MSNBC apologizes for showing fake Palin photos
Good. Glad to see it. Even with an acknowledgement that the photos were false, they shouldn’t have been broadcast. (from TPM).
MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan apologized this morning for using fake photos of Sarah Palin last Friday in a segment about the former Alaska governor, and for not acknowledging their inauthenticity.
The pictures, which were widely circulated during last year’s presidential campaign, show Palin’s head photoshopped onto other women’s bodies. In one, “Palin” is wearing an American flag bikini and holding a rifle; in the other, the faux Palin is wearing a tight black miniskirt.
“I want to apologize to Gov. Palin and all our viewers. On Friday, in a very misguided attempt to have some fun in advance of Palin’s upcoming book, Going Rogue, our staff mistakenly used some clearly photoshopped images of Ms. Palin without any acknowledgment, and on behalf of the show I would like to say that this was completely unacceptable. We should have never used those photos in the first place,” Ratigan said today. “I apologize.”
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Doggone/GA
November 17th, 2009
8:14 am
“The Phobia of Phanatics”
I like it!
pat
November 17th, 2009
8:27 am
Jay, I appreciate you exposing blatant media bias from the left as well. Thanks.
Donovan
November 17th, 2009
8:28 am
MSNBC is characterized by such liberal trash and cheapness. Bookman and his buddies just can’t let it go. Sarah is georgeous, draws huge crowds, courageously speaks the truth, and scares the hell out of liberals.
jt
November 17th, 2009
8:29 am
I found it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PreJean tape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhshzuVnlsA&feature=related
Doggone/GA
November 17th, 2009
8:31 am
Donovan…yeah, yeah…we’ve heard it all before. Your mind reading abilities are no better than any other of the conned. You need to brush up on your skills, they’re getting rusty.
Kamchak
November 17th, 2009
8:33 am
…courageously cuts and runs…
fyt
Scooter
November 17th, 2009
8:36 am
jt
November 17th, 2009
8:29 am
You ain’t right dude!
Gale
November 17th, 2009
8:40 am
Did anyone see the articaal today about modern vampirism? Apparently they suck life energy, not blood. I think my mother must be a vampire. She certainly drew energy from me.
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
8:42 am
Let’s compare the scenarios, shall we. One station improves the appearance of Sarah with a photoshopped image that has been circulated since the election and is well known by everyone except possibly Sarah but does nothing more with the image while another station fakes the number of rally attendees with their cut and paste skills and calls it fact, deliberately misleading the public on a more serious matter than mere outward appearance. Then again, Republicans are all about outward appearance. It’s their selling point — like Prejean’s pair.
Jimmy Carter
November 17th, 2009
8:46 am
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
8:42 am
Would you care to address similarities between the “importance” of the rally you mentioned versus the Dan Rather CBS story? Just sayin’…..
Gale
November 17th, 2009
8:47 am
Faking a crowd? That’s a good technique for propaganda or marketing. People/mobs always want to jump on the bandwagon of whatever is popular. Make the masses believe that “everyone else” thinks something is great and they want to be a part of it. Of course, when a “news” provider does that, it is merely bad journalism.
Scooter
November 17th, 2009
8:48 am
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
8:42 am
It seems like media/politics as usual don’t it.I never know who or what to believe these days. ????
Jimmy Carter
November 17th, 2009
8:49 am
Scooter
November 17th, 2009
8:48 am
Believe ME, Scooter. After all, I did win a Nobel Prize.
david wayne osedach
November 17th, 2009
8:49 am
I don’t particularly like Palin but I like NBC’s photo-shopped charactertures even less. Shame on you NBC for using cheap shots. Grow up and be more professional!
Nothing Is Free
November 17th, 2009
8:55 am
TnGelding
**You’re going to be uncommonly miserable at least until 2016, probably much longer.**
Boy, I’ll say. At this rate, unemployment will be 60% by then.
Scooter
November 17th, 2009
8:56 am
Jimmy Carter
November 17th, 2009
8:49 am
Dang JC, I forgot all about that! Now what was that you did so great? I can’t remember right off hand.
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
8:58 am
Faux Jimmy Carter,
I presented what I cared to present. I do not care to present what you want me to present. Do your own presentation.
Nothing Is Free
November 17th, 2009
8:58 am
Taxpayer
You are comparing a personal, unwarranted attack on an individual to a 4 second clip on the show of a political pundant. But you have no problem with the personal attack.
It’s no wonder the media gets away with what it does.
Nothing Is Free
November 17th, 2009
9:00 am
Jimmy Carter
These folks will only address the issues that they bring up. That makes it pretty easy for them to prove their points. They have learned a lot from the media.
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
9:02 am
What personal attack, NIF. Who is defending the rights of the person’s body that had Sarah’s face plastered on it. She’s the one that has suffered.
Bosch
November 17th, 2009
9:02 am
JC,
And your speech was fantastic. Good job.
Scooter
November 17th, 2009
9:02 am
Boy, I’ll say. At this rate, unemployment will be 60% by then.
Not to worry NIF, Obama’s got this one! Have you seen the number of jobs he has already created?
Jimmy Carter
November 17th, 2009
9:02 am
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
8:58 am
HAHAHAHAHA! Classic liberal duck.
Neither the doctored photos (personal smear) nor the crowd misrepresentation (way bad journalism) were even remotely close to the hatchet job masterminded by a very biased Dan Rather. Even when the facts showed he was wrong he proceeded with the piece. I accept that both sides do a poor job of objective journalism, however, you seem to present the “facts” in a way that supports your ideology. Lame, very lame.
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
9:05 am
Faux Jimmy Carter,
Is that what you call a comparison of cases. I was hoping for something worth reading and you have managed to crush that hope.
Jimmy Carter
November 17th, 2009
9:06 am
Scooter
November 17th, 2009
8:56 am
What did I do that was so great? Umm…..ummm….oh, I know. I had a brother who sponsored Billy Beer. Too bad Nascar wasn’t as big then as it is now or he would have made a killing with sponsorships.
Jimmy Carter
November 17th, 2009
9:07 am
Taxpayer (aka Dan Rather)
November 17th, 2009
9:05 am
In your own immortal words “I presented what I cared to present. I do not care to present what you want me to present. Do your own presentation.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Jimmy Carter
November 17th, 2009
9:10 am
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
9:05 am
Hey, I’ll help you out. I’ll slow it down a little.
Hannity ran a doctored piece about the size of the crowd at a rally in an “off” election year.
Rather ran a hatchet job just weeks prior to an election in an obvious attempt to harm the re-election chances of a sitting President.
Surely a biased liberal homer such as yourself can see the difference, right? Oh, that’s right. Never mind.
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
9:10 am
Faux Jimmy Carter,
So, if the photoshopped image was a personal attack against Sarah, then Hannity’s lie was a personal attack against every single person that he accused of being at a rally that they were not at. Thousands of personal attacks, using your logic.
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
9:12 am
Po faux Jimmy! No matter how slow he types, he just cannot keep up.
Scooter
November 17th, 2009
9:14 am
Jimmy Carter
November 17th, 2009
9:06 am
And here I was thinking you won the prize for the highest numbers of unemploymeny and mortgage rates. Dang! I never get it right.
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
9:16 am
Faux Jimmy Carter,
You’re real swift with the bias. Don’t let the current carry you away. The next thing you know, you’ll start mixing up your elections and blending pieces to make a strawman all your own.
Nothing Is Free
November 17th, 2009
9:16 am
Gale
We get continued bias on every single story.
We get the media having chills down their legs when Obama appears.
We get bills that will change the lives of every single one of us that the lawmakers are not allowed to read before they sign.
We get a President that grovels and apologizes in front foreign leaders.
We get a president that wants to push the takeover of 1/6th of our economy to be pushed through congress as quickly as possible, but so far has taken 4 months to make a decision that would save American lives in Afghanistan.
We get prisoners that were read their rights and not waterboarded to be tried in a military tribunal while the prisoners that were waterboarded will participate in a circus trial 5 blocks from the building where they slaughtered almost 3,000 Americans.
We get most liberals that can’t tell the difference between what Sarah Palin said and what Tina Faye said.
We have Newsweek that decided to run a picture of Sarah Palin that was taken for Runner’s Magizine, so she appears in runner’s shorts but strangely enough, the NOW gang has nothing to say about it.
And you are worried about a misedited 4 second video clip that was shown on a bias pundint’s show.
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
9:18 am
In your own immortal words “I presented what I cared to present. I do not care to present what you want me to present. Do your own presentation.”
And, that’s no lie.
Common Sense
November 17th, 2009
9:20 am
TnGelding:
…………. and you know I hope you’re wrong for the sake our Republic.
Normal
November 17th, 2009
9:21 am
Interesting…
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/496616/no_sarah_palin_is_not_the_next_ronald_reagan
Jimmy Carter
November 17th, 2009
9:22 am
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
9:18 am
“And, that’s no lie”. And Bill Clinton did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Taxpayer
November 17th, 2009
9:28 am
Faux Jimmy Carter,
And Bush has never been a drunk and Kerry was never swiftboated and no one ever, EVER made fun of or ridiculed or demeaned Jimmy Carter. NEVER. Go back to guzzling your cases of Billy Beer. After all, that’s what you’re mad about. You bought all that stuff and now you’re stuck with it.
Nothing Is Free
November 17th, 2009
9:29 am
Normal
Well, that settles it. Sarah Palin is OUT.
it’s not like Obama has ever had an article written about him that wasn’t in the best light.
She’s back and you might as well deal with it.
But the real question is, why are liberals so up in arms if she is so “normal”. Why would the best politicians in the world be so intent on discrediting her. And better yet, why are so many liberals now giving mags like “The Nation” so much credibility?
Bo
November 19th, 2009
3:31 pm
Why doesn,t some one at msnbc teach Dylan Ratigan how to ask a question not give a speach and then ask for affirmation?
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steve dickson
November 21st, 2009
9:27 pm
MSNBC aka ANOTHER OBAMA NETWORK has become irrelevant with their obovious agenda to promote this incompetent administration. No surprise they would do anything to disrespect SARAH PALIN they are afraid of her.
John Moser
November 22nd, 2009
12:44 am
“Doc” Oz, here’s a medical question. What are the medical implications of that giant stick up your rectum? I thought you had to “go to work”, yet you keep typing. Slow day? Obviously you’re unemployed and probably on welfare. If you’re really a doctor you must work under a fascist system that forces innocent people to go to you.
Jennifer
November 22nd, 2009
3:32 am
I’m so sick and tired of hearing of this one person who does nothing for no one but herself. To Alaskans it is just “ho-hum.” I’m not buying her book, am not interested in what she has to say and all I have to say is, “Alaskans knows best what comes out of Alaska, and the lower 48 may have her. So just stop the hype!
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