on his friday statement

now my local nbc news affiliate is showing peter king and john cornyn trashing the President....all is fair i reckon....

[jailthecrooks]

9. not sure where you are but our local news was absorbed into the RW years ago

I haven't trusted the locals for anything resembling truth or balance for a decade.

MSNBC, however, is the last bastion of actual truth on cable.

My only gripe is that they, like our Pres. and his administration, have consistently allowed the psychotic right wingers to set the agenda and the topics. Just when we were all getting fired up to do real financial reform... boom! the right wingers fire up the immigration debate. After that it was the terror-mosque that wasn't a terror-mosque. Each time the right passes gas the White House drops everything and runs around like chickens with their heads cut off for two or three weeks. And then the "media" jumps right on the bandwagon and drops whatever tiny nuggets of "real" news they were planning to cover.

The blind leading the blind. How many times do we have to watch this same moronic cycle repeat till the White House and the legitimate media (MSNBC) realize that they are being played like a fiddle.

[malaise]

10. Has Andrea ever mentioned her decrepit husband's

backtracking on his deregulation model?

[spanone]

11. tamron hall on m$nbc just read a tweet that said m$nbc is pushing the controversy over & over & over

[malaise]

13. I heard her

They are shameless

[spanone]

12. the current m$nbc twit is grilling harold ford for agreeing with Obama's 'mosque' stance

she is using every possible right wing talking point.

[hedgehog]

14. Not to defend MSNBC on this, but we shouldn't leave CNN out.

I got back into the country Saturday, and while waiting for my final hop at JFK, I was treated to some twit on CNN reporting on this story. The series of smirks and her tone of voice made made it quite clear that she thought it was just terrible that the Moslems would even think of building a mosque anywhere in this country. All the good feeling IO had after passing through Customs, right down the drain.

[spanone]

16. the media now formulates the message for maximum controversy imho

the anchor on m$nbc even commented on the fact that they are still talking about this and it's monday.......she saw no irony in her statement whatsoever

[hedgehog]

17. I have two questions about this entire "controversy"

1. If you have a job, who has the time to worry about shit like this?

2. If you don't have a job, who has the time to worry about shit like this?

[spanone]

18. like it or not, it's in the news.

[phleshdef]

15. Scarborough was actually defending the mosque and the President this morning.

Shits getting crazy.

[LittleBlue]

19. Stopped watching that channel a long time ago. No wonder their ratings have fallen abysmally

LOL I hope they fall more.

[krabigirl]

20. Anything and i mean anything to distract everyone from endless wars, lack of jobs and so on.

They love when we turn on each other.

[spanone]

21. i don't believe this 'controversy' is turning democrats on each other

i think it's showing what an intolerant nation we are becoming, and how the media is fomenting controversy