MSNBC Host Slams "Cheeto Eating" Bloggers
For Highlighting Use Of White House Talking Points "It's actually called reporting" according
to Joe Scarborough
Following our article highlighting the use of a file of White
House talking points by MSNBC Morning Joe host Mika
Brzezinski, her co-host Joe Scarborough hit back today, describing
it as "reporting".
Brzezinski
yesterday admitted that she was reading from White
House talking points she had been advised to include in MSNBC
news programming regarding the ongoing BP oil spill in the Gulf
of Mexico.
Ironically, it was only following repeated raillery from Scarborough
and the other guests on the show that Brzezinski admitted she
had been "working with the White House" on a file
of talking points:
"You keep reading these... you keep reading these... these..."
"White House talking points." said Brzezinski, finishing
Scarborough's sentence.
"You keep reading these talking points," Scarborough
continued, "but there is no evidence whatsoever, from looking
through all the evidence, that they had from the very beginning,
that they had for the first 56 days a concerted plan and a war
room to fix this."
"Do you want to know why I have a file that I've been
working on with the White House—and I'll be very transparent
about that?" Brzezinski, said.
"Because of your friend Rudy Giuliani who came here last
week spewing out a whole bunch of nothing."
It seems that following that interview with Giuliani, in which
he was overtly critical of Obama's handling of the spill, Mika,
the daughter of Trilateral Commission co-founder and and former
National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, was called to
the White House to work on oil spill talking points.
Today, however, Scarborough changed his tune somewhat, following
Infowars coverage of the incident, in addition to blogs at Newsbusters.org
and a video posting at Breitbart.tv:
"Mika yesterday, she gets pounded by—you know, I
won't even call them names—because then they'll say 'Scarborough
called us mwa mwa mwa' while they're eating the Cheetos."
the MSNBC host said.
"But bloggers said oh, Mika is just reading White House
talking points. Well, it's actually called reporting."
Scarborough continued. "We asked. Because Rudy came on
here and said [Obama] hasn't talked to any industry people,
and so I said, let's call the White House and get a list of
all the meetings. And that's exactly what we did. And we got
the list. And it said that actually he had been reaching out
to industry types from the beginning. And so, we read the list.
Now, we read the list differently. Mika interpreted it one way
and I another..."
Watch the video:
So, according to Scarborough, this is now what real reporting
is - going to the White House and asking them what they would
like passed off as news.
MSNBC could have asked a White House representative to come
on to the program and address Rudy Giuliani's comments, clearly
putting the other side of the story across to the viewer. That
would have been real reporting. But no.
It is precisely because of the distinct lack of real reporting
on MSNBC's behalf that blogs and alternative media outlets have
to fill in the gaps.
No Joe Scarborough, what you are doing is not "actually
reporting" - it is repeating, and no amount of Cheeto munching
name calling will change that.
As we continue to highlight, the fact that corporate TV outlets
are openly writing scripts and editing
news and entertainment content to incorporate government
propaganda, added to the fact that they act like this is some
kind of wonderful service to the American people, is a damning
indictment of just how deep the alphabet soup networks are in
the pocket of the establishment.
It also underscores exactly why they are losing viewers to
the Internet and alternative media at an alarming speed while
constantly attacking and attempting to smear grassroots outlets
as untrustworthy, and even as violent and racist.
MSNBC has become the most pro-establishment network over the
past two years, picking up the mantle from Fox news, which ran
similar shows for eight years depicting the alternative media
and anti-establishment figures as dangerous left wing communists
while George W. Bush was in office.
MSNBC is the epitome of the controlled corporate mainstream
media, being as it is 80% owned by General Electric, operated
by military industrial complex giant General Dynamics, whose
primary business comes from supplying arms and weapons systems
to the US government and its international allies.
News in the form of government talking points from an arms
dealer owned monolithic corporation is not "actually reporting".
Following our article highlighting the use of a file of White
House talking points by MSNBC Morning Joe host Mika
Brzezinski, her co-host Joe Scarborough hit back today, describing
it as "reporting".
