Friday, October 23, 2009

The Barefoot-in-Mouth Contessa   [Jay Nordlinger]

Well, this was really amazing: Contessa Brewer, an anchorwoman for MSNBC, was introducing the Rev. Jesse Jackson. But she introduced him as: the Rev. Al Sharpton. According to the Associated Press, “Jackson stared at the camera from a studio in Burbank, Calif., and said, ‘I’m Rev. Jesse Jackson.’” Recovering, Brewer said, “We all know who you are, Rev. Jackson. I’m so sorry.”

 

Fine, fine. We all slip up. An understandable mistake. But I ask you: What if that mistake had been made by a Fox News person? Can you imagine? Can you imagine? “Fox News, the right-wing network, can’t even tell two black men apart — can’t even tell the two reverends apart. They’re all the same to them.” La Contessa is lucky she works for a network known as left-wing.

 

(By the way: Al Sharpton must have loved it, Jackson’s being introduced as Sharpton.)

 

You’ve perhaps heard about Contessa Brewer before. She’s the one who reported interestingly on the Second Amendment protest staged in Phoenix, outside the Convention Center, where President Obama was giving a speech. MSNBC showed a man — the middle of his body — packing heat. Brewer said, “There are questions about whether this [the protest] has racial overtones. I mean, here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns.”

 

Unfortunately for La Contessa and MSNBC — you would think — the man being featured, Christopher Broughton, was black.

 

Oh, well. These are really weird times, in the media especially.

10/23 12:48 PMShare