NBC - GUN-RIGHTS GROUP TAKES AIM AN MSNBC

GUN-RIGHTS GROUP TAKES AIM AN MSNBC

Gun-rights advocates The Second Amendment Foundation on Thursday accused MSNBC of deceptively editing a news clip showing a man carrying an AR-15 rifle near the convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, where President Obama spoke. MSNBC reporter Contessa Brewer commented on camera, "Yes, there are Second Amendment rights, for sure, but also there are questions about whether this has a racial overtone. I mean, here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns strapped to their waist." In fact, said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb, the man shown in the clip "was an African-American. ... MSNBC knows the man was black, yet all they showed ... was a close-up of the rifle against the man's neatly pressed dress shirt." Gottlieb described the segment as "a detestable attempt to manipulate public sentiment" and accused the news channel of "irresponsibly fomenting ... racial divisiveness through the use of carefully edited video." MSNBC did not immediately respond.

21/08/202009