MSNBC, Conservatives Need Not Apply

(Kennedy Smith is frequently quoted in news stories under the pen-name Experts Say; for more expertise, check his references from girls on Red Eye @TheKennedySmith)

I Tilt My Head to Your Thoughtful Question

I have no problem with them being biased, as long as they’re willing to be this blatant about it and stop pretending to be a legitimate news source:

Candidates must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience at a print or online publication, have a basic understanding of HTML and extensive experience with content management systems or blog publishing platforms. Must have thorough knowledge of political and progressive news. Previous TV/video background a plus.
Writer/producer must be willing to work during msnbc’s primetime hours, and be excited about covering debates, primaries and the 2012 elections.
Please send links to previous work and any relevant social media streams.

But really, does this exclude conservatives? I mean, liberals can avoid conservative media pretty easily. We’re bombarded with so many “progressive” political messages in a day, we can all quote them in our sleep.

#1 December 12, 2011 at 12:31 pm
FurryGuy commented:

Media outlets in the early history of the Republic were more than proud to trumpet their overt bias. Only when the mainstream media started becoming propaganda outlets for Progressive causes and views did they try to fool the American people they were fair and balanced. Their bias was well hidden since there were so few sources of news available.

Thanks to the internet for breaking the stranglehold the US MFM had on presenting only the news and viewpoints they wanted revealed.
#2 December 12, 2011 at 12:33 pm
cnredd commented:

I’m thinking the ad might be a fake…It’s from MSNBC, but it looks for someone who can write and produce “accurate editorial content”…

cnredd
Political Wrinkles
http://politicalwrinkles.com
#3 December 12, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Neo commented:

So why does MSNBC pigeon-hole themselves ?
#4 December 12, 2011 at 12:51 pm
CrazySh1tThoseDemsSay commented:

@3, really dude? thats YOUR logic… paramedics USE narcotics ON patients… duh. And no, that doesnt make them drug pushers either… as per your logic… lol

The point being… if you claim you are a fair news outlet, why wouldnt they require a thorough knowledge of political, conservative AND progressive news… Thought that was pretty much a no brainer but i guess things need to be spelled out for some.
#5 December 12, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Stuart commented:

Eubulides: #3 “Have through knowledge of is not the same as “subscribe to”

Do you really think that conservatives can’t read between the lines?
By your argument, the old, now discredited, Jim Crow advisement in the want ads “Only Caucasians considered”, actually meant they were looking for people from southern Russia.
#6 December 12, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Valerie commented:

#3 December 12, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Eubulides commented:

” “Have thorough knowledge of” is not the same as “subscribe to.” ”

We know. GGB’s point is that they probably had a long discussion about what phrase to use instead of “agrees with our views” and this is the result.
#7 December 12, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Nick commented:

I dont think a conservative would go as low as to work for MSDNC.

Come on guys, they have the Al Sharpton Show.

What more do they need.
#8 December 12, 2011 at 1:05 pm
JPeden commented:

(Kennedy Smith is frequently quoted in news stories under the pen-name Experts Say; for more expertise, check his references from girls on Red Eye @TheKennedySmith)

Looked for a minute like Moira Lash finally got “Willie” Kennedy Smith all straightened out as to where to apply his “animal magnetism”, at MSNBC, if he still wanted to get invited to all the “right” parties. But sadly, no, that’s not Willie – of the cry “rape” trial back about 15 yrs. ago.

Is it, “Craig”?
#9 December 12, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Sam Stone commented:

So, what the hell qualified Mika other than being a cute dumb blonde bimbo?
#10 December 12, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Valerie commented:

OT: slow, slow progress at the Washington Post: they know the unemployment numbers are a disaster

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/wonkbook-the-real-unemployment-rate-is-11-percent/2011/12/12/gIQAuctPpO_blog.html

Now, if they can only dig up the intestinal fortitude to put it in the print edition!
#11 December 12, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Sam Stone commented:

Nick commented:

I dont think a conservative would go as low as to work for MSDNC.

Come on guys, they have the Al Sharpton Show.

What more do they need.

They also have Ed Schultz! The 3rd LEAST INFLUENTIAL man on the planet according to GQ.
#12 December 12, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Valerie commented:

#8 December 12, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Nick commented:

I think MSNBC would benefit greatly from a quick-witted conservative to talk back to them. It’d do wonders for their ratings. The problem is, anybody who tries to take an “Alan Colmes” or “Juan Williams” type role on MSNBC is going to get death threats.
#14 December 12, 2011 at 1:58 pm
∅cat commented:

Can you imagine what would be said if Fox had the same ad, but “progressive” was replaced by “conservative?”
#15 December 12, 2011 at 2:49 pm
JPeden commented:

“I Tilt My Head to Your Thoughtful Question,” indeed.

@TheKennedySmith above, apparently it’s now become de riguer to join in Bob Beckel’s by now monotonous incantations as to his own empowering alcoholic blackouts as proof of one’s elitist credibility and as disproof of whatever anyone not invoking these holy words might say.

In other words, everything about what Progressives appear to be is always only a pitiful act.
#16 December 12, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Al Sharpton commented:

Will they take tax evading race hustlers?
#17 December 12, 2011 at 4:05 pm
dunce commented:

Many people have had a chance get familiar with so called progressive thought since there has been little change since karl marx.
#18 December 12, 2011 at 4:31 pm
KC commented:

I Like This:

“and be excited about covering debates, primaries and the 2012 elections.”

Who rights this crap?
#19 December 12, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Molon Labe commented:

#3
You Bidy is so funny, sort of like Debbie SGT schultz without the drugs or Moochelle Wookie dancing. Each comment is funnier than the last and more hysterical. I can’t wait for his next crazed comment. He must really believe bold assertion without proof or logic is something that people take seriously, like you were a spokesman for MSNBC.
#21 December 12, 2011 at 8:04 pm
TeeDub commented:

I mean, liberals can avoid conservative media pretty easily. We’re bombarded with so many “progressive” political messages in a day, we can all quote them in our sleep.

I have this argument all the time with my liberals familiars. They watch network news, read AP and NYT Times. Everything they hear coming from FOX, talk radio, or the conservative blogosphere is second hand. Usually edited and skewed through the leftwing media. I, on the other hand, see the Huffington Post news every day when I log onto AOL. My hometown newspaper is a poster child for liberalism. When I sit in the doctor’s lobby or airport, it isn’t FOX News they have on the TV. If I’m lucky, it’s CNN. If not, it’s one of those pretend news programs like “Today”.

Yet they try to tell me that I’m the one who isolated inside a right wing cocoon, listening to only what I want hear. As if the I could tune out the lib press even if I tried to.
#22 December 12, 2011 at 10:51 pm
Murphy B commented:

TeeDub:

I remember Dan Rather being interviewed in the 90′s and he was asked what place on the political spectrum (left, middle, right) the New York Times occupies. He confidently stated the middle. Of the great politcal questions of our time, which has the NYT not be left of center?

To my mind none. But to be fair, Dan may have been including the Sports Section.

It was a howler to watch.
#24 December 13, 2011 at 9:37 am
gwhh commented:

at least they are honest