MSNBC commercial for State of the Union skips GOP presidents

Not too surprising, but these are the kind of not-so-subliminal messages people tend to notice. For those of you Faux News haters, got any examples you’d like to share?

Here is the video, where MSNBC touts carrying the dream forward with snippets from presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton and Obama. Video clips from presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43 are not used since – obviously – they don’t promote the dream.

Yes I know. This does not prove some sort of NBC conspiracy to wipe the history books of references to Republican presidents during the last five decades. It was probably some video production assistant who put it together … and smirked as it went to air without the grown-ups noticing the bias.

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Steve McGough

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9 Comments

  1. Dimsdale on January 13, 2011 at 6:34 am

    Well knock me over with a feather!  PMSNBC is tilted to the left?  Who'd have thunk it?  Just another reason not to watch (as if I needed any more).

     

    "Carrying the dream of socialism forward" would have been more apropos.



  2. Tim-in-Alabama on January 13, 2011 at 6:50 am

    This kind of promo ad drives people to kill.



  3. GdavidH on January 13, 2011 at 7:19 am

    They keep "leaning forward" like this and they're going to fall flat on their collective face.



  4. Wayne SW on January 13, 2011 at 10:16 am

    Every time I tune into MSNBC, it seems they are doing an infomercial, a prison documentary or something else equally meaningless and irrelevant.  One time I did see some brunette, Racheal something.  She seemed to have trouble knowing which camera to look at…..maybe she was new to the infomercial business.



  5. sammy22 on January 13, 2011 at 11:42 am

    The comment by Tim-in-Alabama does not add "civility" to this or other discussions.



  6. winnie888 on January 14, 2011 at 1:41 am

    It's this kind of slanted rhetoric that causes people of a conservative nature to get really irritated with the lefties who scream bias in relation to "faux news" all the bloody time.  MSNBC is not only irrelevant, but sooooooo obvious.  What are their ratings again?  ha.



  7. comanchepilot on January 14, 2011 at 5:36 am

    You assume that the 'adults' were paying attention – and noticed that there were no R's –  that is usually a mistake with MSNBC . . .



  8. Lynn on January 14, 2011 at 10:20 am

    This reminds me of the time when we were talking to a CBS executive, it was right after all the pundits were counting the biased statements by all the BIG 3. CBS at that time far outpaced the other two by it's left slant. This CBS guy baldly stated that there was no bias. All 8 of us laughed and said what about Dan Rather. He JUST did not get it. "Dan Rather is NOT biased, he is the ultimate newsman". Yeah and perky Katie is a journalist.



  9. NH-Jim on January 14, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    Gee, would they go so far as to leave out Abraham Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt?



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