Saturday, July 9, 2011

MSNBC and "Lean Forward"

First, a few links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC

and

http://www.msnbc.com

" Following several years in which many observers noted a politically progressive shift in the channel's programming, MSNBC publicly acknowledged its progressivism in October 2010 while launching a marketing campaign with the tagline "Lean Forward." [9][10][11][12][13][14][15] In a June 2011 interview, MSNBC president Phil Griffin stated that "MSNBC has established a sensibility, a position, a platform" and that "MSNBC is really the place to go for progressives."[16] " (Links are Wikipedia's and are left intact.)

Here, we learn that MSNBC had publicly acknowledged its "...progressivism..." which Wikipedia defines as "...a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform through governmental action."

I'll be the first to admit that some government control is a good thing. For example, I wouldn't want various states in the United States to have nuclear weapons. Alaska and Texas, for example, really don't like each other. Therefore, could you imagine what might have happened if, when the Wichita Falls Wildcats and the University of Anchorage SeaWolves played in Anchorage, a Rustlers fan just happened to have a small nuke with him?

Let's further assume that this match took place in January (For the record, I do know that these two teams played in Anchorage, but not when.)

It can get really cold in Anchorage in January. And it really doesn't get all that cold in Wichita Falls. Therefore, a Texan brings a nuke with him not to do damage, but rather, to get warm.

For a reason like that (I know, a stupid one) having a central government is a good idea.

But not everything can be solved by a centralized government. Some problems are best handled at the local or state level.

But then we come to MSNBC which now embraces its progressivism ... which could also be called liberalism. Question: Haven't they in fact turned themselves from a news organization into a cheerleader? Another question: Don't they themselves say that Fox News isn't a news organization but a wing of the Republican Party? Therefore, by their own reasoning: haven't they become a wing of the Democratic Party, and specifically the Obama Administration?

Remember when MSNBC, in the midst of showing tsunami damage in Japan, thought that was a good time to remind its viewers that Obama was born in Hawaii? Question: What the hell does the tsunami in Japan have to do with where Obama was born??

MSNBC is the place to go for progressives. Phil Griffin said that. So much for being a valid news organization.

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