Two separate Fox News anchors on Wednesday took NBC and MSNBC to task for liberal media bias and outright deception. Bill O'Reilly slammed the egregious actions of Andrea Mitchell and her selective editing of Republican Mitt Romney.
O'Reilly played MSNBC's version of Romney mentioning the fast food outlet Wawa and the one that conforms to reality. The host mocked the liberal cable outlet for "doctoring" the tape. Video of both can be found below:
ANDREA MITCHELL, MSNBC HOST: Maybe this was Mitt Romney's supermarket scanner moment. But I get the feeling, take a look at this that Mitt Romney has not been in too many Wa-was on the roadside of Pennsylvania.
MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I was at Wa-wa's. I went in to order a sandwich. You press a little -- a touch tone key pad, or I did to touch that and you know this sandwich you press, this touch this, touch this. Go pay the cashier there is your sandwich. It's amazing.
MITCHELL: It's amazing.
What’s amazing, as O’Reilly stated, is “that [the] tape was edited by Ms. Mitchell's staff. Mitt Romney's point was much larger. About how the private sector, Wa-wa, operates as opposed to how the government does things.” What was cut was Romney's statement about “people in the private sector learned how to compete. It's time to bring some competition to the federal government and to get it smaller and ever respondent the customers which are you.”
Guest Lanny Davis, a former top aide to Bill Clinton, stated that Mitchell was probably “unaware”of the cuts." However, this pales in comparison to the hyperbole from another NBC anchor, Melissa Harris-Perry, who basically stated that Americans are racist for fighting the war on terror.
In her own words, Perry insisted “what America typically needs emerge and that is racial enemy. Americans in part identify who we are and who deserves what through our notions of whiteness and of the racial enemies that are the non-whites. And in his moment the new racial enemy became not so much Reagan's welfare queen who was imaginary but instead, this imagined other, that is somehow Muslim or Arab or Sikh or something else.”
She continued this inane liberal study group by saying “we became willing to stomach a kind of horrific racial violence in the name of national security. It's something that we have been willing to stomach as a people over and over again in our history.”
As Fox News' Bret Baier astutely noted, “NBC Nightly News is playing some serious catch-up, because the network news show has only mentioned the failed gun tracking program "Fast and Furious" once for a few seconds since the scandal broke last year. Keep in mind, Attorney General Holder has testified before Congress no less than nine times.”
An Attorney General of the United States is about to be held in contempt of Congress and NBC is just finding this out now? It is ironic when the most vilified news network in the country by the political left, also happens to be the only ones doing their job concerning reporting the state of governmental affairs. However, I guess NBC is so good, they can’t be possibly biased.
