MSNBC's anti-police Twitter circus

by DC Larson

According to a recent news story, an investigating 

GA policeman was dragged along a roadway by a

suspect/motorist.

MSNBC jumped onto Twitter, asking, "Does it

count as a police chase if you drag the cop along

for the ride?" MSNBC posted accompanying

video footage of the assault - with an added

circus-music soundtrack. (Following online

protests, apparently, MSNBC yanked the tweet.)

Upon reading of this, I recalled that some years

ago, while studying America's small, despicable

hate group movement, I learned of an aging CA

neo-Nazi who'd coupled archival death camp

footage with a laugh track.                                                                                                                   

The obvious similarity leapt. As the wretched, ratings -

floundering MSNBC had handily shown, the fringe 

right does not have a monopoly on foul-characteredness.                                                                         

(Remember that an unethical producer with MSNBC's

parent, NBC, had "edited" an audio recording of 

George Zimmerman's 911 call to misrepresent his concern 

as racially-motivated.)                                                                                                                               

Do not expect MSNBC's anti-police Twitter circus to 

be criticized, or even acknowledged, by MSNBC's 

intellectually iffy 'journalists' Chris Matthew, Rachel 

Maddow, Al Sharpton, Chris Hayes, or Melissa Harris -

Perry.

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