MSNBC used clip of chairs being thrown at a wrestling match.

[agracie]

Rachel Maddow ran a deceptive clip on MSNBC saying chairs were thrown while reportedly showing footage of chairs thrown at a wrestling production. (I cannot find the original Maddow clip with this as of yet). People on social media then insisted that networks had shown actual footage of chairs thrown at the convention. Maddow retreated only a bit by having Ralston on to say that even though he had not seen the chairs thrown, other eyewitnesses have told him the video is wrong. CNN had Debbie Wasserman-Schultz on to denounce Bernie Bros throwing chairs at the stage.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/18/the-faux-fracas-in-nevada-how-a-reporters-pack-of-lies-ran-riot-in-the-fact-averse-media/

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If you can find the Maddow clip, please post.

[scottie55]

1. Maddow Clearly Works For The Clinton Campaign

Every day thousands of Sanders Supporters and more importantly independents decide they will not vote for Hillary.

Gee, I wonder why....

[Cigar11]

7. Because they would like a

Donald Trump Presidency?

When did Democrats start acting like Republicans when they don't get their way?

[Depaysement]

11. When . . .

. . . Clinton supporters stopped acting like Democrats when they did get their way.

[LiberalElite]

14. Why is the Chair of the Democratic

Party soliciting donations from the GOP?

[Cigar11]

2. It was Satire ...

... like a Joke.

[catnhatnh]

3. If people are believing it

it's not a joke.

[Cigar11]

9. Can't take credit

for what people believe

[Matt_in_STL]

10. So you take no issue with Fox News and their propaganda then?

[All in it together]

4. The MSNBC smear campaign against Bernie continues

I have finished with MSNBC, I would rather hear news than unfounded smears.

[HooptieWagon]

5. Of course. Maddow is a propagandist,...

...incorrect to call her a journalist as she doesn't practice ethical journalism.

[Peregrine Took]

6. Disappointed to hear Bill Press jump on the "violence" bandwagon, too.

Must not be keeping up with the later information re: the lazy reporting of same.

Also, I believe he is a close friend of Barbara Boxer as his other residence in northern Ca and he votes there -feels he can't afford to support the outraged (rightly so) Berner's, thereby alienating Babs.

[Cigar11]

8. Bill Press ...

Is looking at the Big Picture

[Maedhros]

12. Cigar11...

is going on my ignore list...

/bye.

[appalachiablue]

18. Very strange because in the media world, liberal/progressive Bill Press

is viewed as a fairly strong defender and supporter of Bernie since the campaign started. Maybe he hasn't yet seen counter info. like posted here but even with his Calif. connections how could he not have sensed more of the truth about this latest smear. Another who criticized the stunt is DU writer Will Pitt according to a post here. A month ago, regarded economist and writer David Kay Johnston even wrote a negative piece about Bernie's tax returns.

Several months back Press was the lone voice to speak out on a CNN panel about the complicated computer break-in issue with the DNC, Bernie and Hillary, saying 'I smell a rat.' It's also fairly well known that Press was involved in an exploratory dinner meeting group for Bernie's run for the presidency after Bill worked in Bernie's senate office. c. 2010 as an intern, one reason being to obtain Congress/Hill press credentials. There are DU posts about this.
Major changes with MSNBC since the campaign started especially Rachel and sometimes O'Donnell and Hayes have left me disappointed in that network and even more in the corporate media.

"Bill Press: Sanders a Serious Opponent', The Hill, May 4, 2015.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12804189

[RoccoR5955]

13. Is there an ACTUAL video of chairs being thrown

at the convention?
I'll not hold my breath while I wait for it.

[LiberalElite]

15. you'll see it as soon as

they can cut the roller derby players out of the video.

[winter is coming]

16. She ran two clips. One was obviously of pro wrestling, and it was obviously not

supposed to be from the convention. The other was of people booing at the convention and it had a caption like "Reports of Chairs Thrown at Convention" but no one in the clip was actually throwing anything.

[scottie55]

22. Pure BS Propaganda

F You Rachel

[felix_numinous]

17. Add inciting violence

to the camp weathervane list of infractions. Clearly they were disappointed real chairs were not thrown.

[SandersDem]

19. The Only Chairs that Sander's Supporters

are going to toss are named Lange and Wasserman-Schultz.

[felix_numinous]

20. Truth^^^^^^

[RoccoR5955]

21. Right on! n/t