No..I actually bothered to read the transcripts. She doesn't make any specific reference to anyone in the crowd..and postulates that because we have a black president people have started carrying guns. That's her opinion..and that's fine. And MSNBC isn't a hard news show. It's a pundit and advocate channel. The underlying stories are essentially true. And generally when they get it wrong..they say so.
This is my first time hearing this..and I will probably need to do a bit of research to make any definitive judgement. Which..in any case..should really not matter much to you.
Spinning is aerobic.
No spinning..critical thinking.
Here's the transcript from the site:
On Tuesday, MSNBCs Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: "A man at a pro-health care reform rally...wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip....there are questions about whether this has racial overtones....white people showing up with guns." Brewer failed to mention the man she described was black.
Read more:
MSNBC: ObamaCare Protesters ?Racist,? Including Black Gun-Owner | NewsBusters.org
The video show several people there with guns..one who was black..and others who were white.
Overall it's not incorrect..and it doesn't even specify which person she's referring too. And..basically
it's her opinion.
Lets compare that to this:
Hannity: "$200 million a day, 3,000 people, he needs the whole Taj Mahal hotel, why?"* | Media Matters for America
Hannity repeated an internet fabrication as fact and named names.
Even the most reasonable..of reasonable people would think that this should be fact checked.
And that's the difference. The first has nothing specific..the second does.