Msnbc My Job to Tell People What to Think

MSNBC: "our job's to control what people think"

Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:11 AM, , User Since 143 months ago, User Post Count: 12696

Controlling "exactly what people think" is the job of the media, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski boldly declared Wednesday morning.
https://news.grabien.com/story-brzezinski-our-job-control-exactly-what-people-think
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Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:14 AM, , User Since 232 months ago, User Post Count: 10738

Fake News.

That isn't what she meant.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:15 AM, , User Since 143 months ago, User Post Count: 12696

bush95 wrote:
Fake News.

That isn't what she meant.

What did she actually mean?
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:17 AM, , User Since 230 months ago, User Post Count: 167107

They do one heck of a job on the 14 people who watch MSNBC.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:22 AM, , User Since 232 months ago, User Post Count: 10738

She meant Trump can't control the media and the stories they run.

It's the media's job to ask the questions and report on things even the Pres doesn't want to discuss... but it came out badly.

They are a pretty balanced team / show. Mika is a bit progressive but Joe is a Reagan conservative.

They hit both sides pretty hard.

Mika would never declare that she is trying to "control people".... this is a spin from a website trolling for a story where there isn't one.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:22 AM, , User Since 141 months ago, User Post Count: 8420

interesting. not sure if the headline is in context or if thats how she meant it to come out. Even w that, i do think subconciously most of those people, just like the hollywood actors and actresses, do believe that they tell people what to think.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:28 AM, , User Since 149 months ago, User Post Count: 4600

yidio10 wrote: Why is fake news so rampant with the right?

Maybe the Princeton Election Consortium could conduct a poll.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:29 AM, , User Since 159 months ago, User Post Count: 1794

To me, when you have a headline that is spliced like this - it's a good idea to dig deeper and see the context.

Brzezinski: 'Our Job' Is to Control 'Exactly What People Think'

The bold parts are quotes from Brzezinski, but they are rearranged in a way that it looks like she said "Our job is to control exactly what people think." Instead, in the course of conversation, she said these words in a different order and did mean something different like Bush said. It did come out poorly, but this often happens in these round table discussions when people seem to be trying to address 5 different things in the short time that they have.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:31 AM, , User Since 191 months ago, User Post Count: 17223

That's the whole point. Listen to the questions they ask. They CONTROL the narrative. They don't ask about Fukoshima, they don't ask about Chicago, they don't ask about Gmo, they don't ask about obesity, they don't ask about fructose/sucrose/lactose, they don't ask about the treatment of people in the Islamic region of the world, they don't ask about our debt, they don't ask about the federal reserve or who owns it or how it started.

Again, SHE SAID EXACTLY WHAT SHE MEANT.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:31 AM, , User Since 242 months ago, User Post Count: 24971

I saw Mika this morning intoning seriously about "the rising anti-semitism" crisis.

She was teasing a story where the press was unhappy that Trump hadn't denounced anti-semitism in the words they wanted.

Yesterday Trump finally said what they wanted and the drones on Morning Joe granted Trump absolution. But noted that Steve Bannon was still a sinner!
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:32 AM, , User Since 280 months ago, User Post Count: 25847

bush95 wrote:
She meant Trump can't control the media and the stories they run.

It's the media's job to ask the questions and report on things even the Pres doesn't want to discuss... but it came out badly.

They are a pretty balanced team / show. Mika is a bit progressive but Joe is a Reagan conservative.

They hit both sides pretty hard.

Mika would never declare that she is trying to "control people".... this is a spin from a website trolling for a story where there isn't one.

Misspeak does not exist according to the alt-left on this board.
maybe it does when it's one of their own.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:41 AM, , User Since 143 months ago, User Post Count: 12696

bush95 wrote:
She meant Trump can't control the media and the stories they run.

It's the media's job to ask the questions and report on things even the Pres doesn't want to discuss... but it came out badly.

They are a pretty balanced team / show. Mika is a bit progressive but Joe is a Reagan conservative.

They hit both sides pretty hard.

Mika would never declare that she is trying to "control people".... this is a spin from a website trolling for a story where there isn't one.

That's pretty much crap. They asked softball questions to Obama for 8 years.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:53 AM, , User Since 162 months ago, User Post Count: 45499

fedorco90 wrote:
yidio10 wrote: Why is fake news so rampant with the right?

Maybe the Princeton Election Consortium could conduct a poll.

nom

It's priceless how terrified yidiot is of replying to fedorco.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 8:58 AM, , User Since 65 months ago, User Post Count: 6310

bush95 wrote:
Fake News.

That isn't what she meant.

It's exactly what she meant and the panel doubled down on that statement.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 9:00 AM, , User Since 91 months ago, User Post Count: 50406

"Mika" and "Joe"? I believe we have found their fan.

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--- bush95 wrote:

She meant Trump can't control the media and the stories they run.

It's the media's job to askthe questions and report on things even the Pres doesn't want to discuss... but it came out badly.

They are a pretty balanced team / show. Mika is a bit progressive but Joe is a Reagan conservative.

They hit both sides pretty hard.

Mika would never declare that she is trying to "control people".... this is a spin from a website trolling for a story where there isn't one.

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Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 9:00 AM, , User Since 65 months ago, User Post Count: 6310

yidio10 wrote: Why is fake news so rampant with the right?

Lets start with HilLiar will win by a landslide.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 9:02 AM, , User Since 65 months ago, User Post Count: 6310

sketcheer wrote:
To me, when you have a headline that is spliced like this - it's a good idea to dig deeper and see the context.

Brzezinski: 'Our Job' Is to Control 'Exactly What People Think'

The bold parts are quotes from Brzezinski, but they are rearranged in a way that it looks like she said "Our job is to control exactly what people think." Instead, in the course of conversation, she said these words in a different order and did mean something different like Bush said. It did come out poorly, but this often happens in these round table discussions when people seem to be trying to address 5 different things in the short time that they have.

Or the truth actually slips out.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 9:04 AM, , User Since 191 months ago, User Post Count: 17223

TenFour wrote:

sketcheer wrote:

To me, when you have a headline that is spliced like this - it's a good idea to dig deeper and see the context.

Brzezinski: 'Our Job' Is to Control 'Exactly What People Think'

The bold parts are quotes from Brzezinski, but they are rearranged in a way that it looks like she said "Our job is to control exactly what people think." Instead, in the course of conversation, she said these words in a different order and did mean something different like Bush said. It did come out poorly, but this often happens in these round table discussions when people seem to be trying to address 5 different things in the short time that they have.

Or the truth actually slips out.

No doubt.

John McCain actually said he aspired to be a dictator in 2008 yet, the media didn't bring it up after he tried to say that Trump was trying to create a dictatorship.

No accountability with our press.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 9:07 AM, , User Since 166 months ago, User Post Count: 49299

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--- TXEER wrote:

They do one heck of a job on the 14 people who watch MSNBC.

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what a coincidence.....those same 14 seem to post here regularly...
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 9:24 AM, , User Since 242 months ago, User Post Count: 24971

TenFour wrote:
yidio10 wrote: Why is fake news so rampant with the right?

Lets start with HilLiar will win by a landslide.

Or the "Muslim ban"
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 9:34 AM, , User Since 218 months ago, User Post Count: 20077

bush95 wrote:
Fake News.

That isn't what she meant.

This is exactly what she said....

C ontrolling "exactly what people think" is the job of the media,

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski boldly declared Wednesday morning.

And if you agree with this statement ..... YOU are the problem with the United States of America Period!!!
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 9:38 AM, , User Since 239 months ago, User Post Count: 31292

Is Mika the tramp that broke up Joe's marriage?
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 9:50 AM, , User Since 143 months ago, User Post Count: 12696

buckIeer wrote:
bush95 wrote:
Fake News.

That isn't what she meant.

This is exactly what she said....

C ontrolling "exactly what people think" is the job of the media,

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski boldly declared Wednesday morning.

And if you agree with this statement ..... YOU are the problem with the United States of America Period!!!

Just look at all of the self-importance the Washington Post has put on themselves with their new slogan:
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 10:16 AM, , User Since 232 months ago, User Post Count: 10738

again... this is a website trying to make a story where there wasn't one.

I listen to Joe and Mika all the time... and so does Trump.

thats not what she meant.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 10:22 AM, , User Since 91 months ago, User Post Count: 50406

Trying to make a story when there isn't one? Sounds like MSNBC to me.
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017, 10:27 AM, , User Since 230 months ago, User Post Count: 167107

So bush95 is one of 14 MSNBC viewers.

I wonder who the other 13 are