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WatchdogThe t h e m r c ’ s m o n t h l y m e m b e r s ’ r e p o r t CREATING A MEDIA CULTURE IN AMERICA WHERE TRUTH AND LIBERTY FLOURISH Vol. 19 • Issue 5 • May 2012 NBC Not Only Going Radical, It’s Now Caught Deliberately Lying — MRC Demands Investigation by Congress MRC Headquarters • Alexandria, Va NBC’s cable news outpost MSNBC of it. We are taking our case to the daily cranks out left-wing “news” shareholders of NBC’s parent company, INSIDE and Democratic talking points fed to Comcast, and to committees in it by the George Soros-funded Media Congress to investigate this blatant PAGE 3 Matters. This leftist babble is spewed violation of the public trust, which was Winner of “Tell The Truth!” 2012 Campaign’s on MSNBC shows headed by Ed Schultz, broadcast over the public airwaves. Best Media Impact Contest Chris Matthews, Al Sharpton and Rachel NBC is not going to get away with it. Maddow. We’ve documented, exposed, The shooting of black teenager PAGE 4 and neutralized this in spades at the Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., BITS & PIECES: MRC. Now, however, by neighborhood Gun Control TV, it’s NBC News that is watchman George ‘Deranged’ GOP Judges, moving further left Zimmerman, a Bull Lauer, This Week’s Bias and, in the case of the Hispanic, occurred tragic Trayvon Martin- on Feb. 26. Three PAGE 5 George Zimmerman weeks later, the Skittles Candy a Symbol shooting in Florida, police released the of Racial Injustice? we’ve caught the audio of the 911 call PAGE 6 network deliberately placed that night by Bozell’s Nationally lying to the American Zimmerman. Part of Syndicated Column people. The MRC exposed how NBC deliberately the exchange went NBC purposely edited the 911 call by George Zimmerman, like this: PAGE 7 edited the 911 call by which cast him as a racist. NBC aired Zimmerman: MRC in the News Zimmerman to make the doctored 911 transcript at least 5 “This guy looks like times, including on Today and the PAGE 8 him look like a racist. NBC Nightly News. he’s up to no good. Matt Lauer: Minister It is the left-wing Or he’s on drugs or of Liberal Bias at narrative that NBC wanted, especially something. It’s raining and he’s just NBC’s Today during this election year as it fits the walking around, looking about.” liberal Democratic playbook. Dispatcher: “Okay, and this guy, is NBC aired the doctored tapes at he black, white or Hispanic?” least five times, on the Today show Zimmerman: “He looks black.” and also the NBC Nightly News. After That was the real call. But when we exposed NBC’s deceit, and Sean NBC News got a hold of it, they edited Hannity and I discussed this on his out the dispatcher’s question and made show, it sparked national outrage. the sequence like this: The good news is that our Zimmerman: “This guy looks like NewsBusters blog was first to expose he’s up to no good. He looks black.” NBC’s deceit, which sparked an Anyone hearing that tape will www.MRC.org investigation and the firing of at least believe Zimmerman was racially one of the NBC producers responsible for the lie. But that’s not the end Continued on page 2 The 2 Watchdog MAY 2012 Continued from page 1 was no “error,” as in a “mistake,” as in an accident. One cannot edit accidentally. All editing is deliberate. There was no “error.” It was a willful falsehood, quotes pasted out of context to feed the narrative of a racial assault. So we pushed harder, calling upon our grassroots MRC Action Team members to contact Comcast board members and demand an investigation. Our members responded with more than 100,000 calls and e-mails — an avalanche. NBC then tried another dodge, this time leaking to Reuters on Apr. 5 that a senior producer in Miami had been fired. This time NBC changed its story, claiming that the spliced 911 quotes resulted from an editing decision to save time — not an “error.” Save time? The critical tape edited out took two seconds of time! Still covering up, NBC refused to name the producer who was supposedly fired and insisted it would not On April 10, the MRC issued a press release calling upon Congress to reveal the information gathered investigate Comcast / NBC News for the intentional editing of the by its investigation. And still George Zimmerman 911 audio that was broadcast multiple times and NBC has refused to apologize on subsequently flamed the fires of racial hatred and animosity. the air, to the very evidence it purposely misled. motivated — even a racist. As I remarked on Fox’s NBC and its political allies Hannity on Mar. 29, NBC “outright advanced a falsehood want this scandal to go away on national television. They outright told a deliberate but it’s not going to happen lie on national television.” when the MRC is on the prowl. On April 10, I announced that NBC ran that lie on its Miami affiliate three times on we are calling upon Congress to March 19 and 20. MSNBC then posted the falsehood on investigate Comcast/NBC News its Web site with a big story on Mar. 21. Then on Mar. George Zimmerman for the intentional editing of deemed guilty by the 22 and 27, NBC Today broadcast the lie again, reaching the 911 call that was broadcast liberal media feeding more than 5 million viewers each time. frenzy before the police multiple times and subsequently even had him in custody. We exposed that falsehood on Mar. 28. Several flamed the fires of racial hatred. days later — after the issue went viral on the Internet NBC’s fabrication of a lie, broadcast repeatedly but NOT in the so-called mainstream media (with the over the public airwaves, is a complete violation of the exception of a Washington Post blog) — NBC said it public trust. Comcast is in the midst of a business deal would investigate the matter. with Verizon requiring approval by the FCC and the That was laughable, and we said as much in an Apr. Justice Department. There are anti-trust concerns. 3 press release: “This is a massive breach of the public We have contacted committees in Congress asking trust. NBC is guilty of dishonestly fanning the flames them to investigate Comcast/NBC’s public deception of racial hatred in America by doctoring tapes. NBC in view of the proposed Comcast/Verizon business cannot be trusted with the investigation. It’s like Nixon deal; and Comcast’s duty to the public trust given investigating the Watergate tapes. NBC is deliberately that one of their premier properties — NBC — has lying to the viewing public.” advanced this deception and arrogantly refuses to We also documented that MSNBC had gone back and apologize to its own broadcast viewers. changed its version of the 911 call but did not inform We have just begun to fight. Stay tuned, and if you its audience about the original lie. MSNBC just whistled want to help us hold NBC accountable, you can send a past the editorial graveyard, as did NBC’s Today, which donation to help keep us on the march. Thank you. has not told its audience about the false story it aired. In a PR stunt on Apr. 3, NBC issued a press release Sincerely, stating “there was an error made in the production process that we deeply regret. We will be taking the necessary steps to prevent this from happening in the L. Brent Bozell III future and apologize to our viewers.” Founder and President The peacock network, no surprise, did not apologize to Zimmerman or on NBC for smearing him. Also, this MAY 2012 3 WINNER of the “BEST GET” “Tell The Truth!” 2012 Campaigner Ryan McNicholas Works Hard to Spread the MRC’s “Don’t Believe the Liberal Media” Message The MRC’s “Tell The Truth!” 2012 campaign field teams have been spreading the message “Don’t Believe the Liberal Media!” since January, making that issue part of the election-year discussion. The campaign has earned wide national coverage and allowed tens of millions of Americans to learn the truth about liberal media bias. As a bonus for the hard-working “Tell The Truth!” team members, the MRC held a contest for the one volunteer who could get the best exposure for the “Don’t Believe the Liberal Media!” message going into Ryan McNicholas’s winning exposure for the “Tell The Super Tuesday — the “Best Get” contest. Truth!” 2012 campaign appeared in The New York Times Everyone worked hard but campaigner Ryan McNich- on Feb. 22. olas surpassed expectations by traveling more than 22 hours straight to get to the GOP debate in Mesa, Ariz., “There was a guy there taking pictures on Feb. 22 and then, in the field passing out signs all of the Tell The Truth! signs and I asked him day, he scored big coverage in The New York Times. As who he was with,” recounted Ryan, “and he the number one “Best Get,” he won an Apple IPad. said, “The New York Times.” Then he asked Ryan, who was a Young Americans for Freedom mem- me if he could follow me around. Then when ber at the University of California-Santa Barbara, said people saw the guy taking pictures, a lot of the liberal media bias there was “unbelieveable” and people started taking the signs — they went that he was eager to combat that bias on a national crazy.

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