Cable network MSNBC has been distorting the late President Ronald Reagan’s position on raising the debt ceiling, in the midst of a current-day political debate over raising that ceiling between President Barack Obama and Republicans on Capitol Hill, says an analysis by the Media Research Center (MRC).
“At least five MSNBC anchors since Tuesday have promoted a cherry-picked House Democratic Caucus video that distorts President Ronald Reagan’s position on the debt ceiling, inaccurately asserting that President Barack Obama is more in line with Reagan than the Republicans,” MRC News Analyst Alex Fitzsimmons reported in a BiasAlert on Wednesday.
The five MSNBC anchors are Chris Matthews, Al Sharpton, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Thomas Roberts. They each played or cited an excerpt from a Reagan speech given on Sept. 26, 1987. In the excerpt, Reagan expressed the need to raise the debt ceiling.
However, the cable network did not acknowledge that later in that same speech Reagan insisted on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
3 comments:
The only place you can get unbiased news is from FOX
MSNBC is the most left wing liberal news station there is. Maddow and Matthews get me so frustrated with their liberal thinking and their lies I want to scream.
Ronald Reagan was a joke
Bush senior was his handler
he just knew how to deliver the fuzzy feel good message written for him
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