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Could the Creepy Orwellian Vibe at MSNBC Possibly Get Any Creepier?

Posted on | September 6, 2013 | 78 Comments

Ken Shepherd at Newsbusters notices that MSNBC’s Facebook page is basically publishing pro-Obama propaganda memes:

 

Ace of Spades highlighted this, and I was tempted to write an entire post explaining how MSNBC has maneuvered itself into its current bizarre predicament as The Bomb Syria Now Network.

I Watch MSNBC So You Don’t Have To™ and I can report that it’s Crazyville over there nowadays. Viewers must find themselves waxing nostalgic for the calm and reasoned voice of Keith Olbermann.

The other day, I saw Andrea Mitchell interview Bill Kristol on MSNBC and, if you have any memory at all, you know that Kristol was the Evil Neo-Con Liberals Hated Even More Than Karl Rove during the Bush era. This morning, I woke up early and caught the 4 a.m. replay of Rachel Maddow, and she was so rabidly pro-war you half-expected her to break out into the “Patton” monologue:

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
Men, all this stuff you’ve heard about America not wanting to fight — wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

What the hell has happened to MSNBC? Like I said, I was tempted to write an entire post explaining it, but then I decided to save that for a Monday column at The American Spectator. But having unfairly teased readers with this idea, now I’ll let you guys help me write the column. (Future headline at Media Matters: “Right-Wing Blogger Plagiarizes His Commenters.”) One of the texts by which I intend to analyze MSNBC is this 2003 item, “An Evening With Eric Alterman.”

See where I’m going with this one? Share you insights in the comments. Link your research. Make it easier for me to write that column.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE II: “Feckless Mendacity Marks the Fall of the Unicorn King.”

 

 


Category: Barack Obama, MSNBC, Syria

Comments

78 Responses to “Could the Creepy Orwellian Vibe at MSNBC Possibly Get Any Creepier?”

  1. Professor_Why
    September 6th, 2013 @ 6:16 pm

    Could the Creepy Orwellian Vibe at MSNBC Possibly Get Any Creepier? http://t.co/XEF3JoUH3s

  2. DonaldDouglas
    September 6th, 2013 @ 6:55 pm

    Great post!

  3. AmPowerBlog
    September 6th, 2013 @ 6:56 pm

    Via @RSMcCain: Could the Creepy Orwellian Vibe at @MSNBC Possibly Get Any Creepier? http://t.co/hE7StSiVDU @MaddowBlog #Leftist #Hypocrites

  4. TC_LeatherPenguin
    September 6th, 2013 @ 6:59 pm

    You sound Southie 🙂

  5. Dungeonmaster Jim
    September 6th, 2013 @ 7:23 pm

    Just a Howie Carr fan with a good memory and a love of press-bashing.

  6. Jb
    September 6th, 2013 @ 8:01 pm

    Putin declares our Secretary of State a liar, and Americans are not outraged or even offended. Indeed, millions of duhs! followed the accusation. Outplayed again.

  7. Quartermaster
    September 6th, 2013 @ 8:11 pm

    Dershowitz is not above slander either. His vendetta against Finkelstein is for the books. Finkelstein caught Dershie cold and outed him as a liar and plagiarist. Dershowitz has hounded Finkelstein out of academia and lied through the entire affair.

    Understand, I don’t like Finkelstein either, but Dershowitz is deserving of the same type of treatment he gave Finkelstein. Frankly, he shouldn’t expect any better.

  8. Paratisi
    September 6th, 2013 @ 8:30 pm

    Could the Creepy Orwellian Vibe at MSNBC Possibly Get Any Creepier?(Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda Goes Pro-War) http://t.co/HIOFL8fX8Y

  9. sokeijarhead
    September 6th, 2013 @ 8:34 pm

    Could the Creepy Orwellian Vibe at MSNBC Possibly Get Any Creepier? : The Other McCain http://t.co/PC8jDEzp4G

  10. M. Thompson
    September 6th, 2013 @ 8:47 pm

    It is increasingly the Obama MiniTrue.

  11. Bill Gryan
    September 6th, 2013 @ 8:50 pm

    Not even Ringling Brothers?

  12. SwiperTheFox
    September 6th, 2013 @ 8:50 pm

    MSNBC is a political machine for recycling stale left-wing talking points, what else is new?

  13. SwiperTheFox
    September 6th, 2013 @ 8:50 pm

    Yep

  14. From Around the Blogroll « THE FIRST STREET JOURNAL.
    September 6th, 2013 @ 9:16 pm

    […] cheerleading “news” network has gotten so deeply in bed with President Obama that, as Robert Stacey Stacy McCain noted, they’ve become just another propaganda arm for the White House when it comes to the proposed […]

  15. Coffey Kin
    September 6th, 2013 @ 9:27 pm

    I am not sure what you mean by: “MSNBC has maneuvered itself into its current bizarre predicament as The Bomb Syria Now Network.” After all, we have always been at war with Eastasia.

  16. DocinPA
    September 6th, 2013 @ 9:41 pm

    Call it The Limbaugh Law: Liberalism must, MUST, be protected at all costs. The remainder of Obama’s presidency is threatened with utter irrelevance if this craters as bad as it looks like it might. The liberal project is in mortal danger of at least being put on a three year hold and that would just not do at all. Forward!

  17. owenmagoo
    September 6th, 2013 @ 9:59 pm

    I hear a lib blowing the racist dog whistle on that one…
    Me like.

  18. Bill Gryan
    September 6th, 2013 @ 11:09 pm

    Imagine if he had called Eric Holder a liar. The duhs! would even be louder.

  19. Under the Fedora: Credibility | MareZilla.com
    September 7th, 2013 @ 12:00 am

    […] One of the oddest things about the entire Syria debate is the sudden decision by part of the left particularly the MSM that war IS the answer.  […]

  20. Conservatively Speaking | Under the Fedora: Credibility
    September 7th, 2013 @ 12:03 am

    […] One of the oddest things about the entire Syria debate is the sudden decision by part of the left particularly the MSM that war IS the answer.  […]

  21. SgtPolite
    September 7th, 2013 @ 2:31 am

    Could the Creepy Orwellian Vibe at MSNBC Possibly Get Any Creepier? : The Other McCain http://t.co/CPmwuu9iaG #tcot #teaparty #p2 #tlot

  22. The Minority Report Blog | Conservative News & Opinion
    September 7th, 2013 @ 6:48 am

    […] One of the oddest things about the entire Syria debate is the sudden decision by part of the left particularly the MSM that war IS the answer.  […]

  23. Cain
    September 7th, 2013 @ 8:42 am

    This reference is about Libya instead of Syria but it definitely helps make the case. It’s impossible to read Zirin’s quotes without laughing out loud. It’s 2013 and he’s banging the drum about an incident 9 years ago that Bush had ZERO connection to yet this moonbat wants him charged as a war criminal. No mention (at this link anyway) of Obama’s arguably criminal negligence and repeated, documented lies regarding the 4 men killed, including his own ambassador, in Libya just a few months earlier. The left is perfectly represented by these pathetic tools at both MSNBC and this twit Zirin from The Nation.

    —

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/28/msnbc-guest-dave-zirin-why-is-bush-not-on-trial-for-war-crimes/

    Saturday morning on MSNBC, Dave Zirin of The Nation questioned why former President George W. Bush had not been held accountable for alleged war crimes…

    “I’m a sports writer by trade,” he explained. “That means one of the things I’ve done in the last ten years is get to know the family of Pat Tillman, the story of Pat Tillman, the NFL player turned army ranger who died in an instance of friendly firing in Afghanistan. Pat Tillman thought the war in Iraq was illegal and I agree with Pat Tillman about that. His family was lied to by the Bush administration about the circumstances surrounding his death, and George W. Bush gave speeches about Pat Tillman and his heroism that were lies.”

  24. markdechnik
    September 7th, 2013 @ 8:46 am

    Could the Creepy Orwellian Vibe at MSNBC Possibly Get Any Creepier? http://t.co/B9KwT8wScC

  25. brother bob
    September 7th, 2013 @ 12:51 pm

    With all of the “The two teams swapped jerseys at halftime” talk has anyone noticed the one person who has stayed consistent? Secretary of Flip Flop, that’s who! At least he stayed consistent in his belief that France should dictate our foreign policy!

  26. Proof
    September 7th, 2013 @ 3:38 pm

    Our democracy is also stronger when the people’s representatives stand together against the president, when he is doing or planning something stupid, un-Constitutional or both.

  27. baburdick
    September 7th, 2013 @ 3:39 pm

    “MSNBC Viewers must find themselves waxing nostalgic for the calm and reasoned voice of Keith Olbermann.” http://t.co/uPO7SZL5wQ

  28. xbox361
    September 10th, 2013 @ 12:09 am

    didn’t they hear Hillary scream about how dissent is being REALLY American!