MSNBC's Joy Reid complains 'media does not want to be at war' with Republicans

Kyle

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The MSNBC host echoed other media figures calling for biased reporting against Republicans

On MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Monday night, liberal host Joy Reid and her guest suggested the media were too neutral in their reporting on the Republican Party, and needed to amp up the hostility because both sides were "not the same." They urged reporters to "tell voters" that the GOP was a "threat" to democracy and freedom.

"[The media] doesn't want to be in a war with the Republican Party. Let's just be clear. In general, the media does not want to be at war with the Republicans. They want to treat both sides the same but both sides are not the same, right?" Reid stated.

She wondered to MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd how the media could "get out" of this "‘both sides’ trajectory."




 

SamSpade

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That tells you what her concept of "equal" happens to be.
MANY people - regardless of political position - either are not familiar with or have no understanding of a political spectrum, where we have right, left, center and degrees in between. It's a foreign concept they have either never investigated, or it just doesn't square with their grasp of political ideologies.

I've seen countless examples where extreme political views are called by these ignorant (and I use the term not in a pejorative way, but descriptive) persons as "right-wing" even when it's clearly LEFT - because in their mind, there's what everyone they know thinks - and everything else is "right-wing" because on TV, they're the bad guys.

They don't get a "spectrum" anymore than a religious person would see a spectrum of belief - they see their own, and anything sufficiently DIFFERENT is - wrong. It's not far afield from Jon Stewart's remark that "reality has a left-wing bias".
 
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