DISGRACEFUL – AT 8:11 A.M. ET:  I thought the big-three networks tried to be reasonably fair in their one-hour presentations of the convention last night.  But there was one big disgrace in media coverage and it was, naturally, MSNBC, an embarrassment to journalism. 

I don't know what kind of thinking goes on at NBC.  Is the network trying to make enemies, to show how bad a news operation can be?  The going refrain at MSNBC is that the Republican Party is racist.  That's nonsense, but MSNBC set out to prove it last night in the cheapest of ways.   From Red Alert Politics:

MSNBC wants you to think the Republican Party hates minorities. So much so that the liberal news network cut minority speeches from its convention coverage.

When popular Tea Party candidate Ted Cruz, the GOP nominee for Senate, took the stage, MSNBC cut away from the Republican National Convention and the Hispanic Republican from Texas’s speech.

MSNBC stayed on commercial through former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis’s speech, as well. Davis, who recently became a Republican, is black.

Then, when Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuno’s wife Luce Vela Fortuño took the stage minutes later, MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews opted to talk over the First Lady’s speech.

And Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval? Noticeably missing from MSNBC, too.

Mia Love, a black candidate for Congress in Utah, was also ignored by MSNBC.

COMMENT:  I'm not shocked.  The major difference between Fox and MSNBC is that Fox, clearly conservative in its opinion programs, plays it straight in its news coverage.  MSNBC does not.  I suspect that even fair-minded liberal viewers will start to notice, and be repelled.

August 29, 2012