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The past couple of nights, Keith Olbermann has done lengthy reports on Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. He’s pointed to Fox News’ claims that they won’t promote the rally and claimed hypocrisy as Beck’s been all over Fox & Friends and the O’Reilly Factor talking it up. However, at the end of Olbermann’s piece, we had one question: who’s really talking about the rally more, Fox News or MSNBC? Fortunately, with the help of our friends at TV Eyes, we can find out.
Using the past six days (Sunday morning at 12 am to Thursday night at 11:59 pm) we checked for references made to the rally or Beck on both networks. At first we searched for the phrase “Restoring Honor” and found that, in that time period, it had been referenced 15 times on Fox News and 11 times on MSNBC which makes sense. Then we remembered that MSNBC rarely references the rally by its name; frequently speaking of it as “Glenn Beck’s rally” or “Glenn Beck’s event.” When we broadened our search accordingly, the results were surprising:
Terms Mentioned
Fox News MSNBC “Restoring Honor” 15 11 “Glenn Beck” 21 71 “Lincoln Memorial” 14 19 Total 50 101
So why is MSNBC talking about Beck and his rally so much when publicity, good or bad, could only help him? Well, it probably has a lot to do with the concept of “the other.” Last night, Countdown also had a great segment on Ken Mehlman’s admission of how the GOP successfully vilified gays in the 2004 and 2006 elections and Olbermann connected it to the current furor over immigrants and Muslims. Just as this Rove-ian tactic has worked wonders in politics, its also been just as successful in politics news.
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Why the big deal? We have "black groups" as well as many other ethnic groups and organizations. Why is it when a group of predominately caucasian people meet together they are racist? I do not understand the thinking. Why is it ok for groups of other color or ethnicity to segregate themselves for what ever purpose they see fit but not for white people. I am not racist, i have friends of many races and ethnicities but I don't get it. Whay are the black americans Al Sharpton's people? Who gave him the ownership of anyone. I think he is a biggot, a liar, a hippocritical self appointed spokesperson for a race of people that he sets apart and segregates for his own profit. What if there was a National Association of White persons? How about a United Caucasion College Fund? A white panther group, oh yea...that would be racist!
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