When I heard that MSNBC and Air America radio host Rachel Maddow was going to make an appearance on NBC’s Meet The Press, I decided to make a point to watch it.
I stopped watching Meet The Press shortly after Tim Russert died. It wasn’t because the host died. I just got tired of of how they allowed guests to go on the program and spew lies and half-truths without calling them on it.
I see nothing has changed.
Dick Armey repeated the old lie that MoveOn.org once ran ads that showed President George W. Bush as Adolf Hitler. It of course is not true, and Armey probably knew that. David Gregory, the show’s host, didn’t call Armey on the claim so Maddow had to.
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There are a lot of problems with the MSM but I think the single biggest issue is the fact that they won’t call a LIE a LIE.
It’s not being “unbiased” to let someone get away with telling lies. It’s not doing your job. When a journalist hears someone lying they should call them out oon it and correct them. For example when a Reopublican Senator says “The US has the best health care system in the world.”) they should say “No, that is incorrect. The US ranks #37 in the world in the latest WHO rankings and the US ranks #50 in the world in life expectancy.”